Hiring company
Submits the role, reviews matched specialists, selects the search partner, interviews candidates, and pays the retained-search fee through ExecHaus.
Investor overview
The retained search marketplace for professional and executive hiring.
Companies use ExecHaus to define a critical role, review three matched independent recruiters or search firms, and choose one to conduct an exclusive retained search through a shared marketplace workspace.
The business, precisely
Three participants. Distinct responsibilities.
ExecHaus
Provides structured intake, recruiter matching, contracting, payment administration, shared workflows, performance standards, and marketplace quality controls.
Independent recruiter or search firm
Accepts the exclusive engagement, conducts the search, assesses candidates, builds the shortlist, and supports the company through the hire.
What ExecHaus is not
Not a staffing agency, job board, internal recruiting team, or open race among multiple recruiters. The selected independent search partner—not ExecHaus—conducts the search.
The problem
Important searches still begin with an opaque decision.
Recruiter selection is inconsistent
Companies often rely on familiarity or referrals without a structured way to evaluate which independent search specialist is best suited for the mandate.
Accountability is fragmented
Multi-recruiter competition can increase activity without creating clear ownership of the search outcome.
Search visibility is limited
Hiring leaders need clearer milestones, communication expectations, and marketplace oversight.
Why this can become large
A transaction marketplace that becomes a system of intelligence.
ExecHaus begins with high-value retained-search transactions. Each completed engagement can deepen company relationships, recruiter performance history, and the data used to improve future matching.
Professional and executive searches carry meaningful fees and repeat as companies grow, replace leaders, and build new capabilities.
Independent recruiters and search firms possess valuable niche expertise, but companies lack a consistent way to find and compare the right specialist for each mandate.
Structured intake, matching decisions, delivery milestones, and search outcomes create evidence that can make future matches more precise and the marketplace harder to replicate.
Initial customersGrowth-oriented employers with approximately 100–5,000 employees
Role scopeProfessional through C-suite
Launch sectorsServices, healthcare, industrial, logistics, and technology-enabled businesses
How the marketplace works
From role intake to hire.
The marketplace creates choice before commitment, then supports one accountable, exclusive retained-search engagement from intake through hire.
The company makes the final selection. ExecHaus never assigns the search partner.- 01CompanySubmit the role
The company enters the mandate, desired outcomes, compensation, requirements, and search priorities.
- 02ExecHaus marketplaceComplete structured intake
The platform guides intake and confirms that the mandate and commercial terms are complete before matching begins.
- 03Matching engineSurface three qualified matches
At launch, structured AI-assisted matching uses verified recruiter profiles, relevant experience, function, industry, level, geography, capacity, and conflicts. Completed-search outcomes strengthen recommendations over time.
- 04CompanyReview three matches
The company compares fit rationale, relevant experience, search approach, performance signals, capacity, and conflicts, then chooses whom it wants to meet.
- 05Company + independent recruiterConfirm fit and activate the engagement
The company makes the final selection after a fit conversation. The chosen recruiter or search firm accepts the exclusive mandate; ExecHaus does not assign the partner.
- 06Shared marketplace workspaceRun a transparent retained search
The recruiter sources and assesses candidates while the company tracks milestones, communication, shortlist progress, and search health in one shared workspace.
- 07Company + marketplaceHire, pay, and improve future matching
The company hires through the selected search partner. Marketplace payments and outcome data support accountability and improve future recruiter-fit recommendations.
How ExecHaus makes money
Revenue is earned when retained searches are activated and delivered.
The company contracts and pays through ExecHaus. From each collected retained-search installment, the independent search partner receives its contracted share and ExecHaus retains marketplace revenue for the infrastructure and services it provides. Detailed percentages and unit economics remain in the private investor materials.
Pays the agreed retained-search installments through ExecHaus.
Administers the contract, collection, workflow, and standards.
Receives its share as corresponding installments are collected.
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Founder
Kristina Berry
Founder & CEOKristina Berry is a senior people and operations executive with direct experience overseeing hiring, workforce strategy, performance management, organizational operations, and complex employment processes. ExecHaus is being built from the hiring buyer’s perspective to create greater recruiter choice, accountability, transparency, and consistency in retained search.
The vision
Build the trusted infrastructure layer for professional and executive search.
ExecHaus is beginning with a multi-sided marketplace connecting companies with vetted independent recruiters and search firms through structured retained-search workflows. Over time, completed searches create a proprietary system of recruiter-fit, delivery, and outcome intelligence.
Private investor materials
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