Three steps to the commercial banker your market actually needs. We hunt within your geographic footprint — competitor banks, regional credit unions, broker shops within driving distance of the seat. The first two meetings are at no charge: we present 5-10 real bankers, you say yes or no on each, and the producer profile emerges from your calibration. Discovery to a hired banker in roughly ninety days.
Competitor community & regional banks. Local credit unions. Broker-dealer commercial groups. Specialty lenders working your verticals. We map the lateral market by geography first — then by book composition, lender ratings, and origination history.
We listen. No deck, no pitch. Tell us about the bank — your loan portfolio, your deposit mix, the markets you serve, the competitors poaching your producers. Tell us about the seat: C&I, CRE, SBA, treasury, wealth, private banking? The book size you're backfilling, the production targets, the cultural fit. We leave with enough to go hunt.
Between meetings, we go hunt. 5-10 real bankers from competitor institutions in your geographic footprint — researched fresh, not pulled from a database. Names, current books, lender ratings, lateral history. You say yes or no on each. The pattern reveals the producer profile we'll recruit to: book composition, lead-gen style, client size, specialty. The work is consultative. The profile is yours.
We run the search. We engage passive bankers who match the profile — leading with your bank's name as the opener. Lender-to-lender conversations get real responses. We work the pipeline week by week, present the curated shortlist, manage offer + counter-offer. When the search calls for discretion (replacing an incumbent, sensitive market dynamics) we run silent. Hire in roughly ninety days.
Every recruiter has the same access to LinkedIn you do. The moat isn't who has more names — it's who does the work to find the producer who'll produce in your market. The best producers were never in anyone's rolodex anyway.
Every recruiter has the same access to LinkedIn you do. The moat isn't names — it's the work. We start every search from the brief: your bank, your loan markets, the lateral institutions where your next banker is currently writing the loans you wish were on your books.
A shortlist is the product. Not the inbox-flood you've gotten from agencies that get paid per submission. The bankers we present are calibrated against the profile you helped build — book size, lender ratings, vertical fit.
Flat engagement fee — paid in stages, not as a percentage of the hire's comp. We win when the new banker produces. No 25% contingency surprise on a $250K base + bonus.
The first two meetings are at no charge. You see the producer profile we've calibrated together before any commitment.
The same method runs for professional sales organizations — same Discover / Define / Deliver, calibrated to a different industry's economics.
Two meetings, no charge. The first is Discovery — your bank, your markets, the seat. The second is the Profile Review — 5-10 real bankers from competitor institutions, your yes-or-no, the producer profile we'll recruit to.
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