CONTINUOUS · HELD BY SUBSCRIPTION
The map, standing.
Market mapping and talent intelligence.
Universe is a standing map of who sits where across the sector, maintained continuously rather than built on commission.
Most market maps are made once, delivered, and begin decaying the same week. Universe inverts that: the map exists before the question, is corrected as the market moves, and is drawn on by subscription.
It is the same asset SLG runs its own searches from. Clients subscribe to the working instrument, not to a report about it.
A map made once is a map already wrong.
THE ASSET
What the map holds.
FUNCTION · MARKET · MOVEMENT
Function benches — Who occupies each senior seat across the named houses, groups and retailers in the region.
Movement — Appointments, exits and internal moves, dated and verified rather than taken from announcements.
Depth — The layer beneath each seat — who is being groomed, who has plateaued, who is genuinely portable.
Compensation shape — Structure rather than figures: what a package is built from at each level in each market.
Structural reads — How a competitor has organised a function, and what that organisation reveals about its intent.
THE CADENCE
How it is kept.
MAINTAINED · NOT ASSEMBLED
STANDING
The map is live between engagements. Nothing is built from scratch when a question arrives.
CORRECTED
Movement is recorded as it happens and checked against source, not against press.
DRAWN ON
Subscribers request a cut — by function, market, or competitor — and receive it from what is already held.
REVIEWED
A scheduled read each quarter on what changed and what it implies.
THE BOUNDARY
Where it stops.
WHAT THIS IS NOT · WHO IT IS FOR
WHAT IT IS NOT
A CV database. Universe records position and movement, not applications.
A one-off map. A map delivered and abandoned is the product this exists to replace.
A subscription to a newsletter. The output is a cut of a live asset, made to a question.
WHO IT IS FOR
People directors planning a restructure who need to see the market before they move.
Investors and acquirers reading the bench of a target rather than its balance sheet.
Groups tracking a competitor's build in the region as it happens.
ENQUIRY
Entered by referral.
RETAINED · CONFIDENTIAL
Engagements are taken directly. A first conversation establishes whether SLG holds anything useful on the question before terms are discussed.
