Marovi Research Projects

The Most Popular Way to Work With Marovi: Research Projects

Aug 6, 2026 | Insights

Marovi is evaluation intelligence at scale for executive hiring – turning elite recruiter judgment into a real-time, evidence-based read on the talent market.

Instead of keyword-matched names, Marovi reads, researches, and evaluates candidates and companies against your specific role criteria, drawing on multiple data sources and weighing nuance and relevant experience the way an experienced recruiter would.

There are a few ways to put that to work: run it yourself with platform access, plug it into your existing ATS or AI stack with a connected build, hand a role to us for a full end-to-end search, or bring us a specific, high-stakes need as a research project.

That last one is where most teams start.

If there’s one thing we’ve learned since launch, it’s this: most teams don’t start with a full search, and they don’t start with platform access either. They start with a research project – and it’s become, by a wide margin, the most popular way talent teams work with Marovi.

Here’s why, and how it works.

Hand off the early work

Our research team handles the early groundwork – market mapping, role definition, and initial candidate identification – so your team picks up already ahead. You get the depth of a full search’s early stage, without committing to the whole thing.

Tell us the role. We’ll tell you who fits, and why – fast.

[WATCH – Show evidence-based data behind talent recommendations.]

Why teams start here

According to ESIX’s Annual Benchmark Survey, in-house teams now directly source over 60% of executive hires – up 30% since 2018. More volume, more pipeline pressure, and less bandwidth to run the earliest, most time-consuming stage of a search from scratch.

That’s exactly where a research project earns its place.

Talent teams bring us their most high-stakes, urgent hiring needs, and we move fast: market mapping, role definition, and candidate identification happen in days, not weeks – with a scorecard built at the outset to calibrate stakeholders before the real work even begins.

Every step is documented and auditable. You see who was considered, how they were evaluated, and why they made the shortlist – not just a name and a resume.

What you actually get

  • A defined, calibrated scorecard your stakeholders have already aligned on
  • A mapped market – not just a name, but the full landscape of who fits and why
  • An evaluated, ranked shortlist of candidates, with the reasoning behind each one
  • A shareable pipeline your team can review, react to, and take into interviews
  • All of it at a fraction of a traditional executive search fee

From there, it’s yours. Your team takes the shortlist and the market view straight into interviews – no black box, no starting from zero.

[WATCH – Calibrate early with stakeholders in the search process.]

Full search, research project, or platform – your call

A research project isn’t a smaller version of what we do – it’s a real entry point, and for a lot of teams, it’s the whole engagement. Some go on to expand into full executive search or ongoing platform access once they’ve seen how the evaluation holds up. Plenty just come back for the next high-stakes role.

However you want to work with us, it’s built on the same evaluation infrastructure- evidence-based, auditable, and fast.

See current pricing and packages for Research Projects on our Plans page.