AOS for Office of the CAO
Office of the CAO, on day one.
The room that keeps the cadence. Friday founder summary, weekly priorities, vendor and tooling discipline.
01The 4-person team you would install
4 named specialists.
Chief of StaffAutomation OpsVendor & Tooling OpsOps Watchdog
Trained on the published work of
Verne HarnishPatrick LencioniGino WickmanCameron HeroldMike Michalowicz
Hover or tap a name to see who they are.
Drawing on the operating cadences of Verne Harnish, Patrick Lencioni, and Gino Wickman, with the chief-of-staff thinking of Cameron Herold and the entrepreneur-operator framing of Mike Michalowicz.
02Four missions Office of the CAO would run on day one
01. Friday founder summary
One page in your inbox at 4pm. What shipped, what is blocked, what waits on you.
02. Quarterly operating review
13 weeks compressed into one read. Decisions logged, not relitigated.
03. Tool sprawl audit
List of every subscription and what it does. Killed three before Friday.
04. Vendor renewal calendar
Every renewal date queued 30 days before. No surprise charges.
03What this team actually does
Not a chatbot. A working team.
Turns one sentence into a scoped mission.
You write a one-line priority. It comes back with an owner, an acceptance bar, the non-goals, and the evidence required before anything starts moving.
Keeps the whole org honest on cadence.
Weekly priorities set. Friday summary written. Anything stalled for a day gets flagged to the right owner before it rots.
Runs the operating review you keep skipping.
Thirteen weeks of decisions, shipped work, and open loops compressed into one read. Old calls logged so they do not get relitigated.
Holds the tool and vendor line.
Every paid tool tracked with cost and usage. Renewals queued 30 days out. Consolidation proposed before the next charge lands.
04Sample missions you could give Office of the CAO
You write the sentence. The team scopes it, runs it, and brings back the result. Here is what that sounds like.
You say
“Tell me what is actually stuck this week and who owns it.”
You get
A short list of stalled missions, the owner of each, and the one decision or input that would unstick it. No status theater.
You say
“I keep getting pulled into the same five decisions. Find them and route the rest.”
You get
Every recurring decision logged, sorted into what only you should decide and what a department can own. The routine ones move off your plate with an owner attached.
You say
“We are spending too much on tools. Cut it.”
You get
Every subscription inventoried with cost, owner, and last-use date. Overlaps flagged, three cancellations proposed with the savings totaled.
You say
“Set up the cadence so I never walk into a week blind again.”
You get
A weekly priority hierarchy, a Friday founder summary, and a queue that surfaces anything stuck for 24 hours before you have to ask.
Install your Office of the CAO team. And the other seven.
$1,000. 20 minutes. The full org on day one.