The operator
in the room
Executive seats filled now, by an operator who has held them
The next round does not wait for the search
Investors underwrite the next round as if the executive team were already in place. Harrison Rider fills the seat now and hands it over running when the full-time hire arrives.
One owner and one date on every award, option, and deliverable
Without the seat, deliverables sit in the founder’s inbox
A plan the next investor can underwrite
Without the seat, the deck gets built the month before the round
An operating rhythm already running on day one
Without the seat, the hire rebuilds the systems
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Carries the chief executive's agenda through the company, so the founder's time goes to customers, investors, and the product.
- Board meeting preparation
- Investor updates
- The founder's priorities turned into owners and dates
- Operating budget tracked against plan
- Weekly operating rhythm for the leadership team
Runs the company between the founder and the engineers: program execution after the award, and the people and cadence that keep it on schedule.
- Board and investor reporting on one page
- Integrated master schedule for every active contract
- Risk register, with an owner and a date on every risk
- Contract status tracker across awards and options
- Org chart
- Hiring plan sequenced to the next program
Owns the plan the company raises on and sells against: where the product enters, which budget line pays for it, who competes, and what the next round has to prove.
- Go-to-market plan mapped to the acquisition pathway
- Competitive landscape
- Market sizing from the budget books
- Fundraising deck
- Business plan
- Data room
Turns the product into contracts: which solicitations to chase, which primes to team with, and which bids to walk away from.
- Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) proposals
- Opportunity pipeline
- Capture calendar
- The bid or no-bid call on each opportunity
- Prime and reseller partnerships, with the agreements marked up
What is running before the quarter closes
The operating picture
Every contract, deliverable, option, and due date in one tracker, read against the people assigned to it
Schedule and risk register
An integrated master schedule for each program, risks ranked, owned, and dated
The plan and the partners
Pathway, budget line, competitors, and the primes and resellers that carry the product, with terms flagged before signature
The hiring plan
The roles that unlock the next program, in the order they pay for themselves
The permanent hire
The systems are already running when the full-time executive arrives
The seat has been held before
Director of strategy
A $100 million Series C: the data room, the investor process, and investor relations
Chief of staff
Took the company from 8 to 35+ and ran a $20M+ operating budget
Fractional strategy lead
Positioning, the business plan, the go-to-market plan, and the investor materials for the raise
Start with one conversation
Which seat is empty, what the next twelve months have to deliver, and when the full-time hire is planned. No proprietary information required
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