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Membership

A small number of clients. Introductions made by hand.

Membership

Working with us

What it costs depends on the brief. These are the two ways we work.

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The Year

A matchmaker, a search, and four or five considered introductions.

On enquiry

  • A full afternoon getting to know you
  • A named matchmaker for the year
  • Four or five introductions, each with our reasoning
  • All arrangements handled by us
  • A candid conversation after every introduction
  • Nothing about you published anywhere
Introduction requests a week
Unlimited
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The Search

When the right person is not already looking.

On enquiry

  • Everything in The Year
  • An active, targeted search on your brief
  • Approaches made discreetly on your behalf
  • Fortnightly reporting on where the search stands
  • No limit on the number of introductions in the term
Introduction requests a week
Unlimited

Who we work with

We are not for everybody, and that is the point

  1. 01

    People who are genuinely ready

    Not "open to it". Ready — out of the last thing, clear about what they want, and with room in their life for somebody. We ask directly and we can usually tell.

  2. 02

    People who are interesting on a Tuesday

    Achievement is not what makes somebody good to be around. We look for curiosity, humour and the ability to be still. Our clients tend to have accomplished a great deal and to lead with none of it.

  3. 03

    People who will take our advice

    The introductions that work are frequently not the ones a client would have chosen from a photograph. Working with us means being willing to be surprised.

  4. 04

    People who are kind

    We have declined clients for this reason and we would again. Everybody we introduce is somebody else’s introduction too.

How it works

How an introduction is made

  1. Request a conversation

    A conversation

    Forty minutes, confidential, no obligation and no charge. We ask what you are looking for and — more usefully — what has not worked so far.

  2. 02

    Getting to know you properly

    If we both want to go on, we spend two or three hours together. It is the part clients say they did not expect to enjoy and always do.

  3. 03

    The search

    We look through the people we know, the people we can reach, and — where it is right — we go and find somebody specific. That last part is what a matchmaker is actually for.

  4. 04

    The introduction

    We tell you about them properly first: who they are, why we think this, and what we are less sure about. If you want to meet, we arrange it. Neither of you handles the logistics.

  5. 05

    Afterwards

    We speak to you both, separately, within a few days. What we learn shapes the next introduction — which is why the fourth is usually better than the first.

Enquire

Start with a conversation

Forty minutes, confidential, and an honest answer about whether we are the right people for you.

Contact details
Shown for a introduction
Matchmaker
Works your file
Start here