A Working Partner.
Cutting away unnecessary meetings and slide decks to help your team focus on the actual work.
“Companies rarely stall because they run out of ambition. They stall because coordination friction eats their execution speed.”
Why scale breaks execution speed.
Between 15 and 60 people, the informal communication that carried your seed stage quietly disintegrates. In its place creeps administrative sludge: weekly syncs that should be single-page memos, status updates designed to impress rather than inform, and founders spending forty hours a week mediating cross-functional friction rather than building product.
The team works harder, evenings run later, yet delivery cycles drag. Founders often react by hiring middle managers or adding coordination tools, which unintentionally multiplies the noise. What was once agile and direct becomes a maze of departmental alignment.
Subtraction over addition.
Having built an enterprise with 160+ people across four regional offices and guided it to an orderly exit, I know that real operational leverage comes from subtraction, not addition.
As an embedded fractional operator, I do not deliver theoretical slide presentations or leave you with binders of advice. I work directly inside your executive cadence for 3 to 6 months to strip away operational clutter. We establish clear ownership, replace slide decks with crisp, written decision memos, and re-centre every functional team around clean unit economics and customer delivery.
What we build and cleanse together.
Concrete operational infrastructure installed directly into your company rhythm.
The Communication Audit
A forensic review of recurring syncs, messaging channels, and roadmaps. We systematically eliminate redundant meetings, typically freeing 30 to 40 percent of executive and engineering bandwidth within the first 30 days.
Single-Page Decision Memos
Replacing 40-slide status decks with concise, written memos. Proposals must stand on logical clarity before anyone enters a meeting room, speeding decisions from weeks to hours.
Unit Economics & Delivery Alignment
Auditing delivery costs, margins, and operational burn. We align your product roadmap directly with cash collection and sustainable customer unit economics.
Inflection Point Triage & Sync
Hands-on guidance through high-friction operational moments: cross-functional silos, key leadership hires, or reorganisations, anchored by a weekly operating review.
Is this the right fit for your stage?
High-Value Fit
- You have verified product-market fit and are scaling past 15 people.
- The founder is bogged down in internal alignment rather than building and growth.
- You want direct, unvarnished operational judgement, not corporate cheerleading.
Not Intended For
- Teams seeking slide decks to present to external advisors or committees.
- Cultures that prioritise consensus-building meetings over decisive, clear action.
- Founders seeking passive advisors who sign off on existing habits.
Inquire Regarding A Working Partner
I take on a strictly limited number of operational partnerships each quarter to ensure deep presence. Send a short note about where your company stands and the friction you are experiencing.