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BUSINESS STARTS WITH PEOPLE
Even great products stall when internal friction builds. Misalignment, talent debt, or leadership drag can quietly erode growth and momentum.
That’s where we come in.
We don’t just advise, we step in as members of your team and build alongside you.
A two-four week diagnostic that shows you exactly what’s slowing your company down.
This is the first step of the Operational Clarity Sprint—a deep, structured fact-finding process that gives you a clear picture of how your people, org design, and operating rhythms are impacting execution.
What it includes:
Listening Tour: 40–60 minute 1:1s with founders, executives, and a cross-section of ICs to surface the real sources of friction, misalignment, and leadership drag.
Data Review: Analysis of performance data, engagement inputs, manager documentation, output metrics, attrition patterns, and hiring velocity by team.
Org Design Assessment: Evaluation of roles, reporting lines, accountability structures, and decision/delivery speed to understand where the organization is helping—or hurting—velocity.
What you get:
A concise readout that pinpoints the performance gaps, leadership issues, and structural blockers that are quietly slowing revenue and execution. This becomes the foundation for the next phases—Prioritization + Fix (Phase 2) and Implementation + Operating Rhythm Build (Phase 3)—or can be purchased as a standalone insight engagement.
(Phase 1 of the “Operational Clarity Sprint” below)
Talent & Velocity Audit
operational Clarity Sprint
Every scaling company hits a point where what once worked stops working. Growth brings friction, and when change hits, teams often slow down.
We move fast to diagnose what’s breaking (or fix the problems you already see), whether that’s GTM breakdowns, leadership misalignment, unclear accountability, systems that don’t scale, team toxicity, or the wrong people in key roles.
As seasoned startup operators, we bring clarity to the chaos, rebuilding teams, driving change, and resetting operating systems so you can scale with confidence, speed, and discipline.
Change doesn’t have to stall growth. We turn it into your advantage.
OUR 3-STEP OPERATIONAL CLARITY SPRINT PROCESS
Fractional People operations leadership
Startups stall when their People function can’t keep up. Mis-hires, culture cracks, manager issues, comp mistakes, and ER fires quietly kill velocity long before founders see the smoke.
That’s where we step in.
When you lose your People leader, or the current one can’t scale, we embed fast with fractional CPO horsepower. We diagnose what’s breaking, fix it quickly, and run the function while rebuilding the systems that support hiring, performance, compensation, engagement, and internal communication.
We handle the messy, high-risk work that keeps founders up at night: ER blowups, toxic pockets, misaligned leaders, and the structural gaps that drain time, money, and runway.
You get the impact of a seasoned executive, without the full-time overhead (no equity, no benefits) so people problems stop slowing growth and you can scale with clarity, alignment, and real momentum.
Advisory services
Our Founder, Natalie Ledbetter is currently open to paid advisory roles in software companies.
Ledbetter has advised 100+ startups across the tech ecosystem, serving on boards and guiding founders on talent, GTM, org design, change management, product positioning, and leadership effectiveness. Her work centers on helping entrepreneurs bring world-changing products to market and building companies that scale with intention.
With a deep operator background and an 8K+ founder, operator, and investor network, Natalie frequently introduces pivotal talent, executives, experts, design partners, acquirers, and enterprise customers to early- and growth-stage teams.