Executive search insights with ready to go reports
Global executive search firm reach and depth, without the price tag. MapX joins up data on 22 million senior leaders and the companies they work for, so your team can map a market, benchmark successors or build a shortlist in hours.
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Ask a question about any senior role or leadership team. MapX searches 22 million leaders across 2 million companies, ranks the best fits against your brief, explains why each one fits, then turns the answer into a report you can share with the hiring manager the same day.
BUILT BY SEARCH PRACTITIONERS
The desk research is done. The conversations are yours.
MapX was built inside an executive search firm, by researchers whose careers include the world's leading firms. It joins up data on 22 million senior leaders and 2 million companies, does the desk research a researcher would, and hands you a finished report. Your team spends its time talking to candidates and hiring managers, not building spreadsheets.
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Days of desk research, done in hours
Target companies, market map and ranked shortlist, built from your brief.
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Nobody good gets missed
Matched on what leaders actually do, in 11 languages, not on job titles.
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Ready to send
Shortlist packs in your brand, with the evidence behind every name.
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Time back for the conversations
Your team spends its time engaging the market, with 6 Group researchers on hand when you need more.
How it works
Every ingredient makes the answer sharper
MapX joins up companies, roles, levels, locations and careers. Add each ingredient and the whole market narrows to the leaders who fit. Here is how one search for a COO Europe in consumer goods narrows from 22 million leaders to the 24 worth a conversation.
This is what Polaris, the MapX AI researcher, does for every search. Each step is shown, each exclusion carries its reason, and your team can change any ingredient and rerun it in seconds. Illustrative example.
Structure, not keywords
Find the leaders keyword search misses
Keyword tools match the words in a job title. MapX matches what people do and how their business works, in 11 languages, so the right leaders turn up whatever their title says.
Keyword search 3 results
Exact title matches only
MapX 41 leaders found
+ 34 more, each with the reason they match
Illustrative example. A keyword search finds the people whose title matches. MapX also finds the EVP Operations, the Directeur Supply Chain and the Leiter Supply Chain doing the same job, because every role is classified by function, specialism and seniority rather than by the words in the title.
Your own executive search research team
For in-house teams with senior roles piling up and no research bench behind them.
Market maps and target lists for every senior role, built in hours
Ranked shortlists with the evidence behind each name
Shortlist packs in your brand, ready for the hiring manager
See your leadership bench against the market
For HR and talent leaders who need to know whether the bench is strong enough before the board asks.
Benchmark successors against leaders in the same roles at your peers
Decide which critical roles to develop internally and which to hire for
Get board-ready answers in your AI assistant or as a report
Polaris runs your search the way a search firm would
Polaris is the MapX search agent. It follows the method a good research team uses, and you guide it at every step.
Brief to target list: the companies worth searching, chosen on structural signals
Calibration first: test the edges of the brief before the full search
Explainable results: 16 functions, 420 sub-functions and 7 seniority levels, not keywords, with every exclusion explained
Reports you can send straight to the hiring manager
Every answer comes back as a finished report in your brand, the same work a search firm researcher would hand you.
Market map: every relevant leader at your target companies, by function, level and location
Ranked shortlist: candidate profiles scored against your brief, with the reasons
Succession benchmark: your successors compared with the leaders in the same roles at your peers
Org charts for every target company come as standard, and 6 Group researchers can approach and screen candidates when you need them.
22m+
Senior leaders, profiled the same way
2m+
Companies, mapped to their leaders
420
Specialisms across 16 functions
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Seniority levels, aligned across companies
What MapX customers say
“Faster stakeholder calibration, broader and more diverse shortlists, and reporting we can take straight to the C-suite.”
VMO2 · Managed executive search
“Org charts and market maps that used to take days of analyst time are now produced in an afternoon.”
Aston Martin · Talent intelligence
“We can confidently run executive searches in markets and functions where we have no resident expertise.”
Bacardi · In-house executive search
One view of the market, many talent questions
The same classified data on 22 million senior leaders answers all eight questions below. One licence covers them all, so a market map for a live role and a succession benchmark for the board draw on the same evidence, and give the same answer twice.
Market mapping
Who could do this role, beyond the usual names?
Every relevant leader at every relevant company, ranked against your brief.
Succession benchmarking
How ready are our successors, compared with the market?
Your internal names set against the people who already hold the role elsewhere.
Competitor intelligence
How are rivals building their leadership teams?
Their structures, their hires and where those people came from.
Organisation design
What does good look like for this team?
How peers organise a function, and the roles they create.
Title levelling
Is their VP our Director?
Job titles mapped to real scope, so levels compare across companies.
Location strategy
Where should we build the team?
Depth of leadership talent, city by city, for the roles you need.
Workforce planning
Which senior roles can we realistically fill?
Where to build, where to hire, and how long each will take.
Career pathways
Which routes lead into this role?
The moves people actually made, and what that means for development.
Questions buyers ask
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MapX joins up data on 22 million senior leaders and the 2 million companies they work for, and classifies every company and career the same way: 16 functions, 420 sub-functions and 7 seniority levels. That consistency is what lets you compare like with like across a whole market.
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Keyword tools match the words in a job title, so they miss strong leaders with unusual titles and return people who are not relevant. MapX classifies what each person actually does, and Polaris explains why every person is in or out of your search.
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A finished document in your brand: a market map, a ranked shortlist with candidate profiles, an org chart or a succession benchmark, ready to send to a hiring manager or the board. Download the free sample pack to see eight examples.
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Many teams run more senior searches in-house with MapX, and brief search firms with a clear view of the market when they do use one. When you need people as well as data, 6 Group researchers can approach and screen candidates for you.
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Two calls. One to set up your report library in your brand, and one to run a first search together on a live role or a talent question of your choice.
How you buy
Global executive search firm reach and depth, without the price tag
A year of MapX costs less than one executive search fee. One annual licence covers your whole team, on every senior role and every talent question, all year, with 6 Group researchers on hand when a role needs people as well as data.
See MapX on one of your own roles
Book a 45-minute demo. Bring a live search or a talent question and we'll show you what MapX finds, and what you'd get. Or start with the free sample pack: three finished reports in a client's brand.
