Our approach
Custom recruitment, built around each brief.
We source experts against specific client requirements. This page explains how a brief becomes an assignment, and what happens at each stage.
01
Understanding research requirements
We start with the question behind the project: what you are trying to learn, who will use the answer, and what a useful conversation looks like. If the brief leaves gaps, we ask rather than guess.
02
Defining the target expert profile
We turn the question into a specific profile: the roles and functions that would hold the knowledge, the experience that matters, the geography, and the characteristics that would rule someone out.
03
Identifying suitable professionals
Sourcing is built around the profile, not around who is already known to us. We look for people whose actual work matches the brief, then approach them with the context they need to decide whether to take part.
04
Screening against relevant criteria
Candidates are reviewed against the criteria agreed with you. We look at whether their experience is first-hand, current enough to be useful, and relevant to your specific question.
05
Coordinating consultations
Once you have selected the experts you want to speak with, we handle scheduling and logistics so your team can concentrate on the conversation.
06
Maintaining communication through delivery
You have a direct line to the people running your project. If requirements shift or a candidate is not working out, we adjust the search with you rather than waiting for the next reporting cycle.
From brief to assignment
Translating a question into a search.
A brief rarely arrives as a finished specification. Our first job is to turn it into something we can source against, and to agree that definition with you.
The brief
The research question, context and constraints you share with us.
The profile
The kind of person who would hold the knowledge, described precisely.
The criteria
The specific tests a candidate must pass, including exclusions.
The assignment
A sourcing plan: where to look, whom to approach, and how many to screen.
What stays with you
You decide who you speak to.
We recommend candidates; the choice of whom to speak with, and what to ask, is yours. Where a candidate raises a question about suitability or confidentiality, we raise it with you before anything is arranged.
The more specific the brief, the better the search. If you are not sure how to describe the expert you need, send what you have and we will work it out with you.
Submit a brief
Tell us who you need to speak with.
Share your research requirements and we'll discuss a sourcing approach tailored to your project.