Operating Systems for Founder-Led Companies
Your team is capable. But certain functions still depend on your judgment, your context, and your involvement at every step. When you step back, things slow down or stop.
We identify which functions depend on you unnecessarily and turn them into systems your team can run independently. The measure of success is simple: how often does that function come back to you before, and how often after.
How it works
We observe, extract, build and hand over.
Find the dependency
We look at what your team handles well and what consistently comes back to you. We map the gap between what they know and what you know.
Extract the knowledge
We start with actual work, rather than asking you to document everything you know. We take what you have already produced and find the knowledge, context and decision rules your team is missing.
Build the system
We build a repeatable workflow around the knowledge, context and decision rules your team is missing. The output holds your quality standard without you reviewing everything.
Hand it over
Fixed timeline. Clean exit. Your team owns the system. We document it so they can run it, maintain it and improve it without coming back to us.
The engagement
One function. Fixed scope. Measurable outcome.
One function. One or two clients at a time.
We build the workflow, run it on live work until it holds, then hand it over with an operating guide your team can follow without you.
90 minutes - fixed fee, credited against the build
Give us examples of work that keeps coming back to you. You leave with:
If you proceed, the full diagnostic fee is applied to the build.
Why us
Built from real work
The approach is based on workflows we developed while running a lean organisation ourselves. We test what we build on live work rather than relying on a theoretical process.
Twenty years on both sides
Two decades building technology ventures, products and partnerships. We know what a founder needs to produce and what the people on the other side of those decisions are actually looking for.
Built to be handed over
We are not interested in creating another dependency on a consultant. We build it, run it on live work, document it, and leave you with something your team operates independently.
Praying Mantis was founded by Vijay Raghunathan, who spent two decades building technology ventures, products and businesses across India and global markets. He currently runs a lean organisation in Bengaluru where these systems are in active daily use.
Vijay Raghunathan
Founder, Praying Mantis - Bengaluru
Start with a conversation.
Tell us which function keeps coming back to you. We will take it from there.