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Trust and legal
Search-firm trust and legal summary
This summary helps retained-search leadership, legal, and delivery owners decide whether a pilot can run without confidentiality drift or legal ambiguity.
Trust position in three lines
- +Candidate visibility stays role-scoped, auditable, and revocable across the pilot team.
- +Pilot reviews run with explicit sharing boundaries agreed by search leadership and counsel before kickoff.
- +Starting Monday is a decision-support layer for partner and consultant judgment, not an autonomous hiring system.
First legal pass
What legal reviewers should confirm first
Legal checklist
- +Confirm confidentiality boundaries, role access assumptions, and approved reviewer roles.
- +Confirm pilot contract path, data-processing terms, and internal approver sequence.
- +Confirm retention, deletion, incident response, and escalation ownership.
Confidentiality and AI boundary
Candidate-controlled sharing is the default. Partner-side visibility is role-limited, auditable, and revocable. Starting Monday supports partner and consultant review workflows and does not make autonomous hiring decisions.
Next step
Move to procurement only when this aligns with the firm's legal posture.
Decision boundary
Keep the decision bounded: if trust controls, access governance, and pilot legal structure are acceptable for the retained-search team, continue to procurement. If not, pause here without adding workflow noise.