STEM Search Group is a technical recruiting specialists offering Placement as a Service.
They combined the flexibility of contingent search with elements of retained search and wrapped it in a SaaS-inspired fee model. Traditional recruiting models are broken and serve the recruiting firms, not the people impacted the most. Everything else evolved, but not the recruiting firms. People and companies deserve something that is driven by fit, not fee.
They built something specifically with tech talent and high-tech, high-growth companies/teams in mind (especially PE/VC-backed companies that must be concerned with burn rates and investor meetings).