Kit 005 · Executive Skills
The CXO Foundations Kit
The eight competencies that carry a fractional CXO's first 90 days — plus the operating system pack that makes your AI assistant a real chief of staff.
What's in the kit
- The CXO Foundations Field Guide — 8 competencies (PDF)
- The Fractional CXO Operating System pack (Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Perplexity)
- Platform install guide (PDF)
- The first-90-days entry plan (XLSX)
- The decision brief template (DOCX fill-in)
Why this kit, why now
The fractional CXO path has a brutal onboarding problem: deliver executive value in week one, in a business you met on Monday. Nobody hands you the foundations because everyone assumes you already have them. This is them.
What you’ll do with it
- Install the OS — the instruction pack that turns your assistant into a chief of staff: BLUF everything, meeting pre-briefs, decision briefs with a point of view, absolute client confidentiality. Installs in four platforms.
- Run the 90-day plan — listen, first move, build, prove. Week-by-week, ending in the results brief that renews you.
- Write decision briefs that get answered — one page, options with a recommendation, and the ask in a sentence they can reply “approved” to.
The honest fine print
Foundations, not the whole job — this doesn’t cover regulated-industry specifics or legal formalities, and companies in real distress need specialists, not a kit. What it does is shorten the runway between “nice to meet you” and “here’s what I changed, in numbers.”
Who it's for
New and aspiring fractional CXOs — and operators who want to run their function like one.