Executive candidate research, without the week of work.¹
Tell Cerna the executive role and what you need. Cerna finds the executives who match, vets each one against your spec, and returns a shortlist with the evidence behind every name.²
First search on us. $1,000 per search after that.³
Brief in. Shortlist out.
A brief becomes a rubric. The rubric becomes a wide discovery pass, staged filtering, deep enrichment, per-criterion qualification, adversarial QA — and a shortlist. Two sections. Every claim sourced.
— medical devices (Class II or above)
— P&L responsibility $50M+
— has led an FDA remediation
What each entry carries.
Not a resume dump. Every field is here because a recruiter needs it in front of a client. Everything sourced, everything checkable.
Devon Kaur
VP Ops & Supply Chain · Halcyon Bio (Class II devices)
⁵linkedin.com/in/devon-kaur · ⁶Halcyon press 2024-11-14- Role & company. Current title, confirmed via a named source you can open.
- Per-criterion rubric. Every must-have from your brief, rendered as a pill: confirmed, unconfirmed, or flagged with the specific reason.
- Tenure. Confirmed dates for the current role and the last relevant prior role. Not a full CV — just what the recruiter needs.
- Depth signals. Publications, conference talks, board seats, regulatory exposure, patents. Where relevant to the role, cited.
- Contact. Verified personal email, LinkedIn, mobile where available. Data for the recruiter's outreach — Cerna does not contact executives directly.
- Section B reasoning. For laterals: which criterion is missed, which are satisfied, why it's worth a look.
Every claim carries its source.
Most AI recruiting tools return a list of names. Cerna returns a document you can challenge, because every confirmed claim traces to something specific and locatable — not "public sources," not "company website."⁵
"Led global operations at Precision Medtech, including multi-site manufacturing and supply chain."
no citation. no source line. no way to verify.
Led global operations at Precision Medtech, including multi-site manufacturing and supply chain.¹ ²
¹ PMED 10-K, mar 2025 p.42 — "Operations · Alvarez · SVP"
² Precision Medtech press release, 2023-06-14 — appointment announcement
A separate QA pass — running in a clean context, explicitly looking for what the generation pipeline got wrong — reviews every claim before delivery. Mis-attributed evidence, unsupported assertions, and vague sources are caught before the recruiter sees them. The shortlist you receive has already been challenged.
$1,000*
per search. First one on us. Roughly 1% of a retained engagement fee,⁶ in exchange for a week of researcher time.
* No subscription. No credit card for the first one. No trial that auto-converts.
Two territories. One seam.
Cerna is autonomous up to the sourced shortlist — and stops there. The judgment layer is the recruiter's, structurally, not as a caveat. Here is the split.
Finding, vetting, sourcing.
- Wide-net executive discovery (~150–200 per search)
- Per-criterion qualification against your brief
- Deep enrichment: role history, scope detail, depth signals
- Named source citation on every confirmed claim
- Adversarial QA before delivery
- Contact data (email, LinkedIn, mobile) as a field
Fit, outreach, hire.
- Fit judgment against the client and the culture
- Reading the intangibles no brief fully captures
- Deciding who is actually callable this quarter
- Reaching out to executives directly
- Presenting to the client
- Making the hire.
Cerna finds the executives. You decide who's right.
Give Cerna a live brief.
See what comes back.
The first search is on us. Same pipeline. Same sourcing discipline. Same QA bar as a paid one.
No credit card. $1,000 per search after that.
- Every claim in a Cerna shortlist carries a source citation. This page carries them too — so you can see the sourcing discipline before you submit a brief. ↩
- Confirmed criteria cite a specific, locatable source — LinkedIn profile URL, named press release, named SEC filing. Ambiguous evidence is named as ambiguous, not resolved by assertion. Source: /how-it-works → sourcing. ↩
- $1,000 per search. Fixed price, no subscription, no trial that auto-converts. Source: /pricing. ↩
- A Tier 3 source — "company website," "public sources," "publicly available data" — fails QA and does not appear in the delivered shortlist. ↩
- Assumes retained engagement fees in the $75,000–$200,000 range. Source: /pricing → math. ↩