Referrals

Almost Everything Good Here Arrived by an Introduction

Our best clients were referred by other clients. Our best operators were referred by other operators. So we pay properly for both, rather than pretending word of mouth is free.

Path One

Refer a Founder

Know someone drowning in work that does not need them? Someone who just raised, just hired their first exec, or has said "I need to get out of my inbox" more than twice this year?

$1,000

paid to you when they become a client, and a discount for them on their first invoice.

  • 1Make the introduction, or send us their details and we will reach out.
  • 2We have a real conversation with them. If it is not the right moment, we say so.
  • 3They become a client, and you get paid once they are past their first full month.
Make an introduction
Path Two

Refer an Operator

Know someone exceptional who is wasted where they are? Someone organised, resourceful and genuinely good at figuring things out, who deserves a career rather than a job?

$500

paid to you if they make it through our process and get placed. Most people do not, which is rather the point.

  • 1Send us their name and a line on why. One line is enough.
  • 2They go through the same seven stages as everyone else. No shortcuts, including for referrals.
  • 3If they are placed with a client, you get paid.
Refer someone
Refer a Founder

Who to Think Of

The people we help most tend to look like this:

  • Running something between roughly $1m and $20m, or heading that way fast
  • Still personally doing work that a competent operator should own
  • Has tried an assistant before and been disappointed
  • Has a family, and a quiet sense that the business is taking hours it should not

If two or more of those are true of someone you know, the introduction is probably welcome.

Introduce themOne sentence to us, and we take it from there.
We do the workNo chasing from you, and no awkward follow up.
Everyone winsThey get an operator, you get thanked properly.
Thank you — introduction noted.We will take it from here, gently. If it is not the right moment for them, we will say so.
Refer an Operator

What We Are Looking For

Not a CV. We take people with raw capability over people with the right job history, and we train the rest. What we cannot train is the part in the middle:

  • Organised to the point that nothing falls through
  • Figures things out without being told how
  • Calm when the brief turns out to be wrong
  • Reaches for the tool that removes the task rather than doing it faster by hand
  • Fluent written and spoken English, able to work US hours

If that describes someone you know, send them. Or send them the careers page and let them apply themselves.

Thank you — noted.They go through the same seven stages as everyone else. No shortcuts, including for referrals.