In development · Pre-launch 2026
Hire with conviction.
One in four executive hires fails. You have experienced the cost — the team disruption, the strategy reset, the loss of credibility.
Kettrion changes those odds. Science-backed methodology, encoded as software. Designed for the EU AI Act era.
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Practitioner expertise, encoded as a system.
- 01 Define the role with evidence
- 02 Define what good looks like
- 03 Source against signal
- 04 Assess against what good looks like
- 05 Decide with structured evidence
The problem
25%
of executive hires fail within 18 months (HBR; CEB; corroborated across multiple studies)
The science has been settled since the 1990s. Executive hiring processes have mostly ignored it.
Structured interviewing, evidence-based scoring, and observation-level data produce dramatically better outcomes than unstructured judgement (Schmidt & Hunter, 1998).
At the executive level, the hiring processes have barely moved. We are changing that.
The method
Practitioner expertise, encoded as a system.
Science-backed process validated during more than ten years of executive search projects, distilled into a workflow that is AI-enabled and EU AI Act compliant.
- 01 Define the role with evidence
- 02 Define what good looks like
- 03 Source against signal
- 04 Assess against what good looks like
- 05 Decide with structured evidence
Compliance-native
Designed in. Not bolted on.
Kettrion was architected for the EU AI Act from the start. Hiring decisions are high-risk under the regulation. Article 86 grants candidates the right to explanation.
Most platforms are retrofitting. We started here.
Built in
Article 86 right to explanation
Observation-level audit trail
Source attribution on every record
GDPR-aligned data residency in Europe
For talent leaders
If you own executive hiring, you carry the failure rate.
CHRO
Defend hiring decisions to the board with structured evidence, not narrative.
Head of TA
Run executive mandates in-house with the rigor of a top-tier external partner.
Legal & CTO
Pass vendor security and EU AI Act reviews without a retrofit plan.
About
Built by practitioners who lived the problem.
Kettrion is incubated under Salomons & Partners GmbH in Zürich. The methodology was refined across twelve years of executive search mandates by the founding team.
Early access
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