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Eleven years in enterprise AI go-to-market.

Executive leadership on every search.

11 yrs
In AI go-to-market
One
Person leads your search
Enterprise
The only segment worked
Chris Jensen, founder of Precision Search Advisors
Chris JensenFounder · Precision Search Advisors
Who runs your search

We built GTM teams before we ever recruited for them. Every search runs through that experience, before the work begins.

We dedicated eleven years to building go-to-market and sales teams for AI startups in the US, the same roles this practice runs searches for now. The hiring side of those decisions came first, long before running a search for someone else.

We were the founding U.S. go-to-market hire for a Singapore-based enterprise AI SaaS company, closing its first Fortune 500 logos in the U.S. — General Mills, Nestlé, and Heineken — before leading a prior startup's sales org through 3x revenue growth.

One of those companies was working on AI systems early, before there was much shared language for that kind of work. That experience still shapes what stands out in a background: people who've sold something before the market had a settled name, into buyers who had no budget line for it yet.

A sales quota, comp plans written from scratch, and board-level reviews explaining hires that didn't work out. Not a comfortable meeting to sit in, and one that stays with you. A hire that misses costs more than the search itself. It costs the time the role sat open, and then the time it takes to admit it isn't working.

How the practice runs

Narrow on purpose.

Every search today runs through one person, start to finish: research, outreach, screening calls, follow-up. You will not be handed to an account manager. The working list of roughly 4,500 AI-native companies gets kept current for the same reason, so there's a real view of where people are before a search starts.

The practice is deliberately narrow. Enterprise go-to-market, AI-native companies, US market, four to six searches at a time. Not because the other work isn't worth doing, but because enterprise is where the deals are hardest to run and the mis-hires cost the most — and because being credible about a nine-month, twelve-stakeholder cycle requires having lived inside one.

That narrowness is also what makes the conversation useful once a search is underway. Having written comp plans, set quotas and defended hires in board reviews, the questions worth asking are the uncomfortable ones: whether the hiring sequence sets the role up to fail, whether the quota assumes a pipeline that does not exist yet, whether an enterprise seller is the right hire at this stage at all. Those get raised on the first call, not discovered in month three.

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