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What does Venn actually sell?
Venn runs outsourced recruiting on a flat monthly subscription. A Venn engagement is a senior search: a dedicated recruiter, backed by an AI-native sourcing stack, runs it end to end — sourcing, outreach, and screening — and delivers a calibrated slate to the hiring manager, so your team isn’t running the search itself. It’s priced as one flat rate per role, billed monthly, with a 24-month guarantee on every hire. Think of it as your recruiting function, outsourced and on a subscription — not a contingency fee at the finish line.
How is Venn different from a contingency or retained recruiter?
Three differences hold the most weight. First, the guarantee runs a full 24 months, not 90 days. Second, the engagement is a recruiting function you outsource — Venn runs the search for you on an AI-native stack, from sourcing through screening — rather than a contingency recruiter you hand a req to. Third, the pricing is monthly across the window rather than a one-time fee at hire — so Venn’s incentives align with the placement working out long-term, not just with the placement happening.
What does the 24-month guarantee actually cover?
If the hire leaves at any point in the first 24 months from their start date — for any reason — Venn re-runs the search at no additional cost: a fresh search to the same Position Profile and standard, producing a new slate. The monthly subscription continues through the replacement search, the same as during the original. Full mechanics on /approach/guarantee.
What does Venn cost?
One flat rate: $379/month per role, billed across the 24-month guarantee window. No percentage of the hire’s pay, and no lump sum at the offer — the rate is the same whether the role pays $80K or $250K. Over the full window that’s $9,096 per role. Traditional search firms bill a percentage of the hire’s first-year salary, roughly $34,000 to $45,000 for a $150K role, paid as a lump sum at the offer or in front-loaded installments. Venn stays flat. Full math and the comparison on /approach/pricing.
How does Venn’s AI-native delivery work?
AI runs the sourcing, enrichment, scheduling, and transcription work that drains a typical recruiter’s time. The recruiter runs the calibration, the deep screening conversations, and the build of the slate — the parts of the search that require judgment. The boundary split is detailed on /approach/ai-native-delivery. AI doesn’t make the calls that matter: who clears the standard, and who makes the slate.
Are Venn engagements exclusive?
Venn engagements are not formally exclusive, but the model assumes the client is running the search through Venn as the primary channel. Clients are free to run their own outbound or work with other firms in parallel. The one guardrail is in the engagement letter: if a client cancels a search before a hire and then hires a candidate Venn formally submitted within 24 months, the fee is the full subscription value of that search — the monthly rate times 24. Most clients run Venn as the sole search partner, and the question rarely surfaces in practice.
Can the engagement be cancelled?
Before a hire is made, you can cancel at any time and your payments are refunded in full — there’s no fee for a search that didn’t deliver. Once a hire is placed, the 24-month commitment is mutual: the client commits to the monthly rate across the full window, and Venn commits to re-running the search at no additional cost if the hire leaves. Two narrow exceptions are spelled out in the engagement letter (acquisition without contract assumption; company dissolution).
How does Venn calibrate a search at intake?
Venn works with the hiring manager (and, where useful, the CEO or relevant C-level peer) to capture what the role actually requires — the context, the priorities, the trade-offs — in a Position Profile. The Profile is the calibration anchor for every later phase of the search, and the recruiter who calibrates it is the one who runs the search.
How does billing actually work?
Stripe ACH is the default, no surcharge. Credit card is available with a 3% surcharge passed to the client. Billing is monthly in advance for each search: it begins on the search start date and runs while the search is open — fully refundable if you cancel before a hire — and once the hire starts, the same rate continues for the 24-month guarantee window, measured from the hire date. The engagement letter governs the full mechanics.
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