Our Services

Your company shouldn’t need you in every decision.

A thirty-minute conversation about where execution still runs through you and an honest answer, either way,

on whether I can help.

Your company shouldn’t need you

in every decision.

A thirty-minute conversation about where execution still runs through you and an honest answer, either way, on whether I can help.

Find out exactly why execution keeps coming back to you.

A seven-phase examination of how your company actually operates findings in plain

language, a corrective plan you own outright, readout within three weeks.

The plan is written. Now someone has to make it hold.

A six-month retained engagement one day a week inside your business correcting

what the Diagnostic found and installing the operating discipline that keeps it corrected.

The Founder Conversation

The Operating Diagnostic

The Operating Partnership

The Founder Conversation

The Operating Diagnostic

The Operating Partnership

The Founder Conversation

who it's for

This conversation is for you if:

1

You founded and still run a bootstrapped or founder-controlled B2B software company.

2

Revenue is roughly $8M–$30M, with a team that is lean by design.

3

Your leadership team discusses, but decisions keep landing back on your desk.

4

Priorities stall between meetings, and growth is exposing cracks in how the company operates.

It is not for companies looking for a project manager, a part-time employee, or a deck. If I’m not the right fit, I’ll say so in the first call and point you somewhere better.

what it is

A private working conversation no slides, no pitch. I listen for which of seven operating failure patterns is present in your business and tell you plainly whether this is a fit for both of us. Half the value of this call is a founder hearing their own operating problem named accurately for the first time.

what you get

1

A candid read of your situation against the seven operating failure patterns.

2

An honest answer on fit including “no, and here’s who to talk to instead.”

3

A short follow-up note summarizing what I heard and what I’d examine first.

timeline

Thirty minutes, scheduled within one week of request.

price

Complimentary

The Operating Diagnostic

who it's for

The Diagnostic is for founders who:

1

Recognize the symptoms everything reports green until it isn’t, initiatives outnumber capacity, decisions escalate to you by default.

2

Want the root causes named before committing money to fix them.

3

Run founder-led software companies, roughly $8M $30M in revenue, that have outgrown how they operate.

It is not for founders looking for validation. The findings are direct. That is the point of paying for them.

what it is

A structured examination of your business across seven operating domains: strategic alignment, decision-making friction, signal integrity and visibility, cross-functional alignment, capacity and commitment, executive leverage, and organizational design. It is conducted through direct work founder intake, confidential leadership interviews, and review of your real operating artifacts (dashboards, roadmaps, meeting cadences) not surveys or templates. You get the truth about where organizational energy is being wasted and a sequenced plan to correct it.

what you get

Founder intake session (90 minutes).

1

Confidential one-on-one interviews with your leadership team (typically four to eight people).

2

Review of operating artifacts: reporting, roadmaps, meeting structures, decision records.

3

A written findings report scoring all seven domains plain language, no consultant-speak.

4

A prioritized corrective roadmap, sequenced by impact and dependency.

5

A private 90-minute readout with you alone.

6

A straight recommendation: what your team can fix internally, and where outside help is warranted. The report and plan are yours to act on with me or without me.

timeline

Readout within three weeks of intake. The clock starts when the founder intake is complete and every leadership interview is on the calendar not before. This is deliberate: interview scheduling is the step that slips, and the promise must not absorb the client’s delay. Week one: intake and interviews. Week two: analysis and artifact review. Week three: written findings and readout.

price

$8,500, fixed fee, paid in full on signing. Credited in full toward a retained engagement signed within ninety days of the readout continue working together and the Diagnostic cost you nothing. The ninety-day window is firm: it concentrates the decision while the findings are fresh.

The Operating partnership

who it's for

The Partnership is for founders who:

1

Have completed the Operating Diagnostic and accepted what it found.

2

Are ready to change how the company operates not commission another study of it.

3

Will give an outside operator real access: to the leadership team, the operating reviews, and the decisions.

It is not for companies that want a report presented and shelved, or a body in a seat.

what it is

A hands-on fractional Chief of Staff engagement. I work inside your company one day per week executing the corrective roadmap installing decision rights, operating cadence, reporting your leadership can trust, and the portfolio discipline the Diagnostic showed was missing. Issues that surface within the seven operating domains are folded into the plan; genuinely new bodies of work are logged in the monthly review and scoped separately. The engagement is built to end: the goal is a company that runs without me, and without running through you.

Continuity line (include once on this page): “Engagements conclude with an optional continuity arrangement through the Executive Office.” Its only public mention: no page, no published price.

what you get

1

One dedicated day per week embedded in the business, on site or remote as the work requires.

2

Execution of the full corrective roadmap from your Diagnostic.

3

An installed operating cadence: weekly execution rhythm, monthly business review, quarterly planning.

4

A decision-rights and escalation framework that takes routine decisions off your desk permanently.

5

Standardized reporting with measurable status criteria no more subjective green.

6

A monthly written progress review against your Diagnostic baseline, including a standing register of issues observed outside the engagement’s scope.

7

Counsel between sessions on operating matters as they arise.

8

A transition plan in the final month, so the gains hold after I leave including, where wanted, handoff into the Executive Office continuity tier.

9

Option to extend for a further term by mutual agreement, where remaining scope

warrants it.

timeline

Six months, one day per week. Month one: sequencing and standing up the fastest corrections. Months two through five: systematic implementation. Month six: transition and handoff.

price

$10,000 per month, invoiced monthly. The $8,500 Diagnostic fee is credited in full against the first invoice when the engagement is signed within ninety days of the readout.

who it's for

This conversation is for you if:

1

You founded and still run a bootstrapped or founder-controlled B2B software company.

2

Revenue is roughly $8M–$30M, with a team that is lean by design.

3

Your leadership team discusses, but decisions keep landing back on your desk.

4

Priorities stall between meetings, and growth is exposing cracks in how the company operates.

It is not for companies looking for a project manager, a part-time employee, or a deck. If I’m not the right fit, I’ll say so in the first call and point you somewhere better.

what it is

A private working conversation — no slides, no pitch. I listen for which of seven operating failure patterns is present in your business and tell you plainly whether this is a fit for both of us. Half the value of this call is a founder hearing their own operating problem named accurately for the first time.

what you get

1

A candid read of your situation against the seven operating failure patterns.

2

An honest answer on fit including “no, and here’s who to talk to instead.”

3

A short follow-up note summarizing what I heard and what I’d examine first.

timeline

Thirty minutes, scheduled within one week of request.

price

Complimentary

Our Services

The Operating Diagnostic

The Operating Partnership

The Executive Office

Contact Details

  • 518-859-9625

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    Austin, TX 78731

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