We work beside founders from startup to enterprise value.
Vector works as a fractional entrepreneur for founder-led firms — the ones ready to grow but still dependent on the founder to make the business work.
We do four things: support founders, put AI to work inside the business, optimize the pipeline, and fill the growth leadership seat. Advice is part of it. Building the thing is the rest.
Every engagement is led by an operator.
Ian Crafford
Ian founded Vector to do the work he kept getting pulled into: sitting inside founder-led firms, moving between strategy, operations, revenue, and technology without losing the thread.
Fifteen years across 50+ companies as embedded operator, angel investor, and fractional COO. Three clients on the Inc 5000 fastest-growing list.
Specialist depth, brought in where the work calls for it.
Behind the lead operator sits a bench of Vector Certified Advisors™ — operators who have built and run real businesses, not career consultants.
Start with a conversation.
Thirty minutes on where your business actually is and what would move it.