Bespoke Partners Unveils Industry’s First AI-Powered Talent Market Mapping Platform, Reinventing Executive Recruiting

Bespoke Executive Index Delivers Unprecedented Visibility & Validation of Full Executive Talent Market for Software & SaaS: From the Universe to the Unicorns™

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bespoke Partners, the largest retained executive search and leadership advisory firm for software companies, today unveiled the Bespoke Executive Index, the industry’s first talent market mapping platform harnessing the power of AI to analyze and validate the backgrounds of senior executives in software and SaaS.

The Executive Index provides the first comprehensive, top-down mapping of the complete software and SaaS leadership talent market in the United States.

“Today we are reinventing executive search,” said Eric Walczykowski, Bespoke CEO. “The Bespoke Executive Index is the authoritative source of data on the accomplishments and experience of the full software and SaaS executive market. If you are conducting a search without the Executive Index, you are accessing only a fraction of the talent market you should be.

“This tech-enabled services foundation is another way that Bespoke is Built Different and why a search with Bespoke is like nothing else in the industry.”

Unlike self-reported executive profiles in LinkedIn and elsewhere, the Executive Index uses AI and hundreds of data sources to map executives and validate their backgrounds for accuracy. The result is the most comprehensive and accurate picture of the full talent market from top to bottom.

The Executive Index was unveiled after three years of research, planning and development and more than a year of testing and validation by the Bespoke executive recruiting and research team.

From the Universe to the Unicorns^™

Like Google revolutionized the web by indexing websites, the Executive Index revolutionizes search by indexing executives and their backgrounds with advanced AI.

Now Bespoke clients have access to the full “universe” of software executives and can drill down to the “unicorns,” the executives with singular experience and skills to drive value creation for a particular company.

The Executive Index’s impact and scope include:

• Mapping and validating the detailed backgrounds of nearly 700,000 software and SaaS executives in the United States. The Executive Index aggregates the output of hundreds of public and proprietary data sources and employs an advanced AI analytics engine to parse, verify and summarize executive track records.

• Providing verified details on executives’ track records in revenue growth, experience with private equity portfolio companies, exits achieved and other accomplishments. Unlike self-reported details in executive profiles in other commonly used information platforms like LinkedIn, Executive Index details are automatically validated and verified using high credibility third-party data sources and AI analytics.

• Cutting the average Days-to-Close of a Bespoke executive search by a projected 15% or more. Bespoke already boasts the industry’s best DTC average of 90 days and the Executive Index will further drive down this important efficiency metric.

• Increasing the typical membership for a search by 50% when compared to traditional research methods of incrementally identifying candidates.

• Yielding a scorecard hit rate of 84%, nearly triple the accuracy of other common methods of candidate research. This means nearly all the candidates surfaced by the Executive Index based on a set of scorecard filters are a fit and worth pursuing for a given role.

• Offering a dynamic filtering interface to generate search scorecards in real-time, instantly showing how scorecard parameters affect membership size. Experience in a sector, in a role, geographic accessibility, travel times, company stages and many more parameters can be adjusted to automatically filter the talent pool.

Visibility & Access Available Nowhere Else

The Executive Index is used in every Bespoke executive recruiting project and is available only by engaging Bespoke Partners in a search.

In addition to serving as the leading search firm for software and SaaS companies, Bespoke specializes in executive recruiting for private equity firms and their portfolios.

The Executive Index is particularly suited for identifying executives with experience in achieving the investment thesis and exits for private equity sponsors. The results are significantly faster searches with demonstrably better results, dramatically lowering human capital risk.

About Bespoke Partners

Bespoke Partners is the largest firm focused exclusively on executive recruiting and leadership advisory services for software and SaaS companies in the United States.

Bespoke-placed executives have orchestrated exits and more than 425 acquisitions by their companies, generating more than $145 billion in value.

Bespoke Partners is Built Different, with a unique firm structure, functional role focus and deep expertise in 28 software subsectors. Bespoke’s data-driven services utilize the Executive Index, a comprehensive talent market mapping solution that enables Bespoke to complete searches in less than half the industry average time with a 95% placement success rate.

The firm is the leading private equity executive recruiter for software companies, placing more than 1,400 top-performing leaders into private equity portfolio companies, including CEOs, CFOs, CROs, CMOs, CPOs, CTOs, CIOs, CHROs, Board Members, Operating Partners, Vice Presidents and many more.

Learn more at www.bespokepartners.com.

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