The CRM headhunters actually wanted.
Everything your firm knows about a candidate — database, inbox, call notes, LinkedIn — brought together into one current picture. A mandate starts with matching, not assembling: from brief to client-ready longlist in days.
What your firm knows lives in seven places.
The knowledge is there — years of conversations, CVs, careful notes. It just never sits in one place. So every mandate starts with reconstructing what the firm already knows.
One candidate, seven versions.
The CV in a folder, the salary in a note, the latest conversation in a colleague's inbox. No single place shows the current picture.
A longlist takes a week.
And little of that week is judgement — it's finding the right people in your own records, then turning loose notes into something a client can read.
It all lives in one head.
Who knows whom, who fits what, who's ready to move — your firm's real asset sits in one memory. Hard to share, hand over, or build on.
From “who do we know” to the finished document.
Every search answers the same questions. Veft maps them end to end — every step faster, none skipped.
Seven places become one profile.
Veft draws together what lay scattered — one structured profile per candidate: compensation, career timeline, references, the latest conversation on top. Ask your own records in plain language: “PE-backed CFO in DACH, fluent French.”
The requirement, made explicit.
Define the competencies the mandate turns on — sector depth, leadership scope, languages, whatever the client weighs. They become the dimensions of the search.
Competency-based matching.
Your whole network, weighed against those dimensions — not a pile of keyword hits. Veft proposes an order, competency by competency, with the evidence for each dimension laid out in front of you. The longlist comes together in an afternoon.
Names you didn't have on the list.
One strong fit becomes several: Veft proposes candidates from your own records who resemble that person — people you met years ago on a different mandate, whom no keyword would have surfaced.
The finished document, in one pass.
The role's dimensions become the columns of the longlist and the structure of every report. Each candidate presented in the right light for this exact position — nothing invented. Branded PDF or your own Word template, ready to send.
What Veft is for.
Fully briefed, before every conversation.
The full picture of a person, framed for the mandate at hand — read in the two minutes before the call.
Documents from anyone on the team, at any moment.
Not just the longlist, and not only at the end: status report, candidate dossier, interim update — any member of your team can produce a document that holds up in front of the client, at any point in the search.
The next mandate doesn't start from zero.
A new position is matched against everything your firm already knows — the first names come from your own network before the sourcing begins.
Less assembling. More advising.
A client engages you for your judgement, your access to the right people, and your counsel — not for the mechanics. Veft takes over the mechanics: the database, the process, the documents. The standard stays high; the effort behind it doesn't.
Your career, migrated — not re-typed.
A folder of Outlook PSTs with attached CVs. Old vCard archives. A shared drive of candidates, or a legacy CRM. We bring it in, enrich it, and hand you back a clean, searchable database — the work of months, done before your first mandate on Veft.
We handle the migration as part of onboarding — scoped and quoted up front, so there are no surprises.
Days, not months.
Typical time to a searchable database from a several-thousand-profile archive.
AI-native and GDPR-rigorous. Most tools make you choose.
Most tools ask you to choose: a system that genuinely understands your candidates, or one that takes your data obligations seriously. Veft declines the trade — the full reach of modern AI, with the data discipline built into the foundation, so you never have to think about it mid-search.
A consent record you can prove.
Tamper-evident, from request to withdrawal.
AI you can defend, line by line.
Draft, edited, or approved — marked on every field.
German-native, not translated.
Formal address, phrasing, and document structure built for German search practice — not localised after the fact.
Veft makes every search faster and more efficient — and gives me room for what makes the difference: the advisory work.
Founder, Stegmann Consulting
See where Veft fits your firm.
The quickest way to judge Veft is to see it working — on the kind of search your firm runs.