For the next generation
of executive search.

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Stay nimble. Cast a big shadow.

What it adds up to

  • 48h

    From brief to longlist

  • −50%

    Time to shortlist

  • 80+

    NPS from partners

  • 1,000+

    Placements to date

  • SOC 2

    Type 2 certified · Trust center

Topliner supports leading executive search teams with technology and specialist services, leaving more time for the work that matters: selecting the world’s top leaders.

A look inside

What that looks like, in practice.

  • Relationships

    The people who pick up when you call.

  • Judgement

    Which names you underwrite.

  • Market knowledge

    Collected over thousands of conversations.

Chat

Agents

Agent · Map and Analyse Companies

Companies read

Agent · Score and Rank Candidates

Candidates ranked

T1 T2 T3

System

  • ATS
  • CRM
  • Scheduling
  • Meeting recorder
  • Outreach
  • Campaigns
  • Company agents
  • Copilot

One end-to-end operating system.

A few of the people on your searches

  • Senior researchers Every company mapped, every name hand-checked.
  • Senior talent operations Every reply chased, every interview booked.
  • Central services Legal, HR and IT, already in place.

To hold a search to your standard, you had to be across all of it – every company in the sector mapped, everyone who has held the seat identified, every update written and every meeting booked. Your client never hired you for that. They hired you for your judgement and what you know.

What stands behind you

Multiply your output, without touching more.

Every company in your market, read by our agents: how it sells, how the function is built, and whether it belongs in this search.

Your pitch, with the market already mapped.

Every name scored against the company they sit in, not against a job title, then tiered: who you call first, and who can wait.

Your longlist, two days after the brief.

Pipeline, client portal and every note in one place: from the first company mapped to your client’s last word on the shortlist.

Your client, up to date every week.

Senior researchers and talent operations, beside you: every name hand-checked, every reply chased, every interview scheduled.

Venture capital. Private equity. The Fortune 500.

The network

Independent. Not isolated.

A private network of elite independent search firms.

  • Referrals

    A mandate you can’t take goes to a peer, not a rival.

  • Standards

    Shared method, offsites, and peers who know the work.

  • Knowledge

    Market insight and lessons, passed between firms.

Your first week

Build the firm that comes out ahead.

We take on new partners a few at a time, so the standard never slips. Tell us what you are working on this month, and we will show you exactly what the first week would look like.

Our researchers will walk you through it.

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