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Over 70% of senior roles are filled before they’re ever advertised — through the private networks of the people doing the hiring.
AuthBuild is the authority operating system for UK directors, VPs, and CXOs at £120k+. We make you findable to the headhunters and decision-makers hiring at your level. The next role finds you, not the other way round.
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"First recruiter call in 8 months came within 3 weeks of joining. The Gap Score told me exactly what signal I was missing."
"Completely different to LinkedIn Premium. AuthBuild tells you what to do. Within 6 weeks two search firms reached out unsolicited."
"I stopped applying and started publishing. Had 3 warm intro calls in 5 weeks. The Role Archetype diagnostic changed how I think about positioning."
"The Role Archetype diagnostic was the moment I understood why I kept being passed over. It's positioning intelligence, not another CV checker."
Why I built AuthBuild
"I spent 15 years as a CTO and Head of AI Transformation. Every senior role I've seen filled in that time came through a relationship, not a job board. Online applications account for less than 20% of Director+ appointments — yet that's where most professionals spend 80% of their effort. AuthBuild inverts that ratio."
Steve Butler
Founder · Ex-Head of Technology & AI Transformation, Correla/Xoserve (National Grid) · FRSA · MBCS
A lifecycle tool, not a job-search product
Gap Score and Role Archetype reveals exactly why recruiters aren't finding you and what to change first.
You've landed. Authority building continues with your new title and platform. The content habit is formed.
Authority Score becomes a professional KPI. You're the person who gets called — not the one who applies.
Next level: board seat, NED, advisory, fractional CTO. The Empty Door Strategy runs again at a higher archetype target.
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At some point every senior professional in job search has the same thoughts. Usually around 2am.
If any of those thoughts are familiar, you're not alone. But you may not know how the numbers actually work against you at a senior level — or that there's a faster way out.
Tailored CVs. Networking events. And still — silence. The problem isn't your effort. It's the channel, and the clock that starts the moment you leave.
Every posting draws 300+ applications. ATS systems filter 75% before a human reads your name. You're not being rejected — you're not being seen.
Expect one month of search for every £10K of target salary. At £100K, that's 10 months. The traditional route doesn't just take time — it forces you to accept lower offers.
Ghosting. Late rejections. Colleagues posting their wins while you refresh your inbox. Your partner says nothing — but you can feel it. Every week it gets heavier.
Your mortgage doesn't pause. When savings fall low enough, your next role stops being a choice and becomes a forced outcome — and the hiring manager knows it too.
Last year you had a title, a team, a budget. Now someone at dinner asks what you do — and you have to explain a gap. That's not awkward. That's an identity crisis.
The longer the search, the louder the voice: just take something. But once you step back, you become the person who stepped back. Getting back takes years. Some never do.
Gross figure. Net loss after UK income tax and NI on £100K salary: approx. £55,700.
The traditional job search wasn't designed for the senior market. It's a volume game — and volume favours the house. The reality is that 80% of senior roles are filled before they're ever advertised, through the professional networks of the people doing the hiring.
The professionals who get approached — who choose their next role rather than settling for it — have one thing in common: they've made themselves consistently, visibly credible to exactly the right people. Before a role even exists.
AuthBuild builds your presence in exactly the networks where senior roles are filled — so you stop competing on job boards and start being chosen.
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Not a course. Not a CV-rewrite service. A working platform that runs in the background while you keep doing your job.
The platform learns your point of view from a 20-minute conversation, then drafts weekly LinkedIn posts in your tone. You approve, edit or reject. Average time per post: under 4 minutes.
Build a private list of decision-makers in your sector. Track every touch — comment, share, intro request — across LinkedIn and email. Cadence prompts when a relationship needs warming.
The engine surfaces hidden senior roles by tracking org-chart movement, funding events, and second-degree network signals. Decode any JD with one click; draft tailored cover notes in your voice.
Most senior leaders know they should post more. Almost none have the time, and "AI-generated" content sounds like nobody. AuthBuild solves both — it captures your point of view in a conversation, then drafts in that voice every week.
The senior market runs on relationships, not listings. The CRM gives you the system every recruiter has but most candidates don't — a structured way to build, warm and convert relationships with the people who actually hire.
At least 70% of senior appointments are never posted (TRIA Recruitment, 2026) — roles are filled before the listing exists. The engine reads the signals that precede them — leadership reshuffles, funding rounds, exec departures — and surfaces opportunities in your sector before anyone else sees them.
Average outcomes across UK trial users completing the 90-day onboarding programme.
"Authority Builder has taken all the guesswork out of it for me. People are reaching out to me about contracts now, instead of me blindly applying for roles."
"The idea generator alone is a real time-saver. It drafts in my voice — I make small edits and post. It's changed my engagement materially."
"I was a sporadic poster. Three weeks of weekly posts and recruiters started arriving. The CRM keeps every relationship alive without me thinking about it."
"The Empty Door tool told me exactly which axis was costing me. Six weeks later I had three offers I didn't apply for."