EMBEDDED OPERATIONS PARTNER FOR POST-PMF TECH FOUNDERS

I build the foundation that founders grow on.

You're past product-market fit and growing fast, but the operational scaffolding hasn't kept up. I find what's actually slowing the company down, sequence the fixes, and stay to run them if you want them run. You get a company that can become what it's capable of.

And when a buyer shows up, the same foundation holds. I've lived three software acquisitions from the buyer's side and worked with their founders through integration.

You’re not doing CEO work. You’re unsticking the same problems every week.

Decisions back up at you. The authority you meant to hand off never fully landed. The KPI dashboard tells a different story every week, so nobody quite trusts it. The leadership team you built still routes the hard calls back to your desk. AI tools are multiplying faster than anyone is tracking them.

None of that means anything is broken with you or your people. It's what happens when revenue outruns the operational scaffolding. The company is running on product and market momentum. The foundation underneath it never caught up.

That's the work. I find where a company breaks under its own growth and fix it, so it stops landing on you.

I find what’s slowing the company down. Then I sequence the fixes.

I treat the company as a system. I look for where it’s load-bearing on one person, where the instrumentation lies to you, and where it breaks under it’s own scale. Then I come back with a ranked plan: what to fix, in what order, and what each fix is worth. Quick fixes get acted on as they surface.

  • Decision architecture

  • Measurement integrity

  • Operating cadence and process maturity

  • Key-person dependency

  • The operational stack

  • Revenue and customer mechanics

  • Operational AI maturity by function

I don’t hand you a deck and leave. If the findings need fixing, I stay and run the work alongside your team.

The same work pays off two ways.

You come to me when the company is growing faster than it can operate. So that's where we start. Build the foundation, and the company can become what it's actually capable of. Decisions stop routing through you. The leadership team carries real weight. The numbers hold up. You get your time and your headspace back.

The same foundation pays a second time. If a strategic conversation ever comes, whether in twelve months or five years, the company that holds up under buyer diligence and earns a stronger multiple is the one that was already running clean. Build it to run a better company. The exit just inherits the work.

Where to start.

Every engagement starts with a Diagnostic Call: 60 minutes, no charge, no obligation. We find out whether there's real operational work here and what the right next step is. You leave with a few things to act on this week either way. From there:

  • A fast, focused operational read. Narrower than the Accelerator, with a paced action plan you can run.

  • The full operational assessment. Findings by lens, a sequenced plan, expected ROI, and a founder readout.

  • I run the roadmap alongside your team instead of handing it back to you.

  • An advocate through integration who has been on the buyer's side before.

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Working with Mel was one of the most effective partnerships I've had as a founder. She has a rare ability to cut through noise, surface what's actually happening inside an organization, and help you confront the hard stuff without ever making it feel heavy.

Founder & CEO, Cosmonio (AI SaaS, acquired)