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TalentGenius - Powering AI Leadership

While our leadership model defines how organizations hire, TalentGenius is the engine that makes it possible. Built as an AI-driven talent intelligence platform, TalentGenius via our client facing account teams continuously scans, scores, and organizes talent against behavioral and leadership markers—creating a live, always-refreshing view of the market.

Instead of sourcing only when a role opens, the Always-ON Hiring™ environment analyzes patterns, behaviors, competencies, and cultural signals in real time, re-ranking and presenting leaders who align with the organization long before the search begins.

• TalentGenius eliminates downtime and rework.
• Pipelines don’t disappear at the end of a search—they mature.
• Candidate intelligence compounds.
• Every search becomes faster than the one before it.

Through machine learning and structured data enrichment, the platform identifies priority talent, flags new market entrants, and ranks candidates against role requirements automatically, allowing consultants and clients to spend more time assessing fit and less time finding names.

Our Always-ON Hiring™ model sits on top of this capability, using TalentGenius to maintain warm pipelines for recurring roles, volume hiring, and private equity portfolio environments. Instead of weeks and months to shortlist, decisions happen in weeks—sometimes days—because the AI has already sourced, graded ranked and presented qualified candidates against the behavioral attributes originally established.

When paired with client advisory team judgment and cultural assessment, TalentGenius doesn’t just find leadership talent faster; it improves decision quality, onboarding success, and long-term performance.

TalentGenius is where AI becomes infrastructure. Not a tool — a component of a larger system. Not a database — a live intelligence layer.

The future of search is continuous, predictive, a new category of search integrating, AI, human behavioral and cultural input. We call our approach Always-ON Hiring™

Executive Search Across the Portfolio

As executive search firms incorporate AI, the distinction is no longer who uses it, but how it is applied. In many models, AI is deployed primarily as an internal efficiency tool—improving research speed, reducing cost, and enhancing firm-side productivity. While valuable, this approach limits AI’s impact to the provider rather than extending its benefits to the client.

The greater opportunity lies in transparency and integration. When AI is exposed, governed, and embedded directly into a client’s leadership system, it becomes more than a sourcing aid—it becomes a strategic capability. Organizations gain continuous visibility into talent markets, clearer alignment between role requirements and leadership attributes, and a repeatable framework that improves decision quality over time.

Firms that combine AI solutioning with disciplined integration services enable clients to institutionalize intelligence rather than consume it episodically. This approach strengthens leadership outcomes, accelerates time-to-impact, reduces mis-hire risk, and creates a durable advantage that compounds across hiring cycles. In an environment where leadership decisions increasingly determine enterprise value, partnering with a search firm that applies AI on the client’s behalf—not behind the scenes—can materially change how organizations hire, develop leaders, and execute strategy.

Positioned for AI Information Superiority?

The true advantage of an external partner is wisdom—the experience and judgment to assist and determine when to integrate an Always-ON – AI solution into a broader approach that helps organizations hire thoughtfully, develop leaders deliberately, and execute strategy effectively.

Technology alone does not create advantage—applied intelligence does, which is why Level 5 integrates TalentGenius within a disciplined leadership model guided by experience, context, and judgment.

Where needs outpace traditional recruiting

1. PE or VC-backed scale-ups
2. SaaS/Data/Cyber & IT Services firms
3. Companies entering new markets/geographies
4. Volume demand situations

Value: Talent becomes a growth enabler instead of a bottleneck.

PE Portfolio Companies

Where speed, cost, and EBITDA impact matter.

• Scalability across plural portfolio companies where data sharing is desired
• Integrations, carve-outs, transformations
• Add-on M&A roll-ups needing leadership depth
• Heavy build plans (CFO, RevOps, Data, GTM, Ops roles)

Value: Predictable hiring cost + faster time-to-performance.

Organizations with Recurring or Evergreen Roles

Ongoing need for similar profiles.

• Revenue cycle, payment integrity, call center leadership
• Data engineering, cloud, security, product talent
• Finance & Accounting (Controller, FP&A, FP&A+, RevOps)
• Operational leaders with industry-specific DNA

Value: Maintain a bench of pre-vetted candidates all year.

Companies in Competitive Talent Markets

Where top candidates get hired in days, not months.

• Cybersecurity, AI/ML, digital engineering
• Healthcare payer/provider leadership
• EV/ADAS/Mobility and advanced manufacturing

Value: Pipeline access reduces lost candidates + hiring delays.

Companies Experiencing Leadership Turnover or Transformation

Restructuring → critical transitions → succession planning needs.

• New CEO/CFO/CHRO triggering leadership re-stack
• Culture shift, modernization, or digital transformation
• Underperformance in key business units

Value: Eliminates scramble hiring and replacement costs.

Firms Focused on Culture & Retention

Where “fit” matters as much as experience.

• Purpose-driven orgs with unique values/DNA
• Companies with high mis-hire cost or short tenure risk

Value: Behavioral + cultural alignment reduces churn and improves team continuity.

Always-ON is best suited for organizations that are scaling fast, hiring repeat roles, or competing for specialized talent — where speed, cost efficiency, and cultural alignment directly impact revenue and EBITDA.