A private team for founders · by introduction
Your organization, with a second one behind it.
A senior lead and experienced operators take on agreed work across your companies and private life — alongside the people you already have. Only decisions come forward.
What a second organization changes
Advice stops at a recommendation. We carry it to done. More senior people inside your world — not another vendor to manage.
Not an assistant
Senior operators who have run companies, moves and transactions — not a desk that forwards requests.
Not a supplier
Embedded with your Chief of Staff and advisers, working under authority you define in writing.
Not a department
Capacity you widen or narrow by mandate, without hiring or managing another team.
- accountable lead, named in writing
- 1accountable lead, named in writing
- principals per lead (proposed rule)
- ≤ 3principals per lead (proposed rule)
- referral fees or provider commissions
- 0referral fees or provider commissions
What changes in your week
Everything still moves. Far less of it reaches you. Every thread in your companies and private life routes behind you first. Only decisions come forward.
46 open threads reach you. Every thread lands on you or your Chief of Staff.
Illustrative week. Counts are examples, not measurements.
How it works
You stay in front. We work behind. Before work begins we agree, in writing, what reaches you and what we carry — and your people keep their roles.
Full scope, authority and boundariesIn front
You
Set priorities. Approve commitments above agreed limits. Sign. Choose between options we prepare.
Between
Your relationship lead
Owns every mandate. Decides what reaches you and when. Reports in one short weekly note.
Behind
The team
Operators run the work. Your Chief of Staff, COO, CFO and advisers stay in their roles; we take on the capacity behind them.
What we take on
- Executive operations
- Strategic initiatives
- Support for your executives
- The personal office
- Specialist coordination
- Research and follow-through
We do not give legal, tax, investment or medical advice. We work with the licensed professionals you have.
What working with us looks like
One note. Friday. Two minutes. Decisions first, everything else already handled — readable between two meetings.
Decisions first
Each with a recommendation and the time it needs.
Then what moved
Already handled. Nothing asked of you.
Your relationship lead
Friday — week of 10 March
Needs you · 2
Lisbon: choose between two structures
Option B recommended. One page enclosed. About ten minutes.
Foundation: approve three of seven grants
Reasons attached for each.
Moved, nothing needed · 4
- Board pack — both CFO inputs in; final review Tuesday with your chief of staff.
- Coast house — contractors start on the 21st.
- Events agency — two finalists; your COO is deciding.
- Insurance renewals across three properties — consolidated with your broker.
Mistakes on the record
In writing, before you have to ask.
Two minutes
Read on a phone, between other things.
Illustrative note. Names and details are invented.
An engagement, illustrated
The Lisbon mandate. A founder wants a European base open by July. The executive team is fully committed elsewhere. Seven weeks — what reached the founder, and what stayed behind.
Illustrative composite. Not a client, not a result.
Day 0 · Reached you
You authorize the mandate
Objective, budget ceiling, and which decisions stay with you. Forty minutes.
Day 0 · Behind — the team
The lead accepts it, by name
Two written pages by the evening. Your COO may approve within the ceiling.
Week 1 · Behind — the team
The team assembles
Local counsel, employment counsel and a property adviser engaged under NDA. Your CFO receives one data request, not twelve.
Week 3 · Reached you
You choose the structure
Two options on one page, with counsel’s view of each. Twenty minutes.
Week 4 · Behind — the team
A delay, caught early
Registration slips three weeks. An interim arrangement, reviewed by counsel, approved by your COO inside her authority.
Week 6 · Reached you
You sign the lease
Negotiated inside the ceiling. One signature.
Week 7 · Behind — the team
Closed, with a record
One page: what was done, cost against the ceiling, what now belongs to your COO — and one mistake, on the record.
- Your time
- About 1 hour 35 minutes over seven weeks
- Coordinated
- Your COO and CFO, three law and property firms, two recruiters
- Accountable
- One relationship lead, throughout
The questions founders ask first
Asked plainly. Answered plainly. Six things founders want to know before a first conversation.
I already have a Chief of Staff. Why would I need this?
Your Chief of Staff decides what matters and stays your first counterpart. We add the senior hands behind them — so the plans they make actually get carried, without your office becoming a department to manage.
How is this different from a family office or a concierge?
A family office manages wealth and administration. A concierge books things. We take written ownership of complex work — an expansion, a move, a transition, a season of commitments — and carry it to done alongside both.
Who would actually work with me?
One relationship lead, named in writing, who works with no more than three principals. A deputy who knows your file. Three to five operators sized to the work. You meet your lead before anything is signed.
What does it cost?
Illustrative: $60,000 to stand up over four to six weeks, then a team from $45,000 a month, or from $95,000 for an expanded team. Third-party costs at cost. No commissions from anyone, ever.
What if it isn’t right?
At day thirty we decide together whether to continue. Parting is agreed in advance and handled in writing — including what we hand back to your people.
How discreet is it?
NDA before any substantive conversation if you prefer. A segregated workspace per engagement. We never name clients or use their situations in marketing.
If you were asked to look into us
Everything your office needs to evaluate us — without a sales call. Ten minutes to read. One click to forward.
The office briefing
Operating model, authority, confidentiality, continuity, first thirty days and illustrative fees. About ten minutes.
The brief
One printable page that explains the firm. Made to be forwarded to a principal.
Sample materials
What an introduction, a weekly principal note and a working proposal look like.
How a relationship begins
Most of our relationships begin with an introduction.
Request an introductionNo pipeline, no follow-up sequence, no questions about your wealth.
1 of 4
Introduction
From someone you trust — or directly from you or your office.
2 of 4
A private conversation
Ninety minutes, under NDA if you prefer. What you need, where the friction is, whether we fit.
3 of 4
A proposed mandate
A written proposal: the team, the scope, your authority, the commercial terms.
4 of 4
Standing up
Four to six weeks to integrate and carry the first mandates — then continue, or part as agreed.