Ben Klein

A vetted community of 100+ fractional experts and executives who have built and scaled teams, products, and revenue engines at high-growth companies. The network powers both direct fractional placements and Forward Achieve’s personal advisory boards. Every expert is founder-vetted and brings verified operational impact through their STAR Portfolio.

Every expert in the Forward network builds a STAR Portfolio—verified case studies structured as Situation, Task, Action, Result. With 160+ quantified outcomes across the network, these are founder-vetted proof points that demonstrate real operational impact. Competitors have profiles; we have proof.

Each expert goes through a multi-gate vetting process: application review, LinkedIn profile verification, experience depth assessment (5+ years at Senior level or above), domain expertise validation (2+ relevant roles), and advisory intent confirmation. Experts are then scored and tiered to ensure the highest quality matches.

Initial proposals are delivered within 48 hours of your discovery call. Each proposal includes expert match rationale, STAR Portfolio highlights, and engagement recommendations.

Three pathways: Fractional Consulting for embedded part-time operators, Expert Advising through Forward Achieve for personal advisory boards, and Venture Cofounding through Forward Share Ventures Studio—an AI-native venture studio where we co-build with founders.

A seasoned operator embeds directly into your team on a part-time basis (typically 10–30 hours per month). They attend standups, lead key workstreams, and deliver hands-on execution—not just advice. This is a managed advisory partnership, not a job board or recruiting firm. Engagements typically run 3–12 months.

experts and executives and VP-level operators across product management, engineering leadership, sales & revenue, HR/people ops, finance, marketing, operations, and more. If you need a senior operator in a specific function, we likely have someone in the network who fits.

A personal advisory board is a curated group of 3–5 vetted fractional experts and executives matched to your specific operational goals and growth stage. Forward Achieve transforms one-off advisory into structured, recurring board engagements—an activation layer for the goals you’ve already set.

We match across multiple dimensions: domain expertise overlap, industry experience, company stage fit, availability, geographic and timezone compatibility, budget alignment, and working-style fit. Every match includes advisory style profiling—whether you need a Challenger, a Sounding Board, or a hands-on operator.

Each quarter includes a board composition review, structured sync sessions with your matched experts, outcome tracking, and ongoing async access. Your board evolves with you—experts can be rotated based on shifting priorities.

Forward Achieve is an activation layer for operational goals—not coaching or leadership development. Your board members are operators who have built and scaled the exact functions you are navigating. They bring pattern-matched experience from real P&L ownership.

We don’t build for you—we build with you. FSV Studio is an AI-native venture studio that pairs founders with fractional operators (CTO, CMO, CFO) from the Forward network to co-build from idea to revenue. The founder stays in the seat; we augment with operators, methodology, and capital.

Solo founders and early-stage teams at the pre-seed stage who have hit the wall building alone. If you need a fractional CTO, CRO, or CMO to get past month three, the Studio provides the operator bench, the SOS build methodology, and pre-seed capital to move from idea to traction.

Studio ventures get the full Forward Share Ventures infrastructure: the SOS playbook (Strategy–Operations–Scale methodology across three lifecycles), 100+ vetted operators for advisory and fractional support, pre-seed capital through FSV Capital, investor introductions, and structured milestone tracking to accelerate from zero to one.