The People Side of Performance & Scale .

Growth shouldn't feel this hard..

We help tech founders fix the people problems slowing performance—when decisions bottleneck at the top, managers can't lead effectively, and your hiring process feels like a gamble.

We identify what's holding you back, build systems that actually work, and help you hire people who can scale with you.

Ready to talk?

  • Book a free clarity call

  • Or send me a message with what's on your mind

Growth & Performance.

What got you here won’t get you there.

Early on, effort carries the company.
Past 15–20 people, performance and scale either become systematic or they start to break.

This is especially true in tech scale-ups, where complexity is high, talent is scarce, and people problems hit both performance and growth fast.

Most companies don't fail here.
They stall. Performance plateaus. Scale feels fragile. Founders stay stuck as bottlenecks.

This is where we help.

Our Approach.

How we work (and why it’s different).

Not HR. Not coaching. Not consultants.

We act as a fractional people and leadership partner to founders navigating the inflection point where effort stops scaling and execution must become structural.

That means:

  • Diagnosing what’s really happening beneath surface symptoms

  • Installing decision clarity and real accountability

  • Designing hiring and leadership systems that scale

  • Leaving teams stronger — not reliant

This is practical, embedded work.

Focused on outcomes, not theater.

How we typically work together

Most founders come to us at different points of the same journey.
What changes is where the risk is — and how much support is needed.

These are the most common ways we work together:

Clarity & Diagnosis

Understanding where the real people risks are — and which ones aren’t worth fixing yet. Creating focus without adding unnecessary process.

Foundations Build

Strengthening hiring, leadership, and accountability so managers can step up — and the business can scale & perform without friction or founder overload.

Stabilize & Scale

An ongoing fractional partnership that helps teams adapt as complexity grows - senior support that flexes with the business, without creating dependency.

Why the fractional model works

You get senior people and leadership experience when it matters, embedded enough to see patterns early, build capability, and step back as teams mature.

Your fractional partner: Lana

Founder & Principal, 8.13 Elevata

"I’ve helped teams grow from early stage (6–10 people) through real scale (140+ employees), inside fast-growing, technically complex companies where people decisions get expensive quickly.

I’ve worked on both sides of scale — as a founder, and as a people and leadership partner supporting teams as they move from early growth into managers, systems, and real accountability.

I bring a psychology-informed lens to building teams, grounded in real-world experience and graduate-level study through Harvard Extension School. That perspective shapes how I design practical hiring, people, and leadership systems that support performance and growth while keeping things simple and efficient.

If you’d like more context on my background and experience".

Learn more on LinkedIn

Hiring & Culture Health Check.

Identify the people issues costing you revenue and momentum.

Not every founder needs a call.

Sometimes you just need a clear signal.

The Hiring & Culture Health Check shows you where people issues are quietly dragging down performance—and which ones will break as you scale.

You'll get:

  • A free performance health score based on your hiring and culture setup

  • Clear insight into which people problems are costing you momentum, productivity, or revenue

  • Specific recommendations on what's holding performance back and what won't scale

Want to go deeper? Book a free call or send me a message to discuss your results and next steps.

Take the health check

~7 minutes. Immediate results.

What shifts once foundations are in place

Is this for you?

This is for you if

This is not for you if

Where to start.

Some founders start with a conversation.
Others start with the diagnostic.

Either way, clarity comes first.

Helping founders build the people side of performance at scale.

@2026 - 8.13 Elevata