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ii. Fractional GTM leadership

Command.

When the diagnosis says you need a leader and you don't have one yet — we can become that leader. Not advisory. Not coaching. In the seat.

CRO
18 mo.
CMO 26
CFO 60
CEO 84
Average tenure · months in seat
Why fractional makes sense

CROs last 18 months. CEOs last seven years. The seat the founder needs filled is the one most likely to turn over.

Source · SBI Growth · HBR · Crist Kolder 2024
What Command is

In the seat. Not in the wings.

When you don't yet need a permanent leader — but you need someone running the function — Command fills the seat properly.

Not advisory. Not coaching. Not "fractional" in the loose sense where a name appears on an org chart and an invoice goes out. Command means we sit in the seat — Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Commercial Officer, VP Sales — for as long as the engagement calls for. We hold the number. We run the team. We sit on forecast calls. We make the calls a permanent leader would make.

For the founder, the Command engagement does three things at once. It puts a seasoned operator in the seat without a permanent commitment. It gives you a working GTM motion you can hand to a permanent hire when the time is right. And it gives you forensic clarity about what kind of leader you actually need next — because by the time we exit, we've run the function and we know.

Six months in the seat tells you more about the role than six months interviewing for it.

The seats we take

Three roles. Same posture.

Different titles, different scopes — but always operational, always in the room, always holding the number.

Chief Revenue Officer

CRO

The full revenue function — sales, marketing alignment, customer success, RevOps. For founder-led companies between $5M and $50M ARR where the GTM motion needs an owner, fast.

Cross-functional 3–12 month engagement

Chief Commercial Officer

CCO

The full commercial function plus deeper involvement in pricing, packaging, and partnerships. For companies where the question isn't how do we close more deals? but are we taking the right ones to market?

Strategic commercial owner 6–12 month engagement

VP Sales

VPS

Sales leadership only. For situations where marketing and CS already have leadership, or when the founder isn't ready to hand off the full revenue function. Often the right first step.

Sales-focused 3–9 month engagement

Defined exits

By design

Every Command engagement has a defined exit shape from day one. We're either handing the function to a permanent hire, transitioning back to the founder, or extending intentionally. Never staying because we forgot to leave.

Clean handoffs Termed engagements
How Command connects

A bridge. Not a destination.

Most Command engagements end in a handoff. Some end in a permanent hire. A few extend. The shape depends on the work.

Course → Command
A diagnostic reveals the system needs operational leadership before it can absorb a permanent hire. We come in fractionally. We build the foundation while we run it. More on Course →
Command → Crew
After six to nine months in the seat, we know exactly who needs to come in next. We hand them a working motion and run the search for the permanent leader. More on Crew →
Command alone
A founder doesn't need a permanent leader and doesn't want one. We run the function fractionally for as long as it makes sense. The exit is a transition back to the founder, not a search.
Command → Founder back at the wheel
Sometimes the best outcome of a Command engagement is the founder discovering they've grown into the role themselves. We exit. They run it. The motion holds.
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Let us take the wheel.

A short note about where the function is, where you want it to be, and what's standing in the way. We'll come back with whether Command is the right shape, or whether something else is.

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