Great technology needs a commercial spine.
Start-ups here often begin in a lab, a studio or a workshop. The idea is sound. What is missing is someone to turn it into a company that can fund itself.
Where start-ups lose time
The product is promising. The business around it is not built yet:
Funded by grants, not by customers
Money arrives in rounds and acquittals, and no one has costed what a sale really takes.
Founders who are researchers
Deep subject knowledge and no experience of pricing, contracts or hiring a first salesperson.
An investor needs a plan
A fund wants milestones, a model and a board before it signs, and the team has a paper and a prototype.
A full leadership team is out of reach
Senior hires cost more than the runway can carry and rarely want a pre-revenue job.
A fractional executive brings the missing discipline at the pace the company can afford. They build the model, the first sales motion or the engineering practice, then hand it to a permanent hire when the business can carry one.
Who this is for, and who it is not
Best for
- Founders wearing every hat with no senior cover where it matters most
- Pre-seed to pre-Series A companies that need structure before they can fund it
- Teams that need investor-grade finance, reporting or operations at speed
- Startups scaling headcount faster than their processes can hold
- Founders who want to protect the cap table while adding senior leadership
Not for
- An idea with no product or traction to build structure around yet
- A role a capable full-time hire is already ready to own
- Founders looking to outsource a function rather than lead it
- A single deliverable an agency or contractor could hand back
How we support founders
Early companies need commercial discipline in measured doses. We match carefully and remain involved once the work begins.
Reviewed against the runway
We check in with you on a set rhythm and raise drift while there is still runway to correct it.
Experience from the collective
Your executive can test pricing, a grant budget or an architecture with others in our collective of 800+ who have built companies from research.
Founders keep the thread
We hold your brief, milestones and notes, so if an executive leaves, we run the handover and the next search from what is already known.
Matched to science and stage
A spin-out and a software start-up need different people. We match to the kind of company you are building.
From first call to embedded operator
We move at startup speed.
Tell us your stage
Where are you in the journey? What are the gaps? What does the next 90 days need to deliver?
We match the right operator
From our vetted collective, we introduce the fractional executive matched to your stage, sector, and culture.
Embedded within weeks
Your fractional embeds with your team, begins the scoped work, and operates with real accountability.
Scale the stack
As you grow, add further specialists from the collective. We coordinate them so they work as a coherent team.
Which leader for your stage
The gap that slows a startup changes as it grows. Here is where most founders feel it first, and who owns it.
The right fractional executive depends on your stage
Start with the widest gap today, then add roles as you scale.
Our operators have built and scaled at
