Vetted fractional leadership and board placement — without the search-firm price or the directory noise.
Where proven executives build what's next, faster
Seat & Signal™ is a curated fractional executive placement and board search firm. Companies get 2–3 curated candidates per search — fractional, interim, and board — at flat success fees. Executives join free: clients pay our fees, members contract directly at their own rates, and nothing is shared without their approval.
For companies
Senior judgment, on your timeline.
Fractional CFOs, COOs, CMOs and more for startups. Partner-grade interim leaders, technology executives, and audit-committee-ready directors for PE-backed and mid-market companies.
How a search works →For executives
The infrastructure of a portfolio career.
Matched into vetted opportunities on your terms and your rates — with a community of placed executives, rate benchmarks, and board pathways behind you. Membership and matching are always free.
Membership details →Process
How it works
Tell us the seat
A short conversation about the role, the stage, and what success looks like in 90 days. No retainer to start.
Meet the shortlist
2–3 curated candidates with transparent rates. Not thirty résumés. The right three.
Seat with confidence
Flat fee on success, with terms stated plainly in the engagement agreement. Executives contract directly with you at their rates.
Principles
What we stand on
- Demand side pays. Executives never pay for access to opportunity — not a fee, not a subscription, not ever.
- Nothing moves without approval. No executive is shared with a client until they approve the specific introduction.
- Curation is the product. Small by design — every introduction is one we'd stake the brand on.
- Direct contracts. Your engagement, your terms. We take nothing from executives' rates.
The signal is the talent. The seat is the result.
Connecticut-based. Serving companies and executives nationwide, remote-first.