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Help your founders make the hire the company needs next.

Senior and executive hiring support for funds, platform teams and talent partners. Start with the business problem behind the role.

Book a 20-minute founders call

A free 20-minute introductory call. No commitment.

For your platform team

Hiring support grounded in the company.

Help founders define a leadership role, reach an unfamiliar market or compare candidates. We work with the hiring team to establish what the decision requires.

Ways to support your portfolio

Start with the hiring decision.

  1. Search Calibration

    Part of defining a search: pressure-test the role against the company’s stage, problem and talent market.

    The founder gets

    Role, market and assessment questions defined within the search engagement, with no separate Calibration purchase.

  2. Critical senior searches

    Senior and executive searches across engineering, product, go-to-market and leadership, assessed against the business problem.

    The founder gets

    Candidate recommendations with clear evidence and open questions.

  3. Founder office hours

    Agree a format for founders bringing a changing role, uncertain assessment or stalled search.

    The founder gets

    A focused conversation and next step, within the scope agreed with your team.

What reaches the founder

Context for the next hiring decision.

For a specific hiring problem, the agreed scope can include:

A clearer role
The required change, decisions and scope the company can support.
A read on the market
Where the profile sits, candidate expectations and reasons to consider the company.
A way to assess the evidence
Role-specific questions separating observed evidence, reported experience and what remains untested.
A considered next step
A reasoned recommendation: revise the role, improve assessment or open a search.

An agreed format

Office hours around a real hiring question.

We can design office hours for your portfolio. Agree eligibility, schedule and scope with Purrfect before introducing the format to founders.

  • Start with a live role or decision.
  • Identify the evidence or action needed next.
  • Scope deeper assessment or search separately with the company.

Agree cadence, availability, fees and follow-on support with your team.

Working with your team

Agree the format and the next decision.

  1. Understand the portfolio need

    Identify the stages, roles and recurring questions where a clearer read would help.

  2. Set the scope

    Agree responsibilities, fees and introductions. Tell founders what is included before starting.

  3. Work with the company

    Examine the problem with the founder. Agree any search directly with the company and keep it involved.

Look at the work

See how we approach a search.

Explore our search approach and evidence before discussing an arrangement.

Before we begin

Agree these upfront.

Is this an exclusive portfolio arrangement?

We agree the arrangement with your team. Each company decides whether to commission a search; an introduction creates no obligation.

Who pays for the work?

The initial 20-minute read is free. Search engagements use a success fee or a monthly team. Agree portfolio support scope and fees separately.

What information is shared with the fund?

Agree reporting boundaries with the people involved. Hiring information, candidate details and private advisory remain confidential unless sharing is specifically agreed.

Which portfolio hiring decision needs a clearer read?

Bring the companies, roles and hiring obstacles. We’ll discuss where to start.

Book a 20-minute founders call

Start with a free initial read. Agree scope and terms before an engagement.