More mandates per consultant, same team

    Throughput is the business model. I add capacity per consultant without adding headcount, and keep every client's context separate.

    $100 of credits on us. No card required.

    #client-acme
    Dave
    Dave

    Acme wants three shortlists by Friday and I am on calls all week.

    Laidback

    All three briefs calibrated. First shortlists this afternoon, with evidence links so you can send them straight to the client.

    Laidback

    Context stays in this channel. Nothing from Acme leaks into your other mandates.

    Per client separation
    Dave
    Dave

    Add the Friday client update as a habit.

    Per clientSeparate bar, separate memory
    2,000+Hires made with me so far
    MinutesTo spin up a new search

    Clients notice when three agencies send the same five profiles. That is what happens when every firm queries the same licensed snapshot.

    Different data produces a different shortlist, and a different shortlist is why the client renews with you.

    Eight live searches, one groundwork engine

    DaveDaveFounder · Boutique search firm
    Same-day rampreported outcome
    Situation

    Eight live mandates, each with a different definition of a good candidate.

    What I did

    Kept a separate calibrated bar and separate memory per client channel.

    Outcome

    No cross contamination between mandates, and faster ramp on new ones.

    MarcinMarcinManaging partner · Executive search
    4h saved weeklyreported outcome
    Situation

    Client updates eating a full day every week.

    What I did

    Made the client update a habit, generated from real pipeline movement, ready to send.

    Outcome

    Updates went out on time without a partner writing them from scratch.

    SaraSaraDelivery lead · High-volume agency
    Net-new longlistsreported outcome
    Situation

    Junior consultants sourcing from the same database as every competing agency.

    What I did

    Gave the team open web sourcing with evidence attached to every profile.

    Outcome

    Longlists that clients had not already seen from two other firms.

    Ideas to steal across your desk

    Run more searches at once without hiring more people.

    Written the way you would type it
    01

    @laidbackin #client-acme, use this brief and keep every search scoped to this channel.

    One channel per client. Context, calibration and data stay separated by default.

    02

    @laidbackturn this intake call transcript into a brief and a first search.

    From kickoff to a live shortlist the same day, while the client is still warm.

    03

    @laidbackproduce a client-ready longlist with reasoning for each name.

    Something you can send without rewriting it. The evidence sells the shortlist.

    04

    @laidbackrun all six open searches in parallel and report every morning.

    Six desks worth of throughput, one morning post per client channel.

    05

    @laidbackre-run this old search with today's market.

    Placed roles become repeatable products, not one-off projects.

    06

    @laidbacktrack who replied per client and tell me where I'm behind.

    You see slippage before the client does.

    The sourcing engine underneath is measured in public

    PSB-Recruiting is the public recruiting category of PeopleSearchBench. I score 97.80 overall against 89.64 for the strongest published baseline. Same engine behind every search you ask for in Slack.

    See the full benchmark
    97.80overall / 100
    Laidback97.80
    Best published baseline89.64
    Relevance96.1
    Coverage98.7
    Utility98.7

    Client data stays in its own channel

    Every mandate runs in its own context. Nothing leaks between clients, and nothing is used to train shared models.

    You keep control of what is shared

    I draft. I suggest. I do not send messages to candidates or hiring managers until you approve the next step.

    Throughput without quality loss

    Parallel mandates

    Each client lives in its own channel with its own calibrated brief, history and habits.

    Client ready shortlists

    Evidence backed profiles and reasoning you can forward, instead of a list of names you have to justify by email.

    Candidates nobody else pitched

    Because I search the open web rather than the same database your competitors resell, you present people the client has not already seen.

    Standing client updates

    Weekly progress summaries drafted on schedule, waiting for one nod before they go out.

    Start with $100 of credits on us

    Self-serve runs on credits. If you need us to build workflows and run them with you, we do that too.

    See pricing

    Fair questions

    Yes. Each client lives in its own context, with its own calibration and its own memory. Nothing bleeds between mandates.

    Your value is judgement, relationships and closing. I remove the sourcing hours clients never wanted to pay for anyway, which makes the billable part of the work more visible.

    A channel and a brief. The first shortlist arrives the same day rather than after a week of database work.

    Laidback

    Get $100 of credits and try it on the roles you have open today.

    $100 of credits on us. No card required.