STRATAEL
Register Interest
SIGNAL PREVIEW
TENURE//CFO at FTSE 100 entering 4th year//Transition likelihood: 84%
CONFLICT//Your adviser holds 127 of 312 target candidates off-limits//STRATAEL access: 100%
COMPENSATION//CTO packages in GCC sovereign sector//Median 22% above survey benchmarks
EQUITY//CEO equity vest completing at PE-backed fintech//Availability signal: 91%
CONFLICT//47% of your target pool blocked at one major search firm//STRATAEL off-limits: 0%
DEPARTURE//Board director departure signal at luxury conglomerate//Confidence: 78%
COMPENSATION//CHRO actual transaction data vs published surveys//Delta: +£68K at P75
CASCADE//Three senior departures at same financial services firm//Pool movement: detected
CONFLICT//89 of 247 target candidates off-limits at a single incumbent//Pool loss: 36%
COMPENSATION//NED fees at FTSE 250 from actual placements//Median: £92K//Based on 348 records
Intelligence Infrastructure · In Development

The last major market without intelligence infrastructure.STRATAEL builds it.

The £847B human capital market has no Bloomberg. No Moody’s. No real-time compensation data. No systematic signal layer. STRATAEL is building the intelligence infrastructure for retained executive search — founded on 18 years of proprietary transaction data, zero off-limits conflicts, and compensation benchmarking from actual closed placements.

Proprietary Data
18 Years
Closed placement records with verified outcomes
Off-Limits Conflicts
Zero
No institutional retainers. Full pool access.
Report Delivery
<18 Hours
Automated intelligence pipeline
Status
By Invitation
Selectively accepting early engagements
The Career Knowledge Graph

18 years of placements.
Connected as intelligence.

We are structuring 18 years of placement records, career signals, and verified outcomes into a unified intelligence layer. Every professional is a node. Every placement is a verified relationship. Every outcome at 12, 24, and 36 months calibrates the system. This is the dataset no competitor can replicate from a standing start.

18yr
Transaction Data
6
Sectors at Launch
4
Geographies
The Market Problem
The Hidden Problem
30–67%
of the target talent pool is off-limits at any major search firm (Spencer Stuart, Heidrick, Russell Reynolds, Egon Zehnder, Korn Ferry) at any given time — and they are not required to tell you
Source: STRATAEL conflict analysis across 18 years of mandate data
Compensation Reality
±2–12%
Accuracy of our transaction-verified compensation data vs ±25–35% from the annual surveys boards currently rely on
Based on actual accepted offers from signed contracts, not self-reported surveys
Availability Signals
40–80 / day
Career signals classified daily — board departures, equity vests, tenure shifts, restructures — detecting who is likely available before the open market knows
Calibrated against 18 years of known placement outcomes
Founding Conviction

The intelligence infrastructure the £847B market has never had.

Founded on 18 years conducting retained executive search for CEO, CFO, CHRO, Chairman and NED appointments across luxury, financial services, private equity, technology, sovereign and professional services markets globally.

Every generation builds an intelligence layer for a market that previously operated on guesswork and relationships. Bond markets built Moody’s. Financial markets built Bloomberg. Web content built Google PageRank. Professional identity built LinkedIn. Human capital — the £847B market that determines the fate of every company, every portfolio, every sovereign programme — has nothing. That is the market STRATAEL is building.

“Bloomberg did not build a better financial newspaper. They built a terminal — a machine that gave every market participant real-time data nobody else had, structured for immediate action. The product was the data. STRATAEL’s position in human capital is identical in architecture.”

The conviction at the centre of STRATAEL is that the best candidate for a chairman appointment at a luxury conglomerate is not always the person the incumbent firm happens to know. The most consequential NED appointment in a sovereign programme may be someone whose name does not appear in any circulated longlist, because no firm with that mandate holds the access to find them. The systematic methodology to identify those individuals — built over eighteen years and now being productised as intelligence infrastructure — is STRATAEL.

The analytical infrastructure — the intelligence layer that turns 18 years of retained executive search into systematic data — is in active development. Human capital due diligence, succession planning intelligence, and compensation benchmarking from actual transactions rather than surveys will be delivered as products, not advisory engagements. The methodology, the dataset and the foundation are operational today. STRATAEL is selectively accepting board and C-suite mandates for CEO, CFO, CHRO, Chairman and NED appointments, and a limited number of confidential registrations from senior professionals who wish to be known to us ahead of the market.

Intelligence Product
Brief Intelligence Report
The intelligence your current search adviser is structurally unable to provide — delivered before the credentials call.
01
Unfiltered Pool
Complete talent pool for the function and sector — with zero off-limits deductions. Every relevant leader globally, regardless of who holds their current employer as a client.
02
Conflict Disclosure
Off-limits analysis at your current or prospective search adviser. Named organisations, basis of conflict, and the percentage of the pool that is structurally unavailable to them.
03
Availability Signals
Leaders whose career activity in the preceding 90 days — board departures, equity vest completions, restructure signals — suggests they may be available before the market knows.
04
Compensation Data
Benchmarks drawn from 18 years of closed mandates. Actual accepted figures from signed contracts — not published surveys with 12-month lags and 28% response rates.
STRATAEL
Founder-Led
Early Access

See what your current search firm cannot show you.

STRATAEL is selectively accepting early engagements from PE operating partners, board chairs, CHROs and family office principals. If you have experienced the limitations of conflicted search — or if you are a senior professional who wishes to be known to us ahead of the market — register your interest. A senior partner will respond directly.

By Invitation
Early engagements now open
Senior partner response within 24 hours
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