01 · Growth and customers

Leadership and strategy

In YESIF, «Leadership and strategy» is a department of AI agents whose mission is to turn the company's objectives into priorities, initiatives and evidence-based decisions, and coordinate the other departments.

Like every YESIF department, it has a coordinator, a council of 4 roles (constraints and finance, context, competitors and role models, goals) plus a synthesis, specialists that work in parallel waves, and routines on a schedule. Only sending, publishing, deleting, spending and payments wait for a person's «Approve».

24 specialists · 16 routines

KPIs

  • Goal attainment (month, quarter, year)
  • Active initiatives with owner and date
  • Variances caught before they fall due
  • Leadership decisions prepared with full evidence

Usual sources

BI, ERP, minutes, budgets

Stays with a person

Leadership decides priorities, investments and commitments

Routines · 16

  • R01 Business goals review leadsWeekly; monthly targets and quarterly strategy.
  • R02 Company values check leadsBefore relevant actions; quarterly criteria.
  • R04 Pre-commitment financial check joinsEvery financial commitment; daily reconciliation.
  • R05 Cross-department prioritization leadsDaily and on high-impact incidents.
  • R06 Exception handling joinsOn event; followed until resolved.
  • R09 Autonomy review leadsMonthly and after incidents or relevant changes.
  • R11 Leadership and strategy leadsDaily exceptions; weekly review and quarterly scenarios.
  • R26 Treasury and management control joinsDaily cash; weekly budgets and monthly reallocation.
  • R27 People and organization joinsOn joiners, leavers or incidents; weekly coverage and monthly needs.
  • R31 Legal, privacy and compliance joinsDaily deadlines; on activity changes and professional calendar.
  • R34 General administration and relations joinsDaily; due-date follow-up and weekly review.
  • R35 Opportunity detection joinsOn relevant signals; weekly roll-up.
  • R36 Experiment selection leadsWeekly or fortnightly; capped concurrent tests.
  • R38 Joint evaluation leadsWhen initiatives are evaluated; monthly roll-up.
  • R40 Retiring ineffective actions joinsWhen a stop condition is met; monthly review.
  • R42 Agentic system review leadsDaily control; weekly performance and monthly overview.

Specialist agents · 24

  • Strategic planproposal

    Translates company objectives into measurable initiatives with owner, milestone and date, and drafts the strategic plan and its quarterly updates as documents.

  • Market intelligenceanalysis

    Compares markets, competitors and external signals (pricing, launches, regulation, demand) to identify threats and opportunities relevant to the company's direction.

  • Business scenariosanalysis

    Models business scenarios (base, upside, downside) with explicit assumptions on revenue, costs and cash, and measures plan sensitivity to each key variable.

  • Goal trackinganalysis

    Tracks progress of objectives against monthly, quarterly and annual targets, detects deviations before they fall due and identifies the owner of each.

  • Initiative portfolioproposal

    Ranks the initiative portfolio by expected impact, cost and available capacity, and proposes reallocating budget across initiatives or pausing low-return ones.

  • Board and committee preparationproposal

    Compiles each management committee dossier with pending decisions, options, evidence and risks, and drafts the agenda and pre-read materials.

  • Agreement managementproposal

    Records agreements and commitments adopted (with customers, partners, committees or third parties), their owners and due dates, and flags those that expire unfulfilled.

  • Strategic partnershipsproposal

    Prepares the evaluation of potential partners and strategic alliances (fit, risks, financial contribution and terms) and drafts the summary for management's decision.

  • Shareholder reportingproposal

    Drafts periodic activity and results reports for shareholders and investors, with figures reconciled to sources and a summary of milestones and risks.

  • Business coordinationproposal

    Detects and resolves cross-department dependencies and priority conflicts (capacity, deadlines, budget), and proposes a resolution order or escalation to management.

  • Corporate governance and boardproposal

    Runs the corporate calendar and drafts notices, agendas, minutes and written consents for board and shareholder meetings, tracking deadlines and governance duties. Proposes document drafts for approval.

  • Investor updatesproposal

    Drafts periodic investor updates (monthly or quarterly) with key metrics, milestones, challenges and specific asks, cross-checking figures against reporting data. Delivers drafts consistent with prior communications.

  • Operating cadenceproposal

    Designs and maintains the management cadence: leadership meeting calendar, quarterly reviews and OKR cycles, with agendas, owners and decision logs. Flags meetings with no outcomes and slipping cycles.

  • Business model and product-market fitanalysis

    Analyzes value proposition, customer segments, positioning and product-market fit signals (retention, usage, conversion) to indicate whether the business model holds or needs adjusting.

  • Corporate development and M&Aanalysis

    Identifies and screens acquisition, merger and divestment targets, assessing strategic thesis, fit, indicative valuation and integration risks. Prepares comparable target profiles for leadership decision.

  • Strategic riskanalysis

    Maintains the strategic risk map with probability, impact, early-warning indicators and mitigation plans, alerting when an indicator crosses its threshold.

  • Organizational design and changeproposal

    Proposes organizational structures, leadership roles and change-management plans aligned with current strategy, weighing structure cost and available capacity. Drafts organizational design documents.

  • Internationalisationanalysis

    Evaluates foreign markets and entry modes (export, subsidiary, partner, distribution) plus the legal, tax and operational requirements to expand into new countries or US states.

  • Executive communicationproposal

    Builds the strategic narrative and leadership messaging for all-hands meetings, internal announcements and team materials, keeping them consistent with priorities and corporate values.

  • Succession and exit planningproposal

    Prepares succession plans, family protocols and exit options (trade sale, MBO, family succession), with timeline, indicative valuation and tax and legal considerations.

  • ESG strategyanalysis

    Integrates sustainability goals, client and investor ESG requirements and applicable regulation (e.g. CSRD, sustainability reporting) into strategy, flagging gaps and pending commitments.

  • Business casesproposal

    Builds business cases for each leadership investment decision, with costs, benefits, ROI, payback, sensitivity and alternatives, and proposes the required budget reservation where relevant.

  • North Star metricsproposal

    Defines the startup's North Star metric and growth dashboard with its input metrics, ensuring teams align around it and vanity metrics do not displace results-driving ones.

  • Market sizinganalysis

    Calculates TAM, SAM and SOM using top-down and bottom-up methodology and verifiable sources, documenting assumptions and ranges for strategy and investment rounds.

$890 the first month. Your flat fee in week 4.

Other departments

Source: YESIF department specification (agent-guides/departments), October 2026.