AETHEON Executive Hiring
Skills intelligence for leadership recruiting in the age of AI.
AETHEON gives executive hiring teams and search partners a shared, evidence-based definition of a future-ready leader, beyond resumes and titles. Three offer levels share the same three artifacts, so you can start with one role and scale to every search.
The shared definition
Executive searches often begin with a job description written from the last person in the seat. Board members, the CEO, the CHRO and the search partner each carry a slightly different picture of who they are looking for.
AETHEON turns that picture into evidence: the skills the role demands and at what depth, the culture the leader will shape, and the capabilities the role will need as AI changes the work. Everyone evaluates candidates against the same definition.
Three artifacts. Every offer.
Translates the skills a role demands onto five proficiency levels, from Learner to Leader, so everyone agrees on how deep each capability must run.
Covers
Maps the leader and the team they will lead across 8 dimensions of how work actually gets done, so fit is discussed with evidence instead of instinct.
Covers
Compares the role with the emerging skills expected to matter over the next 12 to 18 months, so you hire for where the business is going.
Covers
From Role Bundle to Search Partner
Each level adds to the one before it. The three artifacts stay constant, so nothing you build is thrown away as you grow.
For CEOs, CHROs, COOs, hiring leaders and search firms.
$1,500
Introductory price. Standard value $8,500.
The Role Bundle plus a candidate path inside AETHEON.
$12,500
Standard price per search.
A white-label version inside a recruiter or advisor's own process.
$10,000
Per search, with an annual commitment of 5 or more searches ($50,000 minimum annually).
Inside a Fit-Ranked Search
Up to 10 candidates apply inside AETHEON. Your hiring team sees each one side by side against all three artifacts, then meets for a debrief grounded in the same evidence.
Candidates build a profile that surfaces the skills behind their titles.
They map how they work best across the same 8 dimensions as the role.
An optional company or role Skills Quest shows capability in action.
Unselected candidates may remain in the community for future opportunities.
Share it with your board or search partner
A one-page PDF summary of the Role Bundle to forward to the people choosing your next leader.
Begin your next search
Share a few details and the AETHEON team will follow up to scope the right starting point.
