Two founders. 40+ years.
They've spent their careers helping companies do HR properly and watching founders struggle through it alone. They know exactly what to do.
Not a person. A bench.
A team that runs compliance and operations before you even have to ask, so the function is covered, not just advised.
BYOA. 8 agents, live.
Bring Your Own Agents, built by HR professionals, not engineers, and tested on real startup data.
At the same cost, done better.
"Product-market fit, cashflow, the next round, a customer escalation. All of it is genuinely urgent. All of it genuinely deserves me."
People work is never the loudest fire, so it keeps getting moved to tomorrow. Until tomorrow is too late.
"The advice I get from my network is only as good as what my network has been through. Which is a very small sample."
The same three people, asked for advice. Bounded knowledge presented as certainty.
"I've made three significant people decisions this month. I haven't spoken to anyone about any of them."
The highest-stakes calls in the business, made with the least support of any function.
A world where no founder navigates their talent agenda alone. Where the quality of thinking available to a 20-person company is as good as what a 20,000-person company takes for granted.
A prototype for the kind of company we tell founders to build.
You choose how much of FTN you want to be part of.
Not every great person wants a five-day job. And not every great job needs five days. At FTN, roles can be structured around 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 days a week, depending on the role, the person and the outcomes required.
Your life doesn't need an HR category.
Life Days are days you can take when life happens — be it a child school event or your birthday day. No elaborate reason. No category. No explanation. The only expectation: own your commitments, don't leave your team hanging.
Employees don't lose a public holiday just because the calendar put it on a weekend.
If a public holiday disappears into your weekend, FTN gives it back. If an official holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, FTN gives employees a compensatory weekday off. No complicated policy. No manager discretion. The holiday is yours.
We give our people money to make FTN better.
Every FTN employee gets an annual Experiment Fund, which they don't need to spend in full. It can go toward testing something that could improve FTN, our clients, our technology, our culture, our ways of working, or their own capability.
Your career doesn't have to be one straight line.
FTN actively welcomes people in their second career, third career, return from a career break, post-founder chapter, portfolio career, semi-retirement, or transition from corporate leadership. We're not interested in your career gap. We're interested in what you know now.
10–50 people | Getting the basics right before they become expensive problems
Senior thinking for decisions that change trajectory.
Specialists who actually get things done.
Purpose-built agents for repeatable HR work.
This list is indicative. We agree the exact scope after due diligence.
Two senior HR professionals who kept meeting founders who needed more support than they were getting.
Dubai, UAE
"I spent twenty years helping large companies do HR properly. Some of the time, we actually did. The rest of the time, we built decks. Founders don't have time for decks. That's why I'm here."
