Services
Six practice pillars. Four engagement models. One accountable team.
We compose engagements out of the right mix — strategy and engineering, research and advisory — and stand behind the result. Pick a pillar, or a shape of work.
Practice pillars
Founders don't need a deck. They need an operating system for the first 24 months.
- Entity setup posture, cap table hygiene, contracts library
- Founding hires: archetypes, sourcing, interview loops
- Runway model, unit economics, fundraise narrative
- First production stack — built to outgrow, not throw away
Sharp positioning, a defensible thesis, a roadmap the team can ship against.
- Market & competitive thesis
- Positioning, narrative, naming
- Operating model & org design
- Quarterly planning rituals that actually hold
From greenfield architecture to AI integration — engineered for change.
- Platform & cloud architecture
- Data, search, and AI pipelines
- Security & reliability baseline
- Engineering bench: senior implementers, not seat-fillers
Applied research that produces frameworks, working papers, and authority.
- Original research programs
- Working papers & whitepapers
- Frameworks for internal and external use
- Editorial standards: clear, citable, durable
Workshops and 1:1 coaching for founders, PMs, and engineering leaders.
- Founder operating workshops
- Engineering management coaching
- AI literacy for non-technical leaders
- Cohort programs for partner organizations
Board-level partnership for the hard quarters. Calm, candid, on call.
- Shadow strategist on call
- Board prep and post-mortems
- Governance & risk posture
- Founder 1:1s when the stakes are real
Engagement models
Four shapes of work
- Model A
Startup in a Box
A founding team in your service for the first 24 months — strategy, build, hiring, governance.
- Model B
Build · Operate · Transfer
We build the function, run it to maturity, then transfer ownership to your team. The exit is the point.
- Model C
Consultancy on Demand
Fractional senior capacity for a defined problem and timeline. In, deliver, out.
- Model D
Shadow Advisory
A standing advisor for founders and CEOs — outside the org chart, inside the hard calls.