SucceedSmart

SucceedSmart is driven by a mission to connect companies with the world’s best executives, striking the chord of innovation to disrupt the fragmented traditional executive search industry that has dominated the U.S. market for many decades. Its proprietary, AI-driven platform meets the needs of today’s corporations and startups and the future-ready leaders they’re looking to recruit.

The traditional executive search model is centered around services that often lack transparency and are exorbitantly expensive compared to the value they deliver. A candidate is selected behind the scenes, while a middleman controls the entire process. This model is highly transactional in nature, with the sole idea of filling a position and moving on to the next hire. It is also less diverse in nature.

From the perspective of candidates, they often perceive the traditional search model as consistently exhibiting an elitist attitude.

“Recognizing these gaps, we decided to reimagine executive search and make it faster, better, affordable, and inclusive. We provide services at one-third of the cost and in one-third the time of traditional ones,” says Sanjay Sathe, founder and CEO of SucceedSmart.

SucceedSmart’s AI platform is built to ‘democratize’ executive search and reduce the time-to-hire from months to weeks. Available in both a mobile and web application, it ensures information symmetry among executives and employers, offering corporations direct access to pre-screened candidates.

Companies can log in to the platform, enter their requirements and candidate criteria, like pertinent prior experience and unlock a fresh set of eligible candidates. They have the option to modify requirements on the go.

Eliminating the need for screening interviews, SucceedSmart builds detailed profiles, including videos, for executives and delivers a better hiring experience for both executives and organizations. Through answers and how they present themselves, hiring managers can glean in-depth insights into candidates and, therefore can make a quick shortlist to speed up the process.

What makes SucceedSmart different is that it empowers both hiring managers and executives with a powerful recommendation engine that leverages the time-tested approach of many dating platforms. Its proprietary algorithm matches job requirements with profiles that include relevant accomplishments, competencies, and experience rather than just sourcing executives based on skills.

The recruitment teams can express interest in an executive using a ‘single blind’ approach, thus keeping the executive confidential. Executives also have a say in the equation and can choose which companies and peers can access their profiles. Complete profiles will be shared only if both parties “like” each other i.e. the executive ‘likes’ the company back.

This ‘single blind’ approach emphasizes diversity and inclusion by protecting the executives from conscious and unconscious bias. Profiles are initially presented to corporations without revealing the gender, ethnicity, and PII of candidates.

“Building an inclusive culture is core to SucceedSmart’s business strategy. This drives the success of every customer, member, prospect, investor, community, and employee,” says Sathe.

Recognizing these gaps, we decided to reimagine executive search and make it faster, better, affordable, and inclusive. We provide services at one-third of the cost and one-third the time of traditional ones

Executives also get more benefits through this free, lifelong career platform. They can tap into its exclusive executive ‘peer network’ that allows them to engage and learn from each other. It also provides six months of free executive coaching for candidates recruited through its platform to ensure success in their new roles.

SucceedSmart has catered to many Fortune 500 companies and venture-backed startups and scaleups for hiring senior-level executives at the director level and above. In one instance, the startup took on a challenging recruitment drive of a NASDAQ traded company that had been open for over 150 days and filled it in only 32 days.

With its team of experienced professionals and a commitment to understanding client needs, SucceedSmart is well-positioned to ensure the best possible hiring outcomes for businesses of all sizes.