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Assess
We interview leadership, sit in on existing meetings and map how priorities, decisions and numbers flow today.
Service
Company Operating System: a business operating system for strategy execution
Most growing companies have a strategy but lack the system that turns it into weekly decisions: clear priorities, named owners, a few trusted numbers and a meeting rhythm that moves work forward. We design it with your leadership team, turn the strategy into an execution roadmap and implement it with you until it runs without us.
The problem
Signals you will recognise
- 01The strategy lives in a deck, but nobody can say what it means for this quarter.
- 02Everything is a priority, so the loudest request wins.
- 03Decisions wait for the founder, including the ones that should not.
- 04Each team tracks its own numbers, so leadership meetings start by arguing over which are right.
- 05Projects start with energy and quietly stall, and nobody notices until the quarter is over.
How it works
What we do
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Design the system
We turn the strategy into a roadmap, quarterly priorities, KPIs, owners, decision rights and a meeting cadence.
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Implement with the team
We run the first planning session, reviews and weekly meetings with you, live in the systems you already use.
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Embed and hand over
We stay a full quarter, adjust what real use reveals and prepare the people who will run the system.
Topics covered
- Strategy and priorities
- Strategic roadmap
- Goals and KPIs
- Roles and ownership
- Meeting cadence and reviews
- Decision rights
Deliverables
- A strategic roadmap linking the long-term direction to this year and this quarter
- Company priorities and goals for the quarter, each with a named owner
- A company scorecard with the KPIs leadership reviews every week
- An ownership map: who owns which outcome, process and decision
- The operating cadence: weekly, monthly and quarterly meetings with agendas and inputs
- Decision rights for the decisions that currently queue at the founder
- Templates and tools set up in the systems you already use
- Hands-on support through the first full quarter
Typical outcome
Leadership knows what matters this quarter, who owns each piece and how it is tracking, and the company executes without every decision going through the founder.
Twelve to sixteen weeks, including the first full quarter on the new system, with scope and price fixed before we start.
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Questions we are asked
No. We use well-known building blocks, but design the system around your business model, your size and your existing habits.
No. We implement in the tools you already use, and the system moves with you if you change them later.
A few working sessions during design, then the meetings you already hold, run differently. The aim is to give leadership time back, not to add meetings.
From it. We add what is usually missing (roadmap, quarterly priorities, cadence) and only revisit the strategy where it is too vague to act on.
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Your company has changed. Has the way it runs caught up?
The Operating Assessment establishes where execution is constrained, and what to fix first.
Who you will speak with
Francisco Campos
Co-founder · Strategy, Operations & Execution
Helps clarify priorities, structure teams and connect organisation design with business execution.
Ana Reis
Co-founder · Leadership, People & Change
Designs and implements People systems, from performance and careers to everyday management routines.
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