Everstride Strategic Org Design

One Owner. One Growth Leader. Seven Pods.

I take the entire growth stack off your plate, own the numbers and attribution, and bridge Finance and Operations so capital decisions stay clear.

Compare Organizational Models:
Why this structure vs. hiring separate siloed heads? If you hire a separate Head of Paid and Head of Retention, you remain the sole bottleneck connecting them, translating attribution, and managing the P&L. With a single Growth Leader supervising the 7 execution pods, you are fully insulated to focus on brand, product, and creative strategy while every growth dollar ties directly back to contribution profit and cash.
Where Charlie Spends His 40-Hour Week (Proposed Model)
Founder Mental Load: 15% / 100 (Creative Flow State)
70%
Brand & Creative Direction
~28 hrs/wk in your zone of genius: hooks, ad angles & new products.
30%
CEO Strategic Decisions
~12 hrs/wk reviewing high-level weekly P&L scoreboard and capital allocation.
0%
Finance & Data Overhead
Owned by Sourav: Triple Whale, accounting reconciliation & attribution.
0%
Agency & Pod Firefighting
Supervised by Sourav across all 7 pods, site edits, CRO & email approvals.
Operation Team
Inventory, warehouse & fulfillment from China, order-to-delivery, demand planning, supplier POs.
Finance Team
General ledger, statements (P&L, cash flow, balance sheet), US accounting firm, tax, budgeting & forecasting.
Owner / CEO
Charlie Linford
Head of Marketing & Growth
Sourav Ghosh
Owns P&L, data & measurement, growth & performance. Places team, tech & SOPs. Steers, supervises & optimizes all 7 pods below.
7 Execution Pods Supervised by Growth Leader
1. Media Buying Team
Paid Meta/Google/TikTok acquisition, budget pacing & cross-platform efficiency.
2. Creators & Community
Organic TikTok/IG creator pipeline, wide-calf nurse/lifestyle seeding engine.
3. Creative Team
High-velocity ad angles, direct-response hooks & brand asset production.
4. Website & CRO Team
Shopify store optimization, bundle pricing, checkout UX & A/B testing.
5. Re-engagement & Retention
Klaviyo email/SMS replenishment flows, Subscribe & Save launch, VIP loyalty.
6. Sales / CS Pod
Proactive pre-sales sizing support + post-purchase customer recovery.
7. Channel Expansion (Amazon/TTS)
October Amazon launch execution, TikTok Shop affiliate scaling & channel P&Ls.

Solid lines = direct reporting. Dashed lines = cross-functional communication.

Head of Performance / Paid
⚡ Claims 100% Attribution
Optimizes for in-platform ROAS. Demands higher budgets without seeing landed COD, inventory lead times, or true contribution profit.
Owner / CEO (Charlie)
⚠️ The Overwhelmed Bottleneck
Forced to arbitrate Triple Whale attribution disputes, manage accounting reconciliation, approve every email campaign, and manually coordinate China POs.
Head of Retention / eCom
⚡ Siloed from Media Buying
Blames paid traffic quality for lower LTV; manages email agency in isolation without unified creative feedback loops.
US Accounting Firm
⚡ Cash-Basis Lag
Delivers standard tax P&L weeks late, lacking real-time transaction-date gross margin tracking for paid media pacing.
China Fulfillment & Ops
⚡ Disconnected Cash Lead Times
Inventory reorders happen reactively without forward-looking ad scale forecasts, risking stockouts or trapped cash.
CRO & Website Agency
⚡ Midnight Approvals Required
A/B tests and theme changes wait for Charlie's personal sign-off, slowing deployment velocity.
Direct Reporting
Cross-functional Bridge (Finance & Ops)

What I Bring Into The Organization

Owns
P&L · Data & Measurement · Growth & Performance
Translates Triple Whale and finance numbers into clear, confident capital decisions for you without data overwhelm.
Places
Team · Tech · SOPs
Installs proven workflows, aligns agencies, and steers daily execution across all 7 pods.
Builds
  • • Finance-first org alignment
  • • Data-backed incrementality models
  • • Lean team & AI automated stack
  • • Amazon launch integration roadmap
  • • Growth targets → Channel plans
Every pod and initiative rolls up to one central scoreboard: Revenue, Contribution Profit & Free Cash Flow.