Align Your Team
with Strategy and Operations
Fractional Chief of Staff for early-stage companies
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"FlowCoS helped us build our hiring process from start to finish, setting us up for success with future hires and onboarding. What started as an initial project evolved into ongoing support with strategy and marketing efforts."
Zac Davies, Co-Founder & CEO, Optiml
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“This has been one of our most needle moving relationships this year.”
Max Haining, Founder 100 Days of No Code, 100 Days of AI
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“I recommend Flowcos to any early stage founder who is balancing important projects with growing business needs.”
Kevin Michael, Founder at Tempo (YCS23), Forbes 30u30
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"We worked through scenarios together that impacted our company in a very positive way."
Tyler Sellars, Co-Founder & CEO, Cactus
Does your startup need more flow?
Challenges Our Founders Face
🎯 Expanding Role Scope
You're navigating expanding priorities and evolving roles due to rapid growth and change, all while still managing your original responsibilities with limited capacity.
🏔 Managing the Team
You're facing the challenge of managing an expanding team and increased one-on-ones, all while staying focused on driving business results and communicating.
😊 Aligning the Team
You understand the critical importance of fostering a culture of accountability and communication, but you're struggling to find the time to ensure your team stays aligned with your company's North Star metric.
🏃 Filling Gaps
You’re constantly filling gaps in the business where there's no direct owner, knowing that as the company grows, new gaps will inevitably arise—and it usually falls on you to step in.
🔨 Increased Workload
Your workload is increasing as operations become more complex, your response time slows, and the need to compile and process complex data grows.
🧠 Thought Partner
You could benefit from a thought partner who isn't an investor or co-founder. Someone who deeply understands your business and is committed to a long-term partnership.
🧐 Fractional Skeptic
You don’t have the conviction that a fractional team member will contribute like a full-time team member.
How We Help
🤝 Extension of Founder
Delegate responsibilities to a trusted and experienced executive who acts as an extension of you.
🤝 Everyone Aligned
We help you implement and follow your business goal framework, such as Traction (EOS), Scaling Up, OKRs, etc. If you have these systems already in place, bringing in a CoS with experience in running them will kickstart this process for you.
🤝 Regular Communication
At Flowcos, we create alignment with team members, making sure the important projects are getting tackled and tracked. We ensure a meeting and communications cadence for both internal stakeholders and boards.
🤝 Gaps are Filled
Flowcos can take these on to standardize projects and tasks, then hire as needed.
🤝 Information Flowing
The CoS can make sure the information and data is flowing, so decisions can be made in a timely manner.
🤝 360 View of the Business
Flowcos is a trusted source you can turn to to bounce ideas and to problem-solve with. We know the specific context of the business from working in it.
🤝 Trusted Partner
We want you to win. We set up our service offering to make sure there is success on both sides - regular communication, and flexible payments.
Steps to Work Together
☎️ 1. Book A Call
We know you have many priorities. We’ll make each minute count. We connect to discuss your founder and business needs to see if we are a fit.
We only work with those who we deem are a fit and this will be based on your unique and specific situation.
⭕️ 2. Circle Back
If we are a good fit to move forward, Flowcos will outline key projects to help you with. We don't do proposals but rather aim for long-term retainer partnerships that make sense for both parties.
👷 3. Impliment & Engage
We know that swift action can mean everything in a start-up. We move quickly and can start within 2 weeks of the initial conversation.
We outline key projects that Flowcos will drive forward over the coming quarter and organize them into sprints.
🌊 4. Regular Flow
We will sync once per week on ongoing priorities (sprints). This is dedicated time for strategy, alignment, and prioritization.
Additional Benefits
👍 Best Practices
We have the benefit of working with brilliant founders across different industries, which allows us to stay on top of trends and to bring insights to our clients.
🏔 Consistent progress
Consistent progress on important projects every week. Average sub-project turn around time of 48 hours.
😊 Fixed-rate
No surprises here. Pay the same fixed rate every month.
🧘 Flexible, scalable
Cancel anytime. Scale up and down depending on your growth needs. No overhead full-time employment costs.
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Ops leadership and support when you need it most
For founders who need dedicated support while growing their company.
Why a Chief of Staff?
Book an intro call
Learn more about Flow Chief of Staff and how we can help you.
Common Questions
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As a fractional Chief of Staff I provide the operational and strategic support, but on a part-time or project basis. The model provides the high leverage of your very own chief of staff without the full-time commitment and hefty price tag.
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The short answer here is a classic "it depends". If you are a founder/ CEO with growth plans and you have important initiatives that you don’t have time for or items that have been on your to do list for over 2 weeks, the simple answer is yes.
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If you are a growth focused founder or CEO, chances are you have tasks that take up your time. You probably have hundreds of things coming at you every single day. I help you with the big initiatives that help drive your business forward. This includes aligning the team, supporting and managing a specific project, smoothening operations and processes that are consuming valuable time and resources, supporting with meeting prep and communications for various stakeholders.
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I am invested in all my clients. I want to make sure that I work on the most important initiatives to support their business and goals. At the beginning of our engagement, we will define what tasks are best to be pursued. I will start to work on these tasks. We will sync each week, either asynchronously, or with a 40-minute meeting to ensure projects are on track.
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There are a number of ways to calculate this. Instead of thinking in terms of hours, we consider: founder time made available and outcomes of projects completed.
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The full-time model can work for some. A solid CoS at an early stage start-up will run you $120k-$200k. Not only that, you’ll pay additional benefits and employment taxes.
On top of this, you might not be able to keep a Chief of Staff or Biz Ops role busy all the time. You‘d end up paying for time that is not fully utilized. (Things change quickly in startup land.)With the monthly subscription, you can cancel or pause at the end of your billing cycle and resume at any time to make sure you’re getting the most value from our services. This way you’re only paying when you have work for them.
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On average, most sub-tasks of projects are completed in less than 48 hours. However some tasks will take longer depending on complexity.
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You're able to add as many project requests as you’d like, however they will be worked on one at a time.
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We are a one-person agency. You’ll work directly with the founder of FlowCoS.
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We are flexible with how you can request projects. When you subscribe, you’ll get access to a client portal where you can add tasks to a Kanban board (similar to Trello and other PM tools).
You can create a backlog of projects and tasks there to be completed over the course of our engagement. -
We’ll work together to establish project timelines that fit within this model. We will collaborate until you are satisfied with the end result.
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That’s ok! You can pause your subscription when the work is complete so that your credits are not wasted. You can resume them at a later date.
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We don't offer refunds but we will work with you until you are completely satisfied with the project.
See if FlowCoS is right for you
Get a guided tour through Flow CoS to see how we can help you get to your next milestone sooner.
About FlowCoS
We work with founders who are bootstrapped through Series A. We work with solo founders and venture-backed CEOs with multiple successful exits, including companies backed by Y Combinator.