Briefing for SaaS founders · $1M – $10M ARR
Your founder shouldn't
be the bottleneck.
90 days. We sit in your standups, audit what's broken, install the operating rhythm your team needs, and walk away with a playbook your next operator can run.
The ninety days.
Three movements. Audit, install, hand off. No pre-built deck, no boilerplate playbook - what's documented is what was used.
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See what's actually happening.
The first month is reconnaissance. We watch without prescribing - meetings, metrics, the things the team won't tell the founder.
- Sit in every recurring meeting for two weeks
- Map the org chart, the unwritten org chart, and the gaps
- Pull six months of metrics into one source of truth
- Interview the team. Find what they won't tell the founder.
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Put the rhythm in place.
Month two is installation. The rituals, the agendas, the dashboards, the hiring scaffolding - written down, run live, refined in week three.
- Weekly metrics review with a real agenda
- Monthly board-style operations memo
- Hiring scaffolding for the next two roles
- One process the founder gets to stop doing this month
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Make it run without us.
The last month transfers the operating rhythm from our hands to yours - to your second-in-command if you have one, or to the new hire we helped select.
- Train the operator who replaces us (or your existing #2)
- Document the playbook in a single living doc
- Final memo: what's fixed, what's still leaking, what's next
- Two follow-up calls in the 90 days after we end
By the numbers.
Last twelve engagements, twelve months, no exceptions.
- 100% Engagements completed the full 90 days. No mid-engagement exits, either side.
- 9/12 Brought us back for a second engagement - either continuation or a new role.
- 2.4× Median time-to-hire improvement on operator roles we helped scope and screen.
The brief from the field.
I hired Prospect Silver because I was working sixty-five hour weeks and couldn't tell my board what our churn rate was without digging through Notion for an hour. By week six I had both back.
Who this is for.
Good fit
- $1M – $10M ARR SaaS, growing or stable
- Founder is still personally running ops
- 10 – 50 person team
- Profitable or close to it. Not a turnaround service.
- Founder wants out of ops, not out of the company
Not a fit
- Pre-revenue or pre-PMF
- Looking for a full-time COO hire (we hire you one)
- Need a turnaround / down-round operator
- Non-SaaS businesses
- Want someone to just write SOPs
Schedule the briefing.
Thirty minutes. We listen, ask, and tell you straight whether we'd take the engagement. If we wouldn't, we'll point you at who would.
Schedule a briefing