Fill the role in weeks,
not months.
AI-assisted recruiting purpose-built for trade and home service businesses. We find the person you need without you running the search yourself.
Most trade businesses lose 6 to 10 weeks on every hire. Here's why.
One job board, one process
The average trade business posts on Indeed, waits, and hires whoever applies. That's not a hiring strategy, it's a lottery with bad odds.
No scorecard, no shortlist
Without a defined hiring scorecard, every interview is gut-feel. Half your hires are mistakes by month six. The other half quit when they realize the role didn't match what was promised.
The owner is the recruiter
You're already running the business. You don't have time to source, screen, and chase candidates for 8 weeks. The role stays open. Revenue suffers. You hire whoever's left.
We run the search. You make the hire.
30-Minute Scoping Call
We map the role: scorecard, ideal profile, dealbreakers, compensation reality. You leave the call with a written role spec we both sign off on.
AI-Assisted Sourcing
We post across 9+ job boards simultaneously and use AI tools to source passive candidates. Most searches generate 30–80 applicants in the first 10 days.
Vetted Shortlist
We screen against the scorecard, run first-round interviews, and deliver a shortlist of 3–5 candidates with notes. You only meet people who've already cleared the bar.
Hiring Support + Replacement Guarantee
We help you structure the offer, close the candidate, and onboard. If they don't work out in the first 90 days, we run the search again at no charge.
Who we work with on hiring.
Trade businesses doing $1–10M
You need office staff, service managers, lead techs, or ops leads. You don't have time to run the search yourself.
Sub-$1M operators on the path to $1M
Your first key hire is what unlocks the next stage. We help you scope it, source it, and not screw it up.
Existing Local Trade Ops clients
If you're in the Operations Retainer, hiring is part of the engagement. This page is mostly for new prospects.
We're not the right fit for everyone.
We're a hiring service for trade business owners. We're not a job board. We don't host candidate rosters. We don't place candidates we haven't been hired to source. If you're a job seeker hoping to land on our radar — we don't work that way, and we won't pretend to.
- NOT A FITTrade businesses under $300K — at that stage, you should be doing your own hiring directly.
- NOT A FITRoles paying under $35K/year — the math doesn't work for either side.
- NOT A FITSearches outside North America.
- NOT A FITRoles where the role itself isn't clearly defined yet (we can help you define it, but that's a Shop Diagnostic, not a hiring engagement).
Honest answers.
Q-01Are you a recruiting agency?
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Are you a recruiting agency?
No. We're an operations firm that does recruiting for trade businesses we work with — and increasingly, for trade businesses who find us through hiring first. The recruiting work is built on the same People pillar we install in the full Business Operating System.
Q-02What's the 90-day replacement guarantee?
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What's the 90-day replacement guarantee?
If your hire leaves or doesn't work out within 90 days for any reason, we run the search again at no additional cost. One replacement per placement.
Q-03Do you do executive search?
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Do you do executive search?
We can. Senior leadership roles are scoped separately and run on a slightly different process. Tell us about the role and we'll let you know if it's a fit.
Q-04Can you source from outside the trades?
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Can you source from outside the trades?
Yes, and we often do. Some of the best office managers, ops leads, and back-office hires come from adjacent industries. That's part of why we use AI-assisted sourcing — to look beyond the obvious candidate pool.
Q-05What if I want help hiring on an ongoing basis?
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What if I want help hiring on an ongoing basis?
If you're hiring 4+ roles per year, the Operations Retainer becomes the better economic model. Hiring becomes part of the engagement instead of a per-role transaction.
Q-06Do you work with candidates directly?
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Do you work with candidates directly?
Only after we've been engaged on a search. We don't accept unsolicited resumes, maintain a candidate database, or place candidates we haven't been hired to source.
Have an open role? Tell us about it.
30-minute scoping call. We quote the search at the end. You decide if it's a fit.