Build World-Class Teams with Your AI Talent Strategist
Eradicate costly mis-hires with our AI Talent Assistant—built on decades of executive assessment science. 10X your recruiting operations with evidence-based hiring, contextual strategic advice, and hands-on execution—all through natural conversation.
✓ Reduce mishires by 80% · Trusted by 35+ portfolios · Live in 15 minutes
Built and trained on our in-house hiring methodology trusted and deployed at leading firms:
Your portfolio companies are drowning in broken recruiting
The traditional recruiting model is costing your portfolio millions in lost revenue and delayed exits.
Speed Crisis
Your portfolio CEO just lost a critical VP of Engineering to a competitor—again. The role was open for 90 days. That's $450K in lost engineering capacity and a delayed product roadmap that threatens the next funding round.
Cost Hemorrhage
Across your portfolio, companies are paying $2.1M annually to recruiting agencies with zero coordination, plus $50K per executive assessment to consultants who deliver reports and disappear. You have no visibility into what's working, what's wasted, or where to optimize.
Quality Breakdown
Every bad executive hire costs $250K in severance, lost productivity, and team morale. Meanwhile, your ATS tools automate broken processes—screening with vague criteria, moving candidates through stages with zero quality gates. Bad decisions compound at every stage.
Capability Gap
You're spending hundreds of hours training founding teams on recruiting best practices—only to watch them revert to bad habits. Scaling this across 20+ portfolio companies is impossible. External consultants don't teach you to fish, leaving your teams forever dependent on costly outside expertise.
Deploy world-class hiring discipline across every portfolio company
Embed proven executive search methodology from Scale, Sequoia, and TPG into an AI platform your entire portfolio can use. What elite firms charge $50K per search becomes instant, repeatable infrastructure—generating scorecards, interview loops, and executive reports in minutes while capturing learnings across every hire.
Replace $50K Consultants with $50 AI
Generate executive scorecards, interview loops, and PE-grade candidate reports that match top consulting firms—in 2 minutes instead of 2 weeks. Every portfolio company gets instant access to methodology that typically costs five figures per search.
Portfolio-wide savings of $400K-$1M+ annually on executive assessments
Eliminate Weeks of Calibration Waste
Skip the endless stakeholder debates on "what good looks like." Upload call notes or JDs and get defensible scorecards instantly. Portfolio companies see 60-80% fewer iteration cycles, cutting time-to-hire from 90+ days to 4-6 weeks.
Launch searches in 120 seconds instead of 2-3 weeks of calibration meetings
Make Every Hire Evidence-Based
Replace gut-feel debriefs with structured interview loops and decision cockpits that surface red flags before they become $250K severance packages. AI-guided questions extract predictive behavioral evidence—the same methodology elite PE firms use to achieve 80%+ placement success rates.
60-80% reduction in mis-hires across portfolio companies
How does Team Theory work?
Ask questions, get expert advice, and generate hiring documents—all grounded in your company's context and proven methodologies.
Built by world-class hiring experts, GPs, operators, and AI engineers from leading firms.
Read about our team here.
Real queries from leaders building world-class teams
From pre-search diagnostics to crisis management, see how talent leaders use Team Theory to make faster, smarter hiring decisions.
"Should we upgrade the CFO before raising Series B, or wait until post-close?"
"Our portco CEO keeps missing revenue targets. Diagnose if it's a strategy, execution, or capability problem."
"Compare our SaaS portfolio's go-to-market teams against top quartile patterns for ARR growth."
"Which functional gaps will prevent us from scaling to $50M ARR in 18 months?"
Join talent leaders building world-class teams, not just filling reqs.
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Transforming portfolio-wide hiring with proven results
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Portfolio companies & funds served
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Searches supported
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Hiring tasks completed
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Hours and Quality of Hire saved
Sarah Chen
Operating Partner, Leading VC Firm
"The methodology from Team Theory transformed our portfolio-wide hiring. We filled 12 critical roles in 6 months—roles that had been open for 4+ months. We significantly cut recruiting costs while dramatically improving quality-of-hire scores."
Michael Rodriguez
VP of Talent, Multi-Stage Growth Fund
"This approach is battle-tested across our entire portfolio. The systematic methodology gives us confidence in every hire. Portfolio-wide analytics alone saved us 20 hours a month. Our portcos are hiring faster and smarter than ever."
Jennifer Park
Head of Talent, Leading Private Equity Firm
"We deployed Team Theory across 8 portfolio companies. Time-to-hire dropped from 12 weeks to 4.5 weeks average. Quality scores improved 31%. The 6-month guarantee gave us confidence to move fast without sacrificing rigor."
David Kim
Partner, Leading Growth-Stage Venture Firm
"Finally, a talent solution that scales across our portfolio without compromising quality. Our CEOs love it. We have visibility we never had before. This is the future of portfolio-level talent operations."
Lisa Thompson
Chief People Officer, High-Growth Portfolio Company
"The caliber of candidates we're seeing now is unprecedented. We went from struggling to find qualified VP-level talent to having multiple exceptional finalists for every role. The structured methodology eliminates guesswork and bias—every decision is data-backed."
Robert Anderson
Talent Director, Mid-Market Private Equity Firm
"We're a lean team supporting 15 portfolio companies. Team Theory lets us punch above our weight—we're delivering white-glove service at scale. Our portfolio CEOs used to wait weeks for our help; now they get expert-level support within hours."
Amanda Walsh
Managing Director, Leading Venture Capital Firm
"The ROI is undeniable. We've saved over $480K in recruiting fees while making better hires. The consistency across our portfolio is a game-changer—we're finally building talent infrastructure, not just reacting to fires."
Carlos Martinez
Head of Portfolio Operations, Leading Growth Fund
"What impressed me most was the speed AND quality. We filled a critical CTO role in 3 weeks that had been vacant for 5 months. The candidate is exceeding all expectations. This platform is the competitive advantage every portfolio needs."
Join the funds building systematic talent excellence
Your peers are already here. Forward-thinking PE/VC firms using Team Theory to build hiring systems that scale across their portfolios—from first founder hire to Series C executive search. Access the infrastructure, intelligence, and peer insights that turn talent from bottleneck to breakthrough.
Built on Proven Hiring Science
Our methodology is grounded in decades of executive assessment science—deployed at the world's most rigorous organizations.
Precise Role Definition
Crafting precise role definitions that recenter on what matters most: Core business performance—What needs to be achieved (outcomes) and How (required competencies).
Predictive Interview Questions
Formulaic questions based on methodology designed to uncover key insights about candidates' potential. Includes follow-ups, caveats.
Divide & Conquer Interviews
Structured process of thematic focused interviews designed to go deep and eliminate overlaps while maximizing consistency and fairness in evaluations.
Data-Driven Decision-Making
Calibrated, unbiased scoring and data analysis to make informed and confident hiring decisions.
Battle-Tested Expertise, Proven Results
25+ Years Combined Experience
Our methodology is built by Jordan Burton (former Partner at ghSMART, ex-Bain consultant, Harvard MBA) and Matt Walsh (former Palantir leadership, Harvard Law). Together, they've trained 3,000+ executives on world-class hiring practices and conducted executive assessments for top-tier PE/VC firms.
Proven Track Record
60-80% reduction in hiring mistakes. Our structured methodology improves candidate quality and diversity while delivering an exceptional candidate experience that delights high performers.
Trusted by leading investors and high-growth companies
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