The proving ground, honestly.
We do not have a wall of stranger logos yet, and we will not pretend to. Instead we run the product on our own portfolio, five engagements over, each with an engagement letter, onboarding, Monday Reports, a 30/60/90 review and an attestation at handover. The honesty is the differentiator. The first external attestations replace these cards one by one.
Case study
Operated by a GRABS teamRunning our own portfolio office on a GRABS team.
The house (Portfolio Office) · PMO team
The situation
A founder-led portfolio of ventures, with every status, deadline and dependency living in one founder's head. The exact bottleneck GRABS exists to break, on ourselves first.
What the team did
We hired a PMO team against the office of the portfolio lead. It holds the vault of decisions and owners, writes the portfolio Monday Report, and chases every commitment across the ventures. Caps in code, nothing shipped without approval.
The outcome
A portfolio Monday Report now ships every week without the founder assembling it, and founder load is visible on a page rather than carried in a head. Baselined at launch; measured at 30, 60 and 90 days like every engagement we sell.
DeskSmarts
Beta, liveProduct
- Team
- Revenue team
- Measure
- School pilots and signups
TCEL
Live, flagshipService
- Team
- Lead-gen team
- Measure
- Qualified CEO conversations per month
Tevuu
LiveService
- Team
- Partner-referral and visibility team
- Measure
- Qualified intro calls; active referral partners
GrabStack
Live, automatedProduct (media)
- Team
- Audience team
- Measure
- Subscribers; citations by AI crawlers; inbound
Live numbers are wired to the Analyst seat as each engagement publishes its Monday Report. This site is engagement zero: it was baselined at launch and is reviewed at 30, 60 and 90 days like every other. The "operated by a GRABS team" badge ships on each card the day it is true.