High-potential businesses that meet criteria such as:

• Already generating revenue OR with strong early traction

• Clear, credible path to market

• A founder actively raising external capital within the next 3–12 months

• Willingness to hand over operational reins (at least partially)

• Evidence of responsible financial management

• A product/service with genuine differentiation or sustainable advantage

• Coachable founders (absolutely non-negotiable)

A flexible service offering that combines:

Operational Set-Up & Organisation

• Reviewing existing systems and plugging glaring holes

• Creating founder-friendly dashboards, reporting packs, and financials

• Tidying governance, documentation, contracts, and business processes

• Ensuring all investor-required materials exist (or can be easily produced)

• Improving scheduling, communication streams, and workflow

• Risk register + mitigation planning

• Identifying immediate fires and putting them out gracefully.

Day-to-Day Business Stewardship

I become your fractional COO/General Manager:

• Running weekly ops meetings

• Tracking progress across sales, delivery, finance and hiring (etc)

• Managing contractors, suppliers, and staff

• Supporting board reporting

• Ensuring the business doesn’t stall during the capital raise period

• Acting as the level-headed adult in the room.

Capital Raise Readiness Support

Not raising the capital for you, but priming your business to shine:

• Helping refine the narrative so business fundamentals support the raise

• Making sure the data room is immaculate

• Pre-due-diligence tidying of finance, compliance, and operations

• Identifying weaknesses investors will hone in on and preparing responses

• Coordinating prep for investor meetings.

Founder Management (aka “strategic sounding board”)

• Acting as a trusted advisor throughout the raise

• Helping prioritise founder time effectively

• Light-touch coaching + emotional stabilisation (optional, but frankly, essential).

Tier 1: Foundation Set-Up

A 4–6 week sprint to get the business tidy and investor-ready.
Fixed price.

Tier 2: Fractional Stewardship

Month-to-month operational oversight.
A set number of hours (e.g. 10 - 30 per month).
Modular add-ons available (board reporting, systems overhaul, hiring support).

Tier 3: Raise-Ready Plus (with Success Fee)

Foundation + Stewardship + capital-raise readiness support + success fee.

Success fee triggers:

• Raise completed (funds in bank)

• Fee could be a % of capital raised or a fixed amount based on target (e.g. 1–4%).

I'm not a virtual assistant, and I'm not a corporate consultant.

My value lies in:

• 20+ Years experience working with founders

• Operational excellence + diplomacy (one of my superpowers)

• Ability to create order from chaos

• High trust, low ego presence

• My ability to think strategically while acting tactically

• Executive-level operational experience with founders and boards

• Focused on tangible outcomes and clear progress

• Understanding of governance, board dynamics, etc.

• Being the person investors want involved at this stage.

It’s executive-level calm, competence and efficiency, at a cost founders can swallow during a cash-tight period.