FILE A · FIRMS
your role,
our judgment
For accounting firms

A shortlist in days, picked by a person who knows why.

You're hiring for a seat that matters — busy season is coming, a partner is retiring, a client just doubled. We move at AI speed on the search and keep a human on the decision.

Open a search How engagements work
Contingent
Pay on hire
Retained
For leadership
Contract
Season & interim
Guaranteed
Replacement window
FILE A1 · TERMS
three ways
to engage
Engagement models

Pick the model that fits the seat.

Contingent search

For staff through manager roles. You pay only when a candidate we present is hired. A standard percentage-of-salary fee with a replacement guarantee.

Pay on hire

Retained search

For partners, principals, and firm leadership. A structured, exclusive engagement with milestone-based fees and a dedicated recruiter.

Leadership

Contract & interim

Busy-season staff, interim controllers, and project teams placed on a contract or contract-to-hire basis at an hourly bill rate.

Flexible

Every direct-hire placement carries a replacement guarantee: if a hire leaves inside the agreed window, we run the search again at no additional fee. We'd rather re-earn the seat than keep a fee we didn't deserve.

FILE A2 · ROLES
what we
place
Coverage

Built for accounting firms, end to end.

Audit & Assurance

Staff through senior manager, with busy-season readiness and industry depth screened in.

Staff → Partner

Tax

Individual, corporate, and SALT specialists — EAs and CPAs matched to your client mix.

EA · CPA · JD-LLM

Advisory & CAS

Client accounting services and advisory talent for firms growing beyond compliance.

CAS · FP&A

Controllers & CFOs

Fractional and full-time finance leadership for firms and the clients they serve.

Controller · CFO

Bookkeeping & Ops

The backbone roles that keep a firm running, screened for reliability over flash.

Full-cycle

Firm Leadership

Practice leaders and partner-track hires placed with discretion and a long view.

Retained
FILE A3 · EDGE
why firms
stay
Why firms work with us

Speed without the spray-and-pray.

Every résumé actually read

AI screening means no qualified candidate falls through because a recruiter ran out of hours. Coverage is complete, not sampled.

A shortlist you can defend

Each name comes with a recruiter's reasoning — why this person, for this firm, for this seat. Not a stack of forwarded PDFs.

Specialist, not generalist

We only staff accounting. We know the difference between assurance and advisory, and what a 1040 season really demands.

Honest about fit

If we don't think a candidate will last, we say so before you make an offer — not after the guarantee clock starts.

FILE A4 · FAQ
the usual
questions
Questions

What firms ask first.

How fast will I see candidates?
Most direct-hire searches produce a first shortlist within days of an aligned role spec, because sourcing and screening run continuously rather than starting from zero. Timing depends on role seniority and market, and we'll set an honest expectation up front.
What does it cost?
Contingent searches are a percentage of first-year base salary, billed only when you hire. Retained searches use milestone fees. Contract roles bill at an hourly rate. We share exact terms before any engagement begins — no surprises in the contract.
What is the replacement guarantee?
If a direct-hire placement leaves within the agreed guarantee window, we re-run the search at no additional fee. The window length is set in your engagement terms.
If you're AI-first, am I talking to a bot?
No. AI does sourcing, screening, and scheduling. A named recruiter owns your search, makes the judgment calls, and is who you talk to. The last decision is always a person's.
Do you place outside public accounting?
Our focus is accounting firms, but we regularly place controllers, CFOs, and finance leaders into industry roles as well — often for the same clients on the other side of the desk.
FILE A5 · INTAKE
open a search
Open a search

Tell us the role.

Share the basics and a recruiter will follow up to align on the role spec. The more you tell us, the sharper the first shortlist.