Step 1
Your average fee
Worked example: a desk placing at roughly £20k a fee. Yours will differ. This is the template, not a promise.
Pricing · Published, not hidden
From £7,500 a month. Priced from your revenue target.
No hidden rate card and no fake tiers. This page is the same maths we'd do with you on a call. You're paying for meetings with hiring managers before the job is posted, not for activity in your name.
How we price
Start from the revenue, work backwards.
Average fee, times close rate, gives what a qualified meeting is worth on your desk. Your revenue target then tells us how many you need, and that scope is what you pay for.
Step 2
Your close rate from qualified meetings
Meetings arrive pre-qualified: budget, need, fee structure explained, said yes. Agencies typically close around half of those. Call it ~50%.
Step 3
The meetings your target needs
Revenue target ÷ (average fee × close rate) = the number of qualified meetings you need this year. That number sets the scope.
Step 4
The scope sets the price
On the example numbers, an engagement at the from-price projects at roughly 6.6x return. We run your numbers on the call, in front of you.
A worked example, not a guarantee. The point of the call is to run it with your real numbers and tell you honestly whether the maths works for your desk.
What moves the price
Scope, not a menu.
Every engagement starts from £7,500 a month. Three things move it from there.
- Roles trackedA patch watching three role families costs less to run than one watching fifteen. More roles means more couplings mapped, more signals scored, more assets built.
- Seats coveredOne consultant fed with meetings is a different engine to a whole floor. Price follows how many diaries we're filling.
- Sector exclusivityOne agency per niche. When we run your patch, we don't run it for your competitor. Holding a niche exclusively is the single biggest thing that moves the price.
- Where it can goA large patch (many role families, several seats, exclusivity held) can run to £20k–£40k+ a month. Those aren't tiers on a rate card; nothing above £7,500 is pre-packaged. It's scope, priced from your target.
The deal, honestly
Two shapes. No long lock-in.
Both shapes below exist because real clients asked for them. Pick the one that fits how your desk carries risk.
Shape one
Full retainer
A flat monthly fee for the engine and the meetings it books. Simple to budget, and every placement from it is entirely yours.
Shape two
Lower retainer + commission
A reduced monthly fee with a share on placed fees from meetings we booked. We carry more of the risk; we share more of the win.
Either way
You can see it working
Signal flow is visible from week one. Meetings from month two. No long lock-in: if the engine isn’t producing, you walk away.
And
Your niche stays yours
Sector exclusivity is part of the deal, not an add-on. One agency per niche, full stop.
From this page to a live engine
Two weeks, start to build.
No three-month discovery phase. The call decides whether the signals exist; the fortnight after maps your niche and starts the build.
Day 0
The call.
Thirty minutes on your patch and whether the signals exist in your niche. No deck, no pitch.
Wk 1
Structure-mapping.
You teach us how hiring actually happens in your niche. We map the events, the roles they predict, and the windows between.
Wk 2
Signed. Build starts.
The model goes live against your patch. Signal flow is visible to you from week one of the build.
The next step
No deck. No pitch.
Thirty minutes on your patch and whether the signals exist in your niche. We'll run your numbers in front of you, and tell you if they don't work.