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Clients, assignments, candidates, agreements, and the documents behind all of them.

  • Every change is recorded against the person who made it.
  • What you can see and do is set by your role, on the server.
  • Signed agreements keep their full history, permanently.
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Your internal gateway to the documents Foreground issues to clients and associates. Open a tool to begin.
Tools

Agreements

Client engagements across Advisory, Search, RPO and Learning, plus contractor agreements for recruiters, advisors and trainers. Editable clauses, branded PDF.

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Write an email

A branded message to anybody, whether or not they are on a record. It is recorded against your own name so the firm still holds what was said.

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Proposals & Quotations

Branded proposals and fee quotations for prospective mandates, with scope, commercials and validity.

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Register

Every document saved with its reference, client, value and status. Reopen and continue any time.

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Client Onboarding

Structured intake and KYC for new clients and engagements.

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Reward Benchmarks

Compensation and salary benchmarking across roles and markets.

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Document Library

Templates, playbooks and reference material in one place.

Agreement Builder
Template for internal preparation only. Every document must be reviewed and approved by Foreground leadership and qualified legal counsel before it is issued or signed.
Document type
Reference & law
Use this on a generic document sent before a client is named, so it does not sit in the register as [unnamed]. It never appears on the document itself.
Foreground entity
Counterparty
Pick an existing profile to auto-fill its details, or add a new one.
Practices engaged
RPO: scope & fees
Advisory: scope & fees
Learning: programme & fees
Employment: role & terms
Generic terms
This is a generic Terms of Business document to share with a prospect before a specific deal. No commercial figures are set here, the client can review, comment and propose the fees they want from their review link, and you can accept, reject or counter from the agreement page.
Contractor: services & fees
Scope of work: assignment, deliverables & fee
Only agreements with this contractor that are fully executed are listed. A scope of work cannot be sent under an agreement that is not signed by both sides.
The client and the role are taken from the assignment. Leave it unset only for work that is genuinely not an assignment.
Pulling copies the plan already on the assignment rather than typing it again, so the list the client sees and the list the contractor signs cannot drift apart.
Commercial terms
Only for a fixed term that is not renewed. Once this date passes the account reads as expired in the register.
Clauses
Toggle, edit, reorder or add clauses.
Annexes
Attach annexes / schedules. Annexes can be added even after the agreement is signed.
Foreground
Foreground LLC
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Engagement Agreement
People & Organizational Consultancy

This Agreement (the "Agreement") is made on [date] between the parties below. Reference: .

Foreground
Foreground LLC
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The Client
[Legal name]
[Address]
Signed for and on behalf of
Foreground LLC
Name: ___________________
Title: ___________________
Date: ___________________
Signed for and on behalf of
[Legal name]
Name: ___________________
Title: ___________________
Date: ___________________
Foreground · Dubai · Riyadh · London · Madrid · Strictly private & confidential
Proposal Builder
Internal draft. Review commercials and scope with the engagement lead before sending to a prospect.
Proposal
Prepared for
Linking it is what lets this quote show on the client's profile, and what lets a deal know what it was won on.
Narrative
One line per point, each becomes a numbered step.
Commercials
One fee per line: Description | Basis | Amount
Foreground
Foreground LLC
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Proposal
Proposal

Prepared for [client] · [date] · Ref

Foreground · Dubai · Riyadh · London · Madrid · Strictly private & confidential
draft
Click a step to move it yourself. The stage decides what the document can do: a client can only sign one set to Signature, and a scope of work can only be raised under one that is Executed.

Negotiation: commercial terms

Comments & amendments

Documents

Key facts

Activity timeline

Actions

Client link

Signatures

Register

Choose a register to see what we hold. Saved on this device

Administration

Everything the firm sets once and everyone then works from. Open a setting to change it; nothing here is client-editable.

Client

A company we work for, or hope to.

Lists it picks from

What somebody chooses when they describe one.

Fields it holds

What the record stores beyond what the portal ships with.

Documents it produces

What is sent, shown or printed.

Rules that apply to it

What the portal enforces without being asked.

Contact

A person you deal with at a client.

Fields it holds

What the record stores beyond what the portal ships with.

Rules that apply to it

What the portal enforces without being asked.

