Stage-specific. Industry-agnostic.
Who we serve
Two tiers. One flywheel.
Primary · Funds
VC, PE & family offices
Portfolio-wide visibility. De-risked hiring. Faster time-to-value post-close. We embed into the portfolio company to improve the quality of growth through executive search, embedded hiring, and fractional HR.
Secondary · Founder/CEO-led
Founders & CEOs
The right talent, right now. Built to stay. For companies past product-market fit, scaling but starting to feel the strain of growth outpacing systems.
OUR WHY
Founders and CEOs don't fail from lack of effort. They fail from lack of stage-specific focus.
Our why is to become the default people partner for funds and founder-led companies ready to build it, lead it, or leave it, all on their own terms. Stage-specific talent improves employee retention, performance, and culture.
From background noise to LOUD: we identify elite, stage-specific talent and improve retention for funds and founder-led companies.
OUR SERVICES
Get what you need. Add what you want.
Stage-specific. Industry-agnostic. Three service lines, built to layer on as you scale, not a fixed bundle.
Talent Attraction & Search
Hiring and executive search that catches the wrong person before they're in too deep, from first hires through board-level placements.
People Operations & HR
Interview process, HR systems, org design, and change management, the infrastructure that keeps working after we leave.
Payroll, Benefits & Tax
Payroll ownership, benefits administration, compliance, and financial planning, consolidated, not fragmented across vendors.
Full breakdown of what's included at each stage lives on the Solutions page.
Built for your stage
Five stages. Pick where you are.
Soundcheck
1–10 emp
$8–15k/mo
"I'm about to bet six months of runway on the wrong person."
By referral
Opener
10–25 emp
$12–25k/mo
"We're hiring fast and I have no idea who's actually doing what."
FOCUS
Mainstage
25–75 emp
$15–35k/mo
"If I disappear for 30 days, this thing breaks."
FOCUS
Headliner
75–150 emp
$18–45k/mo
"I have an ELT that isn't executing and good people are quietly leaving."
FOCUS
Encore
150–500 emp
Custom
"Diligence is coming. My infrastructure won't survive a PE scrub."
BY REFERRAL
Why Loud
There's no competition.
We're founders, CEOs, builders, misfits who've scaled, failed, and rebuilt businesses at every stage.
Founder-to-Founder
You work with people who've been in your seat. We've scaled, failed, and rebuilt.
Built for your stage
We know exactly what breaks at every stage. And, even better, we know how to fix it.
Outcome > activity
We don't "support." We remove dependency. Hours back. Retention up.
One partner, full ownership
No fragmented vendors. No gaps. No excuses.
We beat named competitors
Executive search firms place people. We fix the system. Consulting firms leave a slide deck. We leave sustainable infrastructure. We don't advise from the outside. We build from the inside.
The 5 beliefs we build on
01
Founders and CEOs fail from spending too much time on the wrong work.
02
People and processes must be stage-specific, for maximum success.
03
External advisors don't own outcomes. Embedded operators do.
04
LOUD has personally lived this. We're founders. Not consultants.
05
Trusted by funds. Built for founders.
Proof, not just promises
The numbers we own.
20+
Hours back per week within 30 days
65%
Improvement in employee retention
45%
Shorter interview process
Case study · Akina Pharmaceuticals
The problem: Founder-led scale-up with no infrastructure. Hiring was reactive. CEO and COO wearing multiple hats.
What we did: Full embedded build. Implemented hiring and HR systems end-to-end. Placed three executives so the CEO and COO could each sit in one seat.
Results: 35 hires in 14 months. 3 executives placed. 91% of roles filled in 6 weeks. $35M ARR.
The founder now spends Thursdays with his son, as the business grows faster.
Case study · Future Sight
The problem: Fund-specific need for an executive and co-founder hire to drive a portfolio thesis.
What we did: Embedded inside the fund. Built a stage-specific search profile. Targeted, mapped, and placed the critical hires.
Both hires retained at 12 months. Fund's portfolio strategy unlocked.
Case study · BreatherMae
The problem: Needed an entire executive bench at speed, while the founder ran every desk in the meantime.
What we did: Embedded executive search at speed. Built and ran the executive funnel in parallel across 7 roles.
Full executive team in place, 100% of roles filled. Founder out of the seat. Growth thesis defended.
Our Core Services
Your strategy is trash if you don't have the right people and processes to deliver it.
