A system of record for retained executive search.
Veft is an AI-native CRM for boutique executive search firms — every candidate, client and mandate in one place, with client-ready documents produced from live data.
What an executive search CRM is
An executive search CRM keeps a firm's accumulated knowledge — candidates, clients, references, conversations — in one structured place and turns it into the work product of a search: market overviews, longlists, candidate dossiers, status reports.
It differs from a volume recruiting CRM in the shape of work it serves. Retained search runs few mandates at great depth: the same person may be a candidate on one assignment and a client contact on the next; comparison rests on evidence against explicit criteria; and every document goes in front of a client. The database has to reflect that.
What Veft does
One profile per candidate
Career timeline, compensation context, references, documents and the latest conversation on one record — assembled from your imports, public-source enrichment and your own notes.
Mandates as first-class objects
Every search is a project with its own assessment dimensions, pipeline stages and documents. The mandate is the unit of work — not a sales deal renamed.
Matching across your own records
Ask in plain language — a PE-backed CFO in the DACH region, fluent French — and rank your whole network against the mandate's dimensions, evidence attached.
Documents from live data
Longlist, shortlist, dossier, status update: branded PDF or your own Word template, generated from current records with per-field provenance. Nothing invented.
Built for boutiques
Veft is shaped for firms of one to ten consultants: one plan, up to three seats, six thousand contacts, five active mandates, every feature included. Your existing archive comes in as part of onboarding — CV folders, spreadsheets or a legacy system — scoped and quoted before work begins.
Frequently asked
- What does an executive search CRM do?
- It consolidates a firm's candidate and client knowledge into one structured database, maps each mandate onto it, and produces the client-facing documents of a search — longlists, dossiers and reports.
- How is it different from a recruiting CRM?
- Recruiting CRMs are built for volume placement: many open roles, fast pipelines, outreach sequences. An executive search CRM is built for depth: few mandates at a time, senior candidates, evidence-based comparison, and documents that hold up in front of a board.
- Who is Veft for?
- Boutique and solo executive search firms and the adjacent specialties — interim, board advisory, functional niches. One to ten consultants working senior mandates, typically retained or to a retained standard.
- Can we bring our existing records?
- Yes. CV archives, Outlook exports, spreadsheets or a legacy system are imported, enriched and structured during onboarding. Migration is scoped and quoted before any work begins.
- What does Veft cost?
- One plan at €500 per month or €5,000 a year — three seats, 6,000 contacts, €100 of monthly AI credits, every feature included.
See it on a search like yours.
Twenty minutes: how your firm runs a mandate today, then the parts of Veft that matter most to it. No preparation needed.