People with methodologies.
You have the vision. We help you build the company that executes it.
Fractional Landis is a small team of experienced operators. We step into a real role, bring proven methods, and take responsibility for results, alongside your team, not instead of it. For founders who want to scale, and for investors who want their thesis delivered.
Numbers, not reference slides
Companies we have worked with
"Thomas was instrumental in Commutator Studios' journey, offering high-level strategic help on investor readiness, market positioning, and company structure. He worked hands-on, a true insider committed to our success, understanding our needs as founders and delivering concrete, actionable steps that moved the company forward. His support helped us close a funding round that was later featured in Handelsblatt."
Dr. César A. Rodríguez RosarioCEO and Founder, Commutator Studios
Supported as operators, mentors, programme leads or board sparring partners over the past ten years. All references and how to ask for one
When to call us.
Not for a job title. For a situation you recognise.
- The vision is clear, but execution is stallingEveryone knows where the company should go. Quarter after quarter, it does not get there.
- The company has outgrown its operating modelMore people, more customers, more markets. The way the company runs was built for a smaller one.
- Growth is exposing gaps in leadership, finance or operationsDecisions wait for the founder. Numbers arrive late. Delivery slips. Nobody senior owns the function.
- The product does not scale with the companyTechnical debt, a platform built for last year's volume, an engineering team without senior leadership. Delivery slows down while demand goes up.
- Strategy exists, ownership does notThe plan is written, the deck is approved, and nobody has the time or the experience to carry it through.
- A key executive has left, or was never thereA CEO, CTO, CFO or COO seat is empty, the search takes months, and the company cannot wait.
- A portfolio company needs senior support without another permanent hireThe board wants action. A fractional executive, or a small team, in place within days.
- The company has to become investable, scalable or resilientA fundraise, an exit or the next stage requires management, finance and operations in a shape they are not in yet.
How we help.
Founders and investors want the same thing: a company that turns its plan into results. This is what we contribute, and what you get.
- SituationTurn a vision or investment thesis into a working company
What we doTranslate the ambition into priorities, an operating model, a product and delivery rhythm and a first management layer. As CEO, COO, CTO or CPO inside the company.
What you getA company that runs on its plan, not on its founder.
- SituationBring strategy into execution
What we doTake ownership of the plan in a defined role with decision rights. Set objectives, run the weekly rhythm, unblock the team, report to the board.
What you getThe plan from the strategy day or the investment memo, actually delivered.
- SituationBuild the operational and financial structure
What we doSet up finance, controlling, reporting, cash planning, HR operations and processes. Turn the spreadsheet into a finance function and the founder's head into a system.
What you getNumbers a board can trust and structures that carry the next stage of growth.
- SituationMake technology carry the growth
What we doTake the CTO seat. Assess the platform, prioritise the roadmap and the technical debt, lead the engineering team, set up delivery and integrations, and bring AI into operations where it pays.
What you getA platform and an engineering team that keep up with the business plan.
- SituationRemove growth barriers
What we doFind what is actually blocking the company, then fix it: a strategic reset, a hard pivot, a new market, a product organisation that delivers. Starting with a five-day Diagnostic where the picture is unclear.
What you getClear priorities, a 30/60/90 plan, and someone accountable for it.
- SituationClose a critical leadership gap, temporarily
What we doStep in as interim or fractional CEO, CTO, CFO, COO or CPO within days. Stabilise, run the function, define the permanent role, help hire the right person, hand over.
What you getContinuity for the board and the team, and a stronger leadership team afterwards.
- SituationMake the company investable and scalable
What we doGet management, finance, operations and governance into the shape the next investor or a buyer expects. Fundraising and exit readiness, done from inside.
What you getA company that passes due diligence and can grow with the capital it raises.
Three ways to engage us.
One fractional executive
CEO, COO, CTO, CPO, CFO or People
One of us embedded in your company, typically one to three days a week for six to twelve months. A real role, real decisions, real accountability.
An executive team
Two to four of us, one mandate
When the company needs to be run, not advised. We have worked together before and step in as a functioning leadership team from day one.
A scoped engagement
Diagnostic, reset, readiness
A defined outcome in a defined time. The five-day Diagnostic, a strategic reset, or fundraising and exit readiness.
Where it helps, we add hands-on support to a mandate: HR operations, recruiting, accounting and finance operations. It supports the leadership work. It does not replace it. For IT and specialist roles beyond the core team we bring in senior partners we have worked with in real mandates.
How we work.
People with methodologies. We have run companies ourselves and we bring the methods that survived it: objectives that the whole team can see, a weekly cash plan, a 30/60/90 plan with owners, a product rhythm that ships. Nothing you would need a consultant to explain.
We take a role, not a brief. We work with your team, not above it. And every mandate is designed to end: with structure, people and knowledge that stay in the company.
Understand
Where the company is, what is holding it back, what the next stage requires.
Step in
A defined role, a defined mandate, a seat at the leadership table.
Execute
Decisions, priorities, people. The work that only gets done when someone owns it.
Build
Structure, systems and a team that can carry the company without us.
Hand over
To permanent leadership, cleanly, with the knowledge staying in the company.
How much of your time do we get?
What happens to our existing team?
Fractional or a permanent hire?
How do investors and boards work with you?
The team.
The people on this page are the people you get. No account managers, no bench of unknown freelancers.
PhotoThomas Landis
Fractional COO / CPO
Twenty years of turning ideas into products, and products into companies that run. Initiated Switzerland's most used payment app, built a fintech accelerator in Zurich and Singapore, COO through a startup's transition to enterprise, executive board member through a digital transformation.
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PhotoDaniela Landis
Fractional CFO / People
The financial and structural backbone a growing company needs. Led finance and controlling, built the reporting, budgeting and controls that turn a startup's spreadsheet into a finance function, and runs the HR operations that scaling depends on.
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PhotoBenjamin Opel
Fractional CEO
Clear direction when a company reaches an inflection point. Turned around a logistics technology company as CEO, scaled a consulting business to more than CHF 5m revenue, and led strategy and transformation programmes for major Swiss organisations.
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PhotoChristian Palatinus
Fractional CTO
Technology that keeps pace with the business. Fifteen years building and running digital platforms in e-commerce, subscription and content, from architecture to delivery. Led platform development at a Swiss media group, ran integrations across ERP, logistics and third-party systems, and brings AI and automation into daily operations.
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Thirty minutes, confidential, with the people who would do the work. You tell us what is happening. We tell you honestly whether and how we can help. No pitch, no proposal, unless you want one.