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The flexibility of fractional.
The quality of in-house.
Recruiting built for growth.

We embed a dedicated recruiting team inside your company.
Full-cycle hiring, fully integrated, flat monthly fee.

See If Talent Tide Is Right For You

Flat fee. Month-to-month. No long-term contracts.

The Real Cost

What hiring is actually costing you.

15-25 hrs
Per week founders spend
on recruiting
$12K+
Monthly opportunity cost
at $200/hr founder time
$18-36K
Agency fee for a single
$120K placement

Add it up: $12K/month in founder time, $18K-$36K per agency placement, and roles that sit open for 45-60 days. You're paying $15,000 to $50,000 a month in real costs. And it compounds every week.

There's a fix. But first, why the obvious answers don't work.

What Doesn't Work

You've probably tried one of these.

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The agency route.

$25,000 for a single placement. Keyword-matched resumes. Half ghost after the first interview. The hire leaves in four months.

Total cost: $25K + four months. Left behind: nothing.
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The DIY route.

200 applicants. Eight weeks screening. Every phone screen run between investor calls and product reviews. Your roadmap slips.

You can't build a company and run recruiting. Something breaks.
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The "hire a recruiter" route.

$120K salary + benefits + equity. Three months to find one, two more to ramp. Five months before real results.

All three treat the symptom. None solve the actual problem.
The Difference

Outside agency vs. embedded recruiting.

Same goal. Completely different approach.

Outside Agency
Works from the outside looking in
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Sends resumesKeyword matches from a database
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No internal accessCan't join standups, Slack, or ATS
⏱
Incentivized to fill fastPaid per placement, not quality
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Disappears after the hireNo process, no knowledge transfer
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$18K-$36K per hirePercentage-based, per placement
VS
Talent Tide
Embedded inside your company
🎯
Runs full-cycle hiringSource, screen, interview, close
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In your Slack, standups, ATSFully integrated into daily operations
✅
Incentivized to fill rightFlat fee. No placement bonuses
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Continuously improvesWeekly pipeline reviews and market intel
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Flat monthly feePredictable. Month-to-month. Pause anytime
Our Story

Built by recruiters who worked inside, not outside.

"The companies who hire well don't just have good recruiters. They have good process, deep culture knowledge, and someone who owns it end to end."

I'm Trevor. My co-founder Tricia and I spent a combined 20+ years as in-house recruiters at global technology and manufacturing companies. Not agency recruiters. In-house. Hiring committees, sourcing strategies, interview design. Every function, at scale.

Agencies can't replicate that. They're measured on speed to placement, not quality of outcome. They don't sit in your standups or learn your culture.

So we built Talent Tide: a real recruiting team that embeds directly into your company. Not a vendor. An extension of your team with 20 years of built-in expertise.

The Shift

You don't need a recruiter.
You need a recruiting team.

Every other function in your company has someone who owns it. Engineering. Sales. Finance. But recruiting? It falls on everyone and no one.

That's what Talent Tide is. We embed into your company and run your hiring end to end. One role or five. Flat monthly fee.

The recruiting team you'd build if you had six months and $200K. Except we show up ready to go.

In your Slack At your standups Inside your ATS Full-cycle hiring Flat monthly fee Month-to-month
How It Works

The first 30 days.

1
We learn you.

Your Slack, standups, hiring managers. We learn what "great" looks like before sourcing a single candidate.

2
We launch.

Role scoping. Sourcing strategy. Screening criteria. All inside your tools, fully transparent.

3
We own it.

Full-cycle recruiting: sourcing through signed offer. 20+ years of expertise, working inside your company.

4
We improve it.

Weekly pipeline reviews. Market feedback. Comp benchmarking. Your hiring gets better every month.

What Changes

Your week looks different after.

Those 15-25 hours a week on recruiting? Back on your calendar.

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Sourcing + screening

Targeted pipelines. Every candidate evaluated against your standards before you see them.

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Candidate experience

Scheduling, communication, follow-ups. Candidates see your company at its best.

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Hiring manager support

Interviewer prep, debriefs, and process tracking. Nobody wonders what happens next.

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Market intel

Real comp data. If your offer is off, we tell you before it costs you three months.

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Offer + close

Competitive offers, managed through acceptance.

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Process refinement

Continuous tuning so your hiring gets better, not just busier.

Side by Side

How this stacks up.

Agency In-House Recruiter RPO Talent Tide
Cost $18K-$36K per hire $120K+/year $$$ + multi-year contract Flat monthly fee
Speed to start Days (results take weeks) 3-6 months to hire and ramp Months of setup Days, not months
Culture fit Minimal Strong (if they're good) Rotating staff Deep (embedded)
Flexibility Per engagement Fixed cost regardless Locked in Month-to-month
Left behind An invoice An employee A contract Operational know-how
Pricing

Simple pricing. No surprises.

Flat monthly fee. That's it.
✓ No placement percentages
✓ No success bonuses
✓ No hidden costs
✓ No annual contract
✓ Pause anytime
✓ Add roles anytime

A fraction of agency fees ($18K-$36K per hire) or a full-time recruiter ($120K+/year). Flat fee means we're incentivized to fill right, not fast.

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Fit Check

This is probably for you. But maybe not.

Built for:
✓ Founders making their first key hires who need to get it right the first time.
✓ Growing companies with a hiring backlog building faster than you can manage.
✓ Founder-led or lean HR teams where nobody's actual job is recruiting.
✓ Teams hiring across multiple functions who need breadth and speed.
Not ideal if:
✕ You want the cheapest option. We're the most cost-effective, not the cheapest.
✕ You just want a stack of resumes. We embed and run the process.
✕ You want someone to manage from the outside. We work from the inside.

If you're not sure which camp you're in, that's what the call is for.

Questions

Straight answers.

If your question isn't here, ask on the call. We don't gatekeep information.

That's the whole point of embedded. We immerse ourselves inside your company before sourcing a single candidate. We learn your culture, your team dynamics, and what "great" actually looks like so we evaluate culture fit as well as anyone on your team.

Flat monthly fee. No percentages. No placement bonuses. No annual contract. We'll give you the exact number on a call. Most founders do the math in ten seconds.

So have we. That's why we built a different model. Agencies get paid per placement. Their incentive is to fill fast. Ours is to fill right. If we're not delivering, you stop paying us next month.

RPOs rotate staff and manage from a distance. We put one dedicated recruiter inside your team. Same person, every day, in your tools, at your meetings.

Pause. No penalties. No renegotiation. Month-to-month means month-to-month.

Good. But finding and ramping one takes 3-6 months. We fill the gap now. When you're ready to bring it in-house, we help with that transition too.

Small on purpose. We'd rather do great work for fewer companies than spread thin across twenty. At capacity, we'll tell you.

That works. We embed, fill the role, and you're done. No minimum commitment. Some start with one and realize they want us running the next five.

You only pay once. The fee is per opening, not per hire. If we are working on a role and you end up hiring two strong candidates, there is no extra charge. You can also swap out which roles we work on anytime.

Next Step

One conversation will tell you if this fits.

Thirty minutes. No pitch deck. No pressure. If embedded recruiting isn't right for your stage, we'll say so.

1
We talk.

Your open roles, your challenges, your timeline. Thirty minutes.

2
We scope it.

Which roles to start with. What the onboarding looks like.

3
We start.

Your dedicated recruiter begins immersion inside your company.

Book a 30-Minute Call

Flat monthly fee. Month-to-month. Senior operators, not junior recruiters.

From first call to embedded recruiter inside your company: faster than you think.