Market Intelligence That Drives Smarter Hiring Decisions
Before you hire, plan compensation, or restructure a team - you should know what the market actually looks like. Our Intelligence Studies deliver the data you need: compensation benchmarks, full talent pool mapping, diversity analysis, and propensity-to-move signals - all researched by the same team that runs your searches. We deliver the data, not just the candidates.
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Six Deliverables in Every Intelligence Study
Every study is scoped to your specific question - but the building blocks are consistent. Here's what you get.
Compensation Benchmarking
Base salary, bonus, and carry / long-term incentive ranges across the relevant peer set, broken down by seniority level, strategy, and geography. Based on primary interviews - not third-party surveys.
Talent Pool Mapping
A complete map of the relevant talent universe - who sits where, how long they've been in the seat, what their reporting line looks like, and which adjacent firms are training candidates who could move.
Diversity Analysis
Demographic breakdown of the talent pool by gender, ethnicity, and background. Identifies where diverse talent is concentrated - and where the pipeline gaps are real versus perceived.
Propensity to Change
Direct candidate sentiment analysis. Who's actively exploring, who's passively open, who's locked in. Produced from primary conversations, not LinkedIn signals.
Deal Experience & Asset Class Focus
What each candidate has actually done - deal sizes, strategy exposure, sector depth, and leadership responsibilities. Goes well beyond titles and tenure.
Hard Skills Assessment
Technical capabilities verified against your specification - modeling, origination, underwriting, trading, quantitative research, or whatever the seat requires.
What a Real Study Looks Like
Credit Managers Covered
Candidates Identified
Candidates Interviewed
50+ managers across middle and lower middle market direct lending
Top 10 firms account for ~40% of senior origination talent
Identified concentrations: NYC (62%), West Coast (14%), Midwest (12%), London / remote (12%)
Actively exploring now
18%
Passively open to the right opportunity
34%
Not currently open, but trackable for future moves
48%
Four Moments When Market Data Changes the Decision
Before Launching a Search
You're about to hire, but the market isn't yet known. An Intelligence Study defines who's out there, how many are movable, what they'll cost, and where the gaps are - before you commit to a search.
Compensation Planning
You're reviewing pay for an existing team or structuring an offer for a specific hire. We benchmark against the relevant peer group - based on direct conversations with comparable professionals, not third-party survey data.
Organizational Benchmarking
You want to understand how your team compares to peers - structure, seniority mix, sector coverage, diversity. We map 15–50 relevant firms and show you exactly how you stack up.
Succession Planning
Senior leader is approaching a transition and you need a view of the market for potential successors - internal pipeline gaps, external targets, and compensation required to attract them.
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Latest Intelligence Reports
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Capital Solutions Market Intelligence 2026
What 32 senior capital solutions investors reveal about the future of the strategy, talent, and compensation.
Request a Custom Intelligence Study
Every Intelligence Study is scoped to your specific question. We discuss the objectives, the target universe, and the deliverables in a short initial conversation - and give you a fixed-fee proposal before any work begins.