HiveCheck is the outside diligence lens on any independent school — nine years of IRS Form 990 financials, area market context, a same-size peer comparison, a NACUBO Composite Financial Index score, and five interview-ready questions drawn from each school’s own filings, for every one of the 1,620 schools in coverage. Firms use it two ways: brief a finalist before the campus visit, or size up a prospective client school before you pitch. Your team license grants the right to share those reports with the candidates you advise.
Built by a team with independent-school leadership experience — people who’ve been on the candidate side of multiple searches.
An organizational subscription is different from an individual one in two ways. First, ten seats on one bill, so your researchers, partners, and — if it fits your workflow — the candidates in your active engagements are all on the license. Second, the license explicitly permits your team to use HiveCheck reports with the candidates you advise: show them on a call, print them for the campus-visit prep packet, hand them off in the finalist brief. That’s the workflow the org tier is built for.
Show, print, and hand off HiveCheck reports to the finalists you’re placing. Discuss the numbers on the phone. Include the printed report in the campus-visit prep packet you send.
Reports may not be posted publicly, resold, or used to build derivative data products, dashboards, or client-facing tools of your own. The rest of the terms are in the Terms of Service.
Search firms and HiveCheck aren’t in tension. The best firms already do this work in some form. The org license gives your team the same underlying diligence layer the candidates get — whether you’re briefing a finalist or sizing up a prospective client school — so every conversation runs on the same numbers.
The same three steps serve both jobs — briefing a finalist you’re placing, or diligencing a prospective client school before you pitch for the search.
Search any of the 1,620 schools in coverage — by name, city, or state. The full ten-panel report opens under your license: Financial Health, Peer Comparison, Community, Paying Capacity, Fundraising Profile, Competition, Demand, Local Economy, Leadership & Governance, and the five questions to ask.
Nine years of the school’s own IRS Form 990, a NACUBO CFI score, a same-size peer cohort you can recut, the local market context, and five interview-ready questions drawn from the filings — on one page. Every number is sourced. Every panel carries its fiscal year.
The report is designed to print cleanly. Hand it to the finalist as part of the campus-visit prep packet, brief off it on a call, or keep it as your own read on a client school. Under the organizational license, this is what the license is for.
10 seats · organizational use rights · shared team admin · every school in coverage · one annual invoice
Add seats in blocks of 10 at a declining rate: +$3,500 for seats 11–20, +$2,500 for 21–30, +$2,000 per block beyond 30. One team admin, single annual bill, cancel anytime from your account.
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We’ve been on the candidate side of enough searches to know how much financial homework walks into a campus visit undone. HiveCheck productizes that homework so a firm can hand it to a finalist — the school’s own IRS filings, the market, and the peer set, joined into one read before the visit.
If your finalists could walk into their campus visits the way we wished we had, your placements get smarter and your candidates remember the firm that gave them that. That’s the pitch. No data we don’t cite, no metric we don’t explain, no claim the underlying 990 doesn’t support.
We’re happy to walk through it with your team for twenty minutes. If it’s useful, we figure out a fit. If it isn’t, you’ll know in twenty minutes and we’ll both have learned something. If you’re a search consultant reading this, we’re not selling against you — we’re selling the same diligence to the seat on the other side of the table. Firms are among our subscribers.
It doesn’t replace your researchers’ institutional knowledge or your firm’s qualitative notes from prior engagements. It replaces the first forty minutes of building a school profile — the financial layer, the peer comparison, the demographic context — so your researchers spend their time on the work only your firm can do.
Yes — that’s what the organizational license is for. Show the report on a call, print it and include it in the campus-visit prep packet, hand it to the finalist as part of the brief. What the license doesn’t permit is public republication, resale, or building your own derivative dashboard from the data — the full terms are on the Terms page.
Yes — firms use it both ways. Before you pitch for a search, pull the school’s nine years of 990 financials, its NACUBO CFI score, its position against same-size peers, and the local market on one page. It’s the same report you’d later hand a finalist, read from your own side of the table first.
Every report closes with five questions a candidate can credibly ask the search committee, generated from anomalies in that school’s own 990 filings and each anchored to a specific number. It’s the piece finalists and search professionals tend to remember — it shows the candidate has read the school, not skimmed it.
No. Every advisor in an independent-school search is retained by the school; HiveCheck is the diligence layer on the candidate’s side of the table. Search firms are among our subscribers — they use the org license to hand finalists a structured brief before the visit. Same tool, complementary role.
All public sources. IRS Form 990s through FY2024 for most schools (the IRS lag is real and we surface it on every report), NCES Private School Universe Survey 2021-22, U.S. Census ACS5 (2020-2024 vintage), U.S. BLS at state level, BEA county-level personal income (2024), HUD Fair Market Rent (FY2024). Every metric on every page links back to the source.
Both. The Team license covers 10 seats. Use them however fits your workflow — partners and researchers in your firm, candidates in active engagements, or a mix.
Zero engineering. Sign up at /team/new, pay for the seat block you need, and invite your researchers and candidates. They sign in with their email and get the same product an individual subscriber does, under your team admin.
Yes. Email us at contact@hivecheck.ai and we’ll set up a 30-day pilot covering your researchers and your finalist candidates on one engagement. If it’s useful, we convert to annual at renewal.
Walk through the product with our team. If it fits your workflow, we figure out terms. If it doesn’t, you’ll have asked sharper questions of the next candidate-research tool you evaluate.