Westslope Advisors — advisor to CEOs when the company outgrows the way it’s run

Westslope Advisors

Every company outgrows the way it’s run.

It shows up as an event. A contract bigger than anything you’ve delivered. A first COO. A new head of engineering. An acquisition to integrate. A private equity transaction. A founder stepping back.

But the event isn’t the problem. The problem is that your organization was designed for the company you used to be.

Scott Francis · Austin + London

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Westslope Advisors

Advisor to CEOs when the company outgrows the way it’s run.

Scott Francis · Austin + London · linkedin.com/in/sfrancisatx

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When to call

The events that bring me in

  1. 01

    Scaling past the structure that got you here

  2. 02

    An executive transition, planned or unplanned

  3. 03

    An acquisition to integrate, or one you’re weighing

  4. 04

    A private equity transaction in your future, or one you’re living with now

  5. 05

    Building real revenue in Europe

How it works

How we’d work together

Focused Diagnostic

Pick a bottleneck: recruiting, org structure, leadership, delivery. Four to six weeks to the root cause, what it’s costing your business, and what to do about it.

Advisory Retainer

Six to twelve months with a CEO or a leadership team. The operating cadence, the hires, and the structure underneath both.

The Seat, Then The Hire

A role sometimes needs filling before it can be defined. I step in, define the work, then find the person to fill it permanently — from my network or yours.

What you’re hiring

You’re hiring an operator

Operational Process

I know how the work needs to flow to be effective. Seventeen years running a services business, where that was the whole job.

Leadership Transitions

I understand your leadership transition just as you do. I’ve been the one taking over, the one running the search, and the one handing off the baton.

Key Hiring Decisions

Thirty years of making them. Engineers, executives, operators, and the people who do the hiring.

Where the judgment comes from

Where the judgment comes from

17
years running BP3, as CTO and CEO
9
acquisitions. One transformed our business. Two didn’t.
6
executive transitions that I led, for three organizations
$38M
revenue at the handoff, half of it in Europe

Recently

  • Recruiting bottlenecks holding up tens of millions in revenue.
  • $7M a year in licensing trapped behind a process nobody had ever documented.
  • A services firm hiring its first COO and its first sales executive in the same year.
  • A new CEO evaluating whether their technical team and stack can support the new company scale and vision.
  • Rethinking product configuration technology for a global tech giant.

What to expect

I’ll tell you what isn’t working

I didn’t hire your leadership team. I didn’t acquire that business. I didn’t build the process everyone works around. Nothing here is mine to defend.

Westslope Advisors

Advisor to CEOs when the company outgrows the way it’s run.

Scott Francis · Austin + London · linkedin.com/in/sfrancisatx

Talk to Scott