The manager layer is the last unautomated seat in the enterprise.
Every function has a system of record except the one that decides whether any of them get executed. LeaderScale is building the AI manager operating system to own that layer.
Companies don't outperform their managers.
Managers account for 70% of the variance in team engagement and performance, yet the manager layer still runs on memory and hope. Strategy gets decided in the boardroom and won or lost in the 1:1.
AI manager operating system.
A new category, also framed as an AI Chief of Staff. Not a rep tool and not a dashboard. The instrument the manager runs their team on.
Span of control is rising.
Average direct reports per manager grew from 10.9 to 12.1 in a year, up roughly 50% since 2013. Managers are asked to coach more people with the same broken system.
Diagnosis, not whispering.
LeaderScale finds the behavior at the root of a revenue problem, prescribes the next move, and confirms the following week that it stuck.
Measurable lift, real buyers, a widening moat.
72%
Pipeline growth from managers completing 79% of their structured 1:1s, against about 25% for low-engagement managers.
up to 19%
Improvement in rep gap-to-goal from structured, targeted coaching versus generic or absent coaching.
SOC + Sandler
AICPA SOC compliant, and partnered with Sandler to bring proven coaching methodology into the console.
Validated intelligence, not a wrapper.
The engine runs on more than a thousand validated coaching interventions and a 541-metric diagnostic taxonomy, each mapped from a root cause to the outcome it produced and built from a decade of enterprise coaching. Patent pending. The model never invents an action. It selects from the validated system.
Extensive domain expertise.
Colum Lundt
Founder and CEO30+ years and five companies founded, with three exits including one to Accenture. Former CRO at Sandler, where he drove 215% year-over-year growth.
Owen Lawlor
VP, AI and ML20+ years and three companies founded. Winner of the AI Game Changer Award. Deep expertise in deep learning, NLP, and learning systems.
Advisors
Tom Schodorf
Board advisorFormer CRO at Splunk, scaling revenue from $20M to $1B. Board seats at Rapid7, Kaseya, and Cribl.
Eric Richard
Board advisorFormer CISO and SVP of Engineering at HubSpot for 11 years. CTO at Dutchie. MIT.
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