Services
Senior support, built around the CEO.
You do not need more advice for the sake of advice.
You need the right senior perspective, enough context to make it useful, and the capacity to turn important decisions into action.
An Extra Chair combines a matched CEO-level strategic partner, an AI-powered intelligence layer, senior operating support and specialist capability around the priorities that matter most.
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Starting point
Start with the business, not a package.
Every company is different. So is every CEO.
We do not ask you to choose a service level before we understand what is happening inside the business.
The starting point is the CEO Opportunity Report — a structured assessment of your business, priorities, opportunities, constraints and areas requiring executive attention.
From there, we can determine what level of support actually makes sense.
Support level
CEO Strategic Blueprint + Implementation Plan
Turn the analysis into a plan.
The CEO Strategic Blueprint is the foundation of an An Extra Chair engagement.
It answers the question that often follows good strategic analysis: “This is a lot. Where do we start?”
We go deeper into the business, pressure-test the priorities and convert the findings into an ordered implementation plan.
The Blueprint can cover:
- strategic priorities and business model
- market and competitive position
- sales and commercial performance
- brand and positioning
- leadership, organisation and key-person dependencies
- partnerships and strategic opportunities
- capital and transaction readiness
- AI, technology and automation opportunities
- major risks and dependencies
- CEO time and bandwidth
- KPI and executive dashboard priorities
Recommendations are structured around:
The output is designed to move from diagnosis to execution.
The result includes a practical 90-day implementation plan and a broader 12-month strategic roadmap.
Best for
CEOs who know there is significant opportunity or complexity in front of them and want a structured view of what deserves attention first.
Support level
CEO Strategic Advisory
Another senior mind at the table.
Sometimes the greatest value is simply having the right person to think with.
CEO Strategic Advisory gives you a matched CEO-level strategic partner outside the organisation — someone with enough experience to challenge assumptions, test important decisions and bring an objective perspective without internal politics.
The relationship typically includes:
- regular one-to-one executive sessions
- decision support between meetings
- research and preparation around priority issues
- review of proposals, documents and major opportunities
- strategic challenge and pressure-testing
- written decision and action summaries
- support around negotiations and important conversations
- access to wider specialist capability when required
We match the strategic partner to the CEO and the business rather than automatically assigning the same person to every client.
The value is not replacing your role. It is having someone at your level, on your side when the decisions matter.
Best for
CEOs who primarily want recurring judgement, challenge and perspective without needing a wider operating layer around the business.
Flagship
CEO Office
Your CEO-level strategic partner and intelligence office.
CEO Office is our flagship ongoing relationship.
It combines the senior strategic partnership of CEO Strategic Advisory with a proactive intelligence and opportunity layer working around the CEO.
Instead of waiting for you to bring us a problem, the CEO Office continuously helps look around the business for what may deserve your attention.
That can include:
- strategic decision support
- opportunity identification
- market and competitor intelligence
- partnership identification and assessment
- strategic hiring support
- deal and transaction assessment
- capital opportunity screening
- negotiation preparation
- executive and board communications
- board preparation
- priority tracking
- special-project support
- ongoing research and analysis
- proactive recommendations
- CEO dashboard and decision visibility
The relationship generally combines regular CEO-level interaction with continuous work happening between those conversations.
Our technology does the monitoring, research, organisation and preparation. Senior people focus on the judgement.
Best for
CEOs managing several interconnected priorities who want both a senior strategic counterpart and an intelligence capability continuously looking across the business.
Support level
Embedded CEO Office
When the support needs to move closer to the business.
Embedded CEO Office is our most integrated level of support.
It includes everything in CEO Office, with a deeper operating presence around the leadership team.
A matched CEO Strategic Partner
Focused on the CEO, major decisions, strategic direction, objective challenge, complex negotiations, opportunity identification and high-level problem solving.
A dedicated Senior Engagement Lead
Focused on continuity and execution. The Senior Engagement Lead stays closer to the management environment, attends relevant CEO-level sessions with our team, coordinates follow-up, works with management, tracks implementation, coordinates specialists and keeps the CEO Strategic Partner fully briefed.
Depending on the engagement, support can extend to:
- leadership and executive-team meetings
- implementation tracking
- major projects
- board preparation
- partner and counterparty engagement
- transaction preparation
- deeper strategic research
- turnaround or high-priority initiatives
- specialist coordination
You remain the CEO. We strengthen the environment around you.
