ABOUT
Borrowed from a recruiter's playbook.
A matchmaking firm built on fifteen years of finding the right people for the right roles, now applied to finding the right people for each other.
THE ORIGIN
Where this came from.
Laura Durfee has spent her entire career recruiting for some of the most competitive tech companies in the country. The work taught her two things: the right person changes everything, and almost no one knows how to find them on their own.
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The same skills that work in hiring work in dating. Deep intake. Careful sourcing. Real feedback. What she kept hearing from her network was the same thing, in different words: dating had become a chore. The apps were exhausting. The matches were rarely worth the effort.
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The Relationship Recruiter is the answer. Not an app. Not a club. A firm built on a recruiter’s discipline, designed for people who want better, and don’t have the time to find it themselves. Every match is pre-vetted. Every date is planned. You show up; we've handled the rest.
MEET LAURA
Meet Laura.
Laura Durfee is the founder of The Relationship Recruiter. She is also the founder of a recruiting consultancy serving high-growth tech startups, where she's spent her time helping companies find the right talent for the right roles.
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She holds an MBA from DePaul University and is based in Nashville, Tennessee, the city she built this business for and around.
OUR APPROACH
The recruiter's playbook, applied to dating.
Most matchmakers stop at the introduction. We don't.
Every client starts with a deep intake: the kind of conversation a good recruiter has with a senior candidate. We learn who you are, what you've tried, what hasn't worked, and what you're actually looking for. Then we go find it.
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Every potential match is pre-vetted, in person where possible. We pay attention to the things that don’t show up on a profile: the way someone tells a story, what they laugh at, how they treat a server.
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When we make an introduction, the date is planned for you. Venue, timing, the small details that turn a first meeting into a real conversation. All you have to do is show up.
WHY NASHVILLE
Nashville is a character, not a setting.
Most of our clients chose to be here. We know the rooms, the restaurants, the tables that turn a first meeting into something memorable. Belmont-Hillsboro, Germantown, East Nashville, the Gulch, 12 South, Sylvan Park — these are our hunting grounds, and we use them.