Most early-stage founders know something isn’t working: decisions are slow, things fall through the cracks, and you’re spending your best hours coordinating instead of building.
The tricky part is diagnosing what you actually need - and whether it requires a full-time hire. Here’s how I can help.
These two words get used interchangeably, but they solve different problems.
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Fractional = part-time, ongoing
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Interim = full-time, temporary
Your job is to lead the company. Mine is to make sure everything else runs so you can. I manage the things that sit between your strategy and your team’s execution - priorities, decisions, cross-functional coordination, board communications, and whatever is on fire this week. This is a strategic partnership, not task management.
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Right for you if: You’re spending 30%+ of your time on internal coordination. Things slip not because the team is weak, but because no one owns the connective tissue.
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Your company is growing faster than its systems. Processes are informal or missing, new hires don’t have a clear playbook, and operational decisions fall back on the founder by default. I build the infrastructure - workflows, OKRs, tooling, onboarding, team rhythms - so the company can run without you being in every detail.
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Right for you if: You’re 5–40 people, ops still sits with the founder by default, and it’s starting to limit speed.
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Your engineering team is between managers, growing quickly, or going through a restructure. I step in to maintain momentum - running team rituals, unblocking engineers, aligning with product, and keeping delivery on track - while you hire or promote the right permanent lead.
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Right for you if: You have a capable engineering team that needs continuity and people leadership coverage—not a rewrite of the technical vision.
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