Your next AI client just posted a job for a Director of AI.
Mid-market companies are posting Head of AI and Director of AI roles with no AI team behind them. They budgeted a salary for work your firm already does. Every morning we send you the companies that just posted, with contacts and outreach drafted.
Our first client got 109 qualified leads across 88 companies in six weeks. Read the case study
Why a Chief AI Officer posting is your best lead signal
A Director of AI posting means three things: the budget is approved, the need is public, and nobody is hired yet. Mid-market companies post these roles aspirationally. They want AI progress but have no AI team, and the search for a real AI leader drags for months. Your firm can start the work now as a $25K to $150K project. We watch postings nightly on LinkedIn and the hiring systems companies post through, and we filter out staffing agencies, recruiters, reposted ghost listings, and other consultancies posting the same titles.
Director of AI
Clearfield Insurance Group
“Clearfield Insurance Group is seeking a Director of AI to define and execute our enterprise AI strategy, identify use cases across underwriting, claims, and customer service, and manage our AI vendor relationships and governance framework. We are a 400-person insurer committed to deploying AI responsibly at scale.”
Why this is a lead:
Clearfield budgeted $200K or more for this role and has no AI team today. The search will take months. A firm that has deployed AI for insurers can deliver the roadmap and first pilots now, as a project costing a fraction of one year of that salary. Budget approved, need public, nobody hired yet.
Job titles we monitor:
Sound familiar?
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Referrals come in waves, and between waves there is no reliable way to find companies that need AI help this month
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Every agency claims AI expertise now, so getting there first matters more than getting there polished
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By the time a company announces an AI initiative publicly, a bigger firm is already in the building
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Companies posting AI leadership roles rarely know what they actually need, which is your opening if you reach them before a candidate does
The math: hiring vs. your firm
Hiring full-time
Director of AI
$200K-$350K/year
- 60 to 90 day recruiting timeline
- Benefits cost on top of salary
- Single point of failure
- Stuck with headcount when things slow down
Your firm instead
AI Consultants
$25K-$150K/project
A Director of AI costs $200K to $350K a year, and the good ones are nearly impossible to hire. An AI consulting firm delivers the use case roadmap, vendor picks, and first working deployments as a $25K to $150K project. The client gets real progress this quarter instead of a six-month search, and they learn what to hire for later.
See the leads in your market before you pay for anything.
We'll run the real engine on your market, free, for seven days. Real reports, real postings, real contacts. Then it stops.
One firm per market
We only work with one ai consultant firm per market.
Every lead in your market goes to you and nobody else. When your metro is taken, we turn the next firm away. That keeps the leads worth having, and it's the honest reason to decide before a competitor does.
$497 a month. That's the whole pricing page.
Daily Lead Delivery
$497/monthEvery morning: the companies that just posted for a role you replace, with the decision-maker's contact and outreach drafted in your voice. No setup fee. No contract, cancel anytime. And one firm per niche per market. If you're the fractional CFO firm in Denver, nobody else gets Denver fractional CFO leads.
60-day money-back guarantee. Not satisfied? Full refund, no questions asked.
One client covers years of this. One owner's rep project, one CFO retainer, one managed IT contract. Any single one pays for Hidden Client many times over.
Get Started Risk-FreeFrequently asked questions
Why would a company hire my firm instead of the Director of AI they posted?
Because the posting is usually aspirational. Most mid-market companies posting AI leadership roles have no AI team and no clear picture of the job. The role pays $200K to $350K and the search drags for months. A $25K to $150K project gets them real progress this quarter, and often shows them what to hire for later.
What about ghost jobs and reposted listings?
We filter them out. Before a posting reaches your report we check when it went up, whether it is a repost, and whether the poster is a staffing agency or recruiter instead of the company itself. If a listing looks stale or fake, it does not make the email.
How many leads will I get?
Most mornings 2 or 3. Some mornings 6, some mornings 1. AI roles are being posted in volume right now, but we only pass along companies that fit: real mid-market companies posting AI leadership with no AI team behind it. If a morning is thin, that is the honest result, not padding.
What does the outreach look like, and who sends it?
Each lead comes with a message drafted in your voice that references the exact posting. Something like: "Saw you are hiring a Director of AI to cover underwriting and claims. We do that work for insurers as a scoped project." You send it from your own inbox. We never email prospects on your behalf.
Do you work with my competitors?
No. One firm per niche per market. If we send AI consulting leads to your firm in your market, we will not take on another AI consultancy there. When you sign up, that spot is yours.
What if it does not work for us?
It is $497 a month, no setup fee, no contract, cancel anytime, and there is a 60-day money-back guarantee. You can also start with a free week: we run the same engine free for 7 days with real reports, then it stops. Signup takes about 5 minutes and your first report arrives tomorrow morning.
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From the Founder
Why I built this
I built Hidden Client because I kept seeing the same thing: a company posts a job, interviews for two months, and the firm that could have done the work never hears about it. That felt fixable with software, so I fixed it.
It's just me here, and I read every reply. If your leads are off, email me and your setup gets corrected the same day. That's the whole support department, and it's faster than most.
Jeremy Olken
Founder, Hidden Client · jeremy@hiddenclient.com
The postings are already up. The clock is already running.
Somewhere in your market, a company posted the role you replace this week. Signup takes about five minutes, and your first report lands tomorrow by 7am.
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