What We Do
Take Your Pathways to Governed Speed
We offer tailored pathways to achieve governed speed, ensuring your organisation navigates complex challenges with clarity and control. Our core lanes deliver immediate impact, while optional services provide strategic depth and leadership support.
Main Lanes: Core Services for Immediate Impact
Turnaround Command
Stabilising cash flow and operational cadence is paramount. We light up your Control Room, installing mechanisms for rapid recovery and disciplined execution.
AI Governance & Delivery
Install critical CAIO guardrails and ship a governed copilot. We ensure AI adoption is secure, compliant, and delivers verifiable proof, not just pilots.
Integration & Scaling
Capture synergy post-deal, raise capital, or manage organic/international expansion. Our sprints accelerate growth and ensure sustainable scaling.
Secondary Lanes: Optional Strategic Depth
Futures Office
(Optional)
(Optional)
Navigate uncertainty by transforming market signals into actionable scenarios. We develop funded options with clear kill rules and board cadences for strategic foresight.
Capital Readiness
(Optional)
(Optional)
Govern your capital raise through regulated partners and hand off to a robust Post-Investment Operating Plan, ensuring seamless transition and value capture.
Leadership Overlay: Flexible Executive Support
Leadership Overlay
(Optional)
(Optional)
Access scope-gated fractional leadership (e.g., CEO, CAIO) with an Owner Charter and Day-21 artefact, ensuring full accountability with limited concurrency.
Turnaround Command
Install Control, Recover Runway
Turnaround is a mechanism, not a report. We install a Crisis Map by Day 14, a telemetry wall by Day 21 with three sensors—runway, cash variance, SLA adherence—and publish runway and cadence proof by Day 30. By Day 90, margin and runway show measurable uplift or we document the blockers and hand back.
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Day 14: Crisis Map
Document bleeding cash, stalled decisions, and SLA breaches. Identify the three highest-value stabilisation levers and assign Owners with decision rights.
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Day 21: Telemetry Wall
Three sensors live: runway projection, weekly cash variance, decision SLA adherence. Control limits set; escalation paths clear. No black boxes.
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Day 30: Proof
Runway stabilised or variance explained. Cadence installed: weekly reviews with leading versus lagging metrics, decision logs published within 24 hours.
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Day 90: Margin Uplift
Margin and runway in target band, or blockers documented with board-ready options. Hand-back or extend with new Owner Charter and scope-lock.
Objection: "We're mid-turnaround already." Reply: We plug into your plan. We install the control room, scoreboards, and decision SLAs so execution velocity increases without governance erosion.
AI Governance & Delivery
Ship Proof, Not Pilots
We install ethics and privacy gates, model cards, override and drift monitors, and change control mechanisms—then ship one governed copilot by Day 21. By Day 90, override rates and model drift sit within control limits or we document the exceptions and proposed corrective actions.
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Ethics & Privacy Gates
Decision authority defined; data lineage visible; consent and anonymisation protocols enforced before any production deployment.
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Model Cards
Purpose, training data, performance metrics, known limitations, override policies, and responsible ownership documented and version-controlled.
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Override & Drift Monitors
Human override rates tracked weekly. Model drift measured against baseline. Control limits set; breaches trigger re-evaluation or rollback.
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Governed Rollout
Adoption built in from Day One: SLA'd decision points, phased access gates, and retention bands measured. No zombie pilots.
Pilots fail because adoption isn't governed. We lock rollout to SLA'd decision points, phased access, and measurable retention bands. If override rates or drift exceed control limits, we escalate or roll back—no hope-based deployment.
Integration & Scaling
First Revenue, First Proof
Post-Merger Integration
Day 14: Integration Blueprint—decision rights, system cutover gates, cultural integration SLOs, and synergy realisation tracking installed.
Day 21: Scale Flight 1 launched—first revenue in a target region or measurable capacity uplift that proves integration isn't theatre.
Day 90: synergy targets in band or variance explained with board-ready corrective options. No sandbagging; no excuses.
