Seed to Series A
- You need five functions and can afford two hires. We become the other three, without putting three more salaries on the payroll.
About
What Verth is.
VERTH runs whole departments for founders. Five of them: sales, client success, admin, finance and operations. The people are full-time, offshore, and hired and managed by us.
- 5departments you can hand over
- 1team, hired and managed by us
- 30days’ notice, in writing
- 0exit fees, ever
The difference
A standing team, not a contractor.
You get a standing team that works as part of your company, managed by us.
Freelancers give you hands but no ownership. Agencies give you a project with an end date. Neither one gives you a department.
We manage the people, the process and the standard of the work, and we are judged on results rather than hours.
Offshore, not arm’s length.
Yes, the team is offshore. That is how the maths works.
They are still full-time, still ours to hire and manage, and they sit in your tools, join your standups and work to your calendar. You get one point of contact, not a queue.
Who it is for
Founders doing five jobs.
Different stages, same problem. You need more function than you have headcount for.
$1M to $20M
- Running lean, buried in operational work, and nowhere near ready to fund a full in-house department. You want capability without headcount, and you will judge us on whether we deliver.
Established SME
- More cautious, and fairly so. You need to see it working before you hand over a department, so we start narrow, prove it, then expand.
What we will not do
Four things we say no to.
Most of what goes wrong in this arrangement goes wrong because nobody said these out loud at the start.
We will not write you a strategy deck.
- If what you need is a plan, a consultancy is cheaper than us and better at it. We are here to run the function, not to describe it back to you.
We will not bill you by the hour.
- Hours are an input, and paying for inputs quietly rewards the slowest way of working. You get the department and the result, not a timesheet to audit.
We will not lock you in.
- Thirty days’ notice, in writing, and every document, login and process note comes back to you. No exit fee, and no conversation where we try to talk you out of it.
We will not take a department we cannot run properly.
- If we are not the right people for it we will say so on the call. We would rather pass than run a function badly and lose you six months in.
How to judge us
By whether you
would notice.
The honest test of a department is not how busy it looks. It is what happens if it stops.
If we withdrew tomorrow and nothing slipped, we were never doing much. If the invoices went out late, the leads went cold and the inbox filled up, then the work was real.
So that is the standard we would like applied. Not hours logged, not tickets closed, not a report that says everything is fine. Whether the thing runs, and whether you would notice if it stopped.
The name
Verth, from worth.
The value we hand back, and the proof that it landed. When a function finally runs the way it should, you know it was worth it.
Worth is also what the old word meant before it meant money: the standing of a thing, what it is good for.
That is the test we want applied to us. Not how many hours went in, but whether the department works now, and whether you would notice if we stopped.