I'm an operator-grade peer to CEOs of post-PMF software companies when the work cuts across more than one seat at the table - when the standard functional moves keep widening the gap rather than closing it. The problem isn't function-shaped. There's no seat at the table exactly shaped for it.
Across CEO, CPTO, CPO, and CTO seats over six platform shifts, I've watched the same shape arrive: the company that should be moving but isn't.
The work: I diagnose the actual shape, embed alongside the CEO for a bounded window, and transition into the right permanent structure on the other side.
What makes it hard isn't only the technical and operational dimension - it's the human-systems read underneath: what's actually happening between people in the leadership team, not just what's on the whiteboard. Get that read wrong, and the engagement falls apart under stress. Get it right, and you've unlocked the next level.
Four exits. Engagements are bounded, with capability transfer on the back end.
Draft of a Pattern for when founder-led product stops scaling
What happens when companies expand their product offerings and their product operating system doesn’t keep up? One intervention is to establish explicit decision ownership, avoiding governance bottlenecks and ensuring clear accountability for outcomes.
v2 of simple d3 with Meteor - now rendering individual records
A second simple example of integrating D3 with Meteor, demonstrating reactive data syncing to visualize changes in a collection using circles.
Simplest d3 + meteor example I could make
A simple example demonstrating the integration of Meteor and D3, leveraging reactive data between client and server