Case Study · Live Engagement · Executive search, EU-Asia
Executive search AI case study: how Asia-Connect Executive Partners booked 139 qualified meetings in 3 months, without hiring a BD person
A partner-led executive-search boutique with 20K+ C-level relationships across EU and Asia. The managing partner was the bottleneck on every outbound cycle. We audited his outreach judgement, encoded it into a custom agent, and shipped it into his Telegram in week two. Today he runs Audit + Build + Operate. Transmit is the stated endpoint once adoption stabilises.
Named case study, published with Franck Euvrard's approval. Full reference available for qualified conversations.
Executive search AI workflow results
In productionThe business development bottleneck in executive search
Three decades of relationship-building had produced a network of twenty thousand senior executives. The managing partner knew the history of nearly every one of those relationships personally. But on any given Tuesday, he could personally send maybe ten messages before running out of time.
The obvious tool was a sequencer, a cold outreach tool, and he had tried those: reply rates stayed in the low single digits. The messages did not sound like him. Worse, they read like generic spam to the exact people he had spent decades building trust with.
So the question became voice and selection: which of twenty thousand people should he talk to this week, which signal about them matters, and how does he write to each one the way he always has?
An AI agent for relationship-based outreach
The agent works beside the partner as a second operator, rather than as a sequencer or a chatbot.
Every morning at 04:00, the agent reads the partner's inbox, scores new signals across his contacts, re-ranks the open conversations that deserve follow-up, and proposes nine messages out of twenty ranked candidates. Each draft is written in his voice, knowing who has replied before, who owes a follow-up, who has a birthday next week.
The partner reviews the batch over coffee. He accepts some, rewrites others, throws a few away. Every choice becomes a rule for the next drafts, so the next day's batch is better than today's.
The agent runs on our infrastructure and the partner runs it under his own brand. His data and his voice stay his, and his clients never meet us.
“In the last three months, the agent helped me to book more than 90 qualified meetings with executives I would never have had time to reach, and I approved every single message before it went out. It works while I am in meetings.”
· Franck Euvrard, Partner, Asia-Connect Executive Partners
AI workflow assessment, build and operation phases
LiveWorkflow assessment
Closed with artifact. Opportunity and control map delivered to the managing partner.
AI agent build
Custom agent currently in production. Integrated with LinkedIn, email, and the firm's CRM.
AI workflow operation
Daily draft review. Weekly tuning. Monthly brief. Ongoing capture of partner behaviour and corrections.
Team handover and expansion
Stated endpoint. Rollout to other partners planned once the managing partner confirms readiness.
The engagement is in phase 3, operation: the agent is live and the partner approves each message.
Where this business development workflow may transfer
The pattern is not about Asia, or executive search, or LinkedIn. It is about any firm where the owner's personal judgment over who-to-talk-to and what-to-say is the reason the business works.
It fits boutique consulting, private banking, specialty M&A, headhunting, family offices and niche legal practices, because the shape of the work is the same and the agent structure maps across.
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