Your next operations client just posted a job for a Continuous Improvement Manager.
Mid-size manufacturers post CI Manager and Lean Manager roles when waste finally gets expensive enough to fix. That decision is your opening. Every morning by 7am, we send you the companies that just posted, with a decision-maker contact and outreach drafted in your voice.
Our first client got 109 qualified leads across 88 companies in six weeks. Read the case study
Why a Continuous Improvement Manager posting is your best lead signal
A CI Manager posting tells you three things. Budget is approved, leadership signed off on a full salary for improvement work. The need is public, it's on their careers page. And nobody is hired yet. The consultant-or-hire decision is still wide open, and you can start next month while their search drags on. We watch postings on LinkedIn and the hiring systems companies post through, then filter out staffing agencies, recruiters, reposted ghost listings, and competitor firms chasing the same titles.
Continuous Improvement Manager
Ashworth Metal Fabrication
“Ashworth Metal Fabrication is hiring a CI Manager to lead our lean transformation initiative across two production facilities. The role will identify waste, facilitate kaizen events, and build a culture of continuous improvement among our 300-person manufacturing workforce.”
Why this is a lead:
Ashworth just approved $90K to $140K a year for improvement work across two facilities and 300 people. A consultant can structure the program, run the first kaizen events, and show measurable results in 90 days for a fraction of that first-year cost, while their hire search drags on. The posting tells you the scope, the facilities, and the culture goal, which is everything you need to write outreach that lands.
Job titles we monitor:
Sound familiar?
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CI Manager searches take months while the waste keeps costing money every week
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Solo lean consultants live on referrals, and referrals do not come on a schedule
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Mid-size manufacturers rarely know a consultant is an option until one shows up at the right moment
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Cold outreach without a trigger reads as spam; the posting gives you a real reason to write
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Operations leaders are skeptical of consultants who will not work the shop floor
The math: hiring vs. your firm
Hiring full-time
Continuous Improvement Manager
$90K-$140K/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
Lean Consultants
$25K-$150K per engagement
A CI Manager costs $90K-$140K per year and typically needs six to twelve months to build the relationships and organizational credibility to run kaizen events effectively. A lean consulting firm brings structured programs, trained facilitators, and proven methodologies that can deliver measurable results in the first 90 days. Clients see ROI before a full-time hire would have finished onboarding.
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 lean 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 manufacturer hire my firm instead of the CI Manager they posted?
A CI Manager costs $90K to $140K a year and needs six to twelve months to build the credibility to run kaizen events that stick. A lean engagement runs $25K to $150K, starts within weeks, and shows measurable results in the first 90 days. The posting proves leadership already committed real money to improvement. Your pitch is speed and proof, not whether the problem is worth solving. They already decided it is.
What about ghost jobs and reposted listings?
We check posting dates and filter out reposts, ghost listings, staffing agencies, and recruiters posting on a client's behalf. CI roles do get reposted when a search stalls, and a stalled search is often a warmer lead, not a dead one. If something in your report looks off, one tap on the feedback link tells the engine, and we make config changes same day by email.
How many leads will I actually get?
Most mornings 2 or 3. Some mornings 6, some mornings 1. CI and lean roles post steadily across manufacturing and distribution, so the flow is consistent, but we only send postings that look like real improvement initiatives, not general operations management roles.
What does the outreach look like, and who sends it?
Every lead includes a message drafted in your voice that references the exact posting, like the two facilities or the kaizen culture goal they described. You send it from your own email, so replies land with you. Manufacturing buyers respond to specifics and numbers, and the draft is built to carry yours.
Do you work with my competitors too?
No. One firm per niche per market. If we work with a lean consultant in your region, we will not sign your competitor. For solo consultants this matters: the leads in your territory are yours alone.
What does it cost, and what if it does not work?
$497 a month, no setup fee, no contract, cancel anytime, with a 60-day money-back guarantee. One closed engagement pays for years of the service. You can also try the free week first: we run the same engine for 7 days with real reports, then it stops unless you sign up. 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.
$497/mo. 60-day money-back guarantee.
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