Accepting Q2 2026 engagements

Operating partners for founder-led companies.

Embedded strategy and operations for $5M–$40M revenue companies. Six-month engagements. Written deliverables. No slide decks.

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Method

We work in four movements.

Each movement has a fixed deliverable and a clear exit. You can cancel after any one, no questions asked.

I

Observation

Two weeks of listening. We shadow meetings, read the artifacts, interview the people. No decisions yet.

Weeks 1–2
II

Diagnosis

A written memo. The three problems worth solving, the one pretending to be three, and what's in your way.

Week 3
III

Execution

We work alongside your team. Scope is fixed, methods are not. We ship weekly.

Months 2–5
IV

Handoff

Documentation, internal ownership, and a 90-day watch period where we're on call but not billing.

Month 6
Case Study

Recent work.

SaaS · Series B6 months$22M ARR

Northbeam: doubled conversion on a product they weren't going to keep.

An engagement that started as a kill-vs-save decision and ended with it becoming the fastest-growing segment.

Client
Northbeam
Engagement
Operating Partner
Duration
6 months
Team size
84 people
We almost killed the thing that would become our second act. The hardest work was getting the founding team to look at the data without their priors.— Dana Liu, Co-founder & CEO
3.1×
Conversion lift
$4.2M
New ARR (90d)
0
Layoffs
Yr 2
Re-engaged
The team

Three operators. One firm.

We were operators before we were consultants. We take engagements we'd want to be inside.

James Cardell

Founder · Former COO

Priya Raman

Partner · Former VP Ops

Ethan Shore

Principal · Former GM

Let's figure out if we're the right call.

Send a one-paragraph email about what you're working on. I'll reply with whether we're a fit, and if not, a pointer to someone who is.