Your own executive search research team
Senior roles piling up? Polaris does the desk research: it maps the market for each role, ranks every leader against your brief and builds the shortlist pack in your brand. Your team spends its time engaging the market, and comes to the hiring manager with insight, not just names.
From stretched to fully researched
Sound familiar? Days building target lists, keyword searches that miss good leaders, and hiring managers who doubt you have seen the whole market. Here is what changes.
What changes with MapX
Without MapX
With MapX
Days building target lists in spreadsheets for every senior role
→The whole market mapped in hours, with every relevant company and leader accounted for
Keyword searches miss leaders with unusual titles or adjacent experience
→Leaders matched on what they do and how their business works, in 11 languages
Hiring managers question whether you have seen the whole market
→Every inclusion and exclusion explained, so you can show your working
Shortlists sent as spreadsheets and a folder of CVs
→A shortlist pack in your brand that reads like a search firm’s
No research capacity when senior requests spike
→6 Group researchers validate, approach and screen candidates, role by role
Every search starts again from scratch
→Each map, list and profile stays in your library, ready for the next role
In-house executive search teams use MapX to run more senior searches themselves, and to brief search firms with a clear view of the market when they do use one.
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Target lists in hours
Not days in spreadsheets. The whole market mapped, with every company and leader accounted for.
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No one missed
Matched on what people do and how businesses work, in 11 languages, not on job titles.
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Show your working
Every inclusion and exclusion explained, so hiring managers trust the shortlist.
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A pack, not a spreadsheet
A shortlist report in your brand that looks like a search firm's, with researchers on hand when requests spike.
Works the way a search researcher works
Polaris, the AI executive researcher, works in six steps, with you in control at each one. Research that takes days, done in under an hour, with human review.
What you get
Everything a search firm would hand you
For every senior role, the same deliverables an executive search firm would produce, as editable reports in your brand.
Company target list
The core target companies and the adjacent sectors worth searching, agreed with the hiring manager before the search starts.
Market map
How the whole market narrows to a shortlist, with the numbers at each step and the reason every leader is in or out.
Candidate profiles
Career history, scope and the evidence against every criterion in the brief, for each leader on the list.
Shortlist report
The leaders to meet first, ranked against the brief and laid out in your brand, ready to send to the hiring manager.
Org charts
Leadership teams at your target companies, mapped by function and level, ready for name generation and mapping.
Outreach and screening
Candidates approached and screened by 6 Group researchers using research credits, whenever the role needs people as well as data.
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Company target list
Core targets and adjacent sectors, agreed with the hiring manager before you search.
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Market map
How the whole market narrows to a shortlist, with the numbers at every step.
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Candidate profiles
Career, scope and evidence against every criterion in your brief.
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Shortlist report
The leaders to meet first, ranked, in your brand and ready for the hiring manager.
Everything a search firm would hand you
For every senior role, ready to send to the hiring manager: target list, market map, candidate profiles and a ranked shortlist report in your brand. Org charts for every target company, and 6 Group researchers to approach and screen candidates when you need them.
Find the leaders keyword search misses
Keyword tools match the words in a title. MapX matches what people do and how their business works, in 11 languages, so the right people turn up whatever their title.
Org charts for every target company
See who leads each function at your target companies, how their teams are structured and where they hire from, ready for mapping before you approach anyone.
MapX does the desk research. People engage the market.
With the research done, your team spends its time talking to the market and comes to the table with insight. When a role needs more, 6 Group researchers approach candidates, run market soundings and take on bigger projects. Every licence includes credits for this support.
+30%
More candidates found per brief
+20%
More diverse shortlists
2 to 4 weeks
Faster to shortlist
400 hours
Saved in six months by a team of five
What in-house search teams say
“Faster stakeholder calibration, broader and more diverse shortlists, and reporting we can take straight to the C-suite.”
VMO2 · Managed executive search
“Org charts and market maps that used to take days of analyst time are now produced in an afternoon.”
Aston Martin · Talent intelligence
“We can confidently run executive searches in markets and functions where we have no resident expertise.”
Bacardi · In-house executive search
How you buy
Global executive search firm reach and depth, without the price tag
A year of MapX costs less than one executive search fee. One annual licence covers your whole team, on every senior role and every talent question, all year, with 6 Group researchers on hand when a role needs people as well as data.
Questions teams ask
The four we hear most often from in-house executive TA teams.
Does MapX replace search firms?
Many teams run more senior searches in-house, and brief search firms with a clear view of the market when they do use one. Either way, you start every search knowing who is out there.
How many roles can our team run?
More than before. With the desk research done in hours, a small in-house team can run several senior searches at once without adding researchers.
Why not use keyword search?
Keyword tools match the words in a title. MapX classifies every company and career, and Polaris explains why each person is in or out.
Does it work alongside our existing recruiting tools?
Yes. Many teams use MapX to decide who to approach and their existing tools to make contact. MapX finds the people; your team starts the conversation.
Can we get help on a role?
Yes. Research credits cover validated mapping, or outreach and first-stage screening, for any role.
Can hiring managers see the work?
Yes. Shortlist packs and market maps come in your brand, with the reasoning behind every name, so hiring managers can see how the shortlist was built.
How do we get started?
Two calls: one to set up your report library in your brand, and one to run a first search together on a live role.
Is our work confidential?
Yes. Your briefs, searches and shortlists are confidential to your team and kept separate for each customer.
Bring us a live senior role
In 45 minutes we’ll map the market for one of your open roles and show you the shortlist pack you’d send the hiring manager. Or start with the free sample pack.
