Mandate replaces 26 hours of manual research per search with AI-powered tools — and manages your entire retained search business from first prospect conversation to placed candidate. Now with cultural fit profiling and autonomous background agents powered by Claude Fable 5. Built by Thompson Recruiting Solutions from real searches, for retained search firms.
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Every hour a researcher spends on manual tasks is an hour not spent building relationships, qualifying candidates, or advising clients. Mandate changes that equation.
Every step of a retained mandate connected. AI handles the research. You handle the relationships and the judgement.
13 features across 5 groups: AI Research · Delivery · Business Development · Workflow · Intelligence
From your ICP criteria, generate a complete sourcing brief in 30 seconds. Tiered target companies, 12+ title variants, boolean search strings ready to paste into LinkedIn Recruiter, and non-obvious sourcing angles.
Paste any LinkedIn profile. Receive a structured ICP-mapped assessment in 90 seconds — career arc, criterion-by-criterion scoring with evidence, green flags, red flags, and personalised outreach hooks.
Generate a personalised 3-touch sequence for every candidate — opening, a day-6 follow-up with a different angle, and a day-14 soft close. LinkedIn or email. Written in your firm's voice, stored against the candidate record.
Type rough post-call notes in any format — stream of consciousness is fine. Mandate converts them into a structured screening record, updates ICP scores with evidence, captures compensation data, and surfaces follow-up actions.
Side-by-side comparison of your slate candidates across every ICP criterion. Weighted scores, must-have flags, evidence notes per criterion, and automatic overall score calculation — the objective foundation for every client conversation.
Differentiated candidate narratives generated from screening records and ICP scores. Delivered through a branded client portal with magic-link access — no email attachments, no manual formatting, structured feedback collected automatically.
Automatically create off-limits restrictions when a search closes — protecting placed candidates and active clients from inadvertent sourcing. Warnings surface throughout the platform wherever a restricted company appears.
Client-ready market maps powered by live LinkedIn data — real employee headcounts, actual active job postings, and compensation benchmarks from current listings. Generated in minutes, delivered alongside your retainer.
Upload any position profile — from any search firm's template, in PDF or Word format — and Mandate extracts role details, ICP criteria, performance expectations, and reporting structure automatically. Every major industry format tested.
Track every opportunity from first conversation to signed engagement letter — in the same platform where you run the search. When a mandate is won, convert it directly to an active engagement with one click. No re-entry, no switching tools.
The only revenue forecast built on the retained search rule-of-thirds billing model — three separate cash events per mandate, not one lump sum at close. See your confirmed pipeline from active searches alongside your weighted BD pipeline in a single 30/60/90-day view.
Define the cultural requirements of every search across 8 dimensions — decision speed, authority style, risk orientation, communication style, work mode, change appetite, stakeholder load, and pace. Mandate extracts a candidate's cultural profile automatically from their debrief and reference notes, then AI generates a scored fit narrative, specific flags, and targeted interview questions — without any additional step for the researcher.
Three autonomous agents powered by Claude Fable 5 and Anthropic Managed Agents run continuously in the background — no researcher involvement required. The Candidate News Monitor runs every night. The Autonomous Sourcing Agent fires the moment a search is activated. The BD Intelligence Agent generates pre-call briefing notes for every active opportunity every Monday morning. When LinkedIn RSC is approved, the sourcing agent swaps web search for One-Click Export — no rearchitecting required.
Every platform below serves retained search firms. Only Mandate was built by one — and only Mandate covers every phase from BD through financial management.
We are an active retained executive search firm. We built Mandate because the tools available to boutique firms were built by people who studied executive search from the outside. We built it from the inside — on real searches, with real clients, solving the exact problems our research team faces every week. We run every search through Mandate. You're not our test case — we are.
Founded by Anjalee Thompson, a proven executive search professional with 15+ years of North American retained search experience.
14-day free trial. Full access from day one. No credit card required. Our team will walk you through your first search — and your first proposal — personally.
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