How it works
The search workflow, stage by stage.
We list the eight stages of a search firm's work and say plainly where Seleva stands on each. Three are properly built. Others are partly there or not started. Nothing here is rounded up.
Live works todayIn progress partly builtOn the roadmap not built, planned or under discussion
Stage 0: Content creation and marketing communication On the roadmap
Not started. Nothing in Seleva generates content or campaign material today. It sits furthest from what the product is built around, so we are not promising it.
Stage 1: Lead generation Live
Finding the client firms worth approaching, and what to say to them.
Finding client companies LiveA scan finds organisations from LinkedIn company pages that a search engine has already indexed, then looks for buying signals on each: a leadership change, private equity involvement, an acquisition, international expansion, restructuring, an open senior role or a planned listing. Every signal cites its page. Scoring uses the weights in your own ideal client profile, which you can edit. A lead with no cited signal cannot be taken forward. Seleva never fetches pages from LinkedIn itself.
Finding people and target personas On the roadmapSeleva finds organisations, not the people inside them. Searching for named individuals raises a different data protection question, and we would settle it with a firm before building anything.
Reaching out In progressOn request, Seleva drafts an outreach note for a lead. It never sends one. A draft that contains an email address, phone number or link not found in that lead's own cited evidence is discarded.
Stage 2: Client briefing, offer and intake Live
Research becomes a citation-backed dossier. Each client engagement becomes one assignment record holding the client and role, the intake brief, fee terms, and links to the research and the lead it came from. The client offer is generated from what the consultant typed, then downloaded or exported to Google Docs. Seleva never sends it. Every step from intake to offer sent to signed is a person's decision.
Stage 3: Searching for candidates In progress
Each assignment carries a longlist the consultant builds by hand: name, current role, where the person came from, and the consultant's own assessment. Each candidate moves through identified, approached, interested, shortlisted and presented one step at a time, and every step is a person's click. Seleva does not search for people. Every candidate is someone a consultant chose to add.
Stage 4: Candidate assessments On the roadmap
Not built. A longlist holds the consultant's own written assessment against the brief. There is no assessment framework, scoring or interview record yet, and when there is, it will need the same evidence discipline as the research side.
Stage 5: Candidate presentation In progress
A shortlist Word document lists candidates marked shortlisted or presented, quotes the consultant's assessment word for word, and closes with a personal data notice. Seleva never sends it. Interview notes and side-by-side comparison are not built.
Stage 6: CRM integration On the roadmap
Not built. There is no Ezekia or HubSpot connection. Today Seleva can push the lead list to Google Sheets and deliver finished documents to Google Drive and Gmail. Those are useful, and they are not a CRM integration.
Stage 7: Data storage Live
Every source retrieved is kept with its content and publisher. Every claim keeps its citations. Every decision, including who made it and when, is written to an activity trail shown on the dossier. Today access is one shared administrator login, so actions are attributed to that account rather than a named person.
The rules
Three rules the system will not break.
This discipline is the part that is painful to add later, because it changes how everything stores its evidence. The stages still to come inherit it.
Every fact cites its source
A stated fact may only say what its source actually establishes, and it must carry a citation. Anything interpretive is recorded as an inference, at lower confidence. A claim left with no real citation is thrown away rather than shown with a warning.
Contact details appear word for word
An email address or phone number is kept only if it appears verbatim in a source it cites. The usual failure in tools like this is a made up address such as firstname.lastname@company.com, which looks right, is wrong, and is impossible to spot once it is in a document. Seleva drops those.
Nothing approves itself
The automated side stops at awaiting review. Approval is a person. The rule lives in the data layer, not only on screen, so it holds even for software calling the system directly. Seleva also never sends an offer, a shortlist or an outreach note for you.
Make room for your best work.
A conversation about your firm, followed by a demonstration of the workflow that matters most to you.