Making decisions
Needs
Context and authority
Which doesn’t require forty hours a week.
The First Ninety Days.
An Expert Operator engagement starts with a question rather than a contract: what the seat has to have produced by day ninety. Here’s how we run the answer.
Book a call
Day 0
Introduction
Day 45
Checkpoint
Day 90
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The question first
Making decisions and managing a team are different jobs.
So before anyone is introduced, we work out with you what the seat has to produce in ninety days.
Managing a team
Needs
Continuity and trust
Built over months — which part-time usually can’t give you.
The ninety-day answer decides who we introduce and what gets measured.
How the ninety days run
Intake, a checkpoint, a decision.
The question
We work out with you what the seat has to produce in ninety days. That answer decides who we introduce.
A defined outcome, with a number
Intake
The introduction, then the Expert Operator embeds. A short initial period exists so both sides can back out cleanly.
The XO working inside the seat
The checkpoint
Both sides say how it’s going, so nobody waits until day ninety to say something. If it isn’t working, we replace the match.
Continue, adjust, or replace
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The outcome against the target gets recorded on AchieveOS, and the extension gets decided on that — not on how the relationship feels.
Result recorded · extension decided
What gets measured
The outcome you defined together, with a number on it.
Hours logged
Activity
At day ninety the result gets recorded on AchieveOS against both the company and the Expert Operator — which is how outcomes accumulate into something either side can point to later.
Recorded on AchieveOS · Day 90
Outcome
- Target
- The outcome you and the XO defined, with a number on it
- Result
- What the seat actually produced by day ninety
- Recorded against
- The company and the Expert Operator
- Used for
- Something either side can point to later
If it isn’t working
Tell us and we replace them.
We stay involved after the introduction rather than treating placement as the finish line, and a match that isn’t working is our problem to fix.
A short initial period
So both sides can back out cleanly.
The day-45 checkpoint
So nobody waits until day ninety to say something.
After ninety days
The ninety days are how both sides find out which of these this is.
01
The engagement continues
Most engagements run three to twelve months.
02
A standing advisory board seat
Once the operating work is done.
03
Cofounding
Some Expert Operators go on to cofound with the founder they started alongside.
Questions we get
Before the first introduction.
Introductions in days for most functions. Someone embedded and working within a few weeks, depending on scope and availability.
It depends on the seat and the scope you define together on the first call. We give you a number against the ninety-day outcome rather than an hourly rate.
Both sides say how it’s going at the day-45 checkpoint, so nobody waits until day ninety to say something. If it isn’t working, we replace the match.
Yes. Most engagements run three to twelve months, and some continue as a standing advisory board seat or as cofounding.
Start with the day-ninety question.
Bring the seat you’re trying to fill. We’ll give you a number on the first call.