Executive search is broken because it measures the wrong things.
Search firms evaluate candidates against job descriptions. Against lists of competencies and credentials. Not against the cultural and leadership dynamics that determine whether a $400K hire succeeds or fails in the first 18 months.
The data is damning: 40% of executive hires fail within 18 months.The most common root cause isn't lack of skill. It's culture mismatch — a variable that no one bothered to quantify before the offer letter went out.
You're not making bad hires because you have bad candidates. You're making bad hires because you're measuring against the wrong instrument.
The Cost of Getting It Wrong
Culture fit is the reason executive hires fail.
89%
of hiring failures are due to poor cultural fit, not lack of competence
LeadershipIQ · Why New Hires Fail · Study of 20,000 new hires$1.2M+
A failed executive hire can cost 10 to 15 times their annual salary, including severance, lost productivity, and replacement search fees.
Gartner & Harvard Business Review, reported by Hunt Scanlon Media · Nov 2025~46%
Within two years of an executive transition, between 27 and 46 percent are considered failures or disappointments, most often due to cultural misalignment rather than capability.
McKinsey Global Research20%
Only 20% of HR leaders have successors ready for critical roles today.
DDI Global Leadership Forecast 2025 · Survey of 10,796 leaders across 50 countriesWhat if you could see exactly what your culture demands before you ever look at a résumé?
Imagine having a precise, quantified map of your organization's cultural DNA — the specific leadership behaviors it rewards, the decision-making patterns it demands, the interpersonal dynamics that determine who thrives and who flames out. This is Culture Intelligence: the measurable, scoreable reality of what your environment actually requires from its leaders.
Not what your job description says. Not what your CEO thinks the culture is. What the data shows the culture actually is — and what it will do to the next person who walks into that seat.
This is your Culture Intelligence Profile.
The Platform
See exactly what you're buying.
This is a sample of the actual output ExecFit produces. Built from stakeholder assessments and your uploaded culture documents.
Acme Holdings · CPO Search
Cohesion
72
Strong internal alignment across leadership team. Shared values drive decision-making.
Discipline
73
Structured execution with clear accountability. Process-oriented operating rhythm.
Agility
62
Moderate adaptability to market shifts. Room to improve speed of strategic pivots.
Direction
68
Clear strategic vision at executive level. Communication to mid-level could improve.
Success Traits
Watch For
The Process
From culture signal to leadership spec in 72 hours.
Upload culture documents
Values docs, leadership principles, strategy decks. These become the first layer of your Culture Intelligence profile.
15 minRun stakeholder assessments
3 to 5 raters complete a structured 15-minute survey calibrated to surface how your organization actually operates.
15 min eachReceive Culture Intelligence Profile
Scored across 6 leadership dimensions and 4 culture pillars. A precise specification of what the role demands, backed by data.
72 hoursMatch and decide
Anonymous until mutual interest. Review fit scores across all 6 dimensions before requesting contact.
Your callYour culture generates the leadership specification.
The ExecFit Difference
Built on IO psychology. Not gut feel.
Psychometric synthesis
Every candidate has uploaded their real assessment reports: Hogan, DISC, MBTI, Gallup, SHL, Korn Ferry. These are synthesized by AI into a verified leadership profile. No self-reported data. No LinkedIn keywords.
Culture Intelligence matching
Your culture profile maps to 6 leadership dimensions (Execution, Influence, Judgement, Adaptability, Collaboration, Values) derived from organizational culture research. Candidate profiles are scored against the exact demands your culture creates.
Anonymous until mutual
Candidates are never cold-approached. Your company brief is reviewed by the executive first. They choose whether to engage. Every conversation starts from genuine interest on both sides.
This is what you get in 72 hours.
A scored comparison of every candidate against exactly what your culture demands across 6 leadership dimensions. No gut feel. No expensive assessment firms. A defensible, data-backed recommendation ready to take into your hiring committee.
Sample data shown for illustration. Your output reflects your organization's stakeholder assessments, uploaded culture documents, and role specification. Candidate profiles are generated from real psychometric assessment data uploaded by executives on the platform.
Executive Archetypes
Which archetype does your culture need?
ExecFit identifies each executive's primary archetype from their psychometric data. Our matching algorithm finds the archetypes that thrive in your specific culture.
Catalyst
Drives results through direct action and relentless execution.
The Catalyst is wired for results at pace.
Igniter
Mobilises people through vision, energy, and infectious conviction.
The Igniter transforms organisations through people.
Architect
Builds the systems, structures, and strategies that outlast any individual.
The Architect builds the systems, structures, and strategies that outlast any individual.
Navigator
Thrives at the edge of the unknown — reading change before others see it.
The Navigator thrives in ambiguity.
Steward
Builds the organisational capability and culture that sustains performance.
The Steward builds organisations where people genuinely flourish.
Anchor
The bedrock of trust, integrity, and organisational stability.
The Anchor is the executive organisations trust in a crisis.
This isn't another recruiting platform. You'll never see a job board.
There is no job board. There is no applicant tracking system. There are no keyword filters, no résumé parsers, no “AI-powered sourcing” that just means a bot scraped LinkedIn faster than your recruiter. If that's what you're looking for, there are a hundred vendors who'll take your money.
This is also not a personality test dressed in AI language. We don't ask executives to self-report whether they're “detail-oriented” or “collaborative.” Self-reported data is unreliable at best, performative at worst. Every score in the system is derived from structured stakeholder assessments and behavioral evidence.
ExecFit is a culture measurement and executive-fit scoring system. It quantifies the cultural demands of your organization, generates a leadership specification from that data, and scores candidates against it. The output is a defensible, data-backed recommendation you can take to your board. Not a stack of résumés and a gut feeling.
Pricing
Simple. Transparent. Success fee only on hire.
Platform fee for access. Success fee only when you hire. No retainer. No surprises.
Free
Free
Explore the platform
Per Search
$1,500
One-time per search
Annual Growth
$4,500
Per year · 3 concurrent
Annual Scale
$9,500
Per year · unlimited
Placement success fees
Only pay when you hire.
Only charged on confirmed hires. No hire, no fee.
A VP placement at a traditional search firm: $84,000–$150,000.
At ExecFit: $15,000 + platform fee.
Same quality. Better culture fit data. Faster.
Success fees are only charged when a contact request is accepted and results in a confirmed hire. No hire, no fee.
180-Day Replacement Guarantee
If a placed executive leaves within 180 days for any reason, we conduct a full replacement search at no additional cost. We stand behind every match we make.