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.
Fractional Chief Strategy Officer
Responsiveness built it.
Strategy will scale it.
For founders whose execution is flawless and whose growth has flatlined. I help you turn a business that says yes into a business that compounds.
If your quarters look the same no matter what the weeks cost you, keep scrolling.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
More than one way in. One outcome.
Most engagements start with a 60-minute call to diagnose where you actually are. Want to start smaller and on your own? The Off the Floor path begins with a free diagnostic.
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 strategy surfaces real build work, I pull in elite teams through CodingIT — 65+ senior engineers, designers, and PMs across the US and Argentina. Vetted, ready to ship.
- Fractional CTO coverage
- Dedicated dev pods
- Staff augmentation
- Technical due diligence
Off the Floor
A self-guided path for founders in the $500K–$3M band. Start with a free diagnostic and go only as far as you need — no call required to begin.
- Free Plateau Diagnostic
- $199 Deep-Read
- $1,995 Roadmap
- Advisory or Leverage Build
Who I am
I've been the founder running the treadmill.
"I spent years mistaking comfort for counsel. The people around me wanted me to win, so the hard questions never got asked. The wall didn't move until someone asked them — and until I studied my customers' problems, and their customers' problems, as hard as my own. That's the seat I take now."
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.
Who I work with
Founders of startups and high-growth companies who are done running in place.
Sound familiar?
Every deal that closes still has your name on it.
The org chart says delegated. Your calendar disagrees.
The quarters look identical, no matter what the weeks cost.
If two of three landed, the diagnostic will tell you why
"Clarity I wish I had sooner."
— Alexander Finn, CEO
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.