For VC-Backed Founders & CEOs

Raising Millions is hard.
Burning it in slow delivery is easy.

Stop bleeding capital on late deliveries, features that don't sell, and a tech team that can't run without you. Elevate is where VC-backed founders plug the cash bleed — and turn their engineering org into a team that ships predictably — and only pulls them in when it actually matters.

Takes 10 seconds. Instantly see how much your delivery chaos is costing you every week.

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+100 Teams Boosted

The "More People,
More Problems" Cycle

You raised capital. You hired more engineers to go faster.

But instead of speeding up — delivery slowed down. Features are always late, tech feels disconnected from the business, and your teams are blocked by a system that wasn't built to scale with you.

When tech payroll grows at the same speed as revenue, you're not building a scalable company.

Deadlines That Mean Nothing

Every sprint ends with half the backlog carried over. "It'll be ready next week" has become your team's anthem — and your investors are starting to notice.

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Tech Disconnected from Business

Your engineers are building features that sound cool in demos but don't move ARR, reduce churn, or improve margins. You're funding a feature factory, not a growth engine.

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No Operating Rhythm, No Autonomy

Without a clear system and cadence, every decision circles back to you. Your engineers want to move — but the missing operating layer keeps pulling you into the critical path. This doesn't scale.

The question isn't whether this is happening. It's how much it's costing you.

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The Number That Matters

If Your ARR per FTE Is Under €100k, You Have a Serious Problem.

You're not building a scalable company. You're building an expensive consulting firm — and that's kryptonite for your next valuation round.

Every week your team ships chaotically, you're burning cash on zero-impact features, operational drag, and slipping deadlines that erode investor confidence.

What got you here won't get you there.

Run Your Numbers
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ARR per employee  ·  Benchmark: €100k minimum
The Solution

The Elevate System

Three interlocking practices that install the processes, metrics and rhythms your engineering org needs to ship fast, stay aligned to the business, and stop routing every decision through you.

Pillar 01

Feature Shipping Fast

The Flow System

We cap Work-In-Progress and install flow systems with real metrics so teams finish what they start — every sprint, without exceptions.

  • Predictable delivery every sprint
  • No more carried-over backlogs
  • Real-time visibility into bottlenecks
  • Deadlines your team actually keeps
Pillar 02

Tech That Moves Business

The Impact Roadmap

Every ticket gets connected to actual business impact — ARR, Churn, Margin. Your roadmap stops being a wishlist and becomes a growth lever.

  • Every feature tied to a business metric
  • Roadmap aligned to investor goals
  • Kill features that don't move the needle
  • Tech decisions your board will understand
Pillar 03

Teams That Push Like Owners

The Weekly Improvement Cycle

A weekly drumbeat and improvement cadence so your team resolves blockers on their own — without routing every decision through you.

  • Managers who run the system
  • Issues resolved before they escalate
  • You focus on strategy, not firefighting
  • A culture of ownership at every level
The Journey

How the Transformation Works

We embed with your teams and drive a play-based transformation that starts delivering value on Day 1.

Start
Day 1

Diagnose & Map

We run the Elevate Shock Therapy Tracker across your teams. We map every bottleneck, measure behaviors, and identify exactly where cash is bleeding.

  • Full delivery system audit
  • Team behavior assessment (ESTT)
  • Flow dashboard setup
  • Priority bottleneck identification
Early
Week 4

Install the Operating System

The Elevate system goes live across your first cohort. Flow processes, impact roadmap, weekly delivery reviews — all running in parallel.

  • WIP caps and flow systems live
  • First weekly Delivery Party running
  • Executive coaching cadence begins
Decision
Month 2

Love It or Leave It

Two months in, you decide. If you can see the system working — delivery improving, fewer fires on your desk, teams owning their outcomes — you stay. If not, you walk away. No lock-in, no hard feelings.

  • Measurable improvement in delivery speed
  • Teams running the system without daily escalations
Scaling
Month 4

System Taking Root

The system is no longer new — it's how your company works. Impact roadmap fully implemented, business metrics moving, and every person in the org knows their role.

  • Impact roadmap fully implemented
  • ARR per FTE moving in the right direction
  • Roles, responsibilities and performance metrics defined
Sustained
Month 12

Full Company Transformation

The entire organization runs on the Elevate system. Your teams own it. You've reclaimed your role as a strategic leader — not an operational firefighter.

