The hire you've been trying to make
for three months.
We close in 19 days.
We're not résumé brokers. We're operators who happen to find people — and we work with founders running companies between five and fifteen locations who are tired of vacancies costing them more than placements ever would.
Most recruiting agencies are résumé brokers.
They forward applicants. They don't know your business. They don't know what a great hire actually looks like inside your four walls.
We're different by design.
We place people we'd hire ourselves — or we walk away.
Every engagement starts with a diagnosis of your hiring process — not a sales call. We show our work before we ask for the business. And we only take roles where we can actually move the needle. That's how you earn trust in an industry that's burned through it.
Numbers that matter to operators who've been burned before.
Three ways to hire the right way.
Pick the tier that matches your urgency and stage. Not sure?take the 5-minute assessment and we'll route you.
The Hiring Blueprint
A digital workbook that diagnoses the five dimensions of your hiring process and hands you the 90-day action plan to fix it.
- Five-dimension self-diagnostic
- Failure pattern library
- 90-day action plan template
- Instant PDF delivery
The Recruiting Playbook
Done-with-you build. Eight customized deliverables in seven business days — the exact infrastructure that makes your next hire land and stay.
- Role-specific job description
- Structured interview guide + scoring rubric
- Talent market intel + cost-of-vacancy math
- Interview structure re-build
- Culture fit rubric
- Hiring manager training
- 30-min strategy call
- 60 days email support
Contingent Search
We run the search end-to-end. Sourcing, screening, shortlist, offer negotiation. Contingent — you pay when the hire starts.
- Pay only at hire · typically 20% of year one base
- 60-day replacement guarantee
- Passive sourcing included
- Ryan-led close on every engagement
Browse the operators we've already vetted.
Search our active roster. Tell us who you're looking for and we'll show you who we already know.
Three searches. Three stories. Three operators still thriving.
"We had burned through two other agencies. Ryan had our shortlist in a week and our GM started the next month."
"Not only did they stick, they're now running a team of four. This is what a real placement looks like."
"They built the role, built the scorecard, and found the person. Every search after that became a retainer conversation."
Find out exactly where your hiring process is failing.
Fifteen questions. Five minutes. A personalized scorecard across five dimensions — with the specific path forward we'd recommend for your situation.
I started Whitton Recruiting because I watched too many good founders get burned by agencies pretending to care.
I've run the desk myself. I've closed the placements, negotiated the offers, and sat across from the operators who had to make the call. I know what a great hire looks like because I've watched hundreds of them — and I know exactly what a bad one costs because I've helped founders clean up those messes too.
We built this firm to be the opposite of what I saw in the industry: operator-led, radically transparent, and willing to tell you the truth even when it costs us a placement. That's the standard. Every engagement gets it.
If that sounds like how your next hire should go — let's talk.