Verticals
Consultants who know your domain. A model that delivers.
Every search is run by a consultant who lives in your vertical day-to-day — paired with the Saiyō headhunt model and the specific context of your business. Same engine, your network, your brief.
The promise
Domain depth meets a repeatable model.
Most search firms pick one. Either a vertical specialist with a black-box process, or a slick process with no real category knowledge. We run both — by design.
Your domain, not a generalist desk.
Consultants are aligned to one or two verticals. They know the buyers, the categories, the competitive map — so the conversation starts where most search firms are still catching up.
Our model on every search.
Same calibration, named-target longlists, multi-channel outreach, and weekly market read-out — regardless of vertical. The engine doesn't change; the network it draws from does.
Your context layered in.
Stage, ICP, comp band, geo, in-house vs partner-led GTM — calibrated at kickoff and re-tuned as the market answers back. Vertical sets the frame; your business sets the brief.
In practice
How vertical specialism shows up in a search.
Not a line on a website. It changes what happens in the first call, what comes back in the longlist, and how candidates are tested before they hit your loop.
- 01
Calibration call
Your consultant arrives fluent in the category. The conversation is about your edge, your wedge, your buyer — not vertical 101.
- 02
Named-target longlists
Pulled from a live map of in-category competitors, adjacencies, and graduate-school companies — not a generic LinkedIn search.
- 03
Screening in your language
Buyer fluency, deal-cycle norms, and product depth are tested in the screen — not left to your hiring loop to discover.
- 04
Weekly market read-out
What the vertical is telling us about comp, availability, and competitor moves — refreshed every week your search is live.
Roles
One shared role list. Calibrated against your vertical.
The titles don't change much across our six verticals — GTM, Product, Engineering, Leadership. What changes is the buyer the AE is selling to, the regulator the PM is designing around, and the architecture the VPE is hiring against. That's where vertical depth earns its keep.
See how we calibrate roles per verticalDirectory
The six verticals we cover.
Most clients sit cleanly inside one. Find yours and meet the consultant who runs it.
SaaS & B2B Software
Enterprise and business apps sold on subscription.
Cyber & Network Security
Detection, identity, endpoint, cloud security, SecOps, network.
Fintech & Payments
Payments, banking infra, lending, insurtech, wealth, crypto.
Data, AI & Analytics
Data infra, warehousing, BI, ML platforms, AI/LLM tooling.
Cloud, Infrastructure & DevTools
IaaS, PaaS, containers, observability, CI/CD, dev platforms.
Consumer, Internet & Mobile
B2C apps, marketplaces, e-commerce, social, gaming, media.
Questions
On vertical depth.
Talk to a specialist
Talk to the consultant who covers your vertical.
Tell us the role and the vertical. We'll put you in front of the consultant who runs that desk — for a calibration conversation, not a sales pitch.