Why Saiyō
Embedded recruitment, built differently.
Four things make Saiyō structurally different from agencies, RPOs, and your internal TA team. Here's what they are, and why they matter.
Our approach
Embedded talent acquisition powered by proactive headhunting.
We don't sit behind a CRM waiting on briefs. We sit inside your team, in your Slack, your stand-ups, your ATS, and we go and get the candidates your competitors can't reach.
Proactive headhunting
The candidates you actually want aren't applying.
The top 2% of technology talent is employed, busy, and ignoring inbound. We map them, approach them directly, and bring them to you with context, not CVs.
Trained hunters
Embedded does not mean equivalent.
Most embedded models put a TA generalist in your seat. We put a senior headhunter there. Seven plus years of technology search, trained to map markets and approach passive talent by name, not to wait on inbound. The process work still happens. The hunt is what makes the seat worth having.
The embedded model
A senior headhunter inside your team, not a vendor on the other end of an email.
One named partner. Live in your tooling. Joining your hiring rituals. The same person from kick-off to offer accepted. No account-management churn, no junior coordinators.
10-day sprint
Sourced
98Engaged
75Longlist
20Shortlist
6Interviews
4Predictable cost
One flat monthly subscription. Unlimited hires within scope.
No per-placement fees. No surprise invoices when a counter-offer wins. Predictable cost so your CFO can plan headcount the same way they plan engineering.
Cost per hire
Based on 24 hires/year — average mid-senior tech GTM role
saved
Traditional agency
20–25% of salary
Internal TA team
Loaded cost per hire
Saiyō
Subscription
Indicative pricing based on a 24-hire annual subscription, compared against traditional agency and internal TA benchmarks. Your per-hire cost varies with hiring volume and scope, model your own figures.
Built for technology scale-ups
Talent density and a guarantee that puts our skin in the game.
A 45-day delivery guarantee. A 100-day free replacement guarantee. Because if our incentives aren't tied to the hire actually working, the model is broken.
In their words
Trusted by technology leaders who've scaled with us.
Exceeding Expectations
"Saiyō deliver an unparalleled level of service, allowing us to scale at pace, with the right people, while exceeding expectations.
Chief Sales Officer, Skeepers
Great Partner
"The team at Saiyō are a trustworthy and reliable partner for all of our hiring needs. They also operate in a truly conscientious manner, acting as an extension to our brand.
Global Talent Leader, E2open
Executive Search
"The Saiyō team are extremely talented and insightful professionals, having helped me source top-notch talent to fuel the growth of the company.
Chief Executive Officer, Powwr
World-class Executive Talent
"Through a well defined and thorough search process, the consultants at Saiyō are able to identify and secure world class executive talent. Their hyper focus on customer experience is a differentiator.
Chief Technology Officer, Blue Ridge Global
Convinced?
See what an embedded model looks like in your business.
30 minutes. We'll map your roles against a Saiyō subscription and show you the cost, the timeline, and the talent pool we'd headhunt from.