We join your team and pair clear strategy with hands-on delivery — turning hard growth into steady momentum. Embedded, not advisory: we own the outcome beside you.
It's rarely the product. It's execution — and it's where we do our best work. The honest picture:
of Series B companies never reach Series C — and it's rarely the product that holds them back.
days is the median stretch between rounds, where momentum is the rarest currency you have.
of senior leadership hires misfit within 18 months. A fractional start de-risks the call.
You shouldn't have to hire us to find out whether we're any good. Each of these is a bounded piece of work with a price, a timeline, and something in your hands at the end. Most turn into longer work. None of them have to.
Six sessions across two tracks. Three on getting real value out of AI coding agents without letting them quietly eat your margin. Three on the people and leadership it takes to make the climb from Series B to C. Every session ends with something your team can do the next morning — not a deck.
From $2.5K CAD per session
See the sessionsOne week, fixed scope. We go through your architecture, your cloud spend and your AI tooling, then come back with an unvarnished read on what's costing you money, what's about to break, and what to fix first. Not a maturity model. A list, in order, with numbers against it.
From $6K CAD typically $6–12K, scoped to the estate
Book a reviewMost IRAP proposals don't fail on the business case — they fail because the technical uncertainty isn't there, or isn't legible. We write the objectives, metrics and engineering process documentation an ITA can actually take forward. Start with a readiness assessment: if you're not fundable yet, we'll say so.
From $2K CAD credited against the build
How it worksSeries B is where the playbook breaks. The tools change, the team has to change, and costs that were rounding errors at Series A start showing up on the board's radar. Run one session or run the series.
Getting real value from AI coding agents — without letting them quietly eat your margin.
Compare the major agent platforms on how they actually execute work — the architecture, not the marketing — and map each pricing model to your real usage before the bill arrives.
90-minute briefing or half-day deep diveWhy a single command to an autonomous agent can burn millions of tokens, where the waste hides, and the four guardrails that cut one client's consumption by 24% with no loss in output quality.
3-hour workshop or 90-minute lunch and learnHands-on: implement tool-agnostic guardrails — fluff filters, diff-only output, context pruning — directly in your own repositories. You leave with a working configuration, not a slide deck.
Half-day lab · teams bring their own repositoriesBuilding the team, leaders and workforce plan that carry you from Series B to Series C.
Diagnose whether slow hiring is a recruitment problem, a retention problem or an EVP problem — before you spend another dollar on job ads. Pull a pre-vetted shortlist from your own ATS in under five minutes.
3-hour workshop or 90-minute lunch and learnTell the Builders from the Scalers on your leadership team before the wrong hire costs you six months, and work out whether to develop a struggling leader or replace them.
3-hour workshop or 90-minute lunch and learnReplace the annual headcount plan with a quarterly rhythm built around one question: what's changing in our industry that will break our workforce in twelve months?
3-hour workshop or 90-minute lunch and learnIan clears the technical friction so your systems can function. Toni clears the cultural friction so your people can lead. You work directly with both — no account managers, no hand-offs.
Founding Partner · Head of Tech Stack
“Destroy all bad software.”
Bad software isn't an inconvenience — it's a malignancy that quietly drains your capital, speed and morale. I give a clinical, forensic audit of your stack and the unvarnished truth about what's broken. I don't just fix code; I break down the technical barriers to operational integrity.
linkedin.com/in/ihowlFounding Partner · Head of People Stack
“Eliminate the friction between people & systems.”
What looks like a “people problem” is usually a design flaw — misalignment, unspoken expectations, systems that weren't built for the weight of the company. My superpower is naming the thing beneath the thing, with clarity, empathy and just enough humour to make the hard truth land safely.
linkedin.com/in/tonikayA ten-minute, honest self-assessment of where your execution stands — and the specific gaps worth closing first. No email wall, no pitch.
YOUR SCALING READINESS
Tell us what's slowing you down. We'll reply within a day with a few honest thoughts — whether or not we're the right fit.
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