Become the search partner
clients trust for better
hiring decisions.
A science-backed assessment layer for recruitment and executive-search firms. Win more mandates, defend higher fees, and grow advisory revenue.
A scientific assessment layer
inside your process.
You bring the network and the relationships. Traitwise adds the psychological and cognitive evidence behind every shortlist.
Client engagement, advisory, sourcing & search
Personality, cognitive ability, motivation, role & culture fit
A scientific, AI-supported assessment that turns intuition into evidence. Under your brand if you choose.
Confident hiring decisions, fewer mis-hires
Recruitment is becoming harder to differentiate.
Network, speed, sector focus, relationships. To clients, those things are getting harder to tell apart from one firm to the next, and harder to defend at the fee level they command.
The firms pulling ahead are the ones adding visible rigour to the advisory work they already do.
“Why am I paying 25–30% of salary just to receive candidates I could maybe find myself?”
A question you hear from clients more often. CV-driven processes struggle to answer it.
The shortlist no longer differentiates the firm.
Databases, AI sourcing, and in-house TA have commoditised network and speed. Advisory is what remains defensible.
Clients evaluate firms on hiring outcomes, not delivery.
Performance, retention, and team fit are now in the conversation. Not just whether the role got filled.
A deeper candidate profile,
grounded in research.
We measure what drives role fit, culture fit, and team fit. Then turn it into evidence your client can read in one sitting.
Cognitive ability
How quickly someone learns, reasons, and handles novel complexity.
Personality
Big-Five traits that drive behaviour and team chemistry.
Intrinsic motivation
What energises someone, and where they actually push.
Locus of control
Ownership, agency, and how someone responds when things go wrong.
AI readiness
Comfort and judgement working alongside AI tooling, where relevant.
Built on decades of personality, vocation, and IQ research. Scalable for the first time through our AI psychologist.
What partnership unlocks for your firm.
Beyond the assessment itself, partnership compounds across mandates, fees, and the advisory work you already do.
Win more mandates.
Differentiate in pitches and proposals with a methodology backed by research, not opinion.
Move from contingency to retained.
Assessment depth justifies the retainer structure. A reason for clients to commit upstream.
Open a new advisory revenue line.
Sell assessment standalone, as a premium add-on, or as a recurring talent-advisory product. Some partners run it as its own P&L.
Match the global search firms.
Egon Zehnder, Korn Ferry, and Spencer Stuart have spent decades building proprietary assessment IP. Now your boutique has the same arsenal.
Defend against in-house TA.
As clients build internal recruiting teams, give them something the in-house team cannot easily replicate.
The result: a stronger pitch, a more defensible fee, and a clearer reason to be chosen.
Used wherever it strengthens your process.
Inside retained search
A structured evaluation step in retained mandates. A richer view of finalists.
As a shortlist add-on
Layer assessment onto shortlists when clients want more than a CV summary.
As an advisory product
Sell assessment standalone for succession, leadership review, or team mapping.
In client acquisition
Use sample reports in pitches to show how your process is different on day one.
As a candidate experience
Offer candidates a science-backed assessment under your brand.
In proposals & RFPs
A defensible methodology in writing. Backed by research, not opinion.
Branded, integrated, supported.
White-label
Run Traitwise under your own brand, or co-branded as scientific partner. Your call.
- Branded candidate experience
- Branded reports and dashboards
- Optional co-branding with Traitwise
ATS integrations
Plugs into the systems you already use. Live with Carerix, Personio, and Ashby. More on partner request.
Pitch & sales support
Materials and language built for client conversations. Not product collateral.
- Pitch decks and proposal language
- Sample reports and explainers
- Joint discovery calls when it helps close
“Traitwise adds a clean, science-backed layer to our shortlists: fit, motivation, and working style become visible. I wouldn’t recommend a hire without a Traitwise profile in the mix.”
A flexible commercial model.
Position Traitwise inside your offering as you see fit: a premium search process, an assessment add-on, or a standalone advisory layer. We provide the infrastructure behind it.
Annual partner plans available.
Full assessment access, AI interpretation layer, branded reports, partner support, and sales enablement.
- One-month pilot for selected partners
- Trial individual assessments
- Onboarding call and partner playbook
Custom plans for executive-search practices and multi-office firms.
Book a partner callYour clients don’t need another shortlist.They need confidence.
Not as another test. As a scientific advisory layer that makes your service more differentiated, more credible, more valuable.
We reply personally, usually within one business day.