We headhunt professionals currently working at companies in your field, vet each one on a live working call against the same scorecard we use to hire our own team, and place them with you. One price: 20% of year-one base salary. $1,000 refundable deposit to start, credited to the fee on hire.
One search, one price: 20% of year-one base salary. Optional AI bootcamp if you want the hire trained, priced separately.
We ask which seat, which field, which tools, what the professional owns in week one, and what blocked the last hire. You answer; we take notes.
You do not draft a job description. We turn the call into a structured role brief and send it back for approval. That brief is the source of truth for every candidate you see.
Outreach goes out the same day the brief is approved. We identify professionals currently employed at companies in your field, then reach them by warm intro, prior-network referral, or a researched personal email. No InMail blasts, no job-board reposts, no “open to work” tags.
Each outreach is hand-written and references their actual work: the company they are at, what they run, the load they carry. Most professionals we contact are not actively job-hunting. They reply because the ask is specific. The first vetted profile lands in your inbox by day seven.
Every professional is checked against the same scorecard and reference process we use to hire for our own team. Those notes sit on the candidate brief next to the working-call summary.
Three vetted candidates land in your inbox by day 21. Each comes with a written brief, working-call notes, and the reference check.
You interview the three on your cadence. We do not push timelines. If none of the three fit, the search continues at no additional cost.
If the hire does not work out, the replacement search is included: 90 days on every placement.
Once you choose, you hire the professional directly — your payroll, your tools, your team. We hand you the contractor agreement and walk you through Deel, Wise, or Payoneer. No Vela markup on their pay, no managed-services layer.
Every placement is backed by a ninety-day replacement window. If it does not work out inside ninety days, we run the replacement search at no additional fee.
Want the hire trained to run AI inside the seat? We offer that as a separate, optional bootcamp — live one-on-one sessions on the workflows that matter for their role. Priced on its own, never bundled into the placement fee, and added only if you ask for it.
The Vela Method is done-for-you on sourcing and vetting, done-with-you on the hire decision, and do-it-yourself on the contractor relationship after placement. Running the search takes about an hour of your time. Then you interview three people instead of thirty.
Every metric below is enforced in the working call. A candidate misses one, they miss the shortlist.
Anonymized profiles from recent placements. This is the exact format that lands in your inbox at the shortlist stage.
Eight years owning client accounts end to end. Last role managed a $48K MRR book of fifteen clients.
“Most owners hire for the conversation. The job is actually keeping the account healthy enough that the client never has to ask.”
Read full dossier →Three years coordinating timelines across teams for sixteen accounts — paid, organic, email, and creative.
“The mistake teams make is letting the senior also run the daily standup. The coordinator role pays for itself the moment someone takes that over.”
Read full dossier →Someone runs the call, not a screener. Five scored dimensions land as a written summary in the candidate brief.
A bad first hire should not cost you a second placement fee. The replacement search starts the day you flag it. No additional fee.
If your hire does not work out within the first ninety days, we run the replacement search at no additional cost. You keep the original brief; we restart sourcing.
If we do not introduce candidates you want to meet by day 21. Refunded in full, and you can stop the search.
Once we introduce candidates you want to meet. At that point we have delivered the sourcing, working-call vetting, and shortlist work the deposit pays for.
On hire, the $1,000 deposit credits in full toward the placement fee. The full fee (20% of year-one base salary) is billed only when you and the candidate confirm terms. The deposit is the only money you put up to start the search.
If we do not introduce candidates you want to meet by day 21, the full $1,000 deposit is refunded and you can stop. Otherwise the search continues at no additional fee until you hire.
No. Every search reaches professionals currently employed elsewhere. Job-board candidates do not enter the pipeline.
Someone who has hired these seats. Not a recruiter, not a screener. The notes ride along on the candidate brief.
We run every professional through the same scorecard, working call, and reference process we use to hire for our own team. We only put forward people we would hire ourselves.
Only if you want it. The standard placement is the hire — vetted and placed. If you want them trained to run AI in the seat, we offer a separate, optional bootcamp, priced on its own and never bundled into the fee.
You hire the professional directly. We hand you the contract template and walk you through Deel, Wise, or Payoneer. You own the relationship from day one.
Bench depth is concentrated in customer success, operations, project management, executive support, and design. For adjacent roles, we tell you up front whether we can credibly source from currently-employed professionals.
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Curated from companies who hired through Vela and professionals we placed. Their words, not ours.
“HireTalent gave us exactly what we needed. They found someone with all the qualifications we were looking for, and Andres has been a really strong addition to our team.”
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