For Series A–B SaaS CEOs

Walk into your next board meeting with a strategy they fund – not one you defend.

In 8 weeks, Black Rock Capital turns initiative overload into 3–4 explicit bets, a stop list, and a revenue-linked narrative.

One operator. Direct CEO access. Clean exit, no dependency created.

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The Pattern

The pattern before a defensive board meeting.

The problem is not your team. Your strategy has stopped being explicit – and everyone is filling the gap with their own version. AI didn't create this pattern; it compounds it. Every quarter you delay clarification, the cost of unscored bets grows.
The Offer

The Board-Ready Strategy Reset.

One focused engagement. Eight weeks. The single thing standing between initiative overload and a strategy your board will fund. It starts with a diagnostic. If the drift is not real, urgent, and worth fixing before the next board cycle, the reset does not move forward.

Board-Ready Strategy Reset
The 8-Week Reset · direct CEO access · clean exit.
€24,000
8 weeks
After this engagement
  • Your leadership team is aligned on 3–4 explicit strategic bets for the next 12 months – AI scored on the same framework as everything else
  • A documented stop list and clear decision rights between product and commercial
  • A board-ready narrative tied directly to revenue, with checkpoints so goals stop drifting
Buyer-safe start: the diagnostic has to earn the reset. If it does not reveal drift worth fixing now, you do not buy an 8-week engagement.

When the diagnosis demands it, the work extends into Operating Model or Platform Direction – see engagements →

Process

Diagnostic first.
No recommendations without full context.

01 – Diagnostic
1–2 weeks
Structured interviews across your full leadership team – not just the CEO. Strategy breaks at the intersection of people, goals, and structure. We map exactly where it is breaking before proposing anything.
Output: a clear picture of where leverage is being lost.
02 – Intervention
Defined by engagement
We make strategic bets, stop lists, and structural adjustments explicit. All decisions remain yours. Our role is to force the trade-offs into the open – and ensure they are committed to, not just discussed.
Output: documented framework, stop list, decision rights.
03 – Handover
Clean exit
Every output is documented and transferred. Your team operates without us from day one after exit. That is the goal – and the only measure of success we accept.
Output: an organisation that functions without us.
What the Diagnostic Finds

This is what strategy drift
looks like from the inside.

Real patternsFound in the first two weeksBefore any recommendation
What surfaces in interviews

Five leaders. Five different answers to "what are our top three bets this year." The CEO thinks alignment exists because no one pushes back in meetings. The VP Product is prioritising against a strategy memo from two quarters ago. Sales is closing deals on a roadmap that engineering stopped building.

What that costs by board day
  • 12+ initiatives running – 3 of which anyone can tie to revenue
  • Every cross-functional trade-off escalating back to the CEO
  • A board narrative built on activity metrics because outcome metrics don't exist yet
  • A planning cycle that adds scope but never removes it
5/5
Leaders, different answers
12+
Initiatives, 3 tied to revenue
0
Documented stop decisions

These are the patterns the diagnostic is built to find – the specific gaps between what leadership says and what the organisation is actually executing.

Start Here

Find the three places
your strategy is drifting first.

The Strategy Drift Audit is 10 questions and 3 minutes. You get a score, a diagnosis, and the exact signals telling you whether your next board meeting will be directional – or defensive.

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Next Step

If your next board meeting is in the next 90 days – this is the right moment for a Strategy Reset.

A direct 30-minute call to see whether the drift is real enough to diagnose.

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