Introducing LEVEL

Introducing LEVEL

The hiring expertise growing businesses have always needed. Now built for them.

The hiring expertise growing businesses have always needed. Now built for them.

Most pre-scale and growing businesses make their most consequential hiring decisions without the right expertise behind them. LEVEL changes that: senior hiring advisory, available when a decision is live, at a price built for businesses that aren't enterprises.

The Reality of Hiring in a Growing Business

The Reality of Hiring in a Growing Business

The Reality of Hiring in a Growing Business

When you're pre-scale, early-stage, or mid-growth, the hiring decisions you make right now are building the team that will define what your business becomes. Most are being made without the right expertise. They don't have to be.

When you're pre-scale, early-stage, or mid-growth, the hiring decisions you make right now are building the team that will define what your business becomes. Most are being made without the right expertise. They don't have to be.

When you're pre-scale, early-stage, or mid-growth, the hiring decisions you make right now are building the team that will define what your business becomes. Most are being made without the right expertise. They don't have to be.

The Existing Options Weren't Built For You

The Existing Options Weren't Built For You

The Existing Options Weren't Built For You

Here is what each option gets you. And what LEVEL gets you instead.

Here is what each option gets you. And what LEVEL gets you instead.

Here is what each option gets you. And what LEVEL gets you instead.

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Recruitment Agencies

Paid per placement, not per outcome. The incentive is to fill the role quickly, not to fill it with the right person. Minimal interest in the quality of your process, only the result

Day-Rate Consultants

Billed by time, not outcomes. At £750–£1,400 a day, the model only works at enterprise volume. If you're hiring five people a year, this was never built with you in mind.

Generic HR Support

Valuable for policy, ER, and compliance, but hiring is a specialism, not a generalist skill. The difference between a GP and a surgeon. For businesses with no HR function at all, the gap is even more acute.

LEVEL

LEVEL is senior hiring expertise without the senior hiring cost: the process, the criteria, and the judgement to make hires that still look right at two years, built into your business from this point forward.

Recruitment Agencies

Paid per placement, not per outcome. The incentive is to fill the role quickly, not to fill it with the right person. Minimal interest in the quality of your process, only the result

Day-Rate Consultants

Billed by time, not outcomes. At £750–£1,400 a day, the model only works at enterprise volume. If you're hiring five people a year, this was never built with you in mind.

Generic HR Support

Valuable for policy, ER, and compliance, but hiring is a specialism, not a generalist skill. The difference between a GP and a surgeon. For businesses with no HR function at all, the gap is even more acute.

LEVEL

LEVEL is senior hiring expertise without the senior hiring cost: the process, the criteria, and the judgement to make hires that still look right at two years, built into your business from this point forward.

Recruitment Agencies

Paid per placement, not per outcome. The incentive is to fill the role quickly, not to fill it with the right person. Minimal interest in the quality of your process, only the result

Day-Rate Consultants

Billed by time, not outcomes. At £750–£1,400 a day, the model only works at enterprise volume. If you're hiring five people a year, this was never built with you in mind.

Generic HR Support

Valuable for policy, ER, and compliance, but hiring is a specialism, not a generalist skill. The difference between a GP and a surgeon. For businesses with no HR function at all, the gap is even more acute.

LEVEL

LEVEL is senior hiring expertise without the senior hiring cost: the process, the criteria, and the judgement to make hires that still look right at two years, built into your business from this point forward.

What LEVEL is

A senior hiring advisor on your side.

Hiring well is one of the most valuable things a growing business can do. LEVEL makes sure you have the right expertise behind you when you're doing it, the briefs that need sharpening, the decisions that need challenging, and the moments where experience genuinely changes the outcome.

On-Demand Hiring Advisory

When You Need to Plan

When You Need to Build

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On-Demand Hiring Advisory

A senior hiring advisor available whenever a decision is live. Available for calls, briefs, shortlist challenges, and the moments where the right thinking changes the outcome. There when it matters.

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When You Need to Plan

Hiring roadmaps, sourcing plans, and talent strategy: built around where your business is going, not where it has been

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When You Need to Build

Interview design, assessment frameworks, and hiring tech guidance, the foundations that make every future hire more consistent.

On-Demand Hiring Advisory

When You Need to Plan

When You Need to Build

/01

On-Demand Hiring Advisory

A senior hiring advisor available whenever a decision is live. Available for calls, briefs, shortlist challenges, and the moments where the right thinking changes the outcome. There when it matters.

/02

When You Need to Plan

Hiring roadmaps, sourcing plans, and talent strategy: built around where your business is going, not where it has been

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When You Need to Build

Interview design, assessment frameworks, and hiring tech guidance, the foundations that make every future hire more consistent.

The relationship is also what makes the deeper work possible. Built on a foundation that already knows your business, your team, and what good looks like for you.

Pricing

What It Costs

One agency fee pays for over a year of LEVEL.

Flexible

Billed monthly / Cancel anytime

£750/ Month

Annual

12 month commitment / 1 month free

£8,250/ year

On-demand hiring advice

Briefing support

Shortlist challenge & debrief

Hiring plan input

Interview & selection guidance

Flexible

Billed monthly / Cancel anytime

£750/ Month

Annual

12 month commitment / 1 month free

£8,250/ year

A single agency placement on a £50,000 salary costs upwards of £10,000. That is 13 months of senior hiring advisory; the thinking, the challenge, the expertise, that prevents the bad hire from happening in the first place. Most SMEs make three bad hires a year. The maths isn't close.

Perspectives

Honest Thinking on Hiring

Honest Thinking on Hiring

Hiring is full of received wisdom. Most of it needs questioning. These are some of the questions worth asking.

Hiring is full of received wisdom. Most of it needs questioning. These are some of the questions worth asking.