  • All teams running the Elevate OS
  • Middle managers running the system — escalating only what matters
  • ARR per FTE above €100k threshold
  • Ready to scale the next funding round
Proven Results

Built for Companies Like Yours

We don't promise theory. We deliver measurable results — at companies that look just like yours.

Elevate completely changed how our engineering team ships. We went from constant firefighting to a system that runs on its own rhythm.

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Engineering Lead, Yuki Visma
▶ Real client. Real results.
Holded team with Elevate system live
Holded
Series B · Barcelona
Already successful.
Still room to go faster.
Full product & tech org · 10 teams

"The work done has had a thousand good things. I thought we were agile, but now I realize we weren't."

Product Owner
Holded
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Embat team with Elevate
Embat
Fintech · Series A · Madrid
ARR Impact
[X]%
Increase in ARR-linked features shipped per quarter

"We finally had visibility into what our team was actually building — and whether it mattered to the business. Game-changing."

[Founder / CTO Name]
Co-Founder, Embat
Woffu team
Woffu
HRtech · Scale-up · Barcelona
Team Ownership
[X]×
Reduction in escalations to founder/CEO per week

"Santi and Mariano didn't just install a system — they changed how our managers think about ownership. That's the real transformation."

[Founder / CTO Name]
Co-Founder, Woffu
A Decade in the Field

We've Seen What Kills
Company Speed. From the Inside.

We've fixed broken companies. Now we stop yours from breaking.

Most delivery problems aren't engineering problems. They're organisational ones — the kind that emerge when a fast-growing team tries to scale what worked at 10 people to 50, then 100.

We've led that process from inside large corporations — fixing what "more people" had already broken, restructuring teams, and rebuilding the operating systems that make delivery predictable at scale. We know exactly how companies slow down, because we spent years being called in after it happened.

The pattern is almost always the same: growth stalls, leadership throws headcount at the problem, processes get heavier, and the speed that drove early traction quietly disappears.

Elevate exists so your company never becomes that story.

10+ years in corporate
transformations
3 countries where
we've operated
100+ teams coached
and transformed
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Elevate team coaching a client
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Love It in 60 Days —
Or Walk Away.

No lock-in. No pressure. We believe in what we do — so we make it easy to say yes.

The first two months are your trial. Show up, do the work, and we'll show you what the Elevate system can do for your team. If you don't love where things are heading, walk away — no questions asked, no hard feelings.

In our entire history, only one client ever walked away. They kept telling us they were 'too different' for the system to work. They were right — this is for founders who are ready to challenge how things are done, not defend them.

Already proven at Holded Embat Woffu
FAQ

Your Questions, Answered.

Everything you need to know before booking the audit.

A COO joins your team and creates a dependency. We install a system that makes your team run at full speed — then we leave. You keep full visibility and control; you just stop being the bottleneck. A COO costs €150k+/year and takes 6–12 months to ramp. We deliver results in 90 days.

We join your weekly standups, sprint reviews, and planning sessions. We run the Delivery Parties. We're in your Slack. We coach your managers 1:1. This isn't a once-a-month advisory call — we're operationally inside your team while the transformation happens.

Any new system takes time to trust — that's normal and expected. The Elevate Shock Therapy Tracker measures behaviors and outputs so we can see exactly where friction is and coach through it. Most teams fully embrace the system within the first 4–6 weeks once they see it actually making their work easier.

Your first two months are a trial period. We embed with your team, run the full Elevate system, and show you what's possible. If by the end of month two you don't love where things are heading, you can stop — no lock-in, no penalties. We're confident enough in what we do to make that easy. Most clients who see the system working want to stay for the 6–12 months it takes to complete the full transformation.

We structure the rollout into focused cohorts specifically to avoid overwhelming your organization. We start with one team, prove the system, then expand. The disruption is minimal — the goal is to make your existing workflow faster, not replace it with something alien.

We work exclusively with VC-backed software scaleups (Series A–C) where the founder is still operationally involved in delivery. You need a team of at least 8–10 engineers and a real product roadmap. If you're pre-product or a services company, this program isn't the right fit.

The First Step

You already know something's off.
Let's figure out exactly what — and show you what fixed looks like.

One call. We look at your numbers, your team, your setup — and give you an honest picture. No pitch. No obligation. Just clarity.

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