When fewer mandates come in, every one has to fill.

The research weeks behind every search, done in 30 minutes, with the reasoning attached.

More mandates per consultant, in the same week. ama is the Talent Intelligence Platform for search firms.

"The market" means the target companies, regions and must-haves you agree with us. ama works inside that boundary.

EU-hosted. Human-led. Your data never trains our models.

A research associate reads through a long list of profiles in the early evening.

Research doesn't scale. Your mandates do.

  • Research weeks go into every search before the first candidate call, and research hours only grow with headcount.
  • Clients send more roles than you can work, and many pay only on success. So they get parked.
  • The client wants to see the market in the first meeting. Manual research delivers it weeks after kickoff.
  • Your network is used up, and the client still expects a shortlist.
  • Years of placements sit in your database, and nobody can search them when the mandate arrives.
  • The client asks "why him?", and the answer lives in one consultant's head.

Hiring more researchers only buys more reading hours.

From the whole market to the one who changes the outcome.

Illustrative example, not a customer result.

Step 1

You set the boundary.

Upload the job description and talk it through with the ama agent, like with an experienced research colleague. Target companies, regions, must-haves. That draws the market, and the boundary stays visible for the whole search.

Step 2

Every career, read in context.

ama reads every profile inside the boundary: the whole career, not titles and keywords. So it finds the ones a Boolean string misses. The CFO who sells. The country manager who built the market entry. The 50-person company nobody had on the list.

Step 3

Who fits, who might move, who is affordable.

ama assesses every profile: qualification for the role, Attractability (estimated from observable signals), Salary fit, and whether the seniority really matches. Seniority comes back as Step-up, On target or Above target, and why.

Step 4

Your own database and network first.

Available with implementation

The right person may have sat in your CRM for three years. Every candidate your firm already owns is assessed against the live mandate the same way as the external market, and surfaces first where it fits. For every candidate on the map, ama shows which consultant in your firm has a contact, a past conversation or a placement history with that person, so the team can route the approach through the warm relationship.

Step 5

Your Talent Market Map: every name with its reasons.

Why this person, what's missing, how sure ama is: per dimension, not one opaque score. Change a criterion with the client and watch the list move. Challenge any ranking.

Step 6

Here the agents stop. Your team takes over.

Your consultant calls. ama writes each message from the candidate's career: it connects the company, its product and the opportunity to what is relevant in that person's professional context. Your consultant keeps voice, tone and send. The client decides, and so does the candidate.

Step 7

The one.

Never miss the candidate who changes the outcome.

In the market you define with us.

The craft was never the reading. It was the judgment.

ama's agents

the reading
  • Map the target companies
  • Read every profile in the market
  • Assess fit, Attractability, salary, seniority
  • Write the reasons for every name
  • Keep your database current, with implementation
  • Draft outreach from each candidate's career
A search consultant walks a client through printed sheets of the market.

Your team

the judgment
  • Calibrate the brief with the client
  • Challenge the ranking
  • Choose who to call
  • Hold the client and candidate relationship
  • Interview, advise, place
  • Decide what gets sent, and when

What changes for your firm.

1 of 3

The whole market you define, read in context.

"We have looked at everyone," and you can show the boundary.

What carries it

A Talent Market Map per role
Non-obvious candidates from adjacent industries and small companies
A first Talent Market Map while the client is still on the phone
Your own database searched firstAvailable with implementation
Coverage you can defendEvery profile marked "found", "out of scope" or "not assessed"

In the market you define with us.

Every name with its reasons.

"You walk into the client meeting with the market, not with an opinion."

What carries it

Reasoning per dimension on every name
Attractability, estimated from observable signals
Salary fit as an estimated range
Seniority: Step-up, On target or Above target
The brief calibrated live with the client
Every ranking open to challenge

Your team keeps the craft, and does more of it.

"More mandates, run deeper, with the team you have."

What carries it

Outreach built from each candidate's career
See which colleague already knows a candidateAvailable with implementation
Reverse matchStart from a great candidate, find the companies where they create value
ama under your brand for your clientsWhite-label
Works on top of your CRM or ATSSee the systems below

Autopilot

Say yes to the roles you park today.

Clients send more roles than you can work, and many pay only on success.

Forward the role: ama handles outreach; you take over when candidates respond.

Start with one free role

Built for success‑fee work.

  • 1See whether the role is fillable before you put a week into it: supply, salary reality, and the requirement that has to move.
  • 2Reach the first candidates without waiting for a researcher to free up.
  • 3Show the client the market in the kick-off, then ask for exclusivity.

What to look for in AI research.

Five questions to put to any tool before it touches a live mandate, ours included.

What to checkThe question to askama's answer
Where the market boundary is drawnWho decides what "the whole market" means, and can I see it?The market is defined with you and stays visible for the whole search.
Reasoning per candidateCan I see why each person is on the list, and argue with it?Reasoning per criterion, open to challenge.
Data sources and hostingWhere does the data come from, and where does it sit?Public-data-only external sourcing, EU hosting, no training on customer or candidate data.
Sync with your systemDoes it land in my system, or do I get a second one?The verified connector or handoff for your system, named in writing.
Human controlWhere do I decide, and what happens without me?Your team decides at every step that matters, and each automated step names where you steer.

