Partner Guide
Starting Monday for C-suite and Technology Associations
Give your members a search advantage in transition - not just access to a directory.
What Starting Monday is
Starting Monday is an AI-powered search platform built for VP and C-suite technology executives. It gives them the intelligence infrastructure that senior searches require: monitoring of target companies for pre-search signals, AI-generated prep briefs for every interview, structured pipeline tracking, and a daily briefing that keeps the search moving.
For C-suite and technology associations, the platform is a member benefit that delivers concrete value at the moment members need it most - when they are in transition. Most professional associations offer their members the same set of benefits: a directory, a network, events, and a job board. At the VP and C-suite level, those are necessary but not sufficient.
Technology executives entering transition need more than introductions. They need an intelligence infrastructure that tells them which companies to watch, what signals precede a search, and how to show up to an interview having done the research that a peer would do. The executives in your membership are exactly the people Starting Monday was built for. When you make Starting Monday available as a member benefit, you give your members a tool that works - not a workshop they attend once and a job board they check twice.
How associations use it
Member Benefit Program
Starting Monday is available as a subsidized or sponsored member benefit. Members activate through a dedicated association referral code and receive discounted access. Usage data is shared on an aggregated basis so you can see member engagement. Your members get the platform for less. You offer a benefit that is concretely useful in transition, not just aspirationally useful in general.
Outcome: Members who transition with Starting Monday stay connected to the association as a source of real support. Retention through transition improves because the association delivered value at the moment that mattered.
Research Partnership
Starting Monday monitors hundreds of company career pages and tracks organizational signals that precede C-suite technology searches. That data becomes association-branded research: quarterly reports on technology executive hiring trends, sector-by-sector signal analysis, and role demand patterns. Your members receive intelligence they cannot get anywhere else.
Outcome: The association publishes credible, original research based on real market signals. Member value increases. Media coverage and membership inquiries follow.
Content and Education Access
Starting Monday publishes practical guidance specifically for C-suite technology executives: search strategy, search firm relationships, compensation negotiation, interview preparation. Association members receive access to this content through the platform. Selected pieces can be co-published under your brand.
Outcome: Your education program gains a continuous stream of practitioner-level content without internal production cost.
Transition Support Program
When a member enters transition, they often disengage from professional associations - the dues feel less justified when they are not being paid by an employer. A Starting Monday partnership gives you something concrete to offer at that exact moment: a search platform built for executives at their level, available at member rates or through a sponsorship. The moment of transition is when association support matters most.
Outcome: Members in transition stay engaged. They renew because the association delivered value when it mattered. That is the retention metric that compounds.
What it does not do
Starting Monday does not replace the peer relationships, the chapter events, or the credentialing programs that make a technology association worth joining. It does not provide the introduction from a board member that opens a specific door, or the knowledge that comes from being in the room with peers.
It handles the research, the tracking, and the daily search discipline. Your association handles the relationships.
For your association
The simplest way to start: make Starting Monday available as a member benefit with a discounted access code for your membership. Members self-activate. You track adoption. We share anonymized usage data.
- +Member benefit programs with dedicated referral codes and discounted access
- +Active plan ($199/month) includes all AI features: prep briefs, strategy brief, company intelligence
- +Intelligence plan ($49/month) for members building a target list or monitoring the market passively
- +Aggregated usage reporting for your association - see which benefit programs are driving activation
- +Research partnership available - contact us to discuss co-branded market intelligence reports
- +Apply to the partner program at startingmonday.app/partners to receive your referral code and partnership terms
Trust and confidentiality: member activity data is shared only in aggregate reporting, never as private personal search detail.
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Fill out the application and we will follow up within 2 business days to discuss member benefit terms, referral codes, and partnership structure.
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