Bespoke Launches AI-Driven Dynamic Scorecard Accelerating Executive Search

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bespoke Partners, the leading executive search firm for private equity portfolio companies, today announced the launch of Calibrator, a dynamic scorecarding application accelerating executive search with the industry’s first AI-powered talent market mapping platform for software and SaaS.

Calibrator allows Bespoke’s clients to instantly see the complete talent pool for a given role based on adjustable scorecard parameters, accelerating discovery of candidates who fit a company’s leadership needs.

“An executive hiring decision can impact billions of dollars in value creation for a private equity firm,” said Eric Walczykowski, Bespoke CEO. “Leveraging AI, Calibrator empowers our clients to see and analyze the complete talent market for any executive need, making the right hiring decisions faster with this exclusive information.”

Calibrator, Bespoke’s new AI-powered dynamic scorecarding application, is built on the foundation of the Executive Index - the industry’s most comprehensive talent market mapping platform for software executives.

Through real-time collaboration, clients can visually explore the talent landscape in Calibrator and adjust search criteria alongside Bespoke’s experts, accelerating hiring decisions and ensuring precise alignment with leadership needs.

The Index uses AI-enhanced analytics to parse 53 million rows of executive background data from more than 575,000 sources, providing the first top-down market visibility of its kind. It provides a comprehensive view of the entire talent market of executives in software and SaaS in the United States, totaling nearly 700,000 executives.

The new dynamic scorecarding application enables candidates to be filtered and prioritized dynamically based on factors including positions held, end-market experience, company growth accomplishments, geography and a variety of highly nuanced criteria.

“Unlike self-reported profiles on LinkedIn, the Executive Index presents validated backgrounds on executives, using AI to cross-reference hundreds of thousands of data sources,” Eric said. “Now you have true visibility into how executives performed in prior roles and in-depth understanding of their potential to lead your company.”

Benefits of Calibrator and the Executive Index include:

• Complete, top-down view of the talent market, providing on average 50% larger talent pools compared to haphazard, bottom-up candidate discovery that other firms use.
• Cutting 2 or more weeks from a typical search process.
• Reducing time to build a 100-candidate pool for a search by 44%.
• Automating identification of backchannel reference contacts.
• Identifying candidates based on flight times from specific airports.
• 90% accuracy rate, meaning the vast majority of candidates surfaced by the Index are scorecard matches.

About Bespoke Partners

Bespoke Partners is the leading executive recruiter for private equity and the largest firm specializing in recruiting for software and SaaS companies in the United States.

Bespoke-recruited executives have orchestrated more than 200 portfolio company exits totaling nearly $600 billion, creating more than $200 billion in value for their private capital sponsors.

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 AI-augmented talent market mapping platform. The Executive Index enables Bespoke to complete searches in less than half the industry average time with a 95% placement success rate.

The firm has placed more than 1,500 top-performing executives into private equity portfolio companies. Successful searches include CEOs, CFOs, CROs, CMOs, CPOs, CTOs, CIOs, CHROs, Board Members, Operating Partners, Vice Presidents and many more.

Learn more at www.bespokepartners.com.