Read the full guide

ama works on top of the system you already use.

Two-way sync Search-firm systems: built during implementation for accounts of sufficient size
SAP SuccessFactorsSAP HCMAvatureWorkdayTalentsoftTalentrecruiterPersonioRexxAshbySilkRoadLinkedIn Recruiter
BullhornInvenias by BullhornVincereLoxoJobAdderRecruit CRMRecruiterflowClockworkEzekiaStar Hunter

ama works on top of the customer's system of record and syncs both ways with the named systems: SAP SuccessFactors, SAP HCM, Avature, Workday, Talentsoft, Talentrecruiter, Personio, Rexx, Ashby, SilkRoad and LinkedIn Recruiter. A system that is not on the list is built during implementation for accounts of sufficient size. The scope is recorded per customer. How the sync works

For every role on your team.

A managing partner listens at the head of a meeting table.

Managing Partner

More mandates per consultant, in the same week. ama takes the research load; your consultants keep the relationships and the placement.

A consultant prepares a pitch with a printed list of target companies.

Consultant

Bring the Talent Market Map to the pitch, before the mandate is signed: target companies, example profiles, and the reasoning behind them.

A researcher sketches a map of target companies on paper.

Researcher

You set the direction and challenge the results. ama does the scanning, so your research goes deeper and shows.

A data protection officer reads a printed document at his desk.

IT and data protection

GDPR-compliant processing, EU hosting, public-data-only external sourcing, no training on customer or candidate data, enterprise SSO/SAML.

Read the trust summary

The evidence, with the method attached.

i-potentials uses ama to bring a concrete market view into the first client conversation.

What that looks like: a market snapshot, a target-company list and example profiles, while the mandate is still being won.

i-potentialsFrom the published testimonial of Sabine Thiemann, Partner at i-potentials.
~85%

precision vs a top-5 executive-search firm's shortlist

Measured on live search data, more than 200 candidates, head-to-head against a top-five executive-search firm's shortlist.

From the same trial: 83% recall on the consultant's own top picks (123 of 149), and 2.4 times the coverage (554 against 230 profiles).

M. K.
M. K., Finance Director
Mid-sized medical-device maker
On target
Example, synthetic data
QualificationStrong fit. Led a finance team through a product launch and a systems change, which the brief asks for.
AttractabilityEstimated from observable signals: four years in role, scope has not grown since, the target location is within reach.
Salary fitEstimated range €125k to €140k, inside a budget of up to €150k.
SeniorityOn target: a team of similar size, with a broader scope.
GapsNo board reporting on record.
How sureMedium. The launch scope is inferred from two sources.
Your consultant can overrule any lens. The reason stays with the profile.

Autopilot, at one search firm

1,459candidates contacted across 55 roles in about four weeks
23.7%replied
11.9%were interested

One firm, one four-week period, September 2026.

Who ama is for, and who not yet.

A good fit

  • Search firms that earn on the fill, receive more roles than they can work, and have at least one partner, consultant or researcher who will review and challenge the work.
  • In-house TA teams that already source, with a named sourcing owner, at least one live hard-to-fill role that inbound has not solved, and a hiring manager willing to calibrate on evidence.

Not a fit yet

  • Teams that want a one-off list with nobody to review it.
  • Buyers who want a fully outsourced search without taking part. A search partner is the more honest fit today.
  • A business case built on cutting headcount rather than on more mandates and better work.
  • A market that is thin on professional profile data. We check coverage before the free role starts.

Questions buyers ask.

Does this replace our researchers?

No. It replaces the reading. Researchers set the direction, challenge the ranking and go deeper where it matters.

Can we trust the ranking?

Every name shows its reasons per dimension. Open the evidence, disagree, change a criterion, and the list updates.

Will you really cover the whole market?

The whole market inside the boundary we agree with you: target companies, regions, sources and criteria. The boundary stays visible, so you can show the client exactly what was covered.

We tried AI sourcing. The shortlist was worse than our own search.

Then judge us the same way: on one of your live mandates, against your own benchmark, with one free role.

Is this another system to maintain?

No. ama works on top of your ATS or CRM. We tell you in writing what integrates for your setup.

What will our data protection officer say?

GDPR-compliant processing, EU hosting, public-data-only external sourcing, no training on customer or candidate data. The review documents go to your DPO on request.

What does it cost?

The price comes with your free role, in a written offer, so you know it before you see the result.

Start with one free role.

One live role, run end to end with the ama team: calibration, your Talent Market Map, an assessed shortlist, and a review session. It costs nothing. The offer with our prices arrives together with it, so you know the price before the result. Your part: about 20 minutes of calibration, and feedback on the first ten profiles.

Start with one free role

The form asks for one live role, the person who will review the profiles, and the system the result should land in.

Whitepaper on the research ration: coming soon