A Recruiter's Return on Investment
Stop losing fees
through the back door.
The easiest way for recruiters and staffing agencies to find missed placement fees and back door hires — automatically, across 185 data points.
How it works
LinkedIn only shows a snapshot. Our 185 data points tells the entire story!
Candidates who've been hired through the back door rarely update LinkedIn. Our software looks everywhere else, too.
Load your candidate history
Submit your candidate and placement data — going back as far as three years — through a secure, guided intake.
We scan 185 data points
Our tracking technology continuously cross-references public web data to flag candidates hired without your knowledge.
You collect what you're owed
Get alerted the moment a match is found, then use our team's 25+ years of collections experience to recover the fee.
The platform
Finally! A cutting-edge AI platform that works.
Everything you need to track candidates and recover fees, without adding headcount.
- 100% access to our cutting-edge, backdoor hire tracking technology
- Unlimited candidate tracking, across your entire placement history
- The absolute best way to track your candidates after presentation
- Find missed fees from as far back as 3 years ago
- Find more back door hires than manual LinkedIn checks ever will
- Monthly updates, so the technology keeps getting sharper
Real disputes, real resolutions
Every excuse in the book — and how we answered it
A look at the arguments debtor companies actually make, and how Back Door Hires responded.
"We already knew the candidate."
One of the most common excuses — and, once you know the difference between knowing someone and knowing they're job-hunting, one of the easiest to collect on.
Read the case study Case Study #2"We had the candidate's resume."
Two nearly identical disputes, two very different outcomes — both decided by a single legal concept: procuring cause.
Read the case study Case Study #3"We did not sign an agreement."
Not every state treats a missing signature the same way — why an unsigned agreement doesn't always mean an unenforceable one.
Read the case studyFresh off the tracker
Recently Discovered Back Door Hires
A running feed of back door hires our platform has caught for recruiting agencies just like yours.
Discovered #01$450,000
US Locum Tenens Provider
Missed fee located in 2020 for a locum tenens staffing recruiter.
Discovered #02$142,000
Private Equity Firm
Client had placed part of the firm's C-suite without realizing it — until our platform caught it.
Discovered #03$94,000
Law Firm Placement
Every back door hire on this account traced back to the same law firm, for a legal recruiter.
Free e-book
The Top 9 Excusesfor Back Door Hires
Free resource
The Top 9 Excuses for Back Door Hires
A recruiter's guide to the excuses debtors use to dodge a placement fee — and exactly how to answer each one, written by 25-year collections veteran Wilson Cole.
- 01 "We already knew the candidate"
- 02 "We did not sign an agreement"
- 03 "We paid another recruiter"
- 04 Plus 6 more excuses, real case studies, and the 5 contract safeguards every recruiter needs
No spam — just the e-book, and occasional fee-recovery tips.
Frequently asked
Straight answers about back door hires
A back door hire happens when a client company directly hires a candidate that a recruiter or staffing agency originally introduced — without paying the agreed placement fee. It's called "back door" because the client sidesteps the front-door relationship with the agency entirely.
Our software checks 185 data points across the public web — far beyond LinkedIn, which candidates are often told not to update — to detect when a previously presented candidate has been hired directly. You're alerted automatically so you can pursue the fee.
Yes — a 90-day money-back guarantee. If we don't find any hits within 90 days, you're refunded in full. There are no long-term contracts, and you can cancel any time.
Pricing is region-specific (US, Canada, UK, Australia) and typically combines a modest monthly platform fee with a finder's fee only when a missed placement fee is actually recovered. See the pricing page for current plans.