A list of AI names is not a method.
It is theatre.
Method means: mandate, yes-cut, stop, proof.
Sell lists and you sell research.
Sell method and you sell judgment.
Christian Pobbig and Beyond Chiefs work from Hamburg on AI Executive Search in DACH. This page explains the method — not the Money H1 and not a category fork.
Before the market: seat brief.
Rights, stop, proof — signed.
Then search filtered for bearers, not title clouds.
The list is a by-product. The yes is the product.
It does not replace judgment on the seat.
It does not show who owns the contested yes.
It creates progress without a decision.
Inflate the longlist and you buy time — and postpone the no.
Because lists are visible.
Because boards want slides.
Because “AI headhunter” in search is often misread as a name machine.
Method drains that intent to the mandate — it does not KEY-farm pages.
A clear buyer question: which yes is missing?
A written cut before the longlist.
References on seat proof, not LinkedIn buzz.
Stop rights the bearer actually holds.
Method is expensive in thought — and cheaper in mis-hire.
Skip that and you stay with lists.
If you want method, open the AI Executive Search mandate.
If you only want a list, you are not search-ready.
No. Without a mandate it is only raw material.
No. A shortlist without a yes-cut is a shorter list.
No. This spoke drains there — it does not steal the Money H1.
