Mandate replaces 26 hours of manual research per search with AI-powered tools — 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.
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.
Every platform below serves retained search firms. Only Mandate was built by one.
The math is straightforward. The time saved on research translates directly into capacity for more searches — or a faster, higher-quality process on the ones you're already running.
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 personally.
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