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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.

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, including what the empty seat is costing you in your own numbers, 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. 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

Alignment Engine, Anchor Client rate. $36,000 for your first hire, or $30,000 paid in full, for the first 10 clients who sign by June 30, 2027. A second hire from the same search is included. Additional hires: $15,000 each for 3 years, however many you make. After 3 years, the standard rate for your total hires with us, and $15,000 for good once you reach 10.

Anchor Client pricing is for the first 10 paying clients, or until June 30, 2027, whichever comes first.

Alignment Engine, standard price. $45,000 for your first hire. Additional hires: $20,000 each for hires 2 to 4, $18,000 each for hires 5 to 9, $15,000 each from your 10th. Your first hire counts.

Future hire rates go by your total hires with us, counting your first, priced when each search starts.
Buy 5 hires together and take an additional 5% off, or 10 together for 10% off.

Your first hire: pay in full at signing, or half at signing and half at the earlier of the ranked top 3 or day 60. Each future hire is invoiced when its search starts, or paid at signing if you prefer.

Ongoing Support (add-on): $5,000 a month with a minimum 3 month commitment, or $50,000 for the year, which is 2 months free. Additional ongoing support for your team, completely customized to your needs: documentation, personalized training and upleveling in identified skill gaps, retention analysis and succession planning, and ongoing support for existing team members. A separate, paid add-on, distinct from the first-90-days support included with the Alignment Engine.

We stay with you until your hire completes their first 90 days: the 30-60-90 plan, check-ins at days 30, 60 and 90, calls and a weekly written update.

Pay your first Alignment Engine hire in full and take 10% off. An Anchor Client Alignment Engine is $30,000 when you pay in full.

If the hire doesn't work out

12-month replacement guarantee on Alignment Engine placements. 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.