At PRISM that part of the job belongs to Erin H. Robertson — for founders of growing startups and partners at law firms who never planned to lead, hire or manage.
That is how PRISM works. No sequence of emails begins now. No deck follows. This page exists to confirm, in plain words, what the person who sent it already told you — so the first conversation can start further along than it usually does.
Read what is here. If the shape of it matches the thing keeping you up, write. Thirty minutes, no obligation, and a straight answer about whether this is the right moment to bring someone in at all.
The work has outgrown the founder's inbox and the managing partner's memory, but it has not yet earned a full-time department. That gap is where things quietly break.
Hiring accelerated, titles multiplied, and the operating manual is still a shared doc nobody has opened since the last raise.
Associate retention, lateral integration and the difficult conversation all arrive on your desk because there is nowhere else for them to go.
Placeholder. Contracts, handbooks, classifications and the documentation that makes diligence uneventful.
Placeholder. Scorecards, interview loops and a first ninety days that actually produces a productive hire.
Placeholder. Bands, equity philosophy and a review cadence that removes the annual negotiation ambush.
Placeholder. Levelling, review cycles and promotion criteria people can read without having them explained.
Placeholder. Grievances, investigations and exits handled calmly, documented properly, closed completely.
Placeholder. Engagement signals, manager capability and the quiet work of keeping the people you fought to hire.
Placeholder. Interviews across levels, a document review, and a candid written assessment of where the exposure actually sits — not where it is assumed to sit.
Placeholder. A sequenced plan with owners and dates, ordered by risk and by what unblocks the next stage of growth. Every phase ends with something in operation.
Placeholder. Days per month in your tools and your meetings, and availability for the conversation you would rather not have alone.
Placeholder biography. Fifteen years building people functions inside venture-backed companies and professional services firms, most of it spent in the room where the difficult decision was being made rather than in the deck describing it afterwards.
PRISM is deliberately small. A handful of retained clients at a time, every hour delivered by the person you met on the first call. No account managers, no template libraries, no work handed down.
“Placeholder testimonial about clarity arriving before the crisis did.”
Placeholder closing line. If it is not the right moment, that will be said plainly on the call — PRISM would rather be the second conversation you have this year than the wrong first one.
