A jet at the instant of rotation on a wet runway at dawn, gear just off the ground, spray behind it, the tarmac at left calm and empty.
Operating partner for founder-run companies, $3M to $30M
You know what needs to happen.We get it done.
Every critical project needs you. When nobody on your team is able, we put one dedicated operator inside your business to deliver, at a price you name.
Where it stalls
Somewhere past $3M, effort stops turning into movement. Every decision that matters routes through you. The project that would change the year is three quarters behind. Deadlines slip, quarters come in low, and key people leave. Each one reveals how much work is single-threaded through you.
Your team is busy. That's good. But it's not a team you can point at the hardest problems and let loose. So projects wait for you, while you're running the whole company. That's the gap.
A consultant will admire and analyze the gap in an expensive deck. A new senior hire spends on headcount before the problem is solved.
You're not short on effort. You're short on traction.
Exhibit A
A dedicated operator
Traction is when effort turns into movement, and movement turns into a business that runs without you in every decision. It starts with one thing finished.
We take one critical, stalled project and get it done. One person. Not a team, not a rotation, not a deck. The deliverable is finished work: the pricing changed, the account recovered, the initiative shipped, the margin found.
We don't spend a season billing you to get up to speed. We're inside your business in week one. Twenty years across cash-flow businesses and venture-backed startups means we know how to make an impact right away.
The work runs through your team, not around it, and the person who runs your day to day is on the first call. Keep running the company. We'll run one thing until it works and hand it back better.
How it starts
Bring us one stalled project. You name the goal and the price.
A project.
One stalled, critical thing. Four to twelve weeks. One P&L result.
A seat.
What a finished project can earn: an operating partner plugged into the activities that matter, for as long as it earns its keep.
It happens on one call. You tell us what needs to happen and what it is worth to you. We say whether it fits, and we take the work only if we believe we can move your P&L with it. If we can't, we'll say so. Saying no is part of the offer.
The long engagement is earned, not proposed.
After the first thing
The first project proves the operator. What follows is where the seat earns its keep: your business learns to finish things without you pushing each one across the line.
Focus is subtraction.
Growth at this stage comes from finishing fewer things with more force. We'll tell you what to stop, with the numbers beside it.
Evidence over instinct.
The next stage runs on numbers your gut doesn't have: where money is made and lost, by customer, by product, by channel.
A rhythm that finishes.
Long-horizon goals, short commitments you keep, and a calendar that closes things instead of opening them. Priorities finish instead of start.
Record
More than twenty years in technology and leadership, from cash-flow businesses to venture-backed startups. The CEO chair, and the chair beside it. The same pattern every time: the companies that moved finished fewer things with more force, and someone had to be inside the business to make it happen.
- years in technology and leadership
- 20+
- CEO and operating partner
- Two chairs
Fit
The plateau is not a pause. The longer you sit on it, the harder it is to leave. Flat years compound. The best people go where there is a path. Your hours go to the least leveraged work in the building. Leaving it starts with one thing finished.
You are
- Founder-run, $3M to $30M, any industry.
- Clear on what needs to happen, short on someone to do it.
- Willing to open the numbers and to stop doing things.
- Looking for the thing finished, not described.
- Ready to have the person who runs your day to day on the first call.
This isn't for
- Businesses under $1M. Companies above $30M, or with institutional capital.
- Anyone who wants a deck and no follow-through.
- Owners content at their size.
Already working with a coach? Good. Keep them. We do what the two of you agreed, and we report back.
Tell us what's stuck.
Two paragraphs is plenty. You'll hear back within a business day, with one sharper question and two times to talk.