Ten hires. Interim and permanent. One platform. No agency fees.
How SearcHive gave Rezolve AI the flexibility to build its finance function at pace, switching between interim and permanent resource as a fast-moving listed tech company demanded.
Rezolve AI moves fast. The finance team has to move faster. What SearcHive gave us was not just great candidates, it was the flexibility to hire the right way for the moment, interim when we needed to move immediately, permanent when we were ready to commit. Ten hires in, I still have not paid a single placement fee. That is a different way of thinking about recruitment entirely.
The Client
Rezolve AI
Rezolve AI is a London-headquartered technology company listed on NASDAQ (RZLV), building AI-powered agentic commerce solutions for enterprise retail, fashion, financial services and beyond. Founded in 2016, the company operates globally across EMEA, APAC, North America and Latin America, with a proprietary large language model at its core and a platform designed to transform how consumers discover, engage and transact online.
It is exactly the kind of business where the pace of commercial ambition outstrips the capacity of a traditional finance recruitment model. A company operating across multiple geographies, growing its product suite, and reporting to public market investors does not have the luxury of a slow or expensive hire.
The Challenge
A listed AI company needs a finance team that can keep up.
Fast-growth technology businesses create a distinctive hiring challenge. The need is often immediate, the requirement precise, and the environment unforgiving. At Rezolve AI, the finance function was not a back-office consideration. It operated at the centre of a business with public market obligations, multi-currency operations, investor scrutiny, and the demands of a leadership team building at pace.
Some roles needed filling within days. Others required a permanent appointment with the depth and stability to anchor a growing team. The flexibility to move between interim and permanent resource, quickly and without friction, is not something traditional recruitment agencies are designed to provide. Contingency models make interim placements expensive. Retained searches make permanent ones slow. Forking out placement fees on both, repeatedly, across ten hires, was never a viable option.
SearcHive offered something different: a single platform, a single subscription, and a network deep enough to serve both hire types to the same standard.
“Interim and permanent are different needs, not different standards. The platform treats them the same way: a clear brief, the right network, and no wasted time on either side.”
Catherine Turner, Founder, SearcHiveThe Hire Mix
Right-sized for every moment in the business.
Across ten appointments, SearcHive handled both ends of the resourcing spectrum with equal precision. The brief determined the approach. The network delivered the candidates.
Interim — speed and coverage when it mattered most. When Rezolve AI needed resource quickly, whether to cover a gap, manage a transition, or add capacity during a period of intense activity, SearcHive's interim network delivered finance professionals who could step in immediately, understand the environment fast, and contribute from day one. No lengthy onboarding curve. No agency margin on top of the day rate.
Permanent — considered appointments built to last. When the need was structural, a permanent addition to a growing team, SearcHive applied the same rigour: a tight brief, a curated shortlist drawn from a senior finance network built over decades, and a process that moved quickly without cutting corners. Every permanent hire was assessed for fit with a complex, high-growth, publicly listed business.
What Made It Work
A platform built for the way modern finance teams actually hire.
True Flexibility
Interim or permanent, the subscription covers both. No separate agreements, no renegotiated fees, no delay in switching between hire types as business needs evolved.
Network Depth
Both hire types drew from the same curated community of senior finance professionals, built across decades of specialist finance recruitment. The quality of candidate did not change with the contract type.
Commercial Clarity
One annual subscription. Ten hires. No placement fees calculated as a percentage of salary. No surprise costs. A model that rewarded volume rather than penalising it.
The Result
Ten hires. Zero placement fees. A finance team built for a listed AI company.
Rezolve AI made ten finance appointments through SearcHive, spanning interim and permanent requirements, on a single flat-fee annual subscription. The finance function grew at the pace the business demanded, with candidates who understood the environment, met the brief, and were placed without the cost and friction of a traditional agency model.
For any technology business growing quickly and hiring repeatedly, the maths are straightforward. The more you hire, the better the platform looks.
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