Hire executives you can defend at the board.
Stop paying 25% recruiter fees on VP-level hires you can't audit. The IT Connection delivers board-defensible executive hires in 6–8 weeks with 92% first-year retention — flat-fee, fully documented, every step exportable.
Our guarantee
Hire in 6–8 weeks — or your next search is free.
No credit card. Strategy delivered within 48 hours. Used by Series A–C tech companies across FinTech, MedTech, HealthTech, LawTech, and AI.
Year 1 ROI calculator
Drag to your role's salary
$300,000
Traditional recruiter
$75,000
25% of salary
The IT Connection
$5,500
Flat fee · Guided Hunt
Recruiting fees alone
$70K
Saved per hire vs traditional
Earlier productivity
$54K
6–8 wk vs 16 wk hire
Retention upside
$63K
92% vs 78% Y1
Total Year 1 value
$186,500
$152M+
Saved for clients
2,007
Executive placements
92%
Year-1 retention
6–8 wk
Contractual SLA
30+ yrs
Grant's track record
The four failure modes
Four ways executive hiring blows up inside tech companies.
Most boards see them only after the damage is done. Traditional executive search hides all four inside a single 25% fee. We unbundle them and price each one correctly.
$75,000
in recruiter fees, per VP-level hire
Standard 25% of base salary. On a 4-hire year, that's $300K straight to recruiters before you've onboarded anyone. Your CFO sees one number. Your recruiter sees four months of margin.
Our counter
$5,500 flat
Quoted upfront. Same caliber of candidate. ~93% lower.
16 weeks
industry-average time-to-hire
Every week of vacancy on a $300K role is ~$5,800 in lost productivity output. 16 weeks = $93K gone before your new hire's first standup. Your roadmap doesn't wait.
Our counter
6–8 weeks, SLA
Contractually. Miss it, and your next search is on us.
22%
of executive hires don't make it past month 12
Industry retention is 78%. A failed VP costs 1.5× base salary in replacement, lost momentum, and team trauma — and you pay the recruiter twice.
Our counter
92% retention
Audited quarterly, published, traceable to specific placements.
0 records
of why your last VP was chosen
No comparable shortlist. No scorecards. No reference framework. When a board member asks 'why this one?', traditional recruiters hand you a smile and an invoice.
Our counter
Audit-ready by default
Every shortlist, scoring decision, brief, and reference call exportable as a board memo.
Most CFOs I talk to are paying $300,000 a year for recruiters they can't audit. So we built the system I wished my clients had.
Grant Williams · Founder
The plan
Three steps from "we need to hire" to "they showed up Day 1."
No spreadsheets, no email handoffs, no forgotten steps. The same structured path Grant has walked 2,007 times.
Tell us about the role
10 minutes. One form. Auto-saves.
Walk through a structured intake: role, must-haves, comp band, target start, success criteria. Grant personally reviews every intake before sourcing begins.
We deliver the strategy and run the search
Within 48 hours.
You receive Grant's playbook applied to your role: target company map, candidate archetypes, outreach sequences, scoring rubric. AI sources at scale; Grant audits the shortlist before it reaches you.
You interview finalists. We handle offer to Day 1.
5–6 weeks later.
Three to five vetted candidates land in your pipeline with briefs, scoring, and risks called out. We generate offer letters, route signatures, prep HR, and ship the 30-60-90 plan. The hire is set up to stay.
Your guide
Grant has done this 2,007 times.
The system is what you get.
Thirty years of executive recruiting across FinTech, MedTech, HealthTech, LawTech, and AI. Patterns no algorithm could surface from cold data — but every one of them now lives inside the platform.
- He's placed the leaders running risk at Stripe-stage payments companies. He knows which Google engineers thrive in regulated environments — and which don't.
- He's seen how a CMO with 5 years at Teladoc rebuilds clinical-ops in an early-stage HealthTech.
- He knows which AI research leaders can transition to product, and which should stay in the lab. He'll tell you straight.
