“I stopped confusing motion for progress. Three months in I cut two product lines and doubled the third.”
The shortest line between a good operator and a great one.
Cohorts in session
Operator OS
A weekly playbook for first-time founders running 5-50 person companies. Strategy, hiring, P&L.
Manager Studio
For ICs newly promoted to manager. The frameworks the books skip: feedback, prioritization, 1:1s.
Director Track
Senior leadership program. Strategic clarity, board readiness, organizational design.
Elite programs
Founders Circle
Twelve founders. Six months. One commitment to compound. Quarterly retreats, weekly pods, monthly 1:1s with operators who built and sold.
C-Suite Atelier
For sitting C-suite executives at $50M+ companies. Sparring partners, board prep, succession planning.
Scale Sprints
Embedded sprints with a senior operator-coach. We diagnose, you execute, we sit beside you while you do.
Success stories
Northbridge Analytics
Founder Anna L. joined Operator OS at $250k MRR. Eighteen months later, the company was sized for Series B.
Halcyon Brewing
A second-generation operator inherited a stalled distributor. Director Track reframed strategy in 90 days.
Pellet Studio
Manager Studio rebuilt the management layer of a fast-growing studio with no prior engineering managers.
Testimonials
“My coach asked the question my board was thinking but couldn't say. I needed that.”
“Worth the price three times over. The peer cohort alone is the most valuable network I have.”
“They don't teach frameworks; they teach you how to make a decision when nobody knows the answer.”
From the blog
The cost of a not-quite-right hire and how to stop making it
A not-quite-right hire costs you twice: first the salary, then the eighteen months you lose finding the right one.
Why strategy day is the most expensive day of the year
Strategy is not an event. The companies that compound run strategy as a weekly metabolism, not an annual offsite.
In conversation with Annika Vohra: rebuilding Northbridge
A founder on the eighteen months between $3M and $14M ARR: what changed, what didn't, what she'd skip.