Recruiting business, done for you

Have Your Recruiting Business Engineered Before You Resign

You are a producer. Every hour you spend fiddling with entity paperwork, fee agreement clauses, and CRM comparisons is an hour a biller should never spend on non-billable work. Bring the desk history and the goal; the team that has mapped thousands of staffing and recruiting launches engineers the model, the contracts, the pipeline system, and the brand with you.

Done-for-you buildouts start at $5,000. Full execution buildouts range from $15,000 to $50,000 depending on scope, speed, and level of support.

Run the numbers on doing this slowly

A $350,000 desk produces roughly $30,000 in fees a month. Every month of solo trial and error costs you one of those.

Recruiters who wing the transition average two false starts before the version that sticks.

The market does not wait: the clients who would follow you are building loyalty to whoever calls them this quarter.

One badly drafted fee agreement can vaporize a five-figure placement, which is more than most of this pricing page.

For a producer, the expensive option is never the buildout. It is the slow launch.

What we engineer your business to be

We do not sell you an idea list. We take your desk history and design one of these, backward from the revenue target:

Boutique search firmRetained and contingency placements in the vertical where your name already opens doors
Contract staffing operationRecurring hourly margin with funding, compliance, and back office designed in from day one
Fractional talent partnerTwo or three embedded retainers producing salary-level income by month three
Talent advisory firmRPO projects and hiring-system design for scale-ups, priced on outcomes rather than hours
Vertical talent platformA niche job board or community layered on top of a placement desk, compounding into an asset

One of these is the correct container for your desk. The strategy call decides which, with your actual billings on the table.

The real roadmap

What gets built in your buildout

  1. 1

    Desk audit and model selection

    We map your placements, relationships, and restrictions, then choose the model and niche with a written rationale you can defend to your own skepticism.

  2. 2

    Legal and commercial foundation

    Entity, insurance, terms of business, fee and candidate agreements, sequenced around your non-compete window so day one is clean.

  3. 3

    Fee architecture

    Contingency percentages, retainer structures, contract margins, and payment terms modeled against your revenue target, so you never quote from instinct.

  4. 4

    Pipeline machine

    Target client list, candidate bench design, outreach cadences, and the CRM configured to run it, built like the best desk you ever sat.

  5. 5

    Brand and market presence

    Positioning, site structure, and a content plan that makes a firm of one read like the specialist authority in its vertical.

  6. 6

    Platform handover

    The whole system loaded into Unleash Your Ideas: plan, calendar, prompts, and follow-ups, so the machine keeps running after we step back.

You are not buying information; recruiters drown in information. You are buying a build, run by people who have stood up thousands of these firms, with vetted partners brought in and managed wherever a specialist is needed.

The best billers make the worst solo founders, at first.

Not from lack of ability, from opportunity cost blindness: they spend their prime revenue hours on setup work any team could do better. The fix is division of labor. You keep doing the two things only you can do, relationships and closing, while a team builds the machinery around you.

Want this built faster?

You can research, plan, test, rewrite, organize, and figure this out on your own. Or you can have Unleash Your Ideas turn your idea into a clear execution plan: the audience, the offer, the business model, the launch strategy, and the next steps, mapped with you. This is for people who are serious about execution.

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What the buildout is designed to prevent

The mistakeWhat happens
Three months lost to setup and toolingA quarter of desk revenue gone before launch
Improvised fee agreementsDisputed invoices on your biggest early placements
A niche picked by nostalgiaPositioned exactly where your non-solicit bites hardest
Launching invisibleA great recruiter with no market presence competing on cold calls alone

Each row on this table has cost real recruiters real five-figure sums. Design is cheaper than repair.

The revenue engines we build toward

  • Retained and contingency search fees in your vertical
  • Contract staffing margin with funded payroll
  • Embedded fractional retainers at $5,000 to $15,000 a month
  • Talent advisory and RPO project fees
  • Platform revenue from a niche board or community as the long game

How the engagement runs

Step 1You apply with your desk history, billings, restrictions, and goal. We review before any call.
Step 2Strategy call: we pressure-test the direction, select the model, and agree the scope and tier.
Step 3We build: legal foundation, fee architecture, pipeline machine, brand, and platform setup.
Step 4Handover working session: you drive the system live with us in the room.
Step 5You launch with support through the first pipeline cycles, not a goodbye email.

Where Unleash Your Ideas comes in

You bring the idea. We help you execute it.

I produce, I do not do paperworkThe machinery gets built while I keep billing
I have watched peers fumble the jumpMy launch is engineered by people who do this daily
My window is this yearThe firm is live in weeks, dated and scoped

Choose how you want to build

Do it yourself, with us, or have us build it.

Done-for-you buildouts start at $5,000. Full execution buildouts range from $15,000 to $50,000 depending on scope, speed, and level of support.

Build It Yourself

Free to start

Use Unleash Your Ideas to create your plan, organize your ideas, map your next steps, and move at your own pace.

Best if: You want structure but prefer to execute independently.

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Idea Execution Blueprint

From $5,000

You bring the idea. We map the business model, define the audience, shape the offer, create the launch plan, and hand you the execution roadmap.

Best if: You are serious and want the strategy built with you.

Apply for the Blueprint

Most chosen

Launch Buildout

$15,000 to $25,000

Strategy plus the assets: offer, positioning, page structure, content plan, funnel direction, execution calendar, platform setup, and implementation support.

Best if: You want the launch built, not just planned.

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Done-For-You Venture Buildout

$35,000 to $50,000

The premium path: everything in the Launch Buildout with deeper implementation, more assets, more strategy, and a stronger launch system.

Best if: You want speed, depth, and a team on it with you.

Apply for Venture Buildout

The application

Apply to have your idea mapped out.

Tell us what you want to build, where you are stuck, and how fast you want to move. If it looks like we can help, our team follows up with the best path.

No payment now. We review every application and follow up with the best path.

Questions

Good to know.

What does it cost?

The Idea Execution Blueprint starts at $5,000. The Launch Buildout runs $15,000 to $25,000, and the Venture Buildout runs $35,000 to $50,000 depending on scope, speed, and level of support. The application and strategy call settle the tier, and nothing is charged before we agree on scope together.

Do you make placements or bring me clients?

No. The buildout designs and sets up the machine: strategy, legal and fee foundations, tools, platform, pipeline system, and marketing. You remain the operator and the face; your relationships are the asset we build around. Where deep specialist work is needed, employment law review or payroll funding for contract staffing for example, we deliver it through vetted partners our team manages, so you deal with one team throughout.

How is this different from the courses recruiters usually buy?

A course hands you the theory and wishes you luck on the doing. This is the doing: your contracts drafted for your model, your CRM configured, your target list built, your brand positioned. Dee has taught the agency playbook to thousands; this offer exists for the recruiters who want it installed, not just explained.

I want to try the self-serve route first.

Reasonable, and the door is open: the full execution walkthrough is at /start-a-business-as-a-recruiter, and the platform builds your first plan free. Come back to this page when the math on your billable hours makes the case for a team.

What happens after I apply?

We review the application, and if the fit is genuine you book the strategy call from the confirmation screen. Qualified applicants typically hear back the same day.

You charge clients for speed to hire. Buy some speed to launch.

Apply, put your desk history on the table, and get the exact scope and price of your buildout on one call. The call is free. The slow launch is what costs $30,000 a month.

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