Sourcing software
- Best for
- A team with research time and a familiar market
- Your team owns
- Search logic, profile review and list quality
- Output
- Search results or exported profiles
Candidate sourcing services
Buy the research, not another list to recheck.
Cruvo turns a hard hiring brief into a reviewed, ranked candidate long-list, for in-house talent teams and search firms alike. Your team gets the career evidence behind each name and keeps control of every candidate conversation.
Reviewed candidate research
Ranked against one agreed brief
Choose the delivery model
Software, in-house research, an agency or a managed service?
The right choice depends on where your team has capacity, how much evidence the brief needs before outreach begins, and who you want to own the candidate relationship afterwards.
See the market-mapping methodIn-house research
- Best for
- Recurring searches where internal market knowledge matters
- Your team owns
- The full research process and its capacity
- Output
- A list, notes or records in your existing systems
Contingency agency
- Best for
- A single urgent hire you are willing to pay a placement fee for
- Your team owns
- The final hiring decision, once candidates are presented
- Output
- A short set of candidates, and a relationship that ends at the placement
Cruvo managed research
- Best for
- A hard brief that needs breadth and consistent evidence
- Your team owns
- Calibration, outreach, interviews and the hiring decision
- Output
- A reviewed ranked long-list and reusable prospect workspace
The handoff
Research your team can challenge and use.
A candidate name is only useful when your team can see why it belongs. Cruvo keeps the brief, evidence and prospect records connected in one invited workspace.
A researched market
Direct competitors and useful adjacent company pools are explored from the same brief, so the long-list is not limited to one obvious search route.
A reason behind every name
Candidate career evidence is assessed against the agreed criteria. You can see why someone belongs and what still needs checking.
A clear ownership boundary
Cruvo owns the research layer. Your team owns the candidate relationship, interviews, judgment and final decision.
What happens next
From brief to reviewed long-list.
- 01
Define the evidence standard
Cruvo turns the role into pass, fail and weighted criteria, then checks that interpretation with your team.
- 02
Research direct and adjacent markets
Separate research routes investigate companies and people that could produce the experience the brief needs.
- 03
Review the result before delivery
Cruvo checks the long-list and fit reasoning before it reaches your invited workspace. Your team decides who moves into outreach.
Questions before you buy
A clear boundary before the work starts.
What is a candidate sourcing service?
A candidate sourcing service researches the external market for a hiring brief and gives the hiring team people to consider. The useful versions also show why each person fits, what still needs checking and how the market was searched.
What does Cruvo deliver?
Cruvo delivers a reviewed, ranked candidate long-list with career evidence and fit reasoning in an invited workspace. The associated market map and prospect records can support later searches.
Does Cruvo contact candidates?
No. Cruvo handles the research before outreach. Your team chooses who to approach and owns candidate communication, interviews and hiring decisions.
How is a managed service different from sourcing software?
Sourcing software helps your team search or filter a database. A managed service owns the research work for an agreed brief and delivers the result for your team to review.
How is this different from a contingency agency?
An agency is paid on placement, so it is rewarded for closing quickly and moving to the next brief. Cruvo is paid for the research itself, hands over the reasoning behind every name, and leaves the candidate relationship with your team.
We are a search firm, not an in-house team. Does it still work?
Yes. Most Cruvo customers are recruitment and executive-search firms buying research capacity for client briefs. The workspace produces a client-facing shortlist with your branding as well as the internal long-list.
Can we use Cruvo alongside our existing recruiting tools?
Yes. Cruvo is the research step at the start of a search. Your team can continue running outreach, interviews and hiring through its existing process.
Bring the hard brief. Keep control of the search.
Twenty minutes on the role and the market is enough to agree the evidence standard. Cruvo turns the job description, or the notes you already have, into a research plan before the candidate work begins.
No self-serve signup is required.