Approach
How we work.
The engagement.
Six months. One company at a time.
A TOV engagement is six months. There is no shorter version. The unit of useful work in a venture is not a quarter and is certainly not a sprint. It is half a year of weekly partnership, and you only get the compound returns of that work if both sides commit fully to the six months.
The cadence is weekly working sessions, a monthly board-level review, and a quarterly strategic offsite. The weekly is in-person where possible and on the calendar where not. The monthly is the company looked at as a system. The quarterly is the company looked at against the engagement.
You commit, we commit. There are no opt-out months. There are no other clients on the calendar competing for the hour. There is one other company in the firm's universe at any given time — that is the entire competition for our attention, and that is the whole point.
What we take on.
The work that a CEO would otherwise have to hire a small team to do, done with you for the duration of the engagement.
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01
Fundraise narrative
The story that walks an investor from a cold inbox to a wire transfer.
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02
Investor warm-intros
A short, hand-curated list of partners worth your time, with the introduction made.
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03
Hiring (first 10)
The first ten hires set the company. We own the spec, the search, and the close.
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04
GTM motion
A repeatable channel. The first ten customers, then the next hundred.
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05
Operating dashboard
A weekly view of the company, owned by the founder, read by the board.
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06
Board prep
The deck, the narrative, the asks. Quarterly, on a calendar, never improvised.
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Quarterly OKRs
Goals that compound. Reviewed in person, every quarter, for a year.
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Founder coaching
A private hour every week. Not a session. A working conversation.
What we don't do.
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We don't do one-off consulting.
If a problem can be solved in a single meeting, it isn't the kind of work that needs a partner. Hire a consultant.
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We don't take fees in lieu of commitment.
Commitment is the asset. Cheques without it are just invoices.
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We don't do programs you graduate from.
We partner with founders for the duration they need a partner. Engagements end when the company says they end, not on a cohort calendar.
How to start.
We do not run an application form. We have not found that the right founders for this kind of work fill in forms. A founder writes to us, the four of us read it, and one of us replies within two weeks.
If we think there is a fit, a first conversation is scheduled inside thirty days. If there isn't, we say so quickly. There is no waiting list and no soft no.