Curated senior expertise · Every sector
Senior expertise.
Exactly when your business needs it.
Tell us your business challenge. We identify the expertise you need and shape the right way to deliver it: monthly membership, coaching, one expert, or the full expertise of a leadership team on retainer, built around your needs.
Who we serve
Businesses, founders, investors and boards, in any sector.
Ways to work with us
A package shaped around your challenge, not the other way round.
Every engagement starts with your brief. From there we build the solution that fits: one expert, a team, a single piece of work, or ongoing support.
One expert
A single vetted senior expert, matched to a defined piece of work and accountable for it end to end.
A leadership team
A full executive team without hiring one: senior people across strategy, finance, science, technology and operations, for a set number of hours each week.
One-off projects
A fixed piece of work with a clear outcome: a business plan rewrite, technical due diligence, an independent review.
A monthly retainer
Senior expertise always on hand. A monthly fee keeps the right people and resources available whenever you need them.
The platform
Access to our curated library of guides, templates, master business plans, documentation and checklists.
From innovation to product to exit, every stage calls for different strengths. We bring the right combination of strategy, business, finance, operations, science, innovation, technology, go to market, marketing, defence and government, plus coaching, in exactly the amount you need, tailored into one solution. And we are broad by design: every sector is covered, from biotech, science and defence to consumer, retail and beyond.
Rethinking leadership
The C suite was built for a simpler business.
The old way of executive leadership does not fit the new way of working. Too many startups fail because they follow the same business model, and if you do what you always did, you get what you always got. Innovation, startup, scale-up and exit each need something different: people who have been there and worn the t-shirt. That does not mean fixed roles. ExecFoundry works differently: leadership is federated across senior people whose expertise complements each other, brought together for exactly the challenge in front of you.
Access, combine, apply
The question is not whether you need a part time executive. It is how your organisation accesses, combines and applies leadership capability in the first place. That is what we do.
Continuity and accountability
Distributed expertise only works when someone holds continuity, trust and clear accountability. We hold all three, for the life of the engagement.
AI where it earns its place
AI supported knowledge and decision making can strengthen how leadership is applied. We use it where it genuinely helps, never as a substitute for experience.
Expertise
Broad capability. Deep experience.
Senior leaders across strategy, operations, finance, technology, data, AI, transactions and science, including respected scientists for scientific and life sciences due diligence.
Leadership
- CEO and Executive Leadership
- Board Advisory
- Organisational Design
- Change Management
Strategy & Growth
- Business Strategy
- Product-Market Fit
- Market Development
- Scale-Up and Growth
- Turnaround and Recovery
Commercial
- Commercial Strategy
- Go-To-Market
- Commercialisation
Marketing & Growth
- Marketing Strategy
- SEO and Organic Growth
- Digital Marketing
- Brand and Positioning
- Content Marketing
- Social Media Marketing
- Email Marketing and CRM
- Paid Media and Performance Marketing
Operations & Finance
- Operations
- COO and Operations Leadership
- CFO and Finance
- Programme and Project Leadership
Technology, Data & AI
- CTO and Technology
- AI Strategy and Adoption
- AI Transformation
- Digital Transformation
- Data Strategy
- Big Data and Analytics
- Business Intelligence
- Automation
Capital & Transactions
- Due Diligence
- Investment Readiness
- Fundraising Strategy
- Exit Preparation
Science & Life Sciences
- Scientific Due Diligence
- Biotech and Pharma Advisory
- Clinical and Regulatory
Defence & Government
- Defence Strategy
- Defence Procurement and Supply Chain
- Security and Resilience
- Government and Public Sector
- Public Procurement and Bids
- Policy and Regulation
AI Strategy & Adoption
AI adoption is not simply buying technology.
It requires understanding the business problem, processes, people, data, workflows, commercial objectives and organisational change needed to make AI genuinely useful, in any sector. AI has made it too easy to spin out an app or a business; it has not removed the need for the expertise behind it: architecture, data security and integrity, compliance with the correct standards, and even the terms and conditions.
How it works
From challenge to the right senior expertise.
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Tell us about your business or challenge.
A short, confidential brief: your stage, context and what needs to change.
02
Choose how you want to work.
Pick one of our packages, Founder, Growth or Retainer, or ask us to identify the expertise your challenge needs.
03
We assemble the right team.
We select and bring together the vetted senior expertise ourselves. You never search or shortlist; it is one solid team, brought together and held by us.
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A package built around your needs.
From monthly membership and coaching to the full breadth of a leadership team on retainer, tailored to the work.
Sector-agnostic
Whatever the sector.
Coming soon · Venture Triage
Not sure what expertise you need?
Venture Triage will be a free diagnostic across strategy, product-market fit, finance, operations, leadership, technology, AI readiness and more, recommending the expertise your business needs and connecting you to it through ExecFoundry.