Leadership architecture for founders
You're the biggest bottleneck in your business, and urgent keeps winning while the important stuff slides down the list. Every decision, every handoff that bounces back, every 11pm reply. That's a structure problem, and structure is fixable. You'll feel it by day 30. You'll be back in the CEO seat by day 90.
Everyone keeps coaching leaders to be better. Nobody's fixing the system they're being asked to lead.
Alison Taylor, Founder of Augur
What I know to be true
You built it by accident: a passion project that blew up. It grew faster than anybody could design behind it, so now everything gets the same level of chaos and nothing has an order of importance. You've tried the programs and the productivity systems, and something still isn't clicking.
Your systems worked for where you were. Now they're pointed at the past. I've worked with founders and leaders since 2019, and the problem almost never lives where you think it does. Your mindset and your discipline are fine. The problem is the structure underneath: how decisions get made and who owns what when you're not in the room.
Before Augur, I managed over $65M in hotel renovations. When something cracked on a job, nobody told the crew to try harder. We pulled the drawings. I'm a leadership architect. I do the same thing for your company.
How I work
Chief Everything to CEO Architecture takes founders from single point of failure to back in the CEO seat. Three stages, in order.
01
A brief that names what's broken before you fix anything. We count what's routing through you: the decisions with your name on them and the hours going below your pay grade.
02
A CEO Operating System that returns you to the seat you built the company for. Decision rights with names on them, and a calendar built around your energy.
03
An As-Built that makes your absence survivable. We turn it on one lever at a time and write it all down so it holds without you.
Feel it by day 30. Back in the CEO seat by day 90.
Ways to work together
You don't have to figure out which package you need. The Orientation does that. Ninety minutes, then a written brief the Friday after that names your next move.
Start here
$750
Ninety minutes where I ask and you talk. Your brief lands the Friday after: what's broken, what was never built, what goes first, and what to set down for now. The full $750 counts toward any build that follows.
Book your OrientationMost popular
$12,000 · 90 days
For the founder who is the company's operating system and needs to step out of the center of it. Load, Map, and Frame for your whole operating system.
See the Rebuild$6,700 · 90 days
For when the strain sits in one area. One part of the company gets built on purpose, so it stops routing back to you.
More on this$25,000 · 90 days
For when the bottleneck runs across the team. A structure your team can run without you in the room, built with the people it lands on.
More on thisIn their words
"I told you I wanted to burn it down. My business. Everyone else in my life had cautioned me not to. You were the first person to say 'what are we going to use? how are we going to do it?' That was incredibly freeing."
Claire Beaumont, Founder, Foreverywear
Founders usually wait longer than they need to. One more book, one more podcast, one more hire, one more quarter of pushing through. Then they book and wish they'd done it sooner.
If something on this page landed, pay attention to that. Start with ninety minutes and say it out loud.
Load → Map → Frame