Pay for attention.
Not placements.
Discovery Days let you decide where Profound focuses across the people, capabilities and organisational priorities that matter to you.
No placement fee when an introduction becomes a hire.
A day of Profound's attention.
A Discovery Day represents Profound continuously working around one of your Discoveries.
It isn't a search, an introduction, or a recruiter's working day. It's the unit you use to decide where Profound should concentrate its ongoing work.
- Understanding the objective
- Monitoring the professional landscape
- Noticing relevant career movement
- Watching availability change
- Strengthening existing relationship paths
- Identifying new professionals worth knowing
- Bringing meaningful changes to your attention
Your organisation holds the days. You decide where they go.
- Senior Project Manager45
- Product Manager30
- Transformation Manager20
Allocate days as your priorities change.
Put more attention
where it matters most.
A leadership hire becomes more urgent. Move 10 unused days.
- Senior Project Manager45 days
- Product Manager30 days
- Transformation Manager20 days
- Senior Project Manager55 days
- Product Manager30 days
- Transformation Manager20 days
Nothing new is bought. The organisation simply decides where Profound concentrates its attention.
Where each day stands.
- Allocated
- The attention currently allocated to this Discovery.
- Used
- Discovery Days already invested.
- Remaining
- Attention still available within this Discovery.
- Pool
- Days not currently allocated elsewhere.
Once Discovery Days have been used, they stay invested — they cannot return to the pool. Unused allocated days can be moved at any time.
Your priorities will change.
Your plan can too.
- Reduce allocation
- Unused days return to the organisation pool
- Allocate them somewhere else
The minimum allocation for an active Discovery is always the number of days already used.
What the attention actually does.
Profound keeps refining what the Discovery actually needs.
Profound monitors professionals, relationships, availability and relevant movement.
When something meaningfully changes, Profound brings it forward.
When someone is worth meeting, you can request an introduction.
What happens next improves future Discovery.
You are paying for Profound to keep doing this work around the priorities you've chosen.
Not per seat.
Not per CV.
Not per hire.
- No per-user licence simply because more people in your organisation need access.
- No charge for viewing another professional.
- No introduction fee.
- No percentage of salary.
- No placement fee if an introduction becomes a hire.
Discovery Days are not introduction credits.
- JamesIntroduction complete
- IrisConversation started
- TheoReady for introduction
- NadiaNewly worth a look
A Discovery can create multiple relationships.
You are not buying one attempt at filling one role.
Profound keeps working while that Discovery remains important.
Use Discovery before
you need to hire.
- Build relationships with future engineering leaders.
- Understand the market for a capability you're likely to need next year.
- Strengthen transformation leadership.
- Explore who could support international growth.
- Prepare succession options before they become urgent.
A Discovery can begin before a vacancy exists. That's why the commercial model is based on continuous attention rather than placement outcomes.
Choose how many Discovery Days you want available.
Every plan is the whole of Profound. Plans differ only in how much attention you have to allocate.
Best for
Focused Discovery for one important priority.
- Continuous Discovery
- Organisation Understanding
- Professional recommendations
- Introductions
- Relationships
- Team access
Best for
Continuous Discovery across multiple priorities.
- Continuous Discovery
- Organisation Understanding
- Professional recommendations
- Introductions
- Relationships
- Team access
Best for
Organisation-wide Continuous Discovery that evolves alongside your business.
- Continuous Discovery
- Organisation Understanding
- Professional recommendations
- Introductions
- Relationships
- Team access
Team access is included. Nothing is held back behind a larger plan.
A different commercial structure.
- Search begins when a role opens
- Fee linked to a hire
- Relationship often ends with the process
- The next requirement starts again
- Understanding already exists
- Discovery runs continuously
- Attention allocated where needed
- Multiple introductions possible
- Relationships accumulate
- No placement fee
What are Discovery Days doing
when there's nothing to show me?
Paying attention.
Profound should not manufacture activity just to prove it is working.
Some days produce a professional worth meeting. Some strengthen understanding. Some reveal that nothing meaningful has changed.
The value is continuous awareness — not a feed full of artificial activity.
Nothing here needed you. Everything else is being watched quietly.
Profound tells you, and then leaves the decision with you.
3 Discovery Days remaining on this Discovery.
- Allocate more from your existing pool
- Move unused days from another Discovery
- Leave the Discovery as it is
- Pause it
- Change plan where appropriate
The commercial rules, plainly.
- What exactly is a Discovery Day?
- It's a day of Profound's attention directed at one of your Discoveries — understanding the objective, watching the landscape and bringing forward what matters.
- Does one Discovery Day equal one calendar day?
- No. A Discovery Day is a unit of attention, not a clock. It's how you decide where Profound concentrates its continuous work.
- Can I allocate Discovery Days between Discoveries?
- Yes. Reduce a Discovery and its unused days return to your organisation pool, ready to allocate elsewhere.
- What happens to days already used?
- They stay invested in that Discovery. The minimum allocation for an active Discovery is always the number of days already used.
- Can one Discovery lead to multiple introductions?
- Yes. A Discovery can create several relationships and several introductions.
- Do you charge a placement fee?
- No. There is no placement fee, introduction fee or percentage of salary when an introduction becomes a hire.
- Can I start a Discovery before we have a vacancy?
- Yes. Many Discoveries begin around a capability, a future need or a relationship you want to build early.
- What happens when my Discovery Days run low?
- Profound tells you. You can allocate more from your pool, move unused days from another Discovery, leave it, pause it, or change plan.
- Do professionals pay to use Profound?
- No. Profound is free for professionals.
Profound is built to work for professionals too.
Where should Profound
start paying attention?
Start with the role, capability or organisational priority that matters most.