Taylor by Talin
Your next great hire, without the $50,000 fee.
Taylor maps the entire candidate market for your open role, vets every profile against your bar, and sends you interview-ready introductions. $500 per intro you accept. $5,000 only if you hire. That's it.
Proof
The numbers so far
booked within 14 days on a single VP of Engineering search
no retainers, no subscriptions, no minimum
run on Talin, the engine behind Taylor
Why Taylor exists
Hiring senior talent today means picking between two bad options. Agencies charge 20 to 25 percent of first-year salary, work off a database, and take 90 days. Job boards bury you in applicants who never fit.
Taylor is the third option. We do the search work of a retained firm, powered by the same sourcing engine 300+ recruiting agencies use, and you only pay for candidates you actually want to meet.
The process
How it works
Calibrate
A 30-minute intake call. We turn your JD and your actual priorities into a scored requirements doc with 4 to 6 criteria, and you sign off before we source a single candidate.
We map the market
Not a database search. Taylor runs on Talin's sourcing engine and maps every candidate in the market for your role, then scores each one against your criteria.
You review write-ups
Every candidate arrives as a short, fact-checked presentation with their resume. Pass for free, we just ask what missed so the scoring gets sharper every round.
Say yes, meet them
An accepted intro means we connect you directly within 48 hours. You run the interview from there. A live pipeline board shows every candidate, every stage, and the full conversation history in real time.
The pipeline
Run the search yourself
Watch the search happen in real time. Drag the sample candidates through the stages and see what you'd owe, and what an agency would have charged for the same hire.
Case study
Softdrive built a VP of Engineering pipeline in 3 weeks
Softdrive is a Toronto startup that streams full GPU workstations to any device. They needed a VP of Engineering to own four infrastructure teams. It's one of the hardest searches in the market, deep infrastructure experience plus early-stage scaling plus real leadership, and they had no appetite for a retained-search fee.
Taylor calibrated the search with the founders, mapped the VP Engineering market, and started presenting candidates.
What happened
- 10 introductions accepted in the first 3 weeks. Every one was a candidate the founders chose to interview after reading the write-up.
- First accepted intro inside two weeks of kickoff.
- A live pipeline board shared with the founders, every candidate, stage, and conversation in one place.
- Interview feedback fed straight back into the scoring, so each round of candidates got closer to the bar.
- Softdrive expanded the engagement to a second engineering search.
A VP of Engineering search is supposed to take 3-6 months and a $60,000 retainer. Taylor had us interviewing candidates we genuinely wanted to meet inside two weeks, and every candidate presentation read like someone had actually done the homework. In less than a month, the hire was signed on. Taylor saved us $50,000 and made it happen months faster.
Pricing
Three numbers, no surprises
No retainer, no subscription, no minimum.
You only pay when you say yes to meeting a candidate. Passing is free.
Only if the candidate is hired within 6 months of the intro.
 Taylor by Talin |
Contingency agency | Retained search | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upfront cost | $0 | $0 | $20,000+ in staged retainers |
| You pay for | Intros you accept | A placement | The search, hire or not |
| Fee on a $200K hire | ~$10,000 all-in | $40,000 to $50,000 | $50,000 to $60,000 |
| Visibility | Live pipeline board | Weekly update call | Weekly update call |
Taylor all-in estimate assumes roughly 8 to 10 accepted intros plus the placement fee.
Questions
Frequently asked
Sales, engineering, finance, and operations so far, from SDRs to VPs. If the role can be evaluated from a track record, we can source for it.
You read the candidate's write-up and tell us you want to meet them. We make the introduction and the $500 applies when the meeting happens. Passing on a candidate costs nothing, we just ask for a line on why.
No percentage fee, no retainer, and no black box. You see the scoring criteria before we source, every candidate write-up is fact-checked against their real background, and the live pipeline board shows exactly where the search stands at all times.
We map the market fresh for every search using Talin, the sourcing platform behind 300+ recruiting agencies. It's the full market for your role, not a recycled database.
First candidate presentations typically land within the first week or two, and once you accept an intro we connect you within 48 hours.
Tell us about the role
Send the JD, or just tell us who you're trying to hire, to taylor@talin.ai. You'll have candidates to review within 48 hours, guaranteed. No commitment, no retainer.