Our Approach · Pricing
One flat rate per role. No placement fee.
Venn is priced as a flat monthly subscription — one rate per role, billed across the full twenty-four-month guarantee window. No percentage of the hire’s first-year pay, and no lump sum at the offer. The work runs the entire window: Venn holds the calibration for every placement and re-runs the search at no new fee if the hire leaves.
$379
/mo
Per role
A flat monthly subscription, billed across the twenty-four-month guarantee window.
The rate is the same whether the role pays $80K or $250K. It does not move with the salary band, and there is no separate fee when the hire is made.
How it compares
Their fee rises with the salary. Venn’s stays flat.
Contingency and retained search bill a percentage of the hire’s first-year salary, so the fee climbs with every more senior hire. Venn’s is flat. The numbers below use a $150,000 base salary.
| Row | Venn | Contingency22.5% of salary | Retained30% of salary |
|---|---|---|---|
| The fee | $379/mo | $33,750 | $45,000 |
| How it’s paid | Monthly, across 24 months | One lump at the offer | Installments, front-loaded |
| 24-month total | $9,096 | $33,750 | $45,000 |
| Replacement guarantee | Full 24 months | Typically 60–90 days | Typically 60–90 days |
Comparison uses a $150,000 base salary. Contingency modeled at 22.5% of base (typical industry range 20–25%), paid as a single lump at the offer. Retained modeled at 30% of base (typical range 25–33%), billed in installments. The Venn figure is the full twenty-four-month subscription and includes the standing replacement guarantee across the entire window; most contingency and retained engagements carry guarantees of 60 to 90 days.
The structural commitment
The billing structure is the guarantee structure.
The shape of the pricing is the shape of the obligation. A firm that collects its full fee at the offer date has been paid before it knows whether the hire worked out. A firm that bills a flat monthly fee across the twenty-four-month window is paid for the work as the work runs — and re-runs the search, at no new fee, if the placement leaves at any point in that window.
The fee follows the work, not the offer.
60%
of senior hires don’t make it to month 24.
Venn covers all of them.
Corporate Executive Board research
Every Venn placement is covered for the full twenty-four months from the hire date. If the hire leaves during that window — at month three, month twelve, month twenty-three, for any reason — Venn re-runs the search at no new fee: a fresh search to the same Position Profile and standard, producing a new slate.
See how the guarantee works →How billing works
Simple terms, matched to the work.
Cancel before a placement.
Walk away any time before a hire is made. Payments are refunded in full — no fee for a search that didn’t deliver.
Billed monthly.
One flat fee per month across the twenty-four-month guarantee window, starting when the engagement begins.
No obligation to hire.
You decide who joins the team. The slate is presented with the full context; the choice is always yours.
Talk it through
Want to walk through the numbers for a specific role?
A twenty-minute conversation is the fastest way to size the search, see the full cost against the alternatives, and decide whether Venn is the right shape for it. No pitch — just the working numbers.
Book an intro call →Or email contact@vennadvisory.ai