With you
You're looking for a partner who can give you an outside view. How you operate, where your next level of impact comes from, and the calls that are hard to make alone.
Strategic counsel for founders & executives
Every leader
needs a hidden cofounder.
Sometimes it's a mentor. Sometimes it's a spouse. Sometimes you need to find one. That means finding a person who works to deeply understand who you are and how your organization operates.
A Hidden Cofounder is committed to you and your organization succeeding.
How we work
Career operators,
not career consultants.
Our cofounders work with a small number of leaders and dig deep — learning how the company operates, not the way a deck describes it. Leading well means doing two things at once: making the right strategic calls, and staying close enough to your organization to know what it needs to make good decisions without you. We help you hold both — including seeing the blind spots, in yourself and in the company.
Real change starts with seeing how you're built and how your organization operates — and moving both together.
What we do
Three types of engagements.
With your team
When a group needs to break through something together, we bring the outside read and run the room. Not a workshop — real work, in real time.
At pivotal moments
Acquisitions, leadership changes, strategic shifts. These are planned in decks but lived by people. We read the relationships the deck doesn't capture — the trust and dependencies a company actually runs on.
Problems we help solve
- Founder scaling
- Exec team dysfunction
- Insufficient M&A diligence
- Post M&A culture clash
- Defocused priorities
- Lack of accountability
- Missed deadlines and deliverables
- Lack of execution
- Slow hiring
- Slow firing
- Low morale
We get to know a leader deeply, understand the system they're operating in, and help them navigate their most critical priorities.
Interested to learn more?
Let us know what you're working on and we'll reply personally.