Case studies
Real briefs, real deadlines, real outcomes. What it looks like when a specialist practice takes on a hard resourcing problem, told in the numbers.
Building a new regeneration team in eight weeks
A flagship estate regeneration programme with a fixed funding deadline and no delivery team. We sourced permanent and interim talent simultaneously, programme lead first, then the team shaped around them.
A sudden departure left the council without its statutory finance officer weeks before budget setting. Our finance practice placed a proven interim from a warm network, no advert, no gap.
Post-pandemic inspection backlogs put the borough at regulatory risk. We assembled a six-strong contractor team with food safety specialisms inside three weeks.
The Building Safety Act created roles that barely existed in the market. We mapped adjacent skill sets, fire engineering, surveying, compliance, and built the team the regulator expected.
A new purpose-built student accommodation portfolio needed city teams before the September intake. Perm and temp, one brief, four cities, delivered for opening day.
Application backlogs were threatening designation. A blended team of contract development management officers cleared the queue while we ran the permanent campaign behind it.
Outcomes, not activity
Measured from brief sign-off, not first advert. Median across all practices: 8 working days.
A placement that leaves in month three didn't work. We track every placement through the first year.
Short shortlists that convert. If you're interviewing ten people per seat, the brief was wrong.
Got a hard brief? Good.
The difficult ones are the ones worth writing up.