ABOUT ACUITY CONSULTANTS
Every growth story starts with people.
Products change, business strategies evolve and markets shift, but the one thing that remains constant: the difference great people make to a business. Finding the right people is our speciality.
Acuity is a specialist technology and executive search firm in Cape Town, placing leaders, contractors and permanent teams across South Africa since 2009.
We help ambitious businesses navigate leadership, capability and growth hiring challenges by connecting them with the right people, at the right time.
HOW WE THINK
We start with the hiring challenge you're trying to solve.
Most firms in this space lead with what they do, their networks, their reach, their process. We think that’s the wrong place to start.
The decision and challenge in front of you is about a deadline, a transformation, a leadership seat you can’t risk getting wrong. That’s where we start: the real business problem in front of you and what getting it wrong would cost you.
We’re not here to fill a role. We’re here to be the growth partner that helps you move with confidence at every stage of your business’s journey.
HOW WE WORK
One partner,
every stage of growth.
Whatever your hiring challenge, the questions you face typically fall into one of four categories.
Acuity Consultants is built to answer all four.
ADVISORY & MARKET INTELLIGENCE
Are you workforce planning with the full picture of the market?
Acuity’s advisory and market intelligence service gives businesses an ongoing view of what roles are worth, who is available, and what it takes to hire them in South Africa’s technology market.
- Standalone advisory and market intelligence
- Advisory paired with search and delivery
- Fully embedded as your hiring function
EXECUTIVE & LEADERSHIP SEARCH
Do you have the right leadership to take your business to where it needs to go?
We introduce you to exceptional leaders most businesses will never get the chance to meet, the people who sit beyond the visible market.
- Executive mapping
- Discrete and curated discovery
- Comprehensive assessments
CONTRACTING & PAYROLL SERVICES
How do you bring in the skills you need quickly without losing progress?
We strengthen your delivery teams with specialist expertise who can contribute from day one, without slowing you down.
- Contractors for fixed‑term, project based or rolling engagements
- Payroll services, no recruitment engagement required
PERMANENT HIRES
Are you building the team your future business needs?
We help you build high-performing teams that define what’s next for your business. We build teams designed to last, so you can scale with confidence.
- End to end sourcing, screening and onboarding
- Retained and contingency models
- Replacement guarantee
WHY BUSINESSES STAY WITH ACUITY
Built on relationships. Backed by results.
Since 2009, we’ve built lasting relationships with businesses across South Africa and beyond, helping them find the right people across technology, financial services and digital transformation. From specialist hires to senior leadership appointments, we bring the market knowledge, experience and networks to help businesses make better hiring decisions.
Have a role you’re looking to fill?
In a short period, Acuity helped us assemble a multidisciplinary team of 15 senior professionals, including full-stack, backend and frontend engineers, engineering leads, cloud engineers and DevOps specialists. What distinguished Acuity was the time they took to understand our technical requirements, delivery expectations, risks and organisational constraints. They did not simply fill vacancies; they worked with us to find people with the right capabilities and mindset to contribute from the outset. Their support has played an important role in strengthening our engineering capacity and capability.
THE DISCIPLINES WE KNOW
We work where capability is hardest to find.
We work in IT, technology, financial services, consulting and digital transformation.
In the disciplines that tend to decide things: from software engineering, cloud and data, AI, project and change delivery, to business analysis and cybersecurity. Our focus is deep rather than broad.
We’re selective about the work we take on, and the organisations we partner with tend to stay.
Technology & Engineering
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cloud
- Cybersecurity
- DevOps
- Software Engineering
Data & Analytics
- Business Intelligence
- Data Analytics
- Data Management
- Data Science
- Machine Learning
Financial Services & FinTech
- Banking & Payments
- Financial Technology
- Risk & Compliance
- Investment & Wealth Management
- Financial Operations
Delivery & Transformation
- Business Analysis
- Digital Transformation
- Information Technology
- Project Management
- Testing
MEET THE TEAM
Exceptional people, finding exceptional people.
