Build a company that runs without you in every decision.
We build the operating system your company runs on, and run it with you. We call it GovOps.
Most firms design how a company runs, or operate it. We do both.
A company outgrows the way it runs
The deeper cause: the way the company runs, who owns what, how decisions clear, never scaled with the company. Building that was no one’s job, so it reads as overhead until it breaks.
Every decision routes through you
Hires, spend, priorities, the release. All of it waits on your sign-off. The work only you can do, the strategy, the relationships, the next raise, gets what is left of the week.
Decisions get made. Then nothing moves.
The meeting ends with a call. Two weeks later it is still open, because nobody owns the follow-through and everyone assumes someone does. The same initiative slips twice.
Unclear roles, meeting sprawl, gaps nobody owns
The org chart looks fine on paper. In practice two people think they own the same thing, three things belong to no one, and the calendar fills with meetings that decide nothing.
You are shipping and hiring faster than the company can hold
Headcount doubled. Half the team is new, information stops reaching the right people, work gets duplicated or dropped, and you spend the day pointing people at each other.
What the bottleneck costs.
of project time lost to rework, waiting, and non-value work.
of enterprise time spent on non-value tasks.
of project investment lost when governance and execution are weak.
What we do
Who owns what, which decisions sit where, and the cadence the company runs on.
Fractional COO
Senior operating leadership, part-time, for founders who need a COO’s output before they can justify a COO’s salary. We hold the seat, then hand it to the hire you make.
- Decision rights mapped, so calls stop routing through one person
- Every function with a clear owner, no orphaned work
- A weekly operating cadence that holds: meeting, reporting, decision rhythm
- The operating layer your future COO inherits, built while we run it
GovOps Design
For a unit being stood up: a new entity, a new market, a carve-out, or a function that has outgrown its owner.
- Decision rights and ownership, so nothing routes through one person
- An operating model that holds as you add people: roles, reporting lines, handoffs
- Governance where it earns its place: committees, escalation, board and investor rhythm
- Entity and jurisdictional structuring, where relevant: entity stack, directors, legal and compliance partners
GovOps Execution
We run the system we designed, or fix the one someone else built. For units with a designed model, and companies where a COO already holds the seat.
Advisory
After the mandate. When the hire has landed or the unit is handed over, we stay on beside the seat, two to five days a month. Never instead of it.
Designed, launched, operated, and wound down
We built The Sandbox DAO operating and governance system from scratch, ran it, and wound it down when the mandate ended. Three years end to end, a $10M annual budget, the full lifecycle.
- Constitution and operating framework
- Proposal workflow and voting power architecture
- Jurisdiction selection and entity setup
- Council structure and election mechanics
- Hired and managed the director, supervisor, and law firm
- Hired and managed the operations team: treasurer, grant manager, community manager, accountant
- Selected and onboarded the advisory board
- Treasury operations and transparency reporting
- Structured wind-down when the mandate ended
Cyril has been instrumental in shaping the strategy of The Sandbox DAO from its initial conception. He defined all aspects of its governance and successfully led its operations for more than two years, managing over 38 proposals through review, execution, and long-term impact.
Cyril combines strong operational discipline with the ability to manage senior stakeholders effectively, and has a sharp talent for turning ambition into tangible results. He brings calm, clarity, and momentum when things get complex.
Cyril proved extremely adept at aligning broad varieties of interest groups to create something entirely new in a complex and rapidly changing environment. Thoughtful and diligent, with high integrity. I strongly recommend working with him.
Cyril Forté
Three years designing and running The Sandbox DAO end to end, then closing it with a structured wind-down when the mandate ended. Operations and product leadership at Allianz Partners and HSBC before that.
Let’s talk about where execution is stalling
Start with the GovOps Check: ten questions, three minutes, and it returns the shape your company is in. Then a 45 minute call. You tell us what’s breaking, we tell you whether there’s a fit and what the next step would cost.