The rules

1. Every profile is a real person, verified against LinkedIn, with a CV on file. No agencies listing under a person's name.
2. Available now means exactly that. If you're not taking calls this month, switch it off. It expires after 90 days anyway, and we remind you twice before it does, so the green badge is never stale.
3. Your rate is your rate. You set it, you publish it, and you agree it with the company directly. Never pay anyone a placement fee to be on this bench.
4. Reply within three days or the request expires, we tell the company, and your availability switches off. Ghosting is the one thing that kills a directory.
5. Companies: the details you leave are shared only with the operators you contact, and an operator who applies to your role sees nothing of you beyond what you posted. Use a work email; operators check.
6. No reselling contact details, either direction. First offence is removal.
7. Rates are day rates or monthly retainers, never hourly. This is executive work, not freelancing.
8. Claim only what your CV supports. We spot-check, and misrepresenting experience is removal.
9. Take disputes to each other first. The deal is yours, not ours. We'll remove bad actors, but we don't arbitrate contracts.
10. Available now is a status, not an endorsement. It means you said you're taking calls this month. Verification is the same for everyone, and nobody can buy it or a place on a shortlist.
11. Paid shortlists are ranked on fit alone. When a company pays us to run a search, the three names we put in front of them are chosen on fit to the brief: sector, stage, seat, availability and verified track record. No operator can pay to be on that list, to rank higher on it, or to break a tie, and there is no plan that changes it. Somebody paying us to find the best three has to get the best three, not the best three who paid us.
12. Operator Search is the paid service, and it is labelled. A company pays for it: nothing to start a fractional search, and one success fee if they appoint somebody we introduced. Every fee comes from the company.
13. Fractional, interim and permanent. Fractional and interim we run ourselves. Permanent runs through our retained search practice, delivered with our search partner, on a full retained process. On a permanent hire the partner's fee is the only fee, agreed with you in writing before anything starts, and we never add anything on top of it.
14. Reviews come only from real bookings. A company can review an operator only after hiring them through the bench, from a single-use link. Reviews publish after a check, and operators can't buy, trade, or write their own.
15. Posted roles are real roles. Every role a company posts is checked before it goes live, and it must be a seat that is genuinely open. No fishing for CVs, no roles already filled, and close it once it is. The board is fractional and interim work; a permanent hire goes to Retained instead. Reading it takes an account, because a brief names the seat a company cannot fill and what it will pay, and that is theirs to control. Whoever you hire, the agreement is between you and them.

The rates behind rule three are public: UK day rates for every seat, 2026. And what listing costs you, here and elsewhere, is set out as arithmetic.