Fractional Chief Strategy Officer

Responsiveness built it.
Strategy will scale it.

For non-technical founders whose execution is flawless and whose growth has flatlined. I help you turn a business that says yes into a business that compounds.

Built on 50+ SaaS launches, 15+ years operating, 2 exits.

The pattern I keep seeing

The founder's treadmill.

Every founder I work with has lived some version of this arc. Most don't see it until they're deep inside it.

Scene 1: the robot at an order window, tickets coming in, cheerful execution
Orders
01 — The order window

You built it by saying yes.

Every investor ask. Every customer request. Every team fire. You shipped it all. Responsiveness is how you got here.

Scene 2: the robot in motion on a treadmill while the growth chart flatlines
02 — The treadmill

Then the ground stopped moving under you.

The tickets didn't slow down. The team grew. The hours got longer. The numbers — revenue, margin, retention — started flatlining. Every week feels productive. Every quarter looks the same.

Scene 3: the robot standing at a coral brick wall
More effortMore growth
03 — The wall

You hit the ceiling of what effort alone can do.

The reflex is to double down — more hours, more hiring, more shipping. It doesn't work. The problem isn't execution. It's that responsiveness built a $2M business. It can't build a $20M one.

Great execution without strategy is expensive movement.
— What founders rarely hear in time
Scene 4: a Corrival business card discovered on the ground
04 — The pivot

Someone who has walked the exact ground you're stuck on.

This is where I come in. Not to run your company — you already do that. To sit beside you, translate the view, and help you build the strategic operating system that gets you past the wall.

Scene 5: the robot stepping into an amber doorway opened through the wall
05 — The passage

The wall becomes a passage.

Together we sequence the moves: positioning, revenue engine, operating rhythm, team redesign, tech investments (this is where CodingIT plugs in, if needed). The work is still hard. Now it's hard in the right direction.

Scene 6: the robot seen from behind on a raised platform, looking out over a warm horizon
06 — The altitude

Direction replaces reaction.

Twelve weeks in, founders describe the same shift: fewer fires, clearer priorities, a team moving in formation. You're not taking orders anymore. You're setting them.

How we work together

Three doors in. One outcome.

Every engagement starts with a 60-minute call to diagnose where you actually are. From there, we choose the shape that fits.

Strategy Sprint

Four weeks. We diagnose the treadmill, rebuild your positioning and revenue engine, and hand you a 90-day execution plan your team can run.

  • Positioning & ICP audit
  • Revenue engine teardown
  • 90-day roadmap
  • Team comms plan

Fractional CSO

Ongoing engagement. I operate inside your leadership team — strategy, revenue ops, hiring calls, board prep, investor comms — without the full-time price tag.

  • 1-2 days per week embedded
  • Weekly leadership rhythm
  • Board & investor prep
  • Strategic hire design

Engineering, when you need it

When the strategy surfaces real build work, I can pull in elite engineering teams through CodingIT — 65+ senior software engineers, UX/UI experts, and project managers across the USA and Argentina. Vetted, ready to ship.

  • Fractional CTO coverage
  • Dedicated dev pods
  • Staff augmentation
  • Technical due diligence
Cyril Allgeier, founder of Corrival

Who I am

I've been the founder running the treadmill.

"Two exits. Fifty-plus SaaS launches. Fifteen years watching smart, driven, non-technical founders hit the same wall. Corrival is the thing I wish I'd had on the other side of it."

I'm Cyril Allgeier. I serve as Fractional Chief Strategy Officer for a handful of founders at a time. Everything I do is in service of one question: what's the next right move? — and then making sure you actually make it.

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Who I work with

Founders of startups and high-growth companies who are done running in place.

50+
SaaS launches
2
Founder exits
15+
Years operating

"Clarity I wish I had sooner."

— Alexander Finn, CEO

Not ready for a call?

Start with the Dev Team Evaluation Checklist.

A pragmatic 23-point checklist for non-technical founders to diagnose whether your dev team is actually scaling with you — or quietly becoming the wall. Free, no strings.

The next right move

Thirty minutes. No deck. Just your situation.

Tell me where you're stuck. I'll tell you — honestly — whether I'm the right help. And what the next right move looks like if I'm not.