Search brief to source‑backed longlist

Rivea researches the web the way a research associate would — working through your criteria and attaching evidence to every claim.

Bring a live or recent brief to the demo. We will show you the longlist it produces.

30 minutes · Redacted briefs welcome · Treated as confidential

The brief Plain English

Find chief dental officers at doctors groups and dental service organisations in the US who own a major line of business — real P&L responsibility, not an advisory seat. Must hold a clinical dental credential. Prefer someone who has integrated a multi-site acquisition.

Becomes a research plan you can correct

Behind the longlist

Research like your research associate would.

Get a source-backed longlist without losing the nuance in your brief.

Write the role, context, trade-offs, and exclusions in plain English. Rivea turns them into editable criteria.

Chicago Healthcare CFO
Search brief Ready to interpret

Find a CFO or senior finance leader for a Chicago-based, multi-site healthcare provider with $1–3B in revenue. Prioritize leaders who have led a major technology transformation and have public-company board or investor exposure.

Candidate Criteria Company Criteria Fit Signal
Illustrative workflow · fictional people, companies, claims, and counts

The hard part

Executive search is not a database query. Finding a name is easy. Proving fit is the research.

The criteria that decide fit rarely exist as clean database fields. Titles vary. An apparent functional leader may own a major operating business or only advise on it.

So researchers read. Leadership pages, biographies, announcements and filings can run to hundreds of pages, all to uncover the few facts that actually settle the question.

What the brief asks What the database has
  • Current title title
  • Employer company
  • Owns a P&L, not an advisory seat No column
  • Led a multi-site integration No column
  • Scope: $1–3B net patient revenue No column
3/5 criteria have no column to query. They are the ones that decide the search.

A database can only answer the questions its fields anticipated. Rivea investigates the questions in your brief.

Why it matters

Three things change once the research is done this way.

Criteria, not just filters

Research the qualifications that actually decide fit. Operating scope, clinical credentials and transformation experience were never database columns.

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The list arrives already screened against the real requirements

Evidence, not just profiles

See why each candidate belongs on the longlist. Confirmed facts are separated from supported interpretations, and Rivea says plainly where it found nothing.

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Validate the research in minutes instead of redoing it

More capacity, same bar

Replace days of opening pages and copying facts with a focused review. Your team covers more ground and keeps the depth and judgement that retained search is sold on.

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Researchers spend their time on assessment and outreach

Methodology

A source behind every claim. Work you can check, challenge and defend.

Rivea turns a fuzzy search requirement into a structured evidence review: each claim is broken into checkable parts, each part is tested against live sources, and where the sources disagree, you see the disagreement.

Candidate Audit
Claim audit One ambiguous claim, broken into checkable parts

4 of 6 checks shown

Overall assessment Contradicted

Illustrative audit · fictional candidate, company, claims and sources

Human control

Rivea does the research. Your team makes the call.

Rivea automates the repetitive research while your team makes every judgement call. Researchers set the brief, refine the universe, read the evidence and decide who belongs on the list. What changes is where they start.

Research like an associate. Review like an expert.

Pilot

Bring us a difficult brief.

Book 30 minutes and bring a live or recently completed healthcare search. We will run it through Rivea and walk you through the candidates, the evidence and the research trail.

Redacted briefs welcome · No commitment · Treated as confidential