For staffing firms

Add a line beside the search you already run.

Your clients call you when a role is hard to fill. That seat is the asset. What they ask next depends on the work you do for them. We add a Fractional Chief AI Officer beside your firm, under a co-brand or your name only, on the accounts where there is a real opening.

What stays the same

Free session. We look at whether AI advisory is a real line in your book. Starts with a 20-minute call.

The AI work creates reqs. They come back to you.
You stay their staffing firm. AI advisory is a line you add.
Your clients pay you, whether the answer is a hire or a workflow.
Your team can sell it. We carry the strategy and the build.

Example of what a client sees

White-label shows your name only.

Northline Staffing

CO-BRANDED

Prepared for your clients

Northline Staffing can look at the work with you

We’ve added an advisory line beside the search. Where there is a piece of work worth a closer look, we can help. If the right answer is still a hire, that stays a hire.

2-3 wks

A recommendation

1 workflow

Built and measured

Monthly

We keep it working

Put your name on it

Depends on the book

Their question is not yours

What a staffing firm worries about and what a client actually says are different conversations. A firm placing executives hears “find this person.” A firm filling a desk may hear something about the work itself. We don’t write either script.

A client hiring a senior leader is asking you to fill a seat.
A client with their own talent team might want a second look at a tool. Only if they bring it.
An account built on volume can feel exposed if that volume moves. That worry is yours until they say otherwise.
Some clients will never ask. Those accounts stay a search relationship.
Where there is a real opening, the offer is an advisory retainer, a scoped look, and one workflow, under your name.
Which accounts those are is a look at your book. It is not a guess from outside it.

The shift

They already trust you with talent. Add the advisory.

Your clients already rely on you when a role is open. What they ask next is not one question. We carry the strategy with you, on the accounts where it belongs. You keep the client and the price.

Already yours

The talent relationship they rely on

01The account, and the roles you already fill
02Recruiters who know how that client hires
03A client who already takes your call

What you add

AI advisory, sold by you

01A point of view they can buy from the firm they already use
02Strategy we carry, at your price and under your brand
03A reason to stay in the account when the answer is not a hire
04Roles the work surfaces go to your recruiters first

The decision

Four ways the account can go

The choice is whether your firm has a next offer in the accounts where one fits, and whether you are still there if the work changes.

01Keep placing only

This quarter The relationship you have today

02Resell a tool

Days A license, and no point of view

03Hand them a stranger

Weeks The introduction

04Answer it together

Six weeks The client, and a point of view you can sell beside the search

What the client buys

Three steps, beside the relationship you already have

Typical prices staffing firms charge the client for this. Each fee is additional revenue beside placements. Not a rate card, and not one blended fee. The work follows whatever that client does. A plant, a firm, a hospital. We don’t assume an industry.

Fractional Chief AI Officer Usual first yes

A monthly AI advisory retainer. Ongoing strategy, monitoring, changes, and a regular look at whether the work is earning its place. It sits next to the staffing relationship, not in place of it.

$6–18k/moClient pays

Assessment

A scoped two-to-three-week look at where AI belongs in that client’s work, including which roles to hire and which to change. Your account lead opens the door, and we help get it to the right person.

$15–25kClient pays

Pilot

Six to eight weeks. One workflow in that client’s business, with written success criteria. Your team can build it, or ours can.

$30–75kClient pays

Illustrative shape

One client in twenty is where this starts.

What we typically see is a quick buying decision from about one client in twenty. Those first yeses start as an advisory retainer. Some add a scoped look. Some become a pilot. If we build, you keep the spread between your price and a wholesale rate. If your team builds, you keep the delivery, and we stay on the strategy and the sale.

A Revenue Map replaces this sketch with your clients. The ranges above are starting points to calibrate, not a published price list.

Year-one sketch Illustrative

Quick decisions, one in twentyA few
Where each one startsAdvisory retainer
What you keep if your team buildsThe delivery

First yeses in that book 1 in 20

Some continue into a pilot Your price

Delivery

We help you sell it. Then we stay behind your team.

Your firm owns

The client relationship

01Client relationship and account strategy
02Pricing, and which roles still get filled
03Final approval before anything ships

Outsized Outcomes handles

The strategy, and the build when you want it

01The map of which clients to approach first
02The leave-behind, the talk track, and the first meetings
03The build, only if you want us on it

Week 0 Revenue Map We work from your real client list and name where a conversation is already credible. We screen the account list together before anyone reaches out, so there are no conflicts or surprises. You leave with a ranked map of where revenue can land first.
Week 1 Package the offer Scope, pricing, co-brand or white-label, and the sales narrative. A service line your team can take into a client meeting the same week.
Week 3 Ready your team We present to your sales floor, and each rep commits to setting one meeting in their first 30 days. Talk tracks built for conversations, not surveys. One-pagers, and a target-account plan for the first wave.
By week 6 Co-pitch the first deals We join the first three pitches. After that, an advisor stays available whenever you want us on a call.

In writing

The client stays yours

12 months: Your clients are never our prospects, during the work and after it, except companies we already work with, which we disclose up front
$0 fixed: No subscription or fixed starting cost
6 weeks: Target from kickoff to the first client pitch
Every deal: Your approval before anything reaches a client

Choose your depth

Start where your team is comfortable

Refer

You make the introduction. We carry the strategy under a co-brand. Your firm shares in the fee.

Shared fee

Co-Sell Usual path

You sell on your paper, at your price. We join the meeting. Your team delivers, or ours does at a wholesale rate.

Your price

White-Label

We deliver under your firm’s name, with your email and your title, and the client sees your firm.

Custom

Straight answers

What staffing principals ask before they say yes

These are your questions, before you take this to a client. They are not a script for what that client will say.

Our contacts are in HR and talent. Can they buy this?

Usually not, and that is fine. Most staffing relationships sit with HR, and AI advisory is bought by the CFO, CIO, or owner. The Revenue Map sorts accounts where the door is already open from ones where it is not. The talk track is built to get from your talent contact to the person who owns the decision.

Our clients know us for filling roles. Will they take a strategy offer seriously?

They take you seriously for the work you already do. That is not the same as asking you for an AI plan. A client who calls you to place a leader is not asking whether a role should be automated. The co-brand keeps those jobs apart: your name on the relationship, ours on the strategy. You choose which accounts hear it.

Some clients may hire fewer people. Why open a line that points at that?

That worry is yours. It is not a question we put in the client’s mouth. The line is not “hire less.” It is a service a client can buy beside the search, and only where there is a real piece of work to look at. If the right answer is still a hire, you still fill it. If there is no opening in that account, you leave it alone.

We don’t have strategists. Why bring you in?

Your people know the client. They do not have to become the strategists. We bring the point of view, the materials, and the first meetings. You keep the price and the approval.

How is this different from recommending a tool?

A tool is a license inside one function. This is a service line: where AI belongs in that client’s work, one workflow put into production, then a monthly retainer. It sits beside the staffing relationship. You are not reselling software.

Will you go around us to our clients?

No. We never go after your clients. Your clients are never our prospects, except companies we already work with, which we disclose up front. That holds during the work together and for 12 months after. We only work your book through you.

Do we have to deliver the build?

No. If your firm has people who do that work, they can keep it. If it doesn’t, we build at a wholesale rate. Either way the client stays yours, and nothing ships without your approval.

01 / 20

If one client in twenty has a reason to buy more than a search, is it worth opening?

Twenty minutes to see whether there is a line in your book. If there is, we map it against the clients you already have. The map is yours either way.

Free. No preparation. Starts with a short alignment call.