Agent Decorso
Asset cultivation is not a linear process. This is not a baseline world with millions, thousands or really even hundreds of options to sort through and discard in order to meet our timelines. The pool is tiny, every atavism unique and altered by a personality. If you want a proposal that you can submit to a bureaucratic machine, I'll provide one. I will offer my expertise and provide you whatever metrics you desire.
But if you want me to shrug and say please, use him now, in a week, in a month, it will be fine. I won't. The number of telepaths in our world is small. We do not have the resources to squander with impatience.
I don't agree that he'll be lured away. Simply put. He could belong here with work. He certainly doesn't belong anywhere else.