With real-time pricing analytics and AI-boosted negotiation support.
Extra profit on the same searches — not just extra revenue.
Added EBITDA — profit, not revenue — on the same searches. Calibrated against Maksfi's 100+ firm benchmark for retained search.
Maksfi comes from inside the industry — an operator who built and sold a retained search firm, and an analyst who models the market behind it.
Successful founding partner of a high-end executive search boutique that exited to private equity.
Highly analytical background as a (pricing) consultant at McKinsey, and a cum laude MSc in Applied Physics.
Fixed-fee demands and professional procurement departments steadily compress what you can charge for the same work.
Guarantees, retainers, salary-base definitions and exclusivity all move the economics — and the answer is needed before the call ends.
Researchers and junior consultants face seasoned buyers without the data or the playbook the partners carry in their heads.
A 24% on a narrow base can out-earn a 30% on a loaded one. Maksfi reads all of it — the headline %, what each firm folds into "base", and the guarantee, retainer and clause terms underneath.
Bonus, 13th month, holiday allowance and car included in the base your % is multiplied by — where competitors quietly leave them out.
A front-loaded 50/25/25 split realises more expected revenue than 1/3+1/3+1/3 when a search stalls.
A research/admin fee billed per search or per month — small per line, but routinely waived rather than charged.
A 33% refund plus replacement protects the client on the failure curve at roughly a third of the cost of a full refund.
Charged as a matter of course on retained mandates, yet routinely left on the table elsewhere.
Best-in-class, analytical, AI-supported negotiation: every concession costed against expected revenue before you concede it.
Skip explaining statistics, mathematics and advanced negotiation techniques — everyone goes straight to value generation, with one substantiated voice.
"Everyone pays 20%" stops being an argument. You answer with the distribution, the methodology and your own closing history — every time.
Saves time, headspace, and is simple & intuitive to use.
Same searches, same team — a measurably better number on every mandate.