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AI-native operating partners. Embedded until it works.

We embed with your leadership team to shape how your business runs across stack, org, and culture. Tailored to your operation, measured by what your business does differently.

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The next 10x isn't coming from working harder on the existing operation.

You've incorporated AI. Your business still runs the same way. The gains keep getting absorbed by legacy workflows, fragmented data, and an operating model designed for a pre-AI world. Real change takes operators who'll rebuild the machine, not advisors who hand you a deck.

Growth Has Plateaued

The system that got you here won’t get you to the next stage. Working the existing operation harder won’t break through; the operation itself is the ceiling.

AI Hasn't Moved the Needle

The promised productivity keeps evaporating inside how work actually flows.

Built for the Wrong Era

You have the customer and industry expertise but aren’t sure how to future proof operations. Bolt-on tools don’t fix things. The operating model does.

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We're Built Different

AI-Native Operators, Not Consultants

We embed, build, and coach alongside your team until your business runs differently, not until the engagement ends.

Tailored to How Your Company Actually Works

No playbook, no platform we’re trying to sell. We rebuild your data, workflows, and decision systems around the specific reality of your business. The tooling is yours when we leave.

Measured in Business Outcomes

We sign up for the result, not the deliverable. Faster cycles, real margin, the next leg of growth. If we can’t point to what changed in the business, we haven’t done the job.

Operating Partners, Not Consultants

We're operators. We've built, scaled, exited, and rebuilt companies ourselves. Now we embed with leadership teams as AI-native operating partners and do the work alongside you. Tailored to your operation, measured by what your business does differently after we leave.

Kim Nortman

CEO, Executive Coach, & Strategic Advisor

Exited 2x founder, CEO, and lawyer. Native AI operator who coaches CEOs and embeds with leadership teams through pivots, PMF, scaling, and AI-era operating model rebuilds. Expert in strategy, culture, leadership, and AI-enablement for non-technical teams.

Specializes in:
  • Executive coaching
  • AI-native organizational transformation
  • Strategic pivots and PMF
  • Leadership team alignment
  • Culture and adoption

Ben Handzo

CPO/CTO & Product Coach

Product and data leader at Dubsado, NationBuilder, Bird, and Extra Point. Rebuilds the data foundation and modernizes legacy technical teams. Ships bespoke agent tooling tailored to how the specific business actually runs, not generic platforms bolted on top.

Specializes in:
  • Data foundation rebuilds
  • Legacy technical team modernization
  • Bespoke AI and agent tooling
  • Product strategy transformation
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We fix what's actually broken

Whether you need a clear-eyed read on where AI fits, an operating model rebuild, leadership coaching, or immediate execution, we meet you where you're stuck and do the work alongside you.

Executive Coaching

Lead at AI-Era Pace

Coaching for leaders running businesses where the operating tempo, the toolkit, and the team’s habits are all changing at once. Weekly or bi-weekly sessions plus “red phone” access for founders and executives who need a thinking partner who’s actually operated through this.

  • Decision systems and radical candor for AI-era operating
  • Communication and people management as the org reshapes
  • Embedding culture and values into a team that’s leveraging new tools
  • Org design and operating-model judgment calls
  • Product, strategy, and leadership through pivots and scale

Perfect for: Leaders who treat continuous improvement as part of the job, embrace honest self-reflection, and understand that the people are what makes the operation actually work.

AI State-of-Play Audit

Find Where the Next 10x Is Hiding

A clear-eyed read on where AI actually fits in your operation. We map strategy, data, stack, org readiness, and AI maturity, then deliver a 12-month operating roadmap and one built proof point so you can see the change before you commit further.

What’s Included:

  • Operating model and value chain audit
  • Data foundation and stack assessment
  • AI maturity, adoption, and vendor lock-in review
  • Org readiness and decision-velocity diagnostic
  • 12-month roadmap with prioritized bets
  • One built proof point tailored to your business

Perfect for: Leadership teams who suspect the next leg of growth lives in how the business operates, not in working harder at what isn’t working.

90-Day Operating Sprint

Three Tracks Moving the Business at Once

Embedded operators rebuilding how the business runs across stack, org, and the people doing the work. AI is the lever; outcomes are the deliverable.

Transformation Tracks:

  • Technical & Data (Ben): Rebuild the data foundation, modernize legacy technical teams, ship bespoke tooling tailored to your operation.
  • Executive & Org (Kim): Leadership operating system, decision velocity, organizational design, culture.
  • Team Capability (both): AI-leveraged workflows for the people doing the work, so productivity actually compounds.

Pre-requisite: Strategic clarity from a State-of-Play Audit, or equivalent shared read on where the operation is constrained.

Interim CEO/COO (Kim) or CPO/CTO (Ben)

Take the Wheel While You Transform

We step into critical leadership roles during fundraising, pivots, scaling, or founder transitions, and execute while transforming. Not advice from the sidelines. We run day-to-day operations and build the systems your permanent team will inherit.

  • Full operational leadership during transformation periods
  • Strategic decision-making and execution authority
  • Team development and organizational design
  • System building and process implementation
  • Transition planning and knowledge transfer to permanent leadership

Perfect for: Companies in transition who need experienced operators to maintain momentum while building for the future, or founders who need to focus on specific areas while ensuring business continuity.