Consulting

Your time is valuable. Interviewing takes a lot of it.

Let's build a process that puts quality over quantity, and sets the best candidates up to win at your company.

Built for startup founders standing up recruiting for the first time.

Why Cardinal

RPO is our day job. We embed with startups from seed through Series C and build recruiting functions that scale with the company, not against it. When you hire Cardinal to consult, you're getting the same playbook we run for our embedded clients, handed to your team to own.

Who this is for

You're in the right place if…

You're a founder making your first recruiting hire

You're seed to Series B, scaling from ad-hoc to repeatable

You have an ATS but no real process behind it

You need recruiting to stop being the founder's job

What we build

Six modules. Take the full build, or pick the pieces you need.

01

ATS Selection & Implementation

Vendor evaluation, workflow setup, integrations, and team training.

02

Interview Loop Design & Scorecards

Competency-based loops, structured questions, and calibrated scorecards built per role.

03

Sourcing Playbook & Channel Strategy

Where to find talent, how to reach them, what to say. Templates and channel plans included.

04

Hiring Manager Enablement

Training sessions, intake templates, and debrief structure. Your managers become better interviewers.

05

Employer Brand & Careers Page

EVP articulation, JD templates, careers page copy, and candidate-facing content that converts.

06

Recruiting Ops

Pipeline stages, SLAs, weekly reporting, dashboards. What good looks like, measured.

Engagement options

Fixed fee. Fixed timeline. No hourly billing.

Three ways to work together, based on how much you need built and how fast.

Modular

2 to 3 weeks per module

Starting at $3,500/module
  • Any single module
  • Focused deliverable
  • Documentation included
  • 30-day support
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Foundation

30 to 45 days

Starting at $10,000
  • ATS + Interview Loops + Ops
  • Core process build
  • Documentation included
  • 30-day support
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How it works

Four steps. No mystery.

01

Discovery call

30 minutes. What you have, what you need, what "done" looks like.

02

Scoped proposal

Fixed fee, fixed timeline, defined deliverables. No hourly billing, no surprises.

03

Build phase

Weekly working sessions with your team. You own the output.

04

Handoff

Documentation, training, and a 30-day support window included.

Ready to build it right?

30 minutes to talk through what you need. No pitch, no pressure.

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