For HR tech founders and product leaders

HR Tech Advisory from someone who's been your buyer

A lot of HR tech gets built by people who've never had to defend it in a budget meeting or get a team of tired recruiters to actually use it. I've done both.

If you're building for talent teams, I'll tell you what your buyer sees, and I won't soften it.

The path your product travels inside a TA team

Pitch and demoBudget meetingFinance and procurementRollout to recruitersAdoption, month threewhat they won'tsay out loudthe line itemyou compete withprice thatsurvives financetired usersI've satat each
Buyerin-house for years, defending tools in budget meetings
Implementerformer Greenhouse preferred implementation partner
Advisortalent leaders call me to ask whether a tool is worth it

Where I help

What a buyer actually sees

Your demo, your site and your pitch, read the way a head of TA reads them, with the objections they won't say out loud.

Positioning for TA buyers

Which problem you solve in the words talent leaders use, and which of their budget lines you're really competing for.

Pricing and packaging

How your model lands with buyers who have to get it past finance and procurement.

Go-to-market through community

How to show up in practitioner communities in a way that earns trust instead of spending it.

Product feedback from the field

What I see breaking inside recruiting teams in my audit work, anonymized, and what it means for your roadmap.

How advisory works

Advisory is shaped around where you are, from a single working session before a launch to a standing seat with your product or GTM team. We agree on the terms on the first call.

Two rules keep it honest

No pitching in the community

My Talent Alliance Communities have a no-pitch rule, and advisory clients don't get an exception.

Full disclosure to audit clients

If I advise your company, I'll tell any audit client who's weighing your product.

Start with a conversation

Thirty minutes on what you're building and who you're building it for.

Book an HR tech advisory intro