Recruiting & hiring consultancy · Construction companies across the American West.

Find the right people. Hire them well. Retain them.

We recruit construction leaders and help your team do the work that follows: interview, decide, make the offer, and prepare the first 90 days.

Talk through the role → How we engage →
What we do

Candidate interest is the beginning.

A good introduction creates an opportunity. Turning it into a successful hire takes a clear job, thoughtful interviews, timely decisions, and a plan for the work ahead. We help with all of it. How the match works

  1. Define the roleAgree on the work
  2. Earn interestRecruit qualified leaders
  3. Build evidenceInterview and check
  4. Decide togetherResolve open questions
  5. Make the offerAgree on expectations
  6. Prepare the startPlan the first 90 days

Retained search, with the hiring and onboarding work built in.

Give important work an owner

Move important decisions off the owner's desk.

A well-matched leader takes responsibility for work that is still sitting with the owner or senior team. We build the search around that work.

The person should arrive knowing what they own and how success will be measured.

  1. Recruiting protects

    Reach. Meet accomplished construction leaders who are already performing, not simply the people watching job boards.

  2. Hiring protects

    A shared standard. Define success before interviews begin, then give every stakeholder evidence they can compare and discuss.

  3. Onboarding protects

    The first 90 days. Use what both sides learn to shape the offer and a ninety-day landing plan for the first year.

The value at stake

What getting the role right protects.

The math nobody runs
Annual compensation for the role $150,000
How far the role reaches
Months before the mismatch surfaced 9
Now the costs your P&L never invoices
$79,000 to $146,000
estimated true cost of one wrong hire
What your P&L sees below the line
See how we de-risk it
How we help

One engagement. The whole process.

Intensive Search

For roles that will shape how the company operates for years.

Best for

Division heads, ops VPs, project executives, the roles that set the ceiling on everything below them.

Process

Our full operating system, run end to end: Find, Fit, Finish, with discovery, targeted outreach, references, structured hiring support, and a 90-day landing plan inside it.

Includes

Written scorecard, targeted outreach, structured interviews, three-layer references, hiring-decision support, and a 90-day landing plan delivered with the offer.

See the full process

What makes a fast hire a safe one.

A twenty-minute conversation will tell us whether the process fits your role.

  1. Agree on the role before anyone starts recruiting.
  2. Give each interviewer a clear job.
  3. Schedule the next step before the current one ends.
  4. Collect feedback while it is fresh.
270+Leadership matches
15 yrsConstruction only
1Founder on every search
Field Notes

Recent writing.

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Hiring Decisions & Accountability · 5 min

The Seven Levels of Management Hell

Supervision is the interest you pay on a hiring risk you accepted at the table. A Dante-framed descent through seven levels of people who cannot self-direct, and what the tax really costs.

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Working with Ambassador Group · 3 min

How the Interview Feedback Process Works for You

How the interview feedback process works on an Ambassador Group search: five steps, one firm rule, and why writing your feedback first protects your judgment.

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Compensation & Offers · 5 min

Bay Area vs Sacramento construction pay: a 14% premium for superintendents, near zero for the trades

A flat cost-of-living bump misprices most roles. Advertised pay shows the Bay Area premium concentrates in the superintendents and PMs who run the job.

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Listen · 8 min
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Start with the role

Let's talk through the role
and what should happen first.

Bring the role and the team. We'll tell you whether a search fits, and what we'd do first.

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