Engagements
Auringon is the consulting practice of Jonathan Internicola. I build what the strategy still needs, and step out once your team runs it.
Founders, funders, and consultancies.
For founders
You hire me directly. If you know what you need, name it: the number that has to move, or the capability that’s missing.
More for founders →For funders
Venture fund or foundation, you wrote the check. I’m the operator you can offer the team, and nothing starts unless they want it.
More for funders →For consultancies
A subcontracted seat. Put me on the bid, the delivery, or the handoff between them. The account stays yours.
More for consultancies →How an engagement works
The first call is two questions: what are you trying to make real, and how big is it. From there I lay out a few ways in: what each involves, what you walk away with. Together, we pick one. Whichever it is, the ending is set on day one: an end date, or the number that ends it.
The shapes an engagement takes
Read
The return that hasn’t shown up.
A two-week read from the outside. Point me at a feature, a team, a program, or the seams between them. I find where it’s stuck and what to fix first. Each fix comes sized and assigned: what it takes, and who on your team owns it.
What I find is yours whether you hire me again or not. If a build follows, it starts from the read.
Build
What the strategy still needs.
I take point on building what you don’t have yet, at whatever size the strategy calls for. I embed with your team, build it, and leave it running.
- A capability. A few weeks to automate a support queue or stand up an analytics stack.
- A practice. A product team or a service line takes months, and most of them go to hiring and habits.
- The operation. Standing up a whole function, the kind a COO or CPO would own, with the end date set on day one. I build the team that runs it after I leave.
Turn
The number where it should be.
Together we set the target, say a satisfaction score or a revenue line, and agree on how much latitude I have. I build across your teams until the number moves. I’m paid on performance.
The number can be one that exists and has to turn around, or new revenue from something you already own, built into a line of business that sits under you. Either way, the engagement ends when the number is where we set it. If it’s a new line, you keep what I build, and I’m paid on what it earns without me: a share, for a set term, then it’s all yours.
Not sure which one fits?
That’s what the first call is for. Thirty minutes, no pitch.
hello@auringon.com or book a 30-minute call →