EMBEDDED FRACTIONAL EXECUTIVES
We work in your business,
so you can work on it.
Your calendar's maxed. A seat just emptied. Growth's gone flat. That's when we embed a senior executive to change everything.
One executive, 1–2 days a week
An AI staff + BraveOS®
One flat monthly fee, no payroll
The bench behind the world's most exciting brands
WHAT WE CHANGE
Move every number in the right direction.
More than deliverables and workshops. Changes you can point to on the P&L — wins you can feel throughout the week.
Revenue up
A pipeline that fills and closes without you in every deal — sequences live, pricing tested, a forecast you can trust.
Expenses down
Cancelled subscriptions are table stakes. The deeper cuts: cost of goods, process, and how the work gets done.
Margins up
Every engagement priced to what it actually costs. The work you quietly lose money on — found, repriced, or fired.
Operations tightened
A week that runs on cadence, not adrenaline. Handoffs without meetings; nothing rests on a single person.
The right headcount
Where there's bloat we say so — and shape the reduction. Where there isn't, we say that too, before payroll decides.
AI doing real work
Agents in your actual workflows — not a pilot, not a lunch-and-learn — measured in hours handed back weekly.
WHAT WE EMBED
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Embedded Executive
One to two days a week, inside your business. In your meetings, on your org chart, accountable to numbers you both signed. They own the outcome, not the recommendation.
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An Agentic AI Staff
Research, analysis, documentation and reporting agents working behind your executive. The output of a team of three, included.
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BraveOS®
The command center your executive runs the business from — every disconnected system pulled into one decision-grade picture. Seats for your team too.
And behind the seat sits all of Brave People — two decades of award-winning design, product and engineering, at preferred rates when you need to build. bravepeople.co ↗
THE OPERATORS
Transformation begins with who.
The first conversation is a diagnosis. Where's the number stuck — revenue, margin, operations, product, brand, AI? One senior operator steps into the seat your answer points to.
FRACTIONAL CEO
Owns the whole P&L — priorities, people, and the hard calls nobody inside wants to make.
When the business needs a steady hand at the top, not another advisor.
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THE AI STAFF BEHIND THIS SEAT
Financial analysis
Board-ready P&L models, on demand
Market intelligence
Competitive and category signals
Documentation
Memos, updates, a living decisions log
Ops automation
Cross-team reporting that runs itself
FRACTIONAL COO
Owns how the work gets done — org design, process, and the margin hiding inside your operations.
When the org chart, processes, or margins are the bottleneck.
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THE AI STAFF BEHIND THIS SEAT
Ops automation
Workflow and handoff systems
Financial analysis
Margin and unit-economics teardown
Documentation
SOPs and process maps
Pipeline reporting
Throughput and capacity dashboards
FRACTIONAL CPO
Owns what you ship — roadmap, velocity, and the discipline to cut what doesn't matter.
When the roadmap, velocity, or user experience is the bottleneck.
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THE AI STAFF BEHIND THIS SEAT
Research agents
User and market discovery
Documentation
Specs, PRDs, and release notes
Product analytics
Funnel and usage analysis
Content systems
Changelogs and launch copy
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CHIEF AI OFFICER
Owns making AI real — agentic workflows built into your business, not run as pilots.
When AI should be doing more of the work and nobody owns making that true.
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THE AI STAFF BEHIND THIS SEAT
Ops automation
Agentic workflows built into the business
Research agents
Model and tool evaluation
Documentation
Playbooks and guardrails
Impact analysis
Measurement of what AI actually saved
FRACTIONAL CRO
Owns the revenue engine — pipeline, pricing, and a sales process that doesn't depend on heroics.
When growth has stalled and nobody can say exactly why.
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THE AI STAFF BEHIND THIS SEAT
Pipeline reporting
Forecasts and cohort analytics
Research agents
Account and lead intelligence
Content systems
Outbound and sales enablement
Financial analysis
Pricing and packaging models
FRACTIONAL CMO
Owns the brand and the demand it creates — positioning, message, and where the money goes.
When the product is better than the market thinks it is.
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THE AI STAFF BEHIND THIS SEAT
Market intelligence
Positioning and category strategy
Content systems
Campaign production at volume
Research agents
Audience and message discovery
Attribution reporting
Where the spend actually works
THE BENCH
Curated, not recruited.
The bench is built from senior operators who have already run the play — agencies, product companies, service firms — each one vetted through work we’ve seen up close, and placed with intention.
Senior operators only.
Cross-industry by design — most cover more than one seat.
Matched to your business, introduced before signing.
IN PRACTICE
One directive sets a staff in motion.
Hand your executive the kind of problem that normally eats a week. They bring the judgment — the framing, the standards, the call — and their AI staff executes in parallel. What comes back isn't advice. It's finished work.
