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What got you here,
won't get you there

Scaling companies lose millions every year to performance and leadership gaps they can feel: unclear standards, no accountability systems, and no way to measure whether talent investments are actually working.

Who is wrkhappy for?

Leadership

Founders & CEOs

You've outgrown the team that got you here. Decisions are slower, your best people are restless, and you're not sure if the leadership team can carry you to the next phase of growth.

People

CPOs & Heads of People

Leadership is asking you to raise the ceiling on performance while creating a culture worth staying for and for leadership that helps them do their best work. You don't need another engagement survey, you need scalable infrastructure, and quick.

Investors

VC & PE Partners

Your portfolio company has a people problem that's showing up in the numbers. You need someone who can diagnose it fast and build the fix, not a 6-month consulting engagement without any deliverables.

We're called when

Your strategy isn't translating into execution.
Leadership is aligned, but the org isn't moving. You're starting to question whether it's a people problem or system problem.
A reorg, funding round, or leadership change just happened.
The team needs a new standard, and nobody has written it down yet.
You've invested in managers and can't show it's working.
The training is done, but the scores are flat.
Your best managers are thriving and your worst are coasting.
That gap is causing concern for what is actually tolerated in the company.
You're leading AI transformation with no updated picture of great.
Tools have been deployed, but employees and managers are held to an outdated standard. High performance with AI is undefined.
Culture that made you special when you were smaller isn't scaling.
What worked at 80 people is fraying at 400. The infrastructure hasn't kept up.

The gap has a price tag. And it compounds.

Most leadership teams underestimate the financial impact of infrastructure gaps because the costs are distributed, invisible, and rarely attributed to their source.

20–25%
Productivity lost when performance standards are unclear
Gallup
2–4x
Salary cost to replace a high performer due to poor leadership
Work Institute
30–40%
Longer ramp times due to unclear role expectations
BambooHR
60–70%
AI spend waste without performance and adoption infrastructure
McKinsey
200-PERSON STARTUP
$5–9M
/ year
Breakdown:
Productivity loss $2–4M
Regrettable attrition $1.5–2M
AI investment waste $500K–1M
Delayed execution $1–2M
1,000-PERSON SCALING COMPANY
$25–45M
/ year
Breakdown:
Productivity loss $10–20M
Regrettable attrition $7–10M
AI investment waste $3–5M
Delayed execution $5–10M

That cost compounds with every failed hire, every quarter of slow execution, and every percentage point drop in engagement.

This doesn't require more headcount. It requires better infrastructure.

Ready to close the gap?

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