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We put the Consultantback into recruitment.
Recruitment wasn't broken.Parts of the industry broke it.
Our story
“We've spent our careers on the client side of hiring. We built The 15 to be the partner we always wanted.”
After years in the C-suite scaling businesses, delivering transformation and building teams, we turned to recruitment.Hiring had become an echo chamber of software talking to software.Brilliant, proven peers were being treated like commodity leads.The 15 is the fix: a transparent 15%, operator judgement and zero AI filtering.
The 15 is led by operators with this record.
Every search is held to the same standard.
We've led AI transformation programmes.
That's exactly why we keep AI out of hiring decisions.
Operator judgement
From business.Not from recruitment.
They've run teams, budgets and businesses.They've delivered products, projects and programmes.They'll tell you when the brief is wrong.
We're here to give you the best candidate.Not the best recruiter relationship.
What we stand for
The 15 Charter.Fifteen commitments, in writing.
- 01Human review
A person reviews every candidate.
Every application is read by a person. Every decision is made by one.
- 02Human review
Zero AI filtering.
No automated screening, scoring, ranking or rejection. Ever.
- 03Human review
Operators lead every search.
Every search is led by someone who has run the department you are hiring for.
- 04Price
One fee: 15%.
Published on this site. The same for every role and every level. Never negotiated.
- 05Price
You pay only when they start.
No retainer for permanent roles. No fee if nobody starts.
- 06Price
Contract margins in plain sight.
The contractor’s rate plus 15%. Both shown on every invoice.
Other recruiters
We know the best recruiters in the country.We partner with them.
If they're better placed to fill your role, we bring them in.You still deal with one consultant.You still pay 15%.Repeat business beats a single win.