How an operating partner engagement works
We take a seat on your leadership team for a defined period, own a defined outcome, and work to your dates.
The difference from consulting is accountability. We are in the weekly cadence, in the decisions, and still there when the commitment comes due.
What we take on
Interim and fractional leadership
We hold the CTO, CPO, or head of data seat — through a transition, a search, or a period when the company needs more executive capacity than it can hire.
Ownership of a named outcome
An AI capability into production, a platform migration, a data foundation, a delivery organization that has stopped shipping. We run it, alongside your team, to a date.
Portfolio support for investors
Technology, data, and product support across a portfolio: diligence before the deal, and operating help inside the companies after it.
We have built and run these systems ourselves, which is why we can say what will break.
It is also why we will tell you which half of the roadmap not to build, and what the rest will cost to operate.
How an engagement runs
Most engagements run three to six months.
They start in your operating cadence, not in a discovery phase, and they end with your team holding the work.
In the room
We join your leadership cadence immediately — the standups, the reviews, the escalations. We read the code, the roadmap, and the invoices, and we talk to the people doing the work.
✓ The real constraints, and the dates we will be held to
Own the outcome
We run the workstream with decision rights: sequencing the work, restructuring or hiring where the team is short, killing what should not be built, and reporting in the format your board already reads.
✓ Measured against your milestones
Hand it back
A named person on your team owns what we ran, with the decisions documented and the operating economics modeled. We plan for this from the first week.
✓ The discipline stays after we leave
Why an operator rather than a consultancy
We have held the seat
Every partner has run the organization before — engineering and product teams from 20 to 250 people, reporting to a CEO, carrying a P&L. We are not describing the job from the outside.
We work to your dates
Scope is written as commitments on your calendar. We sit in the same reviews as your team and are measured the same way.
We say what not to build
A firm with a bench to fill cannot afford that answer. We can, and it is usually the most valuable thing we say.
Embedded • 3 to 6 months • Senior partners only
Tell us what you need owned.
We take embedded operating roles across AI, software, data, and product. Tell us what you need owned, and by when.