Recruiting intelligence · Commercial signals · Nashville

You called me at the perfect time — and I didn't even know it yet.”

That's the reaction we're built to earn. Harrier doesn't cold-call a list. It reads the public signals of business change — the go-live, the funding, the departure, the audit finding — and reaches the one organization whose need is opening this week, with the right talent already in hand.

The question we answer
Who to call, why now, and what to say
Not a database
A reasoning engine over live business events
Every call carries
The evidence behind the timing

Built for the verticals where timing decides the outcome

The difference

Most recruiters call when they need a deal.
We call when you need the help.

A great recruiter and a forgettable one often pitch the same way. The difference a client actually feels is timing — reaching them in the narrow window when a real need has just opened, before the req is even written. That window is not luck. It is read.

The usual way

Spray, pray, and follow up

  • A static list bought from a database vendor
  • The same outreach to a thousand companies at once
  • No idea whether the need exists today, last year, or never
  • "Just checking in" — the email everyone deletes
  • You sound like every other recruiter who called this week
The Harrier way

Read the terrain, then strike

  • A live read of business events as they happen in your market
  • One company, one reason, one moment that the need just opened
  • The evidence — the filing, the go-live, the leadership change
  • "I noticed X happened. Here's who you'll need, and I have them."
  • You sound like the only person who saw it coming

The intelligence

We watch the events that quietly create a hiring need

Public business activity throws off signals long before a job is posted. Each one has a predictable consequence for the people a company needs. Harrier converts that activity into ranked, explainable reasons to make a call — continuously, across your terrain.

Technology migrations

An Epic or Oracle Health go-live strains revenue cycle, denials, and AR teams. The need for interim leaders peaks weeks before anyone admits it.

Healthcare RCM

Leadership transitions

A CFO departs, a VP is promoted. New leaders rebuild teams in their first 90 days. We see the move and read what it means for the org chart.

Leadership

Capital events

A funding round, an acquisition, an expansion. Growth capital becomes headcount within a quarter — in finance, operations, and compliance first.

Growth hiring

Audit & risk findings

A regulatory action, a material weakness, a breach disclosure. Each one forces a fast, specialized hire under real deadline pressure.

Audit & Risk

Mergers & restructuring

Integrations duplicate and then reshape teams. The window for interim and transformation talent opens the day the deal is announced.

M&A

Insourcing reversals

A company pulls a function back in-house, or pushes one out. Either direction is a sudden, sizeable, and specific staffing event.

Workforce

Every signal is reasoned, not just reported. Harrier doesn't tell you a company got funded — it tells you what role opens next, how long the window stays open, and how confident we are, with the evidence that weakens the call shown right beside the evidence that supports it.

Harrier · the engine

Not a lead. A Harrier brief.

Harrier is the recruiting-intelligence engine behind every engagement. Before a single call is made, it assembles the opportunity into an analyst-grade brief: what happened, why it matters, who to reach, and what to say. This is the difference between information and confidence.

Harrier · Opportunity Brief · live sample healthcare revenue cycle

Cedar Valley Health System

Healthcare · 4 hospitals · Nashville, TN

What happenedBegan a major Epic EHR migration — straining revenue-cycle, denials, and AR teams during cutover.
Why nowThe hiring window opens during the go-live, not after. Interim revenue-cycle leadership demand peaks in the next 30–90 days.
Who to callVP Revenue Cycle · CFO · Director, Patient Financial Services
What to say"Your Epic cutover will spike denials and AR days. Here's an interim RCM leader who has run exactly this transition twice."
trace: event → signal → reasoning → brief → the call updating against your terrain
A sample Harrier Opportunity Brief. Figures are illustrative.

The competency

Decades of senior judgment. Now pointed by intelligence.

Harrier chooses the moment; senior people win the mandate and land the hire. It works across the functions where a precisely-timed call is worth the most — wherever a single, well-timed conversation changes the outcome.

Healthcare Revenue Cycle

VPs of Revenue Cycle, denials and AR leadership, patient financial services, revenue integrity, and the interim leaders who steady a go-live.