THE DIRECTIVE
WORKING SESSION
agents working
included in the fee
0 agent-hours before review
BRAVEOS®
INCLUDED WITH THE SEAT
Your whole business on one screen.
Rewritten as it happens.
A new executive normally spends their first month asking your team to pull reports. Ours does not. BraveOS® reads the tools you already run and turns them into one decision-grade picture — what is pressing, what it is worth, and what to do about it. Your team gets seats too.
The brief, rewritten as your day moves
Accounts and figures shown are illustrative
MONEY
Who owes you, and what unsticks it.
Every receivable aged and named, the health of the whole book in one bar, and the specific action that starts money moving again this week.
TASKS
The order is the strategy.
Everything owed, ranked by what actually moves the number — and written back to your project tool so your team is working the same list.
PIPELINE
Every iron in the fire.
Every open opportunity with its stage, its value, and the one move that advances it — so nothing worth money goes quiet.
CONNECTORS
Already fluent in your stack.
No migration, no rip-and-replace. Your systems stay exactly where they are — BraveOS® reads them and does the assembling. It only reads: nothing is ever created, edited, or sent inside your tools unless you approve it first.
QuickBooksGoogle CalendarGmailSlackNotionApolloFirefliesGoHighLevelCloudflareGoogle Drive+ the rest of your stack
$420K
THE MATH
That's one full-time executive, all in — salary, bonus, equity, benefits, recruiter. And that’s before the team it takes to make them effective.
Based on a $300K base salary plus bonus, benefits, taxes, and recruiter fees — before the six-month search it takes to land them.
WHAT ONE SEAT REPLACES
One full-time executive, all in
$420,000
The analyst, chief of staff and coordinator they need
$250,000
Reporting stack, BI tooling and someone to run it
$95,000
What that team costs you a year
$765,000
One embedded seat — the executive, the AI staff and BraveOS® — replaces all of it.
THE FIT
Is this you?
FIT CHECK
decision-grade
PROFILE
Founder-led service businesses
REVENUE
$2M–$15M
TEAM
10–75 people
SITUATION
An empty seat at the leadership table
VERDICT
Proceed — claim the seat.
Need creative services or a more traditional digital engagement? That's our digital product studio — same people, different door.
So what shouldall of this cost?
THE SEAT — FLAT
Leadership, not payroll.
$7,500/m flat
A flat fee, nothing contingent. No recruiter, no equity, no six-month ramp.
One embedded day a week
Your AI staff working all five
Three months, then month to month
Need two days? $12,000/m
THE SEAT — FOUNDING RATE
Priced to prove it.
$5,000/m to start
Our upside is earning the standard rate. If the numbers don’t move, neither does the price.
The same seat, the same AI staff
Steps to $7,500 when your baseline moves
Baseline signed in the first 30 days
Six months, then month to month
How the step-up works: we sign your baseline in the first 30 days. When the agreed numbers move — and only then — the rate steps to the standard $7,500. No royalties, no percentage-of-savings audits. Requires nothing but honest books.
JUST BRAVEOS® — $1,500/M
Not ready for the seat? Start with the board, the brief and the AI staff — and upgrade when you see what it finds.
STRAIGHT ANSWERS
The questions everyone asks us first.
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What does it actually cost?
A flat monthly fee, with no recruiter fee, no equity and no bonus. One embedded day a week is $7,500 a month; two days is $12,000. Founding seats start at $5,000 and step to the standard rate only once your baseline moves — and BraveOS® on its own is $1,500.
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How long am I locked in?
Three months on the standard seat, then month to month. Founding seats run six — that is the proving window the step-up is measured over.
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Is AI going to run my company?
No. A person makes every call. The AI does the work behind the call — the research, the analysis, the reporting you would otherwise hire three people to do.
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How is this different from a consultant?
A consultant hands you a deck and leaves. Your executive sits in your meetings, owns items on your plan, and is measured on numbers you both signed.
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What if it does not work?
We set a baseline in the first 30 days and report against it every month. If the needle is not moving, you will see it before we do — and you can leave at six months.
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How is the upside measured?
In writing, before work begins. A baseline is set from your trailing-12-month financials and signed by both parties inside the first 30 days. Savings are verified from the P&L at implementation — never from projections — and revenue counts only on initiatives designated in the contract in advance. The window runs 12 months from start, so your worst case is always modelable.
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Do we have to change our tools to use BraveOS®?
No. It reads the systems you already run — books, CRM, calendar, email, docs, call transcripts — and assembles them into one picture. Nothing is migrated, and nothing is written back without your say.
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Who owns what gets built?
You do. Everything we build together — every system, process, model and document — is yours to keep, and you can cancel any time after the initial term. The executive, the AI staff and BraveOS® aren't: they come with the engagement, and they leave with it.
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Brave People. It's what we ship.