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 needs three rounds of meetings
The structure looks fine on paper. In practice, nothing gets decided fast. Proposals die in consensus loops. Accountability is fuzzy. You’re paying the tax of ambiguous authority, every day.
GovOps DesignThings ship only because someone burned a weekend.
Handoffs are chaos. Nobody owns execution end to end. The team is talented but the operating system underneath is missing. When someone takes a break, things break.
GovOps ExecutionThe team doubled and handoffs are dropping
Two months ago things worked. Now half the team is new, information isn’t reaching the right people, decisions get duplicated, work gets dropped. You spend your day pointing people at each other.
GovOps ExecutionThe founder is the single point of failure
Every contract, every hire, every release waits on your signoff. The work you’re best at, the strategy, the relationships, the next bet, never gets the time it needs.
Fractional COOWhat 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.
GovOps Design
- Decision rights mapped, so calls stop routing through one person
- Every function with a clear owner, no orphaned work
- 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
- A weekly operating cadence that holds: meeting, reporting, decision rhythm
- Owners tracked and decisions that actually move, not just logged
- One view of delivery, cost, and time to market
- Treasury and financial-ops coordination where relevant
We run what we build. If someone else built it, we fix it.
Fractional COO
Senior operating leadership, part-time, for founders who need a COO’s output before they can justify a COO’s salary. Footprint shrinks as the team grows.
Advisory
Venture design, commercial architecture, operating and governance strategy, stakeholder alignment. Not advice from the sidelines.
Designed, launched, operated, and wound down
We built The Sandbox DAO operating and governance system from scratch and ran it for three years, managing a $10M annual budget through 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
30 minute call. Tell us what’s breaking, we’ll tell you whether there’s a fit.
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