Delegate to Barney
Reduce drudgery, save time, increase impact.
Every CEO and founder has a gazillion priorities and not enough time for any of them. Barney identifies the high-stakes ones, gathers your input, and comes back with a professional-grade deliverable across the four jobs of a CEO: the board, the strategy, the team, and the market.
Barney can do the deep strategic work of a McKinsey engagement and the transformational coaching work of a world-class executive coach, simultaneously, at a fraction of the cost, available at 2 am when the decision can’t wait until Monday.
Barney is designed not just to be a thinking partner but to also deliver economic value — saving time and increasing profit & growth.
Focus on high-stakes work • Barney handles the rest
Make me more money
Delegatable tasks that directly improve revenue, margins, or strategic advantage.
Analyze our financials and tell me what matters
Margins, pricing, unit economics, breakeven, cost structure — distilled into a simple, actionable readout.
Find opportunities to grow revenue
Identify pricing levers, product expansion angles, competitive gaps, and under‑leveraged markets.
Lay out my strategic options
Give me 3–5 clear paths with risks, tradeoffs, counter‑moves, and expected outcomes.
Pressure test my decisions before I commit
Surface blind spots, second‑order effects, unintended consequences, and hidden risks.
Save me time
Delegatable tasks that drain hours and break focus – including emails.
Prepare me for every meeting
Create briefs, talking points, questions to ask, risks to watch, and a one‑page “what matters.”
Draft my emails and written communications
Write emails, memos, announcements, board updates, investor notes — in a clean, authoritative CEO voice.
Summarize anything I don’t have time to read
Threads, meetings, documents, decks, research, transcripts — turned into crisp, actionable summaries.
Turn my ideas into an execution plan
Translate vision into priorities, milestones, owners, risks, and next steps.
Reduce my stress
Delegatable tasks that remove cognitive load, uncertainty, and emotional drag.
Untangle complex issues, explain them simply
Take messy, ambiguous, multi‑variable problems and give me a clear, sharp explanation.
Run premortems and postmortems for me
Tell me what could go wrong, how to prevent it, or what actually happened and why.
Diagnose people and organizational problems
Spot performance patterns, culture risks, succession gaps — and draft scripts for hard conversations.
Watch for red flags and alert me early
Monitor commitments, detect drift, flag risks, and keep my world aligned.