Human-to-Human Recruiting

White-glove, practitioner-powered talent placement services for hiring managers sick of the bullshit.

Fuck AI. It's great at writing code, generating slop, and drafting keyword-packed resumes. It is absolute shit at connecting leaders-in-need to humans-with-ability.

Human connection is the key to healthy teams.

Today's Inhumane Hiring Experience

You write a job description and hand it off to your talent team. They edit it (probably too much), but you don't even know until it's live. They say changing it is complicated or impossible (I never understood why).

The system floods instantly with hundreds of AI-generated resumes, all sounding the same. The ATS filters and ranks them. A human filters further. But do they actually understand what you need?

You're not impressed. You're frustrated. You're exhausted. And so is the talent.

The process has been broken for a long time. AI has only made it worse.

My Low-Tech Approach

I've spent 30 years building and leading high-performance digital product teams across startups, growth-stage, and enterprise orgs. I know what great talent looks like because I've hired it, led it, and developed it. Designers, strategists, engineers, product managers, researchers, executives: if they work in digital product, I know people like them, and I know what good looks like.

My process is unapologetically simple. I talk to people.

You work with me directly. No hand-offs. No one learning your business on your dime. No ATS. No AI. Just a peer professional who knows your world from the inside.

You and I know the subtle but critical differences between roles that seem to blur together on paper. Research, strategy, and strategic design, for example. Each requires a genuinely different mindset, toolset, and approach. I help you clarify exactly which one you need before the search begins.

I reach directly into my network. Real conversations. Qualified referrals. I read resumes, review portfolios, and talk to references personally.

This works. It's what you would do yourself, if you had the time.

It Starts With Understanding

Finding the best person for your role isn't about building a bulleted list of responsibilities. It's about understanding what your business actually needs, the realities on the ground, and what success looks like. Titles don't matter. People do.

The role descriptions I write stand out, the conversations get to the point. I speak the insider's language, attracting folks who know what's up. Filtering out those who don't.

If procurement and legal are a nightmare, I've been there. I've navigated complex vendor approval processes at Mitsubishi, NCR, and others. I can help you break through the red tape.

What You Get, Quickly

A tight, prioritized shortlist of talent I would hire, if I were you, with my evaluations, notes, and where you should dig deeper.

Full-time, contract, and contract-to-hire. Transparent, competitive pricing. No retainers. No bullshit.