Keegan Sard · Fractional chief of staff

One hire. The output of a full executive team.

One hire, every function. A fractional chief of staff with AI agents doing the volume work.

I'm a fractional chief of staff for founders and family offices. I run operations, sales, marketing, comms, technology and AI, with a team of AI agents doing the volume work. I review everything before it reaches you.

From €31,500 per quarter · Maximum four clients

Or name your own situation

Morning briefTue · 07:00

Needs you
Term sheet redline back from counsel. Two points need your call before noon.
Running
Board deck v3 in review. With you by 16:00.
Cleared
Diligence room indexed. 214 documents, zero gaps.
Cleared
Press enquiry answered. Statement held to two lines.

In your inbox by 07:00 · K. Sard

How it works

One point of contact. Six functions covered.

You work with me directly. Behind me is a set of AI agents, each built for a specific function. When you hand something over, I assign it, the agents produce the volume work in parallel, and I review everything before it reaches you. You get executive-team coverage with one person to brief and one person accountable.

Operations

Scheduling, documents, follow-through. The daily work that keeps the business moving.

Sales

Pipeline built, deals moved, closing process run end to end.

Marketing

Strategy, brand and collateral, ready for market.

Comms

Investors, board, press and clients. Every word checked before it goes out.

Technology

Your website, apps, tools and workflows, built and maintained.

AI

Automations built for your specific work, then handed over so they keep running without me.

The playbooks

How the work gets done, in full

Four common situations, each with my approach, the agent workflow behind it, and the finished output. All of it is open. Use whatever's useful.

The board deck

The approach

Most board decks fail the same three ways: too many metrics, problems buried in the appendix, and an ask too vague to act on. This template fixes all three. It opens with a one-sentence summary of where the business stands. Problems go ahead of wins, because the board will find them either way and it's cheaper to be the one who raised them. The ask is specific enough to approve in the meeting. Every slide has to earn a decision, an introduction, or capital. Anything that doesn't gets cut.

The workflow

01 · PULL    The operations agent pulls numbers from source
             systems and reconciles any that disagree, with
             variances footnoted.
02 · DRAFT   A drafting agent writes each slide to a fixed brief:
             one plain sentence, the number first, then what it
             means.
03 · CHECK   A review agent reads the deck as a sceptical board
             member and flags every claim that spins and every
             question left unanswered.
04 · CUT     A tightening pass removes anything that doesn't
             inform a decision.
05 · SIGN    I read the final deck myself and make the last edits
             before it goes to you.

Reviewed · K.S.

The output: nine slides

1.  Where we are. The state of the business in one sentence.
2.  Scoreboard. The four or five metrics that matter, against
    plan and against last period.
3.  Problems and wins. Two columns, problems first.
4.  The story. What this quarter was actually about, and why.
5.  Money. Cash, burn and runway in three numbers, with detail
    beneath.
6.  The ask. Exactly what you need from the board, with names
    where possible.
7.  Risks. The top three, each with a planned response.
8.  Next quarter. Three priorities, no more.
9.  Appendix. The detail, ready for questions.

About

Keegan Sard

Fifteen years running operations for founders and family offices.

Operator: Keegan Sard
Clients: Founders and family office principals
Sectors: Technology, finance, real estate, consumer
References: Available on the first call

How I work

Four commitments, in writing

Find the cause before fixing anything.

When a major customer goes quiet or a number slips, I work out why before proposing a fix. Patching the symptom means dealing with the same problem again next quarter.

Build to be replaceable, never indispensable.

Every system I set up is documented so your team can run it without me. When the engagement ends, everything keeps running.

Filter what reaches you.

Only decisions reach you. Your team gets direct access to everything I build and can act on it directly.

Carry the truth, never the temperature.

You get the figures as they stand, including the ones heading the wrong way, while there's still time to act on them.

Pricing

What it costs, and what it replaces.

One senior hire

Covers one function. Salary, equity and benefits for a single executive.

~€350K / year

A full executive team

Six functions covered. Six salaries, six people to manage.

€1M+ / year

This engagement

Six functions covered, scaled to your workload. Billed quarterly.

from €126K / year

Engagements start at €31,500 per quarter. Final pricing is set by scope after the intro call.

Family office work typically runs above the base rate. You only pay for the scope you hand over.

Four clients maximum. I personally review everything that goes out, so I cap the roster at four. If it's full, I'll tell you and let you know when a place opens.

No annual contract. Renew quarter by quarter.

Get in touch

You're the principal. I'm everything underneath you.

Questions

What founders and family offices ask

A fractional chief of staff who uses a team of AI agents to cover operations, sales, marketing, comms, technology and AI for a maximum of four clients.

Founders and family office principals who need every function covered and want one hire instead of six.

A person. I use AI agents to produce the volume work, and I review all of it before you see it. All of your contact is with me.

From €31,500 per quarter, which is roughly €126K a year. Exact pricing depends on scope and is set after the intro call. Billed quarterly, no annual contract.

Because I personally review everything that goes out, and four clients is the most I can review properly.

An NDA is signed before any work begins. The agents run on your data without training on it, and every piece of work stays with me.

Capacity. A standard fractional chief of staff gives you their hours. The agent team behind me means one engagement covers volume that would otherwise take several hires.

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