Audit, Risk & Compliance

Internal audit directors, SOX and controls specialists, risk officers, and the rapid-response hires that a finding or filing demands.

Finance & Accounting

Controllers, FP&A leaders, technical accounting, and CFO-track talent for companies scaling through a capital event.

Life Sciences & Technology

Functional and operational leadership for growth-stage and enterprise organizations navigating expansion and change.

We engage across the spectrum

  • Retained & confidential
  • Direct hire
  • Interim & transformation
  • Contract-to-hire
  • Project-based teams

How we work — the Flight

Every engagement is flown over your terrain

A harrier hunts by flying low, methodical passes over specific ground — reading what's below in real time and striking with precision. We configure a Flight in Harrier for each client: your market, your signals, your definition of a winning placement. No two are alike.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    We map your terrain — the verticals, firmographics, roles, and fee structure that make a placement worth your time. Your active targets seed the watchlist.

  2. 02

    Calibration

    We tune Harrier to your winning patterns — the events that historically preceded your best placements — and exclude the markets and companies you don't want.

  3. 03

    The pass

    Harrier flies your terrain continuously, converting live business activity into a ranked, explained queue of organizations whose need is opening now.

  4. 04

    The strike

    We reach the right person at the right company with the reason and the talent — so the call lands at the perfect time, and the placement follows.

Why it works

The world has enough information.
We sell confidence.

Reasoning, not rows

Database vendors hand you a contact and a note. Harrier hands you a thesis — what the event means, what role it opens, and what to say. The analysis is the product.

Glass box, never black box

Every recommendation shows its evidence and its uncertainty. You can explain to your stakeholders exactly why the moment is now — because we can explain it to you.

Memory that compounds

Every company Harrier watches accrues a timeline of events, predictions, and outcomes. The longer we fly your terrain, the sharper the read becomes.

Timing you can feel

The measure of success is one sentence from the person who picks up: "You called at the perfect time — and I didn't even know it." That is the whole point.

Nashville

A recruiting-intelligence engine with an unfair advantage

Harrier is built for individually tailored work — the kind of engagement where a client trusts you with a single, important hire and you get it exactly right.

What's changed is the front of the funnel. Instead of guessing which companies might need us, Harrier reads the signals and we know. That lets a small, senior team punch far above its size: every conversation we start is one the market told us to have.

  • Senior partners on every engagement — no handoffs
  • Intelligence-led targeting, human-led delivery
  • Deep specialization in regulated, event-dense verticals
"Harrier is not a lead list. It is a reasoning engine that continuously converts public business activity into ranked, explainable opportunities — so we wake up every morning knowing exactly where to focus." — Harrier, the engine behind our work

Questions

Recruiting intelligence, explained

What is recruiting intelligence?

Recruiting intelligence is the practice of reading public business activity — funding rounds, leadership changes, system go-lives, audit findings — and converting it into ranked, explainable reasons to contact a specific organization right now. Harrier does this continuously so outreach lands the moment a hiring need opens.

How does Harrier know which companies to call?

Harrier monitors public signals of change across your market and reasons about what each event means: which roles it creates, how long the buying window stays open, and how confident the recommendation is. Every recommendation shows the evidence behind it — it is a glass box, not a black box.

Is this just a lead list or a database?

No. A database hands you rows; Harrier hands you a thesis. It interprets events into commercial implications — who to call, why now, and what to say — with the supporting and contradicting evidence shown side by side.

What industries does Harrier serve?

We specialize in event-dense, regulated verticals where timing decides the outcome: healthcare revenue cycle, audit and risk, finance and accounting, life sciences, and technology leadership.

Where is Harrier located?

Harrier is built by a boutique recruiting-intelligence team based in Nashville, Tennessee, serving clients across the United States.

How do you engage with clients?

Retained and confidential engagements, direct hire, interim and transformation leadership, contract-to-hire, and project-based teams — all pointed by Harrier's intelligence.

Start a Flight

Tell us your terrain. We'll tell you who's about to need you.

Whether you're a company that wants to be reached before the need becomes a crisis, or a leader exploring your next move — start with a conversation. We'll show you a real Harrier intelligence brief for your market on the first call.

or email harrier@harpethtalent.com