Great businesses are built by exceptional people, and so are great partners. We hold ourselves to what our clients ask of us: deep market knowledge, real conviction about people, and the judgement to tell good from exceptional.
Lindsay Cowan
lindsay@acuityconsultants.co.za
Gary Silbermann
gary@acuityconsultants.co.za
Paige Dunbar
paige@acuityconsultants.co.za
Daniel Volks
dan@acuityconsultants.co.za
Fay Rohland
fay@acuityconsultants.co.za
Marja Kleyhans
marja@acuityconsultants.co.za
Dominique Robertson
dom@acuityconsultants.co.za
EXISTING CLIENTS
Helping startups, scale-ups and enterprises across South Africa to find the people they need to lead, build and grow.
Your challenge is likely one we’ve solved before, whatever stage you’re at, there’s a way we can support your next hiring need.
- Level 2 B-BBEE Contributor
B-BBEE
Committed to transformation. Invested in South Africa's future.
At Acuity Consultants, we believe meaningful transformation starts with creating opportunities, developing talent and contributing to a more inclusive economy.
We’re committed to playing our part in building a stronger South African workforce one opportunity, partnership and placement at a time.
Because the right people change everything.
Acuity consultants is a proudly South African company and a level 2 B-BBEE Contributor.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Questions we're often asked.
Is Acuity a recruitment agency?
Acuity was founded in the world of recruitment, but the work goes further than filling roles. Most firms in this space lead with their process, their network, and their reach. Acuity starts with the business problem in front of you: the deadline, the transformation, the leadership seat you can’t afford to get wrong, and works backward from there.
The result is a partnership model that covers advisory and market intelligence, executive and leadership search, contractor and payroll services, and permanent hiring, depending on what the business needs at each stage of growth.
How long has Acuity been operating?
Acuity Consultants was founded in Cape Town in 2009. The team brings over 50 years of combined experience across technology, financial services and digital transformation, and has partnered with organisations ranging from early-stage startups to some of the most recognised enterprises in the South African market.
Acuity also places professionals internationally, with cross-border assignments most commonly serving clients in the UK, Europe and the Middle East.
Is Acuity B-BBEE accredited?
Yes. Acuity Consultants is a Level 2 B-BBEE contributor. The business is 54% black-owned and holds its B-BBEE rating as part of its commitment to transformation in the South African technology sector. For businesses with transformation mandates, partnering with Acuity counts toward your B-BBEE scorecard. B-BBEE compliance documentation is available on request for procurement and vendor registration purposes.
Which sectors does Acuity recruit in?
Acuity recruits across technology, financial services, consulting and digital transformation, the sectors where specialist capability is hardest to find and most expensive to get wrong.
Within those sectors, the focus is on the disciplines that tend to decide outcomes: software engineering, cloud and DevOps, data and analytics, artificial intelligence, project and change delivery, business analysis, and cybersecurity.
The focus is deliberately deep rather than broad, and why Acuity is selective about the work it takes on, which is why the organisations it partners with tend to stay.
Does Acuity work with start-ups, or only large enterprises?
Acuity works across the full business lifecycle from early-stage startups making their first senior hires to established enterprises building out specialist technology teams. The challenge changes at each stage, but the approach is the same: understand the hiring challenge first, then find the people capable of solving it.
Whether you are a scale-up hiring your first engineering lead or a large organisation running a multi-role transformation programme, Acuity’s four services are built to support you.
Does Acuity handle payroll and contractor administration?
Yes. Acuity’s contracting and payroll service, Acuity Build, provides specialist contractors for fixed-term, project-based or rolling engagements, and handles payroll administration independently of any recruitment engagement. This means businesses can bring on contractor capability quickly without slowing down delivery, and can use Acuity’s payroll service even if they source contractors themselves.
