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Which hiring approach fits your situation?

Startups arrive here in very different places: one urgent role, a whole first team, or a requirement nobody has written down yet. Answer a few questions and we will point you at the part of this site that is actually useful to you — and tell you why.

About two minutes

Five multiple-choice questions. Answer two and a suggestion appears straight away.

No hidden scoring

A short set of readable rules, and the result explains itself in plain English.

Stays in your browser

No account and no sign-in. Your answers stay in this browser and nothing is sent to us unless you choose to get in touch.

Points both ways

If a traditional one-off fee suits you better, the result says so rather than pretending otherwise.

Five short questions

0 of 5 answered

Answer what you can — a suggestion appears as soon as you have answered two. Nothing is sent to us, and your answers stay in this browser.

How many hires are you thinking about?

Roughly is fine. You can change your mind later.

When does the hiring actually need to happen?
How much does cash-flow predictability matter here?

There is no wrong answer — it changes what is worth showing you, not whether we can help.

What would help you most today?
Are you ready to speak to a recruiter about it?
Optional: a salary figure to carry across

If you add one, it is passed into whichever tool we suggest so you do not type it twice. Leave it blank if you would rather not.

Changes the modelling currency only — figures are not converted between currencies.

Your suggestion

Answer two questions to see a suggestion

It appears here, with the reasoning written out in full. There is no score and no hidden model — just a short set of rules applied to what you selected.

This is a signpost to the right tool on this website, based only on what you selected. It is not advice, not a quote and not a recommendation that the SUS model is the cheapest or best option for your company — it is not always cheaper, and it does not suit every business. Actual commercial terms are agreed with you individually in writing.

How to choose where to start

Which tool or route is useful to you depends on three things: how many roles you are hiring, how settled the role is internally, and whether cash timing or speed is the pressing constraint. One role with a clear spec is a cost-modelling question. Several roles across a year is a sequencing question. A role nobody has written down yet is a definition question, and no amount of cost modelling fixes that.

Start with the single-role cost model
Put your salary figure into the rate calculator and see how one hire lands month by month against a traditional one-off fee.
Start with the team hiring planner
Add the roles you expect to hire, phase them across the year, and see the combined monthly cost of the whole plan.
Start with the hiring brief builder
Six short sections turn a rough requirement into a technical brief you can circulate internally or send to us.
Start with how the model works
A plain explanation of the monthly recruitment-fee model, what happens if someone leaves, and where it does not fit.
Start with a conversation
A short, direct call about the role, the market and whether this model suits what you are trying to do.

The five questions above just point you at one of these starting points. There is no wrong answer and nothing is recorded.