Built around you. READY TO BE REDESIGNED.
Five ways to hand the decisions over, from a four minute score to a full operating seat.
- Diagnostic
- One-Time Advisory Call
- Audit
- Blueprint
- Fractional COO
We do one thing, at five depths.
Every engagement answers the same question: what has to change so this business stops depending on one person. What differs is how far we go, and who does the work afterwards.
Three systems every founder needs.
If you would rather hear it than read it, this walks through what has to be in place before a business can run without the person who built it.
Prefer to skip ahead? The five engagements are below.
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01
Founder Dependence Diagnostic
Free · 4 minutes · Self-serve
Eighteen questions about how decisions, ownership, and knowledge actually move through your company. You get a Founder Dependence Score across four dimensions and a written breakdown of where you are most exposed.
Start here if you are not sure the rest of this page applies to you.
FreeFour minutes
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Advisory Call with Vahab
$299 · Sixty minutes · One to one
Not every problem needs a twelve-week engagement. Some need an hour with someone who has sat in the operating seat.
Bring the one thing you most want off your plate: a decision, a process, or a responsibility that keeps landing on your desk. We look at why it is still there, who on your team should own it, and what has to be true for them to take it.
Built for founders and leaders who want guidance on operations and leadership, without committing to a full engagement first.
What you leave with
- A clear view of why the issue still routes through you
- A named owner and a first step to hand it over
- A straight answer on whether a larger engagement makes sense
The fee credits in full against any engagement you start within thirty days.
$299Sixty minutes
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Founder Dependence Audit
$2,500 · Two weeks · Diagnosis only
For when you know the business runs through you but cannot say by how much, or where to start. Two working sessions, a scored baseline, and a complete inventory of the decisions currently landing on you with a proposed owner against each one.
You get the written assessment whatever you decide to do next.
What you keep
- Your Founder Dependence Score, measured and scored
- A decision inventory with a named owner for every entry
- A thirty-day ownership plan
- The full written assessment
The fee credits in full against the Blueprint if you continue within thirty days.
$2,500Two weeks
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The Founder Handoff Blueprint
$15,000 · Twelve weeks · Diagnosis and installation
For when you have a leadership team and want them owning the decisions inside a quarter.
Weeks 1 to 4. We map every decision that lands on you, give each one a single owner, and set the guardrails: what they decide alone, what they check first, what stays with you.
Weeks 5 to 8. We rebuild the leadership meeting so it ends in decisions and owners rather than status updates, then hand it over.
Weeks 9 to 12. Your team runs it while we coach from the side. Then the test: you step away for two weeks and we find out what holds.
What you keep
- A Decision Inventory, every recurring decision with a named owner
- A Decision Rights Map, what each leader decides alone and what they check first
- A Leadership Operating Rhythm, the weekly meeting rebuilt as a decision forum
- Your Founder Dependence Score, measured in week 1 and again in week 12
- An Absence Test Report, what held and what broke across two weeks without you
- The Ownership Playbook, maintained by your team after we leave
Weekly one to one sessions, async access between them. Five founders per quarter.
$15,000Twelve weeks, or three payments of $5,500
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Fractional COO
Scoped per mandate · One day a week · Three-month minimum
For when the job is bigger than a handoff and you need someone in the business rather than advising it.
Margin and efficiency programmes, finding where money leaks into duplicated work and undocumented process. Operational due diligence, buy side or sell side. Building an operating cadence from nothing. Or holding the COO chair while you recruit for it, so the search is not run under pressure.
We take one fractional client at a time. When the seat is taken, the next one opens when the current mandate ends.
ScopedPer mandate, three-month minimum
Discuss a mandate
This works for a specific kind of founder.
We would rather tell you now than three weeks in.
We are a fit if
- You run a founder-led service business from $2M in revenue
- At least two people already own a function, not just a title
- Too many decisions still route through you
- You are willing to let your team carry real weight and be wrong sometimes
We are not a fit if
- You want operations run for you rather than handed to your team
- There is no leadership layer yet to hand anything to
- You are looking for interim cover while someone is away
- You want a strategy document rather than a change in how the business runs
No function owners yet? Start with an Advisory Call. We will work out which seat to fill first and what that person should own from day one. It costs you $299 instead of $15,000 to find out, and the fee credits in full if you continue.
Not sure which one you need?
Book an Advisory Call and bring the one thing you most want off your plate. We will look at how decisions move in your company and who on your team is ready to own more. If a larger engagement makes sense, we will tell you which one and why. If it does not, we will say so. Prefer to start with a question? Send us a message.