Post-Investment Scale
Capital lands; now execution must accelerate without governance erosion. We install access gates, customer experience retention bands, and capacity utilisation metrics.
Scale Flight 1 ships by Day 21: new geography revenue, channel partner proof, or product extension uptake measured against control limits.
By Day 90, target band achieved or we document blockers and propose scope adjustments with the board.
Objection: "We tried expansion before; it didn't stick." Reply: We lock expansion to access gates, CX retention bands, and a first Scale Flight with measurable proof. If it doesn't hit band by Day 90, we kill it or pivot—no zombies.
Futures Office
Signal → Scenario → Option → Evidence
Strategy theatre produces slide decks. A Futures Office produces options backed by evidence. We scan signals, model scenarios, define options with clear funding gates, and run live experiments by Day 21. By Day 90, each option either earns continued funding via measurable evidence or we kill it cleanly.
Signals
Regulatory shifts, technology disruption, market structure changes, competitive threats. We don't chase noise; we track what changes the cost of inaction.
Scenarios
Model three to five plausible futures. Each scenario assigns probability, impact, and time horizon. No single-path delusion.
Options
Each scenario generates strategic options with clear funding gates, decision rights, and Day-21 experiment definitions. Options compete for resources.
Evidence
Live experiments ship by Day 21. By Day 90, evidence either supports continued funding or triggers a clean kill. No zombie options.
Each option must earn funding via evidence or it dies. We don't preserve optionality for its own sake; we preserve capital and leadership attention by killing low-signal bets early and doubling down on proof.
Capital Readiness
Govern Process, Hand Off at Scale
FuturePulse Ventures provides advisory-only capital readiness support. We do not hold client funds and work exclusively via regulated partners. Our role is to govern readiness and process—Day-21 Capital Dossier, Day-30 data-room spine, Day-90 investor Q&A readiness—then hand off execution the day capital lands.
Capital Dossier
Market positioning, unit economics, runway projections, governance structure, risk register, and mitigation plans. Shipped by Day 21; board-ready and investor-grade.
Data-Room Spine
Financial statements, cap table, contracts, IP, compliance artefacts, customer metrics organised and version-controlled. Ready by Day 30 for due diligence.
Investor Q&A Readiness
Exec team drilled on story, objections pre-empted, financial and operational metrics defensible. Ready by Day 90 or we document gaps and propose corrective scope.
Once capital lands, FuturePulse can hand off to scale or extend engagement with a new Owner Charter scoped to post-investment delivery. We protect quality by limiting capital-lane concurrency and declining mandates where regulatory scope exceeds our advisory remit.
Leadership Overlay
Fractional Authority, Full Accountability
If you need authority installed—not just advice—we can step in as fractional CEO, CRO, Chief AI Officer, Integration Lead, Futures Lead, or Capital Programs Lead. Every role is scope-gated with an Owner Charter and a Day-21 artefact commitment. We limit concurrency to protect quality and decline mandates where scope or governance exceeds our capacity to deliver proof.
Fractional CEO
Decision authority across turnaround, integration, or transformation. Owner Charter defines scope, SLAs, control limits, and hand-back conditions. Day-21 artefact: Crisis Map or Integration Blueprint.
Chief Revenue Officer
Revenue operations, go-to-market, and customer success. Day-21: Scale Flight 1 or CX retention telemetry. Day-90: revenue or retention in band or corrective options proposed.
Chief AI Officer
AI strategy, governance, and delivery. Day-21: governed copilot shipped. Day-90: override and drift within control limits or rollback/mitigation plan approved.
Integration or Futures Lead
Post-merger integration or strategic foresight. Day-21: Integration Blueprint or first live experiment. Day-90: synergy proof or evidence-backed option funding decision.
Fractional leadership isn't part-time execution. It's full accountability with scope discipline.
We own outcomes, not hours. If the scope exceeds a single fractional role, we decline or propose a phased approach with clear hand-off milestones.