The live decision.
A founder dispute, capital choice, senior hire, board room, cross-border move, exit, ownership restructure, or one decision that keeps returning to the desk.
Start here
The decision you cannot close alone.
Pick the situation closest to yours. The page below routes you to the right next step. If none of them fit cleanly, the general application sends it to Stan and he replies within forty-eight hours.
Leave the decision open another quarter and the cost shows up in the multiple at sale, the team you lose, or the partner you cannot get back. The right route now is cheaper than the wrong route then.
Pick the closest situation
How many decisions are pressing on you right now?
One decision a month
One specific decision is live. The Outside Read fits, monthly.
The decisions keep coming
Topic changes, stakes stay. The Principal Circle fits.
The decision belongs to a board, partners, or family
Board, ownership, founding team, or leadership team. The Operating Partner engagement.
Not sure yet
Tell Stan what is happening. He assigns or redirects in forty-eight hours.
Or pick by what you are carrying
Five situations. Five reads.
Different situations move differently. Choose the one closest to yours. Each path explains the structural shape and the next move.
01 · Stuck
The Stuck Decision
Month four of just one more week to think about it. Meanwhile the options are closing themselves.
02 · Build The New BuildDay-one decisions disguised as paperwork. The entity, the cap table, the first three hires. Wrong now is expensive forever.
03 · Drift The DriftRevenue up. Team quietly falling apart. Everyone pretending the pattern is not the pattern. The numbers catch up next quarter.
04 · Weight The WeightOne person carrying decisions no one else has been allowed to see. The team senses the strain before anyone names it. Silence is not how the weight gets lighter.
05 · Border The Cross-Border MoveThe rules are not the same on the other side. The buyers are not either. One wrong assumption compounds the fastest where it is hardest to see.
What is offered
The work starts with the decision in front of you.
Not a course. Not a booking widget. Not a deck. The work is live interpretive correction: hearing the situation, naming the structure underneath it, and forcing the real tradeoff into view.
The structural read.
Stan listens for the contradiction in the story, the wrong frame inside the question, the hidden authority issue, and the consequence you are avoiding because nobody on the inside will say it.
A decision that can move.
The work closes when the question is cleaner, you can name what you are actually choosing between, and the next move is on paper without pretending the stakes are smaller.
The three fits
Choose by shape, not by price.
The tier colors are intentional. They mark commercial depth. If you are unsure, use the short application. Stan assigns or redirects after reading.
Outside Read · Monthly
For one decision a month that cuts across functions, the kind only you can make.
- When it fits
- One decision a month, the kind only you can make.
- Structure
- One 90-minute call per month with Stan plus a written read after each call. One async exchange between calls.
- Fee
- $2,500 / month. Recurring. Cancel with 30-day notice.
Principal Circle
For principals whose desk keeps producing consequential decisions.
- When it fits
- The decisions keep coming. Topic changes. Stakes stay high.
- Structure
- Two 90-minute calls per month plus a written read after each. Async access between calls. Quarterly pattern review.
- Fee
- From $4,500 / month. Three-month minimum.
Operating Partner
For decisions that belong to a board, partners, or family.
- When it fits
- Boards, ownership groups, founding teams, leadership teams navigating M&A, succession, restructure, capital event, exit, or cross-border move.
- Structure
- Two to six months. Principal interviews, decision-rights map, principals read, transition memo at close.
- Fee
- By engagement, scoped to the transition.
Fast route
A ready buyer should not have to wander.
Pick the closest fit
Use the short application if unsure. Pick a tier only when the shape is obvious.
Submit the application
The general application is short. Tier-specific pages ask only what is needed for that structure.
Get a direct reply
Within 48 hours. Yes with a time, no with a reason, or a redirect if a different structure fits better.
Still unsure which tier fits?
Use the short application. The first conversation assigns the structure.
Apply
Cost of the wrong move
What it costs to keep the decision open.
Every week the decision stays open it picks up cost. Quiet cost.
The wrong COO hire costs three hundred thousand dollars in salary, separation, and rehire before the eighteen months of team damage.
The wrong five hundred thousand dollar AI build runs to one point two million once you count the contracts you cannot unwind.
The family business priced at eight million when it should have been twelve is the rest of your life.
The M&A deal you walked from when you should have stayed open closed at four million to someone else.
Tier 01 is two thousand five hundred dollars a month, cancel any time. Compared with the cost of being wrong on the decision on your desk, that number is a rounding error.
Section routes
Choose the next section.
Four compact menus. Pick the route that matches the pressure.