// 01the_work// receipts

I don't hand you a deck.
I show you what you can't see.

I'm not in the seat doing the keystrokes — I'm the outside eyethat finds what you can't see from inside it: the blind spot, the unknown unknown, the expensive thing nobody questioned. You get the diagnosis and the plan, and I coach your team through the fix. The agent C-suite I run keeps the mechanical work moving between sessions. You hold the keys and the final call. When the answer is a heavy, done-for-you build, I hand it to Fianna ↗, the build arm I run with Neil Benedict.

I'm not interested in being the smartest person in your inbox. I'm interested in the number going up.

FYEO2022gtm · cro

$2M+ ARR in five months. In a bear market.

Took over revenue at a cybersecurity Web3 firm. Rebuilt the ICP, compressed the sales cycle, and personally closed 60%+ of marquee customer recurring revenue while the rest of the market was frozen.

gtm · cro
TANGEM2020—2022enterprise bd

7-figure enterprise revenue. Company now $75M+ top line.

Global BD and all C-suite relationships at a self-custody hardware wallet. Designed the enterprise motion from scratch, shipped partnerships that now underwrite a $500M+ valuation.

enterprise bd
SORAMITSU2018—2020cbdc · infra

Shipped one of the world's first retail CBDC systems.

VP of Business Development, North America. Contributed to NBC Bakong — a production retail central-bank digital currency at the National Bank of Cambodia — and co-led a token launch that hit $250M market cap.

cbdc · infra
SOLACE NEW YORK2014—2017founder · exit

Raised $3M+. Top-10 CrossFit gym in America. Exited.

Co-founded a Manhattan gym. Raised hybrid securities, hit EBITDA positive in six months, grew to $3M+ ARR and 600 members. Self Magazine's top 10 list. The real MBA.

founder · exit
// 02what_i_actually_do// the outside eye, not a deck

I find what you can't see.

The receipts above are what surfaces when someone outside your blind spot looks in. Here's what that looks like applied to your business, across the three things a fractional CXO actually moves.

// revenue & gtm
  • Rebuild your ICP, positioning, and pricing until the right buyers lean in
  • Compress the sales cycle and rebuild the pipeline
  • Get on the calls and close — I've personally closed 60%+ of marquee recurring revenue
  • Open enterprise & C-suite doors — I ran every C-suite relationship at a company now north of $75M
// ai & automation
  • Deploy the agent C-suite — strategy, finance, ops, marketing, BD — to do the mechanical work between sessions
  • Automate the repeated decisions: the “every Monday we all get on a call and…” workflows
  • Kill the busywork first — most engagements surface an expensive thing to stop doing entirely
  • Build systems that compound, and hand you the keys — you own them, not a vendor
// the seat
  • Take a real fractional seat — CRO, COO, or CMO — embedded and part-time
  • Diagnose the bottleneck from first principles, then map the fix — no deck, no homework dumped on you
  • Coach you and your team through every move, so the capability stays in-house
  • Founder empathy and radical candor — I've sat in the seat, so I tell you the truth

The teardown is free. If I can't find money in your business worth more than my fee, you owe me nothing.

// 03engagement// four ways in

// free teardown

Free
30 min · no pitch
Bring the problem you can't see past. We find where AI actually pays — or doesn't — from first principles.
  • ›A first-principles read on your real bottleneck
  • ›Where automation pays off, and where it doesn't
  • ›One next move you can act on — with me or without
  • ›No deck, no pressure
book_the_call →

// strategy session

$500
60 min · pay-as-you-go
One focused working hour. Pay by the session, no retainer — bring a decision and we cut it to first principles, then rebuild it.
  • ›A live, founder-to-coach working hour
  • ›One hard problem, decomposed and rebuilt
  • ›Concrete next steps + the agent C-suite primed to execute
  • ›Stack sessions or roll into a retainer
book_a_session →

// coaching retainer

$500/hr
1 hr/wk min · $2k/mo floor
Forward-deployed CXO on the clock — a standing weekly working hour, written contract, shared skin in the game. No big monthly commit to start.
  • ›A standing weekly working hour with Jim — same chair, same time
  • ›Forward-deployed — I operate in your stack, not across a table
  • ›Airtight contract, shared upside, real responsibility
  • ›Agent C-suite primed between hours to keep the work moving
book_the_call →

// fractional cxo

$10k+
/mo · scope to value
Embedded operator on retainer. Founder-bruised, founder-tested — I sit in the chair with you and take responsibility for the call, not just the advice.
  • ›A full fractional CXO, Jim solo — sales · marketing · finance · ops · AI
  • ›You keep the keys and the final call; I take the work and the hit
  • ›Scope-to-value pricing — $10k/mo floor, sized to the upside we build
  • ›Agent C-suite ships between sessions — a full bench at one price
book_me →
// build, not coach

Want it built for you, not taught? Heavy, done-for-you AI OS builds go to Fianna ↗ — the Jim × Neil Benedict build arm. Same brain, different lane.

// 04how_it_works// from hello to kickoff
01

The free teardown

A 30-minute call. We pressure-test your real bottleneck from first principles. You leave with a next move whether or not we work together.

02

A scoped plan

If there is a fit, you get a short written plan — what to build or stop, what it is worth, and which rung fits: a one-off session or a retainer.

03

We start

Book a paid session or kick off the retainer. The agent C-suite is primed to execute between our conversations — a full bench at one price.

// 05faq// asked more than once

If yours isn't here, just book the call — 30 minutes, no deck, no pitch.

+I'm not technical. Can you still help me?
That's the whole point. The work isn't handing you a tool — it's translating your business into a machine a tool can then execute. You stay in charge of the judgment. I handle the architecture, vendors, and wiring.
+What kinds of businesses does this actually work for?
Services, ops-heavy SaaS, agencies, professional services, trading desks — anything where humans are re-typing the same decisions. If a process has a sentence like "every Monday we all get on a call and…", it's almost always a candidate.
+Are you going to sell me an agent I don't need?
No. The loop starts with question + delete. Most engagements surface at least one expensive thing you should stop doing entirely. If the answer is 'automate nothing yet,' that's the thesis you'll get.
+What's the difference between this and an AI agency?
Agencies sell you a tool and a login, then leave. I'm a guide — I teach you to build a system that learns your business, so the leverage stays yours. The business thinking comes first; the tech comes second. When you want the heavy build done for you, I hand it to Fianna.
+Do you build it for me, or teach me to build it?
Both lanes exist. Autonomist is the learn-it-yourself path — education plus fractional advisory, me solo. When you'd rather have a context-rich personal AI OS built and shipped for your team, that goes to Fianna, the done-for-you build arm I run with Neil Benedict.
+Do you work with software we already use?
Yes — software-agnostic. No rip-and-replace. The method builds context and AI around whatever you already run. The integration is the value; the last mile is where most AI dies, and that's exactly where the work lives.
+Do you sign NDAs and stay on retainer?
Yes to NDAs — standard mutual. Fractional advisory runs on a monthly retainer. The AI Ops Audit is one-and-done unless you want more — a diagnosis you can act on, with me or without.
+How fast can we start?
The AI Ops Audit can start within a week. Fractional advisory retainers kick off inside two. Done-for-you builds run on Fianna's timeline once we hand off.