Your next vCISO client just posted a job for a full-time CISO.
Companies post CISO and Director of Information Security jobs when a board, insurer, or big customer demands a security program. Every morning by 7am, you get those companies, the decision-maker with contact info, 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 CISO posting is your best lead signal
A CISO posting tells you three things. The budget is approved, the need is public, and nobody is hired yet. That company just committed $250k or more a year to work your firm covers on a retainer. We watch LinkedIn plus the systems companies post through, Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby, every night. We filter out staffing agencies, recruiters, reposted ghost listings, and other security firms posting the same titles. What is left is a company with money set aside and no CISO. That is your call to make first.
Chief Information Security Officer
Meridian Health Software
“Meridian is a 180-person healthcare SaaS company hiring our first CISO. You will own our security program, lead SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance, manage vendor risk, and report to the board quarterly. Enterprise customers now require security leadership as part of procurement.”
Why this is a lead:
Meridian budgeted $250k to $350k a year for a first CISO. Everything in that posting, the program build, SOC 2, HIPAA, vendor risk, board reporting, is standard vCISO scope at a few thousand a month. Their enterprise customers set the deadline, so they need leadership now, not after a six-month executive search. That gap is your opening.
Job titles we monitor:
Sound familiar?
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Most companies posting a CISO job have never heard of a vCISO, so they never think to call you
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Referrals from auditors and cyber insurance brokers are great, but you cannot control when they show up
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By the time a breach or failed audit goes public, bigger firms have already called
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Security buyers ignore cold email unless it names their exact situation
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CISO searches drag on for months, and nobody tells you the search even exists
The math: hiring vs. your firm
Hiring full-time
Chief Information Security Officer
$250k-$350k/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
vCISO Firms
$3k-$12k/month
A full-time CISO runs $250k to $350k a year before benefits, and most mid-market companies cannot keep one busy 40 hours a week. A vCISO retainer covers the same program leadership for $3k to $12k a month. The client gets a team instead of one hire, and you get a prospect who already budgeted for the work.
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 vciso 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 a company pay my firm instead of hiring the CISO they posted for?
Because the math is lopsided. A full-time CISO runs $250k to $350k a year, and a 150-person company cannot keep one busy. Your retainer at $3k to $12k a month covers the same scope, the program, the audits, the board reporting. Your job is to show up while the role is still open and offer that trade.
What about ghost jobs and reposted listings?
We filter them out. If a posting has sat for months, keeps getting reposted, or comes from a staffing agency instead of the company itself, it never reaches your report. We also drop other security firms hiring the same titles. You only see fresh postings from real companies.
How many leads will I get?
Most mornings 2 or 3. Some mornings 6, some mornings 1. One honest note: CISO postings run thinner per metro than other roles, so vCISO firms usually watch a whole state or go national. That works fine here, because you sell remotely anyway.
What does the outreach look like, and who sends it?
Every lead comes with an email drafted in your voice that references the exact posting. Something like: "Saw you are hiring a CISO. Before you spend $300k on the search, worth 15 minutes on what a fractional model covers?" You review it, tweak it if you want, and send it from your own inbox. We never email your prospects.
Is this exclusive?
Yes. One firm per niche per market. Since vCISO firms often cover a whole state or the country, we agree on your territory up front. Inside it, we will not send the same postings to a competing security firm.
What if it does not work for us?
It starts with a free week. We run the same engine for 7 days, real reports with real leads, then it stops unless you sign up. After that it is $497 a month, no setup fee, no contract, cancel anytime, with 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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