Hire late, build on rails, keep the cap table small. The ops you keep deferring, built once, owned, exportable. We're the ops co-founder you don't have to give equity to.
Same method, different stage. Pick the shape closest to yours — each has a deep page with stage-specific stack, proof, and how we measure.
Built for UK seed and Series-A founders, 2-15 staff, building software product — where the ops co-founder doesn't exist, the back-office is two Notion pages, and every spreadsheet is one founder away from being lost.
Stripe revenue, Linear shipping cadence, Pulley/Carta cap-table moves — pulled into a draft update the founder edits in fifteen minutes, not three hours.
Pulley cap-table, Tide / Mercury cash, payroll, recurring vendor cost — reconciled live. The hire-trigger model the founder needs before the next board call.
Ashby, Pinpoint, or Workable wired to a founder dashboard — every candidate, every stage, every offer letter. Onboarding doc auto-issued day one.
EMI valuations before each grant, R&D credit window tracked, founder share certs and SH01s filed, US Delaware flip prep ready before the lead asks. The deadlines you cannot miss, never missed.
Plain or Pylon for the inbox, Linear for the bug pipeline, lifecycle email that reads like a human wrote it. Customer ops that scale before the first ops hire.
The institutional memory of a startup before the institution exists — investor data room, customer playbook, internal SOPs — searchable, version-tracked, owned.
A four-person seed startup was burning Sunday nights on investor decks, copying Stripe numbers into Notion, manually pasting Ashby pipeline into a board doc. Two-week build: Stripe + Linear + Pulley pull into a monthly update draft, Ashby wired to a founder pipeline view, EMI valuation calendar. Six months in: investor update written in fifteen minutes, ATS audit-ready before Series-A diligence, eight hours back per founder per week.
How we measure: founder time saved = self-reported hours pre-build vs post-build across two founders, averaged over 12 weeks; investor update cycle measured from data-pull to send across six monthly cycles.
If your work isn't exactly this, the nearest sectors share the rhythm. Or browse every industry we build for.
Bring last month's investor update, the cap table, and the hiring pipeline. We diagnose from the data.