A wrong hire costs a construction CEO a year and seven figures. We run the search for disciplined insight, so the right person lands, and stays.
Be the right leader. Get the right leader. Keep them.
A wrong hire isn't just a setback, it's eighteen months of cleanup, missed margin, and lost growth.
The cost compounds
Severance, search restart, slipped projects, lost trust. The visible bill is a fraction of what the seat costs while empty, or potentially worse, occupied by the wrong person.
The team remembers
Every wrong hire teaches your best people that the team can't grow reliably.
Haste is the most expensive word in hiring
Pressure to fill the seat is what makes the wrong hire feel like the right one.
Two ways to engage.
Intensive Search
Most chosenFor roles where getting it wrong is measured in years, not weeks.
Division heads, ops VPs, project executives, the seats that set the ceiling on everything below them.
Our full operating system, run end to end: Find, Fit, Finish, with discovery, targeted outreach, references, and a 90-day landing plan inside it.
Written scorecard, targeted outreach, structured interviews, three-layer references, and a 90-day landing plan delivered with the offer.
Screening Search
We run the posting and bring the discipline to who advances.
Teams already generating applicants who need judgment applied before anyone reaches the final round.
Structured candidate screening, detailed introductions, and guided interviewing against a shared scorecard.
Fit analysis and a written recommendation built to stop the wrong hire from landing, and save you weeks of interviews.
Recruiter outreach
Not sure which fits? A consult sorts it in twenty minutes.
You've been burned by a search that delivered a résumé, not a leader. We think hiring is a leadership discipline, so we work both sides of the table, and we carry the risk with you.
Two partners. Every search.
TJ Kastning
TJ believes hiring is a leadership discipline, not a transactional function. It shapes culture, capacity, and long-term outcomes. His work focuses on clarifying expectations, surfacing assumptions, and helping leaders think more clearly about the environments they're creating.
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Louis sees patterns across searches and helps both clients and candidates stay grounded in what matters most during high-stakes decisions. His instinct: durable outcomes come from clarity, preparation, and follow-through. Not pressure. Not persuasion.
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Fifteen years deep in one industry, across nine states in the American West.