A focused advisory sprint for Breakout-Stage CEOs — Series A to exit — facing the decisions that will define whether your company ascends or stalls. Ten working days. Ten clarified decisions. One plan. One narrative.
Your board is watching the runway clock. Your team is moving, but not in the same direction. The fundraise narrative isn't landing with investors. The GTM motion you bet the year on is sputtering. Or your leadership team has quietly become the thing nobody talks about in the all-hands.
You're at the inflection point on your Breakout Curve — the moment that determines whether your S-curve bends upward or flattens out. And you're making that call with imperfect information, under board pressure, and without a trusted sounding board who has been here before.
You don't need a 12-week consulting engagement with a deck and a team of associates. You need someone who has operated at this level — on five continents, across 50+ organizations — who can sit across from you for two weeks and force the ten decisions that unlock the next stage.
One engagement built the commercial case that took a major broadcaster from zero to $300M/year in recurring revenue. The same pattern recognition, condensed into ten days, applied to your situation.
You run a venture-backed, PE-backed, or high-growth independent company — Series A through pre-exit — with real revenue, a real team, and real stakes. You're inside the inflection zone of your Breakout Curve: past product-market fit, not yet at institutional scale. You're facing a fundraising block, a go-to-market pivot, a leadership fracture, or some combination. You can name the problem. You're ready to make hard calls in days, not quarters. The cost of inaction is measured in millions.
You're pre-product-market-fit, looking for validation, or hoping a strategist will tell you your plan is good. You want a long engagement, a team of consultants, or a deck to put in front of your investors. You're not the decision-maker. You want accountability-free advice. You're shopping on price.
Every company follows an S-curve. Early traction is hard and slow. At some point, the curve bends — and growth accelerates. After the inflection, the machine scales. Between Series A and exit, every CEO faces the same question: am I about to bend the curve upward, or flatten it out?
Most companies don't fail after the inflection. They fail before it. Not because the product isn't right or the market isn't there — but because the ten critical decisions that drive the curve upward get made slowly, wrongly, or not at all.
The Breakout Curve Sprint forces those ten decisions in ten days. No reports. No decks. Decisions — with rationale, with owners, with timelines.
The sprint runs across two calendar weeks — ten focused working days. Every day has a clear purpose. Each session ends with a decision, a draft, or a discarded assumption. Nothing leaves the room until it's resolved.
Deep mapping of the business, the team, the cap table, the market position, and the live constraints. By end of day two, we've named the real problem — which is rarely the presenting one.
Hostile interrogation of strategy, narrative, financial model, and team. We expose the assumptions you can't afford to keep — and the ones your board hasn't yet questioned.
Working sessions to force the ten decisions across the Breakout Architecture. Capital strategy, org design, GTM priorities, customer focus. Each closed with rationale, owner, and date.
The 90-day execution plan. The board-ready narrative. The communication cascade for the team. You walk into Monday with a different company.
The CEOs who say yes are not buying time. They are buying the avoidance of an eight-figure mistake, or the unlock of a nine-figure outcome. Priced accordingly.
Ten working days across two calendar weeks. Direct CEO engagement, on-site or remote. Fixed fee, no hourly, no overruns.
Six-month retainer to hold the team accountable to the 90-day plan. Bi-weekly CEO sessions, quarterly board check-ins, ad hoc strategic counsel. By selection only.
Equity-based engagements considered for select high-growth companies with proven leadership and a clear path to exit. Limited capacity — one in five engagements.
Two decades across strategy consulting and operating roles spanning five continents and 50+ organizations — from early-stage to Fortune 500. Principal at Capgemini Consulting across North America and the Middle East. Independent strategy advisor to some of the world's largest telcos, broadcasters, and media companies. Currently founder of a venture-backed AI platform — meaning I am in the same inflection zone your company is in, not advising from a distance.
Active advisor to LUMO Labs portfolio companies. Proven across telecom, media, digital health, conservation tech, and frontier-market entry.
The large corporate names in my track record? In most cases, they hired me to do the smart work their own teams couldn't. The same pattern recognition is available to you — condensed into ten days.
A single advisory engagement built the commercial strategy and revenue case for a major broadcaster — from zero. Commercial negotiations opened at $600M and closed at $300M/year recurring. Full case walkthrough available under NDA.
The first call is a fit assessment, not a sales pitch. If it isn't right, I'll say so. If it is, we'll schedule the sprint within four weeks.
Reviewed weekly. Response within five business days if aligned. Most engagements arrive by referral.