RunRetained helps boutique retained firms turn intake into client-ready deliverables faster — briefs, scorecards, candidate packages, market maps, and search updates — without burning partner-grade time on assembly work. Built specifically for retained executive search, not contingency volume.
One live search. Full workflow. Full $5K credited against implementation if you convert within 30 days.
Jason's approach to talent recruiting is state of the art and game-changing.
Jensen Huang — CEO and Founder, NVIDIA
Every retained search creates the same operational drag: intake notes become briefs, briefs become scorecards, research becomes market maps, and candidate profiles become presentation packages. Most firms are still burning 10–15 hours per search on work that does not require partner judgment — just expensive human time.
The tools most firms have were built for contingency workflows or enterprise TA teams. They track reqs. They do not actually run retained search.
RunRetained installs the workflow layer most retained firms are still patching together manually.
Structured intake captured once, turned into a clean, client-ready brief in minutes. No re-keying. No reformatting.
Long-list and short-list packets formatted to your firm's standard. Polished, consistent, ready to present.
Calibrated evaluation frameworks tied to the actual mandate — not generic competency grids.
Function, level, industry, and geography-specific talent landscapes assembled automatically.
One recruiter-facing view across all active searches. Status, pipeline, and deliverable readiness at a glance.
A read-only leadership surface for managing partners and firm principals — search health, revenue discipline, utilization, and key risks across the portfolio.
Candidate intelligence and market context that compounds across mandates. Your firm gets smarter with every search.
In the current ROI model, a firm running 25 retained searches per year with $350/hour partner value recovers roughly 277 partner hours annually — worth about $96,950 in economic value. At standard-band pricing, that yields about $33,950 in Year 1 net value after cost. The model assumes about 11.08 hours saved per search across intake prep, mandate assembly, and package formatting.
The cleanest way to evaluate RunRetained is a Proof Search. We run one real retained search through the full workflow: intake-to-brief, candidate package generation, scorecard, and market map. You see the output on a live engagement, not a demo. If it meets your standard and you convert within 30 days, the full $5,000 is credited against implementation.
Run the Proof SearchWe install an operating layer sized to how your firm actually runs — measured in active searches, not headcount.
Implementation includes firm-specific workflow configuration, branded deliverable templates, migration from one existing system, guided activation, and a 90-day optimization window.
RunRetained was built around a simple belief: the most important work in retained search happens in the layer between intake and candidate presentation, and that layer is still wildly underbuilt. The goal is not to replace partner judgment. It is to protect it — by handling the assembly, formatting, coordination, and cross-search memory that most firms are still recreating manually on every search.
Jason built RunRetained from the inside out around real retained-search pain: vague intake, too much manual packaging, inconsistent work product, and no institutional memory between mandates. The result is an operating layer designed for the way premium search firms actually work — not the way generic recruiting software assumes they work.
“Jason's approach to talent recruiting is state of the art and game-changing.”Jensen Huang — CEO and Founder, NVIDIA
No abstract pilot. No bloated software sale. One live search, real output, real standard.