For retained executive search

Win the mandate. Find the leader.

Indole is the AI research partner for retained executive search firms — it surfaces new business across your network and target markets, then finds, assesses, and reaches the right leader for every engagement. All in service of one idea: help people find the people who can help them.

What Indole does

Two halves of the work. One research engine.

Every retained firm lives or dies on two things: winning the right engagements and delivering them brilliantly. Indole puts the same market intelligence behind both.

Win the engagement

Originate new mandates across your own relationships, target industries, and geographies. Indole watches for the leadership moves, fundings, and board changes that precede a search — so your partners are first to the conversation, not last.

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Deliver the engagement

Map the whole market for a mandate, assess each candidate against the brief, and reach the right leader through the warmest real-world path — then present a slate you can defend to the committee, with the evidence behind every name.

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How it works

The research a great associate would do — run continuously, at market scale.

Indole resolves the full market of people and organizations, infers who is really connected to whom, tracks what just changed, and traces the warmest way in. Your consultants keep the judgment and the relationships; Indole does the legwork that used to take weeks.

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Why we build this

Human Pathfinding.

The right introduction can change a life — a candidate’s next role, a move to a new city, the leader who finally solves an employer’s hardest problem. Indole exists to help people find the people who can help them. Executive search is where we start.

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