Pod 1 is mid-ramp. Four roles filled, four actively recruiting. Leadership is the two founding partners.
Offshore specialists across Colombia, the Philippines, Venezuela, and India.
Pod members report to a US-side Pod Lead, who reports up to Van.
Pod 1 finishes hiring and stabilizes its playbook. Pod 2 begins ramp with leads recruited first.
Pod 1 final 4 seats plus the first wave of Pod 2 — heaviest recruiting quarter of the year.
Still the two founding partners. First Practice Lead doesn’t come on until Q4.
Three pods active. Pod 1 has become the reference playbook other pods clone from.
US-side hire to manage pod cluster, free the partners from day-to-day delivery oversight.
Recruiting cadence accelerating — talent becomes the bottleneck on scale.
Six pods active across two practice clusters. CMG is a real services org, not a founder-run team.
Each Practice Lead owns up to three pods — the unit of management is the cluster, not the individual pod.
Dedicated offshore recruiter unblocks pod scaling. Hiring is continuous, not project-based.