Your company outgrew the way it's run. That's fixable.

If someone sent you this page, they think your company is at the moment this letter describes.

Dear founder,

The board pack gets built the night before. The goals live on paper and nobody looks at them again. Exec hires get made by gut, and unmade expensively. The investor updates go quiet right when they matter most. None of it means you're failing. It outgrew how it's run.

I've been in the chair. I founded Reciprocity (ZenGRC), bootstrapped it for the first five years, and grew it to $20M ARR and 400+ customers, running it over a decade through the hard chapters, including the last one: a restructuring that cost me most of my own stake. I'll tell you that story straight if you ask. I studied computer science at MIT, and did AI research at Sloan as a grad student.

What I do is three things. A weekly cadence that runs off a real scorecard, not a status meeting. A one-page map of the whole company, with one owner per row. And board and investor materials that render off one live source, instead of being assembled at midnight.

The way I work: agents produce. I'm the executive in the loop. You're not behind on AI, and I bring it with me. In 2023 I had an LLM drafting each person's quarterly objectives from their actual contracts, two years before the goal-software vendors shipped the same feature.

You do less and matter more. I peel off you what never needed your judgment, and I stop where stopping keeps you close enough to steer. This isn't about taking your company away from you. The systems make you harder to work around, not easier to replace. What I see stays between us, and what your board hears from me, you approve first: I don't take a board seat while I'm embedded.

I built the first version of this for my own shop in 2023 and graded my own quarter an F, in writing. Perfect cadence, starving pipeline. So I will tell you if what you need isn't me. If the teardown shows your real problem is the product or the selling, you'll hear that, and you'll keep the rest of your money.

I hold one deep engagement at a time. Every engagement carries written exit criteria from day one, and the system flags itself when it goes stale, so it cannot quietly die after I leave.