Early-stage founders move fast, and systems rarely keep up. Information ends up in multiple places. Processes live in people's heads. New team members struggle to find what they need. Orbit builds the operational foundation that makes your company run like a serious organisation. In four weeks, at a fixed price.
Book a conversationBetween raising and hiring, there's a gap of months, sometimes years, where operational chaos compounds quietly. A COO comes at month twelve. A chief of staff at month eighteen. Until then, the cost is invisible — until you try to scale.
That gap is widening. AI-assisted building means small teams are shipping production-grade products faster than ever, but internal systems aren't keeping pace. Startups raising $4–6 million with fewer than five employees are managing enterprise-scale workloads on pre-seed level infrastructure. The external product looks serious. The inside often doesn't match.
Post-raise, the operational load multiplies faster than headcount. The cost is invisible until you try to scale.
Information lives across Slack, email, Notion, and shared drives that are hard to keep on top of. Finding what you need takes longer than it should.
Onboarding depends on who's available. Recurring tasks get done differently every time. One person leaves and institutional knowledge walks out with them.
You know you should hand things off. Without documented processes or clear ownership structures, delegation creates more work than it removes.
No dashboard. No shared view of what matters. Every meeting starts with ten minutes of status updates that should have been visible before anyone sat down.
Each new hire needs someone senior to hold their hand through basics that should be documented. Your time goes to orientation, not building.
When a board member asks a simple operational question and it takes three days to answer, the competence signal is wrong. The chaos is showing.
The founder's attention is the scarcest resource in any early-stage company. Orbit builds the infrastructure layer that lets everything else run without pulling you in.
Product decisions, fundraising, hiring, strategy. The work that only you can do and where your attention compounds.
Shared drive architecture, operational dashboards, documented SOPs, visual process guides. Built to institutional standard. Delivered in four weeks.
A team that can find what they need, follow documented processes, onboard without hand-holding, and operate without pulling the founder in for basics.
I have eight years of C-suite support, from founder-led startups to the right hand of a COO at one of the world's largest alternative asset managers. I'm passionate about building with AI as a creative tool, and I love helping startups get off the ground — I'm building my own venture here for some of the same reasons you are.
The Foundation Sprint comes naturally to me. I've seen how to execute this work at scale and don't need hand-holding to deliver it for a small team. This isn't a consultant's report. Or a VA's task list. This is real infrastructure, built correctly and handed over.
The Foundation Sprint is a single, fixed-scope project. Orbit spends four weeks building the operational infrastructure your company needs and hands it over. No ongoing dependency. No retainer required. A permanent foundation your team actually uses.
Everything is built async and delivered in structured phases.
Week one
Discovery and architecture
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Weeks two and three
The build
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Week four
Documentation, handover, and a live walkthrough with your team
A structured, logical information system built around how your team actually works. Everything findable. Every folder named and organised with intent. No more hunting.
A single view of what matters, built for your tools, your team, and your cadence. Status visible without a meeting. Progress tracked without chasing.
Core recurring processes documented clearly. Written, tested, and formatted so that any team member can follow them, not just the person who created them.
Complex workflows turned into clear, scannable visual documents. Onboarding, approvals, handovers. Legible at a glance rather than buried in a paragraph.
A structured walkthrough of everything built, with your team present. Not just a delivery. A handover designed to make the system stick from day one.
For founders who want the infrastructure kept current as the company evolves. A lightweight async retainer to refine, update, and extend the foundation as you grow. Scoped separately.
Orbit works with a small number of clients at a time. The founding rate is available to the next two clients only.
A twenty-minute conversation about where your systems are breaking down and what a Foundation Sprint would actually build for your company. No pitch. No pressure. An honest assessment of whether Orbit is the right fit.
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