FOR FOUNDERS & LEADERS
Find what's really limiting growth, and fix it with your team.
We help founders and their leadership teams in hardware, energy and industrial tech see what's really limiting growth, and fix it.
Sound familiar?
Ask the founder what's most limiting growth at their company, then ask each of their leaders separately, and you rarely get the same answer. Where they do agree, it has often been the problem for months and nobody's time is allocated to solve it.
Who we work with
Founders, CEOs and owners, and their leadership teams, who build the world's infrastructure: hardware and instruments, energy, materials and chemistry, industrial software. Usually 10 to 70 people, in Europe and the US.
At that size, the company outgrows what worked in the early days. The founder can't be in every decision, the team can't do everything, and someone has to choose what matters and what gets left behind. That's usually where things get stuck, and it's the stage we know best - and where our own experience is.
What we do
Your limit might look like sales, hiring or product. We won't sell or recruit for you. We work on why it has stayed the limit: often the real problem under "sales" or "HR" is one nobody has named out loud, it waits on you, or the team is too busy with this month's work to fix it.
And sometimes the first limit is the team itself: stretched so thin that nobody can step back and see what's really not working, or which problem is actually holding the company back - so the first thing we do is make room for that.
Your leaders often see things they find hard to say, to you or to each other. We make that conversation possible, help the team turn it into a decision, and then execute it.
Depending on the problem, we work with your whole leadership team or just with you, the founder. Either way it's one problem at a time, starting with the one that limits growth most. Every week we look at what actually moved and what got in the way. Because we're not part of the company, we can raise what nobody inside would, and help the people involved settle it between them, until it's fixed.
After working with us your leaders talk to each other more openly, say what's in the way, agree who takes it on, and check whether it moved, so they can take on the next bottleneck without us. When the gap is know-how we don't have, we say so and help you find who does.
What it can look like
- With your leadership team: a weekly session we run with all your leaders together, in a room or on a call. Each leader commits to one concrete change for the week, and the next session starts with one question: what got in the way? The answers show where the company really gets stuck, and we fix it together, piece by piece, week after week.
- With you, the founder: working out which decisions only you should still make, handing the rest to your team piece by piece, and making sure it stays handed over.
Who we are
Jacob Huber: started in science, then built businesses as head of sales, VP of business development and CEO, including taking a deep-tech consultancy from zero to €4M and running a Dutch deep-tech company.
Alex Leurent: started out helping deep-tech companies raise millions in funding, first as business developer and then as head of business development at that same consultancy, where he met Jacob, before moving into tech sales.
Our name comes from Erich Fromm: a 'Revolutionary Character' is someone who can look at their own culture with open eyes and judge it by reason, not by what "everyone else is doing." That's what we help a team do with its own company.
GET STARTED
Find out where you and your team see things differently.
It starts with a short online questionnaire for you and your leadership team, at no cost.
What you get, free
- Your leaders fill it in online, on their own and anonymously, in about ten minutes. Among other things, it asks for their view on what's limiting growth and how long it has been the limit, where work gets stuck and what it's waiting on, whether they could name the company's top three priorities and whether their week actually goes to them, and what the team never really talks about.
- You answer the same questions, and predict how your team will answer.
- Within a week you get a one-page readout: where your view and your team's split, and where we'd start. We walk you through it in a 45-minute call.
If you want to go further
If we find something we can help fix, we send you a short proposal for the one problem we'd start with. If we can't help, we say so directly. Some founders then work with us to fix it, others take it from there on their own, and that's fine. Either way, the readout is yours to keep.
