The Pod
A senior operating layer. Embedded in your week.
A functional team's weekly output, run by a senior pod that sits inside your leadership weekly. For teams beyond the 90-day program scope. Your team keeps everything we build.
By application. We onboard one new Pod retainer per month. Three-month minimum. The Pod is the largest engagement shape Verseva ships.
The thesis
The thesis.
A funded operating team's bottleneck is rarely labor supply. It is the seam between strategy and execution. The Pod is the structure that holds that seam.
Three-month minimum. Below three months, the Pod runs setup. Above three months, the Pod runs compounding work your team absorbs when the engagement ends.
What it does
What the Pod actually does.
- Pillar 1
Senior operators. Small pods.
Two to three operators carry the weekly output of a functional team of eight to ten. We do not staff past four.
- Pillar 2
AI as infrastructure.
Workflows ship in your stack from day one. The pod's week is judgment, not mechanical production.
- Pillar 3
Embedded leadership.
A senior fractional lead holds a named functional title in your org. Sits in the leadership weekly. Owns a number.
- Pillar 4
The compounding ratio.
Output per full-time person, and how fast that number compounds. Every other pillar serves it.
Who we onboard
Who we onboard.
Funded SaaS at $3-15M ARR. Series A to early Series B. 8-30 staff.
Scaling DTC past $10M revenue. 10-30 staff. Founder still in the daily.
Boutique services at $5-15M revenue. 10-30 staff. Managing partner allocating across delivery and rainmaking.
Smaller DTC brands engage through the 90-day program. The Pod begins where that program ends. In every case: a CEO, founder, COO, or managing partner with calendar authority and a willingness to sit in the engagement weekly.
What we do not do
What we do not do.
- No staff augmentation. The Pod is leverage. If you need seats, we are the wrong shop.
- No engagements with passive CEOs. We need a counterparty making calls with us in the weekly.
- No engagements without read-only stack access. The Pod ships infrastructure inside your systems.
- No engagements that hide AI in the critical path. Some regulated environments forbid it. We do not take the work.
The application
The application.
We onboard one new Pod retainer per month. We match every applicant against the bench, the calendar, and the fit. If the fit is right and the timing aligns, we move to a 60-minute discovery in the next 14 days.
Seven questions. Three minutes to fill. Honest answers move faster than complete ones.
Pod application
Seven questions. Three minutes to fill. Honest answers move faster than complete ones.