Candidate

Somebody we might place. The biggest record in the portal.

Fields it holds

What the record stores beyond what the portal ships with.

Documents it produces

What is sent, shown or printed.

Rules that apply to it

What the portal enforces without being asked.

Assignment

A search, project or mandate.

Lists it picks from

What somebody chooses when they describe one.

Fields it holds

What the record stores beyond what the portal ships with.

Documents it produces

What is sent, shown or printed.

Rules that apply to it

What the portal enforces without being asked.

Agreement & proposal

What was agreed, and what was offered.

Lists it picks from

What somebody chooses when they describe one.

Fields it holds

What the record stores beyond what the portal ships with.

Deal

A sale in progress, before it is an assignment.

Lists it picks from

What somebody chooses when they describe one.

People & the firm

Everything that is not about one record.

Fields it holds

What the record stores beyond what the portal ships with.

Documents it produces

What is sent, shown or printed.

Rules that apply to it

What the portal enforces without being asked.

Candidates

Everybody this firm has ever put forward, and everybody it could. Saved on this device

My day

What you owe today, and what is already late. Every open deal says what happens next and when. This is that list, in the order it is due, so the morning does not start by reading a board.

Reminders & notifications

What needs your attention, renewals, unpaid fees, open client responses, plus your own reminders. Saved on this device
Needs attention
Your reminders

Agreements

Choose who the agreement is with. You then see only that category’s document types.

Client agreements

Pick the document you need. Everything else stays out of your way.

Assignments

Choose a practice to see its work. Saved on this device

Assignments

Every piece of chargeable work. Saved on this device
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Progress

Key facts

Assignment detail

Position specification & job description

Candidates

Replacement guarantee

The plan milestones and deliverables, and what the client sees

Add a piece
A MILESTONE is a point in the work. A DELIVERABLE is something they receive. Nothing reaches the client portal until you tick Client sees this.

What the client sees on this assignment overrides the client and firm defaults

Notes

Team ours, and how the fee splits

Client team who at the client sees this engagement

Access is granted on the client’s own profile, under Guests, because it is one decision about a person rather than one per search. Somebody set to All engagements sees this one already; somebody set to Only assigned sees it when they are ticked above.

Contacts theirs, on this search

Add a contact for this search
The hiring manager, the panel, whoever we actually deal with on this one. Pick one of the client’s contacts or type somebody new.

Financials admin only

Activity

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Candidate

Our view internal only, never leaves the firm

Candidate details

Additional information

Experience from the CV

Education

CV newest first

Attachments

Every job this person is on

Foreground assessment current version

Everything that has happened

Notes internal only

Add a note

Confidentiality undertakings one per assignment

What changed, and when internal only

Log book the dates on this record

Inbox everything to and from this person, from every assignment

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At a glance

Details

Description what a new joiner should read first

Our view what we make of them, rather than a thing that happened on a date

Team our people on this account

Add somebody to the team

Guests who can sign in to the client portal

Give somebody access
A guest sees this client’s own assignments and the candidates we have chosen to share. Nothing else. Pick one of their contacts, or type a name and an email.
They sign in at /client. Giving access does not send anything: use Send invitation on their row when you are ready.

Contacts

Commercial terms from linked agreements

Linked agreements

Quotations what we have proposed to them

Scopes of work one per assignment, under the agreement

What this client sees overrides the firm default

Documents

Assignments

Guarantees what we owe on placements from this client

Financials

Inbox everything to and from this person

Everything that happened correspondence, deals, work, documents

Deals what we have chased with them, won and lost

Client orders

Add-ons and new work clients have asked for in their own portal. Nothing is charged until you confirm it.

Waiting on us

Settled

Credit balances bought in advance, spent one at a time

Deals

How business is won. An assignment is the work that follows and lives on the Assignments screen: a won deal names the agreement it produced, and everything raised under that agreement shows here on its own.

Reports

Six questions about the pipeline, answered the same way every time. There is no report builder and there will not be one: a report that everybody defines their own way is a number nobody can be held to. Each card says what it counts and what it deliberately does not.

Inbox

Lab Tickets

Report a bug, an idea or an improvement. Everything raised here reaches the technical team.