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Executive Search Market Map

Build a verified market map for your next search.

Turn your search brief into a company-by-company view of relevant leaders, with fit assessments and sources to review before you engage.

Coverage summary. Sample report.

Illustrative CFO coverage summary showing company and people coverage, fit tiers, title levels and review requirements

Sample Harbor Lane Foods CFO coverage report, slide 9. Larger search shown; the free first map is capped at 10 names. Scroll horizontally on a small screen to inspect the full view.

Findem Studio delivers work you can trust.

  1. Checked against live sources

    Each match is checked against the company's leadership page, news announcements, and other web sources.

  2. Current and former, flagged

    Each person is marked as current or former at the target company.

  3. Every exclusion explained

    Rejected names and companies with no match are listed with a reason.

  4. Rated against your success profile

    Each fit rating includes the reasoning behind it.

Sample map: CFO search

Review the companies researched, leaders found and reasoning behind their fit ratings. This illustrative CFO map shows a larger search than the free first map.

Illustrative sample data. Larger search shown.

Sample Harbor Lane Foods CFO coverage report, slide 9. Larger search shown; the free first map is capped at 10 names.

Coverage summary. Sample report.

Illustrative CFO coverage summary showing company and people coverage, fit tiers, title levels and review requirements

Sample Harbor Lane Foods CFO coverage report, slide 9. Larger search shown; the free first map is capped at 10 names. Scroll horizontally on a small screen to inspect the full view.

How Findem Studio compares.

Time to first map

Researcher with LinkedIn

Weeks

General AI assistant alone

Minutes

Findem Studio

Minutes to hours

Names verified

Researcher with LinkedIn

By hand, as time allows

General AI assistant alone

Not verified; can return people who don't exist

Findem Studio

Every name, with sources

Current versus former

Researcher with LinkedIn

Self-reported titles

General AI assistant alone

Often out of date

Findem Studio

Flagged on every row

Exclusions explained

Researcher with LinkedIn

Rarely written down

General AI assistant alone

No

Findem Studio

Every rejected row, with a reason

Client-ready output

Researcher with LinkedIn

After formatting

General AI assistant alone

No

Findem Studio

Branded report, deck and spreadsheet

Frequently asked questions.

A Findem executive search market map shows which companies to research and who holds the relevant role at each company. It connects the search brief to a tiered company list, the reasoning for each tier, named leaders, and sources behind their fit assessments. You can review that evidence before presenting the map to a client.

Findem Studio uses Findem's People Intelligence platform to produce finished research work, including executive search market maps. The Market Map agent combines people and company context with a search method and source checks. You review the companies, people and fit reasoning before deciding whom to approach. The agent supports your researchers and partners; it does not make hiring decisions.

Findem Studio combines people and company intelligence with source checks, current-versus-former status, fit reasoning and explained exclusions. With LinkedIn, a researcher performs those checks and prepares the client output by hand. A general AI assistant's answer alone doesn't verify that every name is real or current. Findem Studio gives you the evidence to review before choosing whom to approach.

The Market Map agent is for executive-search mandates you can research by company and role, rather than high-volume general-purpose recruiting. The sample CFO search includes divisional Chief Financial Officers and VP-level finance leaders. Check the agent's fit before using it for another kind of mandate.

You can inspect the company coverage, source checks and fit reasoning behind the names. The map also records rejected names and companies with no match, so you can explain the gaps to a client. A capped first map does not claim to include every relevant person in the market.

Build your first map with Findem Studio.

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