THE EXECUTIVE LAYER NEEDS AN OPERATING SYSTEM
The way executive teams are forced to work as their businesses scale is fundamentally broken.
Sales runs from a CRM. Finance runs from an ERP. But the executive layer — the people responsible for aligning the entire company — runs from a patchwork of dashboards, status updates, OKRs, and project trackers held together by humans.
The result is a Frankenstack of point solutions, brittle integrations, and overpriced BI tools that nobody trusts. It's expensive. It's fragile. And it forces your most strategic operators to burn their highest-leverage hours holding it all together instead of driving the business forward.
THE EXACTTEMPO WAY
The executive layer deserves its own system.
Plans live in slides. Metrics live in dashboards. Priorities live in project trackers. Updates live in Slack. When there's no single system for how the business is running, the leaders running it become the integration layer. Everything the executive team needs to operate should live in one connected system.
The week is the unit that matters.
Reviewing financial performance, pipeline movement, project status, and organizational updates monthly or quarterly is not fast enough. Leaders need to be doing this every week. An executive operating system has to run on a weekly rhythm because that's the tempo at which businesses actually move.
Monday's meeting must be the highest-leverage hour.
Too many executive meetings are consumed by data reconciliation, status updates, and debates over whose numbers are right. Every leader should receive a structured weekly briefing that consolidates metrics, priorities, and leadership updates into one view before the meeting starts, transforming the meeting into a space for risk mitigation and strategic decisions.
Priorities must earn their place every week.
Most goal-setting frameworks treat priorities as fixed once they're set. Quarterly OKRs, annual initiatives, strategic pillars: they assume a stable environment, and that's not how scaling businesses work. Priorities should be reviewed, reranked, and updated weekly against what's actually happening in the business.
WE LIVED THIS PROBLEM.
SO WE BUILT THE SOLUTION.
We've built the reporting stacks, run the weekly cadences, and watched good leadership teams make bad decisions because the information they needed was scattered across six tools and three people's heads. ExactTempo exists because we lived this problem across multiple companies — as founders, as operators, and as the people responsible for keeping executive teams aligned while everything around them was moving. We didn't find a system that worked, so we built one.
Steve Cornwell
Co-Founder & CEO
Steve founded Northpass and served as CEO for nearly a decade, scaling the company from startup through its acquisition by Gainsight, where he continued as SVP of Strategy leading post-acquisition integration and emerging product strategy. Earlier, he joined Edifice in its startup phase and helped grow it to its acquisition by SPS Commerce, where he ran the POS Analytics business as GM.
Rob Krystyniak
Co-Founder & CPTO
Rob has spent nearly two decades building B2B SaaS platforms — including analytics and data systems at SPS Commerce, and the customer education platform at Northpass, which he helped scale from startup through acquisition by Gainsight. He's built and led product and engineering teams through every stage from first line of code to post-acquisition integration.
Travis Nardin
Co-Founder & CRO
Travis got his start in SaaS at Aircall before joining Northpass, where he rose to VP of Sales & Customer Success and served on the executive team through the company's acquisition by Gainsight. He went on to lead sales for Gainsight's Emerging Products division. At ExactTempo, he leads go-to-market.
Make alignment systematic.
We're building a future where executive teams scale with full clarity into what's working, what's not, and what needs to change — where risks surface before they become problems, decisions are grounded in reality instead of assumptions, and leaders align their organizations with confidence every single week.