Best for
Businesses where strategic issues cross multiple functions and the CEO needs deeper coordination, continuity and implementation support around the leadership agenda.
Comparison
Where An Extra Chair is different.
Not coaching, not consulting, not a fractional executive and not an AI tool. The value is the combination: CEO-level counterpart plus intelligence and operating momentum.
| Common option | Usually helps with | Why it still leaves a gap | An Extra Chair difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Executive coach | Personal leadership and performance. | Often focused on the person, not the full enterprise context. | A senior business counterpart focused on decisions, priorities and momentum. |
| Consultant / advisor | Projects, analysis or specialist recommendations. | Often external, episodic and method-led; not necessarily at CEO altitude. | A trusted extra seat: strategic, continuous and aligned to the CEO. |
| Fractional executive | Functional capacity inside a department. | Usually sits within one lane, not across the whole CEO agenda. | Works across strategy, signals, decisions and execution bridges. |
| Board / investor advice | Governance, accountability and network input. | Can carry politics, distance or competing interests. | Independent support that is explicitly on the CEO's side. |
| AI tools | Speed, research and content generation. | Useful tools, but no judgement, trust or true context. | Human-first judgement, AI-powered intelligence and prepared action. |
How An Extra Chair differs from other common options
Executive coach
- Usually helps with
- Personal leadership and performance.
- Why it still leaves a gap
- Often focused on the person, not the full enterprise context.
- An Extra Chair difference
- A senior business counterpart focused on decisions, priorities and momentum.
Consultant / advisor
- Usually helps with
- Projects, analysis or specialist recommendations.
- Why it still leaves a gap
- Often external, episodic and method-led; not necessarily at CEO altitude.
- An Extra Chair difference
- A trusted extra seat: strategic, continuous and aligned to the CEO.
Fractional executive
- Usually helps with
- Functional capacity inside a department.
- Why it still leaves a gap
- Usually sits within one lane, not across the whole CEO agenda.
- An Extra Chair difference
- Works across strategy, signals, decisions and execution bridges.
Board / investor advice
- Usually helps with
- Governance, accountability and network input.
- Why it still leaves a gap
- Can carry politics, distance or competing interests.
- An Extra Chair difference
- Independent support that is explicitly on the CEO's side.
AI tools
- Usually helps with
- Speed, research and content generation.
- Why it still leaves a gap
- Useful tools, but no judgement, trust or true context.
- An Extra Chair difference
- Human-first judgement, AI-powered intelligence and prepared action.
Not another advisor. A senior counterpart.
Specialist bench
Specialist capability, when you need it.
One relationship. A wider bench.
Not every problem requires another permanent executive.
When a priority requires specific expertise, An Extra Chair can bring additional senior operators, advisers and specialists into the engagement.
Areas may include:
- M&A and transactions
- Capital strategy and investor readiness
- Executive hiring and candidate assessment
- Brand and positioning
- Partnership development
- Board and leadership strategy
- Executive strategy days
- Market expansion
- Technology and AI
- Negotiation preparation
- Workshops and executive training
Rather than asking the CEO to find, brief and coordinate a collection of disconnected advisers, we can help assemble the right capability around the issue.
Matching
We match the Chair to the CEO.
The right person matters.
An Extra Chair is not built around access to one personality.
The objective is to match each client with the CEO-level strategic partner most suited to the situation.
We consider factors such as:
- sector
- business stage
- strategic challenge
- growth experience
- capital and transactions
- technology
- geography
- working style
- and the chemistry required for a relationship where candid challenge matters
The relationship should feel like adding the right senior person to the table — not buying time from whoever happens to be available.
Human first. AI powered.
Human first. AI powered.
Technology increases the field of view.
Our intelligence systems can research, organise, monitor and prepare information at a scale that would otherwise consume significant executive and analyst time.
But AI is not the adviser. It is the amplification layer.
The technology allows the people around you to arrive better prepared, see more context and spend more of their time where experience actually matters.
You do not need to choose now.
The purpose of the CEO Opportunity Report is to establish the starting point.
We look at the company, understand the CEO's priorities, assess the available evidence and identify where additional senior support could create the most value.
If we believe there is a fit, your report will present the recommended next step and the level of ongoing support appropriate to the business.
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