Operator for founder-led companies.
I come in when the product is there and operations don’t hold the growth. Three to six months, a named mandate, a verified result.
Pavel Mihutski · Valencia · ex-MasterCard, ThyssenKrupp, EPAM · co-founder TPSGate (€1.35M VC) · 130+ projects, 9 industries
The sentence founders come with
“I don’t understand why this keeps happening.”
Revenue is flat while the team works harder. Deals die and nobody can say where. Everything still runs through you.
That fog is my work.
How I work
- 1
Take it apart.
The company the way it actually runs, not the way the org chart says: sales chain, operations, decisions made, who committed to what.
- 2
Name the cause.
Not “conversion is low”. “You lose deals at the visit because of what was promised on the first call.”
- 3
Make it hold.
We agree the fix, I implement it with your team, and I check whether it held. I don’t leave a report. I leave a change that’s verified.
Three doors
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Fractional COO / Deployment Lead
- For
- Founder-led companies, 30 to 150 people, usually post-seed or Series A.
- Format
- 3 to 6 months inside the company. Mandate, result and exit named before day one.
- Price
- By scope and role. Intensive interim from about €7,000 + IVA a month.
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Founder Sprint
- For
- One hard question you can’t answer.
- Format
- 10 working days. Cause-and-effect picture, a decision you can act on, owners and dates.
- Price
- €4,500 + IVA, 50/50. Fixed scope, fixed price.
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Decision system for construction
- For
- Owners of construction companies, 30 to 150 people, €7M to €30M turnover.
- Format
- Founder Sprint of 10 working days, a build of 4 to 6 weeks, then 3 months of commissioning on your projects.
- Price
- From €4,500 + IVA (Sprint), the full programme about €15,000 + IVA.
Two or three engagements at a time, never more.
What’s behind it
- Built a business at 20 to €1M+ revenue and sold it.
- Took TPSGate from idea to profit and a €1.35M round.
- Led the AML transaction-monitoring rollout at MasterCard.
- Led EPAS (electronic power-assisted steering) delivery for ThyssenKrupp, for Mercedes and Volvo production lines.
- Launched EPAM Anywhere: internal talent platform for a 40,000-engineer company.
- 20 years, 130+ projects, 9 industries. Sold across a counter, ran a factory floor.
Under the hood
Communication analysis, dashboards, data infrastructure, and my own AI decision-memory system, CoManager, which records decisions and commitments and shows a founder where the company is diverging from itself. It runs in production at a client. The tools serve the question, not the other way around.
Cases
- Real case
My building materials company: buying a year ahead
The forecast came within about 5%.
- Real case
E-bike rental: making a business manageable
A system of record, and a contested decision settled in one meeting.
- Real case
How we taught cameras to see a car park
TPS Gate: plate recognition and free spaces counted from ordinary cameras.
If this is your world
Message me here or at pavel@rnd.energy. Twenty minutes, no pitch.
Email pavel@rnd.energy
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