flatstick

Flatstick is a recruitment consultancy practice led by Cal, a recruitment consultant with over a decade of experience in hiring and team-building. Cal works as an embedded recruiter, partnering with scaling businesses to build and optimise their hiring functions. Rather than operating as a traditional recruitment agency, Cal works directly within client teams as an extension of their internal resources, embedding expertise in hiring processes, recruitment pipelines and hiring playbooks from the ground up. The company works with clients in the United Kingdom and United States.

Cal has experience scaling hiring functions across startups, scale-ups and corporate organisations. The consultancy model emphasises senior-level talent strategy without the overhead and cost structures of traditional agencies. Flatstick positions itself as a resource for high-growth companies where hiring needs accelerate alongside business scaling, offering hands-on expertise to ensure recruitment capacity keeps pace with expansion.

The consultancy is built around the idea that scaling companies need recruitment support that integrates directly with their teams and understands their rapid growth trajectory and evolving hiring needs. By working as an embedded consultant rather than a traditional third-party agency, Flatstick aims to provide more responsive, context-aware recruitment support aligned to the specific challenges of fast-growing organisations.