of All Trades (oAT) is reinventing how companies are built with an operating model built for the future of work. oAT is an embedded operating partner, providing expert generalists to enable you to scale smart and fast.
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A hiring approach that favors specialists slows down founders and leaders’ ability to dynamically build their team and pivot in response to changing needs
Building a talent stack that is skilled, agile, and adaptable requires embracing a new approach. At oAT, we’ve developed a unique, flexible operating model to fill critical gaps in your organization. We embed multifunctional generalists who execute as experienced and embedded team members.
Specialized hiring is rigid and costly, requiring companies to enter long-term engagements and contracts with narrowly defined responsibilities and outputs.
Hiring oAT’s generalists allows your organization to remain capital-light and flexible. Our responsibilities shift as your business evolves and the world changes. We drive impact where and when you need it most.
Hiring an agency, marketplace, or full time specialist works only when scope, role and responsibilities are clearly understood and unchanging. Investing time and money into these resources puts pressure on you to ‘get it right’ from the start, and you lose the ability to learn by doing and nimbly adapt as your unique needs come into focus. The result is either a doubling down in the wrong direction or high switching costs to go back and hire the right person.
Embedding an oAT generalist with experience in your functional area of need allows you to tackle the things you know you need today while doing the work to identify what you need tomorrow. Your generalist builds the foundational processes of a function and flexes with your business as new demands emerge. When your needs shift more, seamlessly tag in another oAT generalist with different skill sets, equipped with all the learnings and context of the first.
Specialized resources address specific needs but often fall short as demand grows. Leaders constantly feel under-resourced, while teams remain stretched thin. Filling in on functional areas prevents leaders from supporting growth, meaning no resources for more hands: it’s a cycle.
The experience of oAT generalists is both broad and deep: we are thought partners, strategists, project managers, and executors. We extend a founder’s reach as an operating partner and are able to flex cross-functionally to address the resource needs of your whole team.
In the balance of iterating quickly versus finding the most efficient solution, quick wins often win out. Each function develops their own unique ways of working, adopting new tools and systems to address their preferences or needs at a specific moment in time. This leads to siloed functions and entrenched processes that slow down growth.
As embedded team members, we develop a deep understanding of how your company works - and how it doesn’t. With our diverse experiences across industries, we are able to recommend and implement the right tools and processes to support rather than slow down your team.
oAT takes the growing pains out of growth. Our operating model for the modern organization is a solution that scales with you.
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