Your next compliance client just posted a job for a Chief Compliance Officer.
Somewhere in the country right now, an RIA is posting a Chief Compliance Officer role it will struggle to fill. Every morning by 7am, we send you those firms with decision-maker contacts 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 Chief Compliance Officer posting is your best lead signal
A CCO posting tells you three things. Budget is approved, the need is public, and nobody is hired yet. That firm just budgeted $150K to $300K a year for work an outsourced CCO firm handles for a fraction of that. We watch LinkedIn and the hiring systems firms post through, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, every night. We filter out staffing agencies, recruiters, reposted ghost listings, and other compliance firms hiring the same titles. Compliance postings are thin in any one metro, so we watch the whole country for you.
Chief Compliance Officer
Harborview Capital Management
“Harborview Capital Management is seeking a Chief Compliance Officer to manage our SEC-registered investment adviser compliance program, oversee our annual review, and serve as our primary contact for regulatory examinations. We are a $400M AUM firm with a five-person investment team.”
Why this is a lead:
Harborview is a $400M AUM firm with a five-person investment team. They just budgeted $150K to $300K plus benefits for a full-time CCO. An outsourced CCO firm covers the same program, annual review, exam support, ongoing oversight, for $30K to $125K a year. The budget is approved, the need is public, and nobody is hired yet. Textbook fit.
Job titles we monitor:
Sound familiar?
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Most RIAs never call an outside compliance firm until a deficiency letter or exam notice lands
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Referrals from custodians and attorneys are steady but slow, and you cannot control the timing
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Cold lists of RIAs tell you nothing about which firms have compliance budget approved right now
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CCO postings are scattered across the whole country, too thin per metro to catch by checking job boards yourself
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By the time a firm starts asking around for an outsourced CCO, a competitor has usually already pitched them
The math: hiring vs. your firm
Hiring full-time
Chief Compliance Officer
$150K-$300K/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
Compliance Firms
$2.5K-$10K/month
A full-time CCO costs $150K to $300K a year, and RIA-specific compliance talent is hard to find in most markets. An outsourced CCO firm provides SEC examination support, annual review management, written supervisory procedures, and ongoing compliance monitoring for a monthly retainer. The firm gets exam-tested expertise at a fraction of a salary.
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 compliance firm 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 an RIA hire my firm instead of the CCO they just posted for?
The math is on your side. A full-time CCO runs $150K to $300K a year plus benefits, and RIA-specific compliance talent is scarce in most markets. An outsourced CCO engagement runs $30K to $125K a year and comes with examination experience a single hire rarely has. The model is well established, so you are not selling a new idea. You are just showing up at the right moment.
What about ghost jobs and reposted listings?
We filter them out before they reach you. Reposted listings, stale postings, staffing agencies, and recruiters never make your report. We also drop postings from other compliance firms hiring the same titles. What is left is a real firm with a current, public need and no one in the seat yet.
How many leads should I expect?
Most mornings 2 or 3. Some mornings 6, some mornings 1. CCO and compliance officer postings are thin in any single metro, which is why we watch the whole country for you. One outsourced CCO engagement at even $30K a year pays for the service many times over.
What does the outreach look like, and who sends it?
Every lead comes with a message drafted in your voice that references the exact posting and does the substitution math for that firm. You send it from your own email, so replies come straight to you. Edit it or send it as is. If the tone is off, tap the feedback button on any lead or email us and we adjust the same day.
Do you work with my competitors too?
No. One firm per niche per market. Outsourced CCO work is a national niche, so if another compliance firm already has your territory, we tell you before you pay anything. Once you are in, the leads we find are yours alone.
What if it does not work for my firm?
You risk very little. We run the same engine free for 7 days first, real reports with real leads, then it stops unless you subscribe. After that it is $497 a month, no setup fee, no contract, cancel anytime. And there is a 60-day money-back guarantee on top.
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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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