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Scale with
smart strategy & identity 

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Build the business behind the product

with actionable strategy, and your culture intact

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Whether you call it a roadmap, a playbook, or a strategy, you don’t miss it until you really need it.
By then, the overview has started to slip, and direction becomes unclear. That’s where we come in. 

We help scale-ups put structure and focus behind their growth, bringing back the overview and a strong sense of identity.

Our strategic roadmaps are actionable, align people across functions and levels, and help founders scale with a flexible strategy that is lived, not just written.

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Get back the overview. Give your team autonomy.
Scale with structure and soul.

typical challenges

Scale-ups without strategy & structure will lose ...

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Everyone is busy, but pulling in different directions

Everything feels urgent, but nothing truly moves forward.

FOCUS & OVERVIEW

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Top talent hesitates when things feel unclear or unstructured

Onboarding is chaotic and unfocussed

People leave when they spend more energy navigating confusion than doing great work

TALENT

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Processes, systems and silos build walls and drain culture & soul

What made the company special starts getting lost in the noise

SPIRIT

what you get with us

we give you back overview, direction and alignment

 

Strategic planning

on just one page that connects vision to action

Internal alignment

across growing teams, departments, levels and regions

Positioning and messaging

that drive customer growth and keep competitors away

Strategy and (brand) values

rolled out together, they grow the business and culture

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who we work with

scale-ups preparing for growth

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Already have product–market fit and traction ​

Typically just after seed or Series A funding

Growing their team from 5 to 50+ and feeling the new complexity

Looking for structure, strategic focus, and cultural alignment to grow without losing their edge

 

Investors who want to support their portfolio beyond funding

We also offer affordable entry-level packages for pre-seed startups — learn more

what investors say

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"Your company has to achieve a monopoly. Something utterly new, something that can't be copied."

One of the 4 criteria to see if a business has the potential to become a monopoly, is its brand.

"Strong brands form strong bonds and create a buzz that can't be replicated."

– Peter Thiel

PayPal and Palantir Technologies

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"No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it."

Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric

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"​Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work."

– Ken Blanchard, Leading at a Higher Level

"Your culture is your second product:

 

At HubSpot, we have two products: one we sell to our customers (HubSpot’s CRM), and one we sell to our employees (HubSpot’s culture).

 

Like your product, you need your culture to be unique relative to the competition (for talent) and you want your culture to be very valuable (for talent).

 

Like your product, when your culture is unique and valuable, your company turns into a magnet that attracts and retains terrific talent.

 

And also like your product, it’s never done—it needs continuous iteration."

–  Brian Halligan, Co-Founder and CEO of Hubspot

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PLANNING IS ABOUT MAKING CHOICES AND TRADE-OFFS, CHOOSING TO BE DIFFERENT
–MICHAEL PORTER

THE ESSENCE OF STRATEGY
IS CHOOSING WHAT NOT TO DO
 

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