Tier 02 · Principal Circle · from $4,500 / month

The decisions keep coming.

Two 60 to 90 minute calls with Stan per month. A written read after each call. Async access between calls. Quarterly pattern review. From $4,500 per month, three-month minimum. Stan replies to every application personally within forty-eight hours.

What the application does Within forty-eight hours: a fit assessment. Yes with a proposed start, no with a reason, or a redirect to Tier 01 or Tier 03 if a different surface fits better. No payment is taken at this stage. Read what the work delivers.

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Where Tier 02 fits

Three operators. Same shape of month.

The principal in expansion.

Two consequential calls a month. Capital, leadership, growth. The board wants a recommendation by month-end. The CFO and the lawyer disagree.

The owner across two operating modes.

The legacy business is steady. The new line is moving fast. Decisions on the new line land before the legacy systems catch up.

The principal whose desk does not stop.

Capital, family, exits, cross-border. The problem set keeps moving. The outside read stays.

The pattern is not that you cannot decide. The pattern is that the decisions keep coming and nobody outside the company sees them with you.

Tier 02 is the recurring outside read. Two calls a month. A written read after each. Async access between calls on the calls that move fast. Quarterly pattern review across the decisions read together.

What it costs to keep them open

Decisions stay open longer than you think.

The wrong COO hire costs three hundred thousand dollars in salary, separation, and rehire. Eighteen months of team damage on top.

The wrong five hundred thousand dollar AI build runs to one point two million once you count the contracts you cannot unwind.

Tier 02 from four thousand five hundred dollars a month is the recurring read against that.

The application.

Five fields. Most applications take five minutes. Stan reads every one personally.

An outside read is recurring conversations with someone who has no stake in the team's politics and reads the structure under the decisions that land on your desk.

Concrete is more useful than polished.

If acute, Stan reads same day. Other timelines: forty-eight hour personal reply.

For the call. Email is enough if you prefer.

Personal reply within forty-eight hours. Engagement begins after a signed engagement letter and confirmed payment. Three-month minimum is non-refundable. Full refund and termination policy in the terms.

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