The brief exists before the brief arrives
A C-level exit, a funded scale-up hiring its first commercial leader, a new market opening. By the time it is an RFP it has been on three desks. We watch your market for the moment it becomes one.
Annual contract · priced on the companies watched · no seat minimum
How it works,
in three steps.
Track your targets
Add companies you want to monitor — competitors, prospects, or portfolio companies. Start with 50 for free.
Get real-time signals
Bounce Watch monitors 40+ signal types — funding, hiring, expansion, product launches, M&A and more. Delivered daily.
Take action
AI-scored priorities, draft emails and playbooks tell you exactly who to contact, what to say, and why now.
What usually goes wrong.
And what we do about it.
Briefs arrive already competitive?
The events that create a mandate are public before the mandate is. Watched continuously, they reach you as dated cards rather than as market gossip.
Business development competes with delivery?
The market gets read whether or not anyone had a free week. Your consultants work a shortlist instead of building one.
Your CRM is a graveyard of stale companies?
We do not ask you to migrate anything. A Radar lands, you work it the way you already work.
Rumours dressed up as intelligence?
An inference is stored and shown as an inference. You decide what to act on, knowing which is which.
Every signal is
an opening.
See how each signal type translates into a concrete opportunity.
The seat that just opened — the single clearest mandate signal there is.
Funded companies build out leadership within months. You arrive during the planning, not the panic.
A new country or office means a country lead, and usually a team under them.
A new decision-maker often arrives with a mandate to rebuild a function — and a budget for it.
A search that has been run internally for months is a search that is about to be retained.
Integration reshapes two leadership teams at once.
What you get
with the contract.
Your market, watched
The sectors and geographies you actually place into — not a generic feed.
The person, verified
Each card carries the decision-maker for that event, checked at the time of writing.
Dated, always
A four-week-old departure is a different conversation from a four-day-old one, and the card tells you which it is.
Coverage stated
Where we have not looked recently, the line says so rather than implying a quiet market.
Where this sits next to what you already have.
Bounce Watch adds the real-time signal intelligence these tools don't provide.
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Frequently asked questions.
What is Mandate Signals for Executive Search?
Leadership departures, funded scale-ups building out a team, new offices and markets — the events that create a search mandate, reaching you while the seat is still open.
Bounce Watch tracks 40+ real-time company signals — from funding rounds and hiring surges to product launches and market expansions. Every signal is a potential opportunity to engage at the right moment.
Unlike static databases or noisy alert tools, Bounce Watch's AI-powered Action Board scores and prioritizes your tracked companies so you always know where to focus. Combined with signal-based email drafts and step-by-step playbooks, it's the complete toolkit for retained search / talent advisory professionals.
Start for free with 50 tracked companies. Upgrade to a paid plan (from €12,000/year) for unlimited signal history, pattern analytics, and daily email digests.
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Reach them while the seat is still open.
Tell us the sectors and geographies you place into. We will tell you what a Radar on them would hold.