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The Alignment Engine

Senior hires, evaluated before you decide. Done for you, end to end: source, evaluate, uplevel, with the reasoning written down at every step. Alignment Engine: placed by day 60, with a 12-month replacement guarantee on placements where HireSphere sources.

The deliverable itself, interactively: the blind ranked top 3 demo, built to be forwarded to whoever else is in the decision.

The four steps

1. Hiring Strategy Blueprint. We audit how you hire today, codify your leadership principles and values, and define exactly what good looks like for each role, then hand you a full hiring playbook, mock interview and debrief included.
2. Candidate Pipeline and Interview as a Service. We source for the roles you need now and next, screen at volume, and run behavioral interviews and technical assessments to your standards, every assessment documented. You get a ranked top 3 with the reasoning written down. You make the final hiring decision.
3. Placement and Systems Implementation. Your candidate signs. We transfer the pipelines, wire your blueprint into your onboarding, operating cadence, and development plans, and your new hire starts with a 30-60-90 plan built before day one.
4. Upleveling and Ongoing Talent Operations (6 and 12 month engagements). We connect hiring to your growth plan, keep pipelines warm before you need them, and run the coaching cadence on the same criteria you hired on.

Before the price, the comparison

A contingency fee is a percentage of first-year base: 15 to 25% on mid-level and director seats, and 25 to 30% on senior and VP seats. A senior search through a firm runs 3 to 4 months to offer (fee and search benchmarks: Talentfoot, Recruiterflow and JRG Partners, 2026; Recruiterflow puts a senior search at 90 to 120 days). The Alignment Engine is a flat fee, whatever the seat pays, placed by day 60.

Pricing

The Anchor rate is the founding rate for the Anchor cohort: the first 10 clients, or everyone signing by Jan 10, 2027. No more than 2 Searches are in their interview stage at the same time on the 6-month and 12-month terms.

If the hire doesn't work out

12-month replacement guarantee on Alignment Engine placements where HireSphere sources. It is a replacement guarantee, not a refund. We use commercially reasonable efforts to present at least 2 qualified replacement candidates within 30 days of confirming eligibility, subject to market conditions and the complexity of the Role, and we run the replacement search to the same standard as the original at no additional placement fee. The replacement search carries no additional placement fee, and no further fees fall due for it. We do not guarantee that any particular replacement will succeed, and you make every hiring decision.

The guarantee applies where you terminate the hire for performance or for misalignment with the values documented in your Hiring Strategy Blueprint, and you give us written notice inside the guarantee period. Tell us within 10 business days of the termination decision, with reasonable documentation of the reasons. Tell us within 10 business days of any performance or fit concern, and give us the chance to support a fix before termination where that is reasonable. Full conditions are stated in the Service Agreement.

How the evaluation itself works, with a worked example: How we evaluate. What clients bought and what they received: client stories. Related services: Interview as a Service and the Hiring Strategy Blueprint.