Built for Executive Search

Secure candidate infrastructure
for high-stakes hiring.

Intelligent scheduling. Confidential candidate portals.
The firm in control, at every step.

Scheduling a single search round takes hours of back-and-forth that shouldn't require your team's attention. Confirmation details require painstaking attention that could be generated seamlessly and shared securely. candidIQ replaces both with a structured, secure workflow your firm controls at every step.

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The infrastructure executive search is missing.

Intelligent Scheduling
Candidates submit ranked availability preferences through a structured form. candidIQ optimizes slot assignments and surfaces recommendations. Complex multi-candidate scheduling becomes a workflow, not a project.
The Firm Decides. Always.
The intelligence is in the system. The judgment stays with your firm. candidIQ surfaces recommendations and drafts confirmations, and a human reviews and approves before anything reaches a candidate. AI augmentation, not automation.
Confidentiality First
Confirmed interview details live in a secure, time-limited candidate portal accessed by unique link. Nothing sensitive travels beyond the platform. The firm controls what candidates see, and when.

What it solves

Finally built to the standard executive search demands.
Time & Capacity
Hours back. Every search.
Scheduling coordination, availability follow-up, confirmation package assembly. candidIQ handles the structured workflow so your professional staff can focus on the work that actually requires their judgment.

Every team member sees exactly where each candidate stands — no status calls required. What could they be doing with that time instead?
AI + Human Judgment
Augmentation, not automation.
candidIQ uses AI to optimize scheduling, surface recommendations, and draft confirmation packages. Every output is reviewed and approved by your team before it reaches a candidate. The system works. The firm decides.
Candidate Experience
Every candidate. The same professional experience.
However complex the process, however many concurrent searches your firm is running, every candidate receives the same secure, structured, professional experience. Your firm's standard, consistently delivered.
Security & Control
Sensitive details stay where they belong.
Client identity, committee details, confidential client materials, interview logistics, compensation context. None of it belongs in an inbox indefinitely. candidIQ gives it a secure home the firm controls, with access that expires when the search closes.
10
Hours per search
Returned to your professional staff. Every search.
For a firm with two searches in active interview stage, that's 20 hours a month returned to the people you hired to do work that actually requires their judgment. What could they be doing instead?

The missing piece

Every major ATS has built a client portal. None of them have built the candidate side. The coordination tools most firms rely on were never designed for the high-touch, high-stakes demands of executive search.

Availability collection happens over email threads, spreadsheets, and Doodle polls. Confirmation packages are assembled by hand and sent by email. Team updates require more messages. Every step takes longer than it should, draining the attention of your most experienced staff.

And the tools handling all of it were not designed with executive search confidentiality in mind. Sensitive interview details, confidential client materials, compensation context — this is not a hypothetical risk. It is a known vulnerability, accepted because there has been no purpose-built alternative.

Now there is candidIQ.
The landscape — what exists and what's missing
Tool
Scheduling
Secure portal
Exec search
Calendly / Doodle
△
✕
✕
ATS Portals (Invenias, Loxo)
✕
△ Client only
△
GoodTime / ModernLoop
✓
△
✕ Wrong buyer
candidIQ
✓
✓
✓ Purpose-built
"I built and ran the operations systems this product was designed to transform." The coordination overhead is undeniable. The security gap is significant. Every major ATS has a client portal. None of them have built the candidate side. Now there is candidIQ.
Lesley Boyd, Founder
30 years in executive search, the last ten leading operations for a national boutique firm.
Built from inside executive search
Early Access

The candidate side, finally built for you.

candidIQ is forming its early access cohort now. If you're a search firm ready to bring the same standard to your candidate process that you bring to everything else, we'd like to hear from you.

No commitment required. Early access firms shape the product.