Your next HR client just posted a job for an HR Manager.
Companies under 100 people post HR Manager jobs when they need their first real HR function, and most have never heard of fractional HR. Every morning by 7am we send you those companies, with the decision-maker's contact and outreach drafted in your voice.
Our first client got 109 qualified leads across 88 companies in six weeks. Read the case study
Why a HR Manager posting is your best lead signal
An HR Manager posting tells you three things. The budget is approved, they set aside $80K or more for the role. The need is public, they wrote out exactly what people work they want done. And nobody is hired yet. That is the whole window for a fractional HR pitch. We watch LinkedIn and the hiring systems companies post through, Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby, every night. We filter out staffing agencies, recruiters, reposted ghost listings, and other HR firms posting the same titles. What is left is your list.
HR Manager
Brightpath Logistics
“We are a 60-person logistics company hiring our first HR Manager. You will own onboarding, benefits, compliance, the handbook, and everything people-related we have been running off the side of our COO's desk.”
Why this is a lead:
Brightpath budgeted roughly $85K plus benefits for one mid-level generalist. A fractional HR firm covers everything in that posting for $2K to $4K a month, less than half the cost, with senior people instead of a first-time hire. Postings like this stay open 30 to 60 days. That is the window to show them the math before someone starts.
Job titles we monitor:
Sound familiar?
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Referrals from CPAs and attorneys keep you fed until the month they don't.
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Most companies under 100 people have never heard of fractional HR, so they post a job instead.
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Cold lists put you in front of companies with no HR budget and no urgency.
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Every metro has hundreds of HR postings a week, and sorting them by hand takes hours nobody bills for.
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Once the new HR Manager starts, that company is off the market for years.
The math: hiring vs. your firm
Hiring full-time
HR Manager
$80K-$130K/year
- 60 to 90 day recruiting timeline
- Benefits cost on top of salary
- Single point of failure
- Stuck with headcount when things slow down
Your firm instead
HR Consultants
$1.5K-$6K/month
A full-time HR Manager costs $80K to $130K a year plus benefits, and the company gets one generalist. A fractional HR firm covers compliance, benefits, onboarding, and employee issues for $1.5K to $6K a month. Half the cost, senior experience, no single point of failure.
See the leads in your market before you pay for anything.
We'll run the real engine on your market, free, for seven days. Real reports, real postings, real contacts. Then it stops.
One firm per market
We only work with one hr consultant firm per market.
Every lead in your market goes to you and nobody else. When your metro is taken, we turn the next firm away. That keeps the leads worth having, and it's the honest reason to decide before a competitor does.
$497 a month. That's the whole pricing page.
Daily Lead Delivery
$497/monthEvery morning: the companies that just posted for a role you replace, with the decision-maker's contact and outreach drafted in your voice. No setup fee. No contract, cancel anytime. And one firm per niche per market. If you're the fractional CFO firm in Denver, nobody else gets Denver fractional CFO leads.
60-day money-back guarantee. Not satisfied? Full refund, no questions asked.
One client covers years of this. One owner's rep project, one CFO retainer, one managed IT contract. Any single one pays for Hidden Client many times over.
Get Started Risk-FreeFrequently asked questions
Why would a company hire my firm instead of the HR Manager they posted for?
They posted the job because they know they need HR, not because they priced the options. An HR Manager runs $80K to $130K plus benefits and payroll taxes, call it $100K to $160K all in, for one generalist. Your retainer at $1.5K to $6K a month gets them senior HR coverage for a fraction of that. Most have never done that math because nobody showed it to them.
What about ghost jobs and reposts?
We filter them out. Postings that have sat for months or keep getting reposted get dropped before they reach you. Same for staffing agencies, recruiters hiring for their clients, and other HR firms posting the same titles. You get real companies with a real opening.
How many leads will I actually get?
Most mornings 2 or 3. Some mornings 6, some mornings 1. HR postings are abundant in every metro, so the filter matters more than the firehose. For scale, our first client, an owner's rep construction firm, got 109 qualified leads across 88 companies in six weeks.
What does the outreach look like, and who sends it?
Each lead comes with a short email drafted in your voice that references the exact posting. Something like: saw you are hiring an HR Manager, here is what that role costs against a fractional setup. You send it from your own inbox. Prospects never know a tool was involved.
Will my competitors get the same leads?
No. One firm per niche per market. If you take fractional HR in Denver, no other HR firm in Denver gets these leads from us. When your market is taken, it is taken.
What if it does not work for my firm?
$497 a month, no setup fee, no contract, cancel anytime, and a 60-day money-back guarantee. One retainer at $1.5K to $6K a month covers the annual cost 3 to 12 times over. You can also start with a free week: we run the same engine free for 7 days, real reports, then it stops.
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From the Founder
Why I built this
I built Hidden Client because I kept seeing the same thing: a company posts a job, interviews for two months, and the firm that could have done the work never hears about it. That felt fixable with software, so I fixed it.
It's just me here, and I read every reply. If your leads are off, email me and your setup gets corrected the same day. That's the whole support department, and it's faster than most.
Jeremy Olken
Founder, Hidden Client · jeremy@hiddenclient.com
The postings are already up. The clock is already running.
Somewhere in your market, a company posted the role you replace this week. Signup takes about five minutes, and your first report lands tomorrow by 7am.
$497/mo. 60-day money-back guarantee.
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