Your next legal client just posted a job for a General Counsel.
A company posting its first General Counsel role has approved a real legal budget. Many of them would be better served by a fractional GC. Every morning we send you those postings with the decision-maker found and outreach written in your voice.
Our first client got 109 qualified leads across 88 companies in six weeks. Read the case study
Why a General Counsel posting is your best lead signal
A General Counsel posting tells you three things. The budget is approved, usually $200K to $400K. The need is public, they wrote out exactly what legal work is piling up. And nobody is hired yet. That gap is where a fractional GC engagement at $5K to $15K a month wins. GC postings are rarer than most trigger roles, so this is a lower-volume, higher-value watch. We track LinkedIn plus the hiring systems companies post through, and filter out staffing agencies, recruiters, and reposted ghost listings.
General Counsel
Bridgewater Logistics Group
“Bridgewater Logistics Group is seeking a General Counsel to handle commercial contracts, employment matters, regulatory compliance, and M&A support. We are a 200-person logistics company that has outgrown our current outside counsel model and need someone to own legal strategy internally.”
Why this is a lead:
Bridgewater just told the world they budgeted $200K to $400K for legal leadership and have not hired anyone yet. At 200 people they have real legal volume, but probably not enough to fill a senior GC's week. A fractional GC at $5K to $15K a month covers the same contracts, employment, and compliance work for a third of the cost. That is the pitch, and the posting hands it to you.
Job titles we monitor:
Sound familiar?
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Most companies posting their first GC role have never heard of the fractional GC model
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Legal buyers lean on referrals, so cold outreach has to be specific to land
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By the time a GC search reaches your network, the shortlist already exists
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You cannot watch every mid-size company's careers page for a first legal hire
The math: hiring vs. your firm
Hiring full-time
General Counsel
$200K-$400K/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
Outsourced GC
$5K-$15K/month
A full-time General Counsel costs $200K-$400K per year before equity and benefits. A fractional GC firm provides strategic legal oversight, contract management, employment guidance, and regulatory compliance for a monthly retainer. Companies get senior legal judgment without the overhead of a full-time executive role.
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 outsourced gc 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 General Counsel they posted for?
Do the math with them. A full-time GC runs $200K to $400K a year before benefits, and a 100-person company rarely has enough legal work to fill that person's week. Your fractional engagement at $5K to $15K a month covers the same contracts, employment, and compliance work for a fraction of the cost. Many of these companies have never heard of the fractional model. The posting proves they have the budget and the need, and you get to be the one who shows them a better structure.
How do you handle ghost jobs and reposted listings?
We filter them out before your report goes out. Reposted listings, stale postings, staffing agencies, recruiters, and law firms posting the same titles never make the list. Every lead shows when the posting went up and why it scored, so you can judge freshness yourself before you send anything.
How many leads should I expect?
Be honest with yourself here: GC postings are rarer than the trigger roles in our other niches. Most mornings you will see 2 or 3 leads, some mornings 1, and the occasional morning brings 6. The trade is that each one is worth $60K to $180K a year if it closes, so a thin morning with one real first-GC posting can still be your best lead of the month.
What does the outreach look like, and who sends it?
Each lead comes with a message drafted in your voice that references the exact posting, what they said they need, and the fractional math. You send it from your own email, so replies come straight to you. If the tone is off, tap the feedback button on any lead or email us and we adjust the same day.
Will you sell the same leads to other outsourced GC firms?
No. One firm per niche per market. If you cover fractional GC work in your region, no other outsourced legal firm in that market gets these leads while you are a client. Legal buyers are cautious enough without three firms citing the same posting in their inbox.
What does it cost, and what if it does not work?
$497 a month, no setup fee, no contract, cancel anytime, with a 60-day money-back guarantee. Before you pay anything, we run the same engine free for 7 days and send you real reports each morning, then it stops. Signup takes about 5 minutes and your first report arrives tomorrow morning.
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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.
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