The right person,
introduced at the right moment.
A boutique executive search practice for AI-native companies and the founders building them.
Search as introduction, not transaction.
Discreet by default
Most searches we run never become public. Confidentiality is the baseline, not a feature.
Founder-led, partner-run
You work directly with the partner who took the brief. No junior pass-throughs.
Built on conviction
We bring people we'd hire ourselves. Every introduction carries our signature.
A practice built around specific kinds of work.
Founding teams
The first ten hires that decide what a company becomes.
Executive talent
Operators and leaders for AI-native companies at inflection points.
Academia to industry
Researchers and technical leaders moving into product-shaped roles.
A few engagements at a time. Always.
Engagement
A single brief, taken seriously. We say no often so we can say yes well.
Process
Mapped, mapped again, then narrowed. Most of the work is invisible.
Outcome
A short list you'd be proud to choose from, not a stack to triage.
Aftercare
The introduction isn't the end. We stay close through the first months.
A practitioner first. An advisor by practice.
Shwetha Alampalli is the founder of Inference Search Partners. She has spent the last several years building people functions inside AI-native companies — from frontier research labs to early-stage startups — hiring researchers, founding engineers, and the operators who turn technical bets into businesses.
Her work sits at the intersection of talent, judgment, and timing. She advises founders on the small set of hires that quietly decide a company's trajectory, and works closely with leaders moving between research, product, and company-building.
Inference Search Partners is a deliberately small, founder-led search firm built around the conviction that the right introduction, made at the right moment, changes everything that follows.
Selective engagements, by introduction.
info@inferencesearchpartners.comWe don't share candidate references publicly. Conversations about prior engagements happen privately, with context, once an engagement is underway.