People Intelligence forExecutive SearchPrivate Equity
Real-time signals on the people and companies you cover, delivered to your inbox and your clients' portal.
Tracking leadership moves, IPO, M&A and funding events at 400,000+ organisations, from primary sources.
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Live profiles
Directors, brokers & advisers
Refreshed daily from press releases, official filings and disclosures
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New organisations this month
Public and private, globally
Coverage across public and private organisations
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New signals this week
People moves, funding & offerings
Surfaced the moment they're published
From £200/month · No lock-in
By the time it's news, the mandate's gone.
Here is how a search gets lost before anyone on your desk knows it started.
Within hours
The change reaches the record
A chief executive agrees to step down. It is documented, precise and available to anyone who happens to be looking.
Then nothing
Nobody on the desk is watching for it
There is no alert, because nothing was set to watch that company. The record sits there, doing no work for you.
Days or weeks
The firms that were watching call the chair
Two or three of them. They arrive with context, a shortlist forming, and a head start you cannot see yet.
Finally
It reaches the press
You read it over coffee. By then the conversation has been running for a fortnight and the mandate is spoken for.
You find out late.
Leadership changes are on the record days or weeks before they reach the press. Nobody on your team has time to go looking.
Research eats the week.
Building a credible longlist means stitching together official records, LinkedIn, news and old CRM notes by hand. Hours per search, repeated per consultant.
The tools cost more than the problem.
PitchBook and BoardEx solve part of this for $15k–20k a seat, on annual contracts, with data that wasn't built around people moves.
What teams use it for
Four workflows our customers run every week — two on executive search desks, one in private equity origination, and one for whoever would rather ask an assistant than open a dashboard.
01Executive search
Monitoring & alerts
Choose the organisations and people a search depends on, pick the changes worth hearing about, and read them in your inbox.
See how it works →02Executive search
Client portal
Assemble the report in Chikara Intelligence and hand a client a portal in your own colours, on your own subdomain.
See how it works →03Private equity
Deal origination
Funding, mergers and public offerings across the sectors you invest in, with the operators behind each one attached.
See how it works →04For any team
MCP access
Add the Chikara Intelligence MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor and ask for records in plain English.
See how it works →How It Works
From published document to delivered intelligence.
Everything published, as it publishes.
The same job, a fraction of the price
Executive-search and PE teams pay tens of thousands a year for legacy intelligence tools. Chikara delivers real-time people and company signals from £200/month.
| Tool | Typical entry cost |
|---|---|
| PitchBook | ~$15,000–20,000 / year per seat |
| ZoomInfo | ~$15,000+ / year, annual contract |
| BoardEx / CB Insights | Enterprise contracts, tens of $000s / year |
| Chikara | From £200 / month — no lock-in |
See how Chikara compares to PitchBook, BoardEx, ZoomInfo and others →
Start using Chikara Intelligence today
Book a call and we will walk through live signals for your sector, your mandates, or your monitoring workflow.
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