Every business has a senior hire it still talks about

Almost always, and the objection is usually ours rather than theirs. A candidate at this level is already committing to several rounds of interviews and the preparation that goes with them, and an assessment is a smaller ask than one more panel. Where an external search firm is involved, the assessment usually strengthens their recommendation rather than competing with it. 

A profile describes what someone is like. A risk reading looks at what a particular combination of behaviors tends to produce under pressure, which is not the same thing and is not visible from the profile alone. Left alone, that part of the picture only shows up once someone is in the role. We put it in front of the panel while the appointment is still a decision, so a risk is something you plan around rather than something you meet for the first time in the job. 

You appoint, because the decision is yours and the assessment is one input alongside interviews and references. What the evidence gives you is a specific, named risk to plan around rather than a surprise in month nine. It also gives you a record of what was known at the time, if the appointment is ever looked at again. 

Where an appointment includes executive aptitude, the platform detects abnormally strong or unusual response patterns and flags any candidate who should be re-tested. It is already running, it adds nothing to what the candidate has to do, and where a flag fires the first step is a re-test rather than a rejection. It is the answer you can take back to a board without hedging it.  

Yes. Remote supervision is delivered through our partner network as a paid upgrade, and at this level it is a reasonable default rather than an exception. For regulated appointments it is usually the right call. Response pattern checks run either way.  

No. A search firm finds and assesses fit from experience and network; this measures how someone works and where the risk sits, on the same standard for every candidate on the list. Most of our clients at this level run both, and several of our partners are search firms.