An invitation to meet, before you decide whether to apply

A firm reviewed your public professional bio sourced from your firm bio page and LinkedIn and wants to connect with you about an open seat. Suited is an extension of their direct sourcing team and they asked us to contact you.

When a headhunter emails you, the firm usually doesn’t know the email was sent, your qualifications haven’t been checked, and your resume can be shopped to any firm that might pay a fee. When Suited emails you, the hiring manager or lead recruiter at the firm has already reviewed your public bio against a live seat and asked Suited to make the approach. The briefing that follows shows where the seat falls short as well as where it fits.

Only based on public information. Firms do not have access to any portal or system to see any information you provide or even to know you signed up.

If you decline, Suited lets the firm know. Passing on one seat has no effect on future invitations. If the seat was right but the firm wasn’t, set a mandate and tell Suited what would be.

No, as long as your mandate is set. Cold recruiter outreach pitches seats from the same open market Suited monitors across the investment banking, private equity, hedge fund, and venture capital industries, and every open seat is read against your mandate. The only exception: retained search firms acting directly for a client on a private search.

Both. While you monitor, you hear from Suited only when something matches your mandate. When you decide to move, Suited works the mandate actively: full briefings on every relevant seat, and direct introductions on your timeline.

Yes. Request access, set a mandate, and Suited monitors every seat in the market against it. You hear from Suited only when something genuinely matches.

Suited helps firms search market-wide to pre-select candidates and request to connect based on public information, regardless of whether you’re using Suited. If you set a mandate and use the app as a candidate, there is no profile: it is fully confidential unless you request an introduction to a specific firm.

No. You pay nothing and you sign nothing.

A recruiter is paid a contingency fee by the firm. That is a real conflict of interest with how much you weigh whether the seat fits you. Because Suited works with so many firms at both a campus and lateral level, the incentive is to get the best people to the places they are going to be successful. Suited’s incentive is the same as yours: only the seats worth your time get a briefing.

A research deliverable on a specific seat at a specific firm: the seat and team, the compensation range, the firm’s standing and size, what aligns with your experience and mandate, and the considerations worth weighing before you engage. The way you would diligence a counterparty, applied to the firm.

A member of the Suited team. Discussions are confidential. Suited follows up only on seats you want to discuss.

Most bankers on Suited aren’t looking to move when they join. Set the mandate, read briefings as they come, and discuss the ones worth discussing. The diligence is yours whether you move this year or in three.

Your confidential instructions to Suited: the coverage mix, geography, goals, and dealbreakers that would make a move worth considering. Firms never see it. Suited monitors the market against it and sends a briefing only when a seat matches.

The Suited team that researches seats against it. Firms never see any information you provide unless and until you ask Suited to put you forward for a specific seat and authorize the release of specific information.

No, Suited works in two specific functions. For firms, we operate as an extension of their lateral recruiting teams, identifying candidates based on public professional data and then contacting them at the firm’s request. For candidates, we do the opposite. We track and research open seats across the market to match them against the candidate’s professional goals. Candidates pay us nothing; firms pay us subscription fees, not placement fees.