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Find out what's actually breaking your company
— before it breaks you or your best people.

Find out what's actually breaking your company
— before it breaks you or your best people.

"My team is good. The business is growing. So why does everything still feel held together with string?"

"My team is good. The business is growing. So why does everything still feel held together with string?"

Most founders spend months fixing symptoms. The Structural Diagnostic tells you the root cause, in two weeks.

Most founders spend months fixing symptoms. The Structural Diagnostic tells you the root cause, in two weeks.

Most founders spend months fixing symptoms. The Structural Diagnostic tells you the root cause, in two weeks.

See how the Structural Diagnostic works

Why your team is working hard…
…but the chaos isn't going away.

Your organisation has quietly outgrown the way it operates. The structure everyone is working around every day was never designed for your current size.

And it's costing you.

  • 2–3 hours daily of your own time spent on decisions that should never reach your desk

  • €150,000–200,000 in salary and recruitment for a senior hire brought in to "fix it" — who defaults to you or leaves after 12 months

  • €50,000–100,000 in recruitment and lost knowledge every time a good person gets fed up and leaves

You've already tried the obvious fixes — the offsite, the tools, the senior hire, the performance reviews, maybe AI. None of it held. Not because you chose badly, but because these are non-structural interventions applied to a structural problem.

The question isn't whether your organisation has structural problems.

At your stage, it does.

The question is which ones, how severe, and what to fix first.

Your organisation has quietly outgrown the way it operates. The structure everyone is working around every day was never designed for your current size.

And it's costing you.

  • 2–3 hours daily of your own time spent on decisions that should never reach your desk

  • €150,000–200,000 in salary and recruitment for a senior hire brought in to "fix it" — who defaults to you or leaves after 12 months

  • €50,000–100,000 in recruitment and lost knowledge every time a good person gets fed up and leaves

You've already tried the obvious fixes — the offsite, the tools, the senior hire, the performance reviews, maybe AI. None of it held. Not because you chose badly, but because these are non-structural interventions applied to a structural problem.

The question isn't whether your organisation has structural problems.

At your stage, it does.

The question is which ones, how severe, and what to fix first.

Your organisation has quietly outgrown the way it operates. The structure everyone is working around every day was never designed for your current size.

And it's costing you.

  • 2–3 hours daily of your own time spent on decisions that should never reach your desk

  • €150,000–200,000 in salary and recruitment for a senior hire brought in to "fix it" — who defaults to you or leaves after 12 months

  • €50,000–100,000 in recruitment and lost knowledge every time a good person gets fed up and leaves

You've already tried the obvious fixes — the offsite, the tools, the senior hire, the performance reviews, maybe AI. None of it held. Not because you chose badly, but because these are non-structural interventions applied to a structural problem.

The question isn't whether your organisation has structural problems.

At your stage, it does.

The question is which ones, how severe, and what to fix first.

Where are you right now?

I've created the Structural Stress Scale to map five levels of organisational strain — from mild friction to visible instability. Each level has a predictable set of symptoms, a predictable misdiagnosis, and a predictable cost if left unaddressed.

Most founders who reach out are at Level 3, trending toward Level 4.

Most of them thought they were at Level 2.

The ideal intervention point is Level 2 tipping into Level 3 — before the strain becomes visible externally, before good people start leaving, and before the structural fixes require significant change management to land.

If you're reading this and recognising yourself somewhere on that scale — you're probably in the window. The question is whether you act before it tips further, or after.

Find out exactly where you are and what it means

Find out exactly where you are and what it means

The Structural Stress Scale

The Structural Stress Scale

Tab 1 of 5: Level 1

Level 1: Mild Friction

“This is annoying.”

Symptom

  • Repeated questions

  • Slight misalignment

  • Minor duplication of work

  • Meetings feel slightly wasteful

  • Things take longer than they should

Emotion

Irritation. Eye-roll energy.

Misdiagnosis

“We just need to communicate better.”
“Let’s put in more check-ins.”

Structural Reality

Informal system hasn’t caught up to growth.

  • Roles are mostly clear, but not explicitly defined

  • Decisions are made quickly, but not recorded

  • Knowledge is shared socially, not structurally

  • Slack still exists in the system

Effort required to maintain output

Low

"Fixability"

Prevention is better than cure

Tab 1 of 5: Level 1

Level 1: Mild Friction

“This is annoying.”

Symptom

  • Repeated questions

  • Slight misalignment

  • Minor duplication of work

  • Meetings feel slightly wasteful

  • Things take longer than they should

Emotion

Irritation. Eye-roll energy.

Misdiagnosis

“We just need to communicate better.”
“Let’s put in more check-ins.”

Structural Reality

Informal system hasn’t caught up to growth.

  • Roles are mostly clear, but not explicitly defined

  • Decisions are made quickly, but not recorded

  • Knowledge is shared socially, not structurally

  • Slack still exists in the system

Effort required to maintain output

Low

"Fixability"

Prevention is better than cure

How We Work Together

Most engagements start with the same thing: finding out what's actually broken before deciding what to fix.

The Structural Diagnostic

2 weeks* | €4,500

I embed with your team, assess your organisation across six structural dimensions, map your highest-friction workflows, and deliver a prioritised roadmap of what to fix and in what order. Five concrete deliverables. One 90-minute debrief. Everything you need to stop guessing and start fixing the right things.

(*Final timeline to be agreed upon after scope discussion, subjected also to your team's size and availability)

See the full offer →

Want hands-on help fixing what we find?

Hourly | Rates upon request

The diagnostic is the starting point. Some founders want to take the roadmap and run with it internally. Others want me to work closely with them to fix the issues. Both are valid.

Let's talk →

Pricing varies based on team size, scope, and organizational complexity.

Who I work with — and why it works.

I work with founder-led teams of 10–50 people who are scaling and have started to feel the structural strain.

I embed directly with your team — not just interviewing leadership, but doing the actual work, sitting in the meetings, opening the shared drives — and assess the structural root causes that interviews alone can't surface.

My diagnostic framework covers six dimensions of organisational structure and produces a prioritised roadmap your team can act on immediately.

My background is 14 years of coordination-heavy roles across global agencies, media networks, startups and founder-led companies — international account director, project lead, operations — always in environments where I had to read structural failure fast, across very different contexts, and figure out what was actually broken versus what just looked broken. The patterns repeat across industries and team sizes. Recognising them quickly is what I do.

Interested to see how I can help your team build adaptive structures that lift you out of chaos?

Book a catch-up call

Interested to see how I can help your team build adaptive structures that lift you out of chaos?

Book a catch-up call

Interested to see how I can help your team build adaptive structures that lift you out of chaos?

Book a catch-up call

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