Track record
- Years in executive search
- 30+
- Total placements
- 2,007
- Year-1 retention rate
- 92%
- Verticals of depth
- 5
- Avg client savings/hire
- $50–150K
The math
Pays for itself in week one.
Same role — VP Engineering at $300K base. Four paths. Year-one cost accounts for fees, productivity ramp, and Y1 retention probability.
Net Y1 advantage · Guided Hunt
+$140K
vs traditional recruiter, after fees + retention math
The Blueprint
DIY strategy
Guided Hunt
Recommended
Done With You
White-glove
Traditional Recruiter
Status quo
* Estimates from Grant's record across 2,007 placements. Assumes $300K base. Your numbers will vary by role and market — that's what the intake is for.
Where Grant lives
Five verticals. Each with its own playbook.
You don't source an AI engineer the same way you source a Chief Medical Officer. Compliance, comp bands, archetypes, red flags — all different. Grant has internalized the differences. So has the platform.
FinTech
Financial Technology
MedTech
Medical Technology
HealthTech
Healthcare Technology
LawTech
Legal Technology
AI
Artificial Intelligence
Choose your path
Flat fees. Not a percentage of salary.
Predictable. Auditable. Budgetable. Every tier costs less than one traditional recruiter placement.
The Blueprint
Self-serve search strategy
For founders or in-house TA leads who want Grant's playbook in their pocket to run the search themselves.
$1,500–2,500
per search · flat fee
Includes
- 90-minute strategy session with Grant
- AI search strategy document
- Target companies & candidate archetypes
- Sourcing angles & outreach templates
- Candidate scorecard & screening criteria
- Interview guide & reference framework
- 1 follow-up strategy call
Guided Hunt
Grant coaches you weekly
For Series A–C tech companies with internal TA — Grant runs strategy and audits the shortlist; your team owns the candidate relationship.
$3,500–5,500
per search · flat fee
Includes
- Everything in The Blueprint
- Weekly coaching calls with Grant (4–6 weeks)
- AI-powered candidate sourcing & screening
- Candidate narratives & briefing documents
- Pipeline tracking dashboard
- Grant personally reviews every shortlist
- Offer letter generation & HR handoff
- 92%+ first-year retention track record
Done With You
Interview-ready candidates delivered
For stretched leadership teams that just want 3–5 vetted finalists in their inbox — minimal lift, white-glove process.
$8K–15K
per search · flat fee
Includes
- Everything in Guided Hunt
- Full candidate sourcing (Grant's team + AI)
- Complete screening & qualification
- Candidate narratives for each finalist
- Grant personally interviews top candidates
- Reference checks conducted
- Offer negotiation support
- Onboarding preparation & 90-day check-in
Annual Retainer
Strategic recruiting partner
For Series B+ / PE-backed companies and roll-up platforms hiring 4–8 executives a year. One contact, predictable spend.
$2K–4K
per month
Includes
- Unlimited Blueprint-tier search strategies
- Priority access to Grant (2 calls/month)
- Quarterly market briefings
- Custom support as needed
- First right of refusal on top candidates
- Dedicated point of contact
Twelve weeks from now
Here's what success looks like.
Not a hypothetical. This is the outcome pattern Grant has delivered for tech companies for three decades, now systematized.
Your new VP starts Day 1 with their 30-60-90 already mapped.
Not a generic checklist — a personalized plan tied to the success criteria you set at intake. Their manager has the same plan in their inbox.
Your CFO's recruiting line drops 90% from last year.
Four hires at $5,500 instead of four at $75,000. That's $278,000 you didn't spend, redirected to anything else.
Your board has a 4-page memo on why you hired this person.
Scoring, comparable candidates, references, risks discussed, decision rationale. Already formatted. Already exported. Done.
At month 12, they're still there. They're shipping.
Across Grant's 2,007 placements, 92% are still in seat at the one-year mark. Your audit committee notices.
The next VP is already on the market.
Get a personalized hiring cost analysis from Grant in under 10 minutes. You'll see the target company map, candidate archetypes, outreach sequence — and a specific dollar figure on what this search will save you.
No credit card. Strategy delivered within 48 hours. Auditable trail from the first outreach.