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The term ayehli (ah-yeh-li | ᎠᏰᏟ) carries layered meaning. Roughly translated, it represents the “center” — the optimal point of alignment, balance, and unique contribution.
We anchor this perspective in our work: advancing critical missions, empowering leaders and teams towards ideal performance, and enabling the outsized impact of daring ventures.
As founders, we chose the name to honor a path that holds deep resonance, with the intent that its essence will inform every facet of the partnerships we forge and the work we undertake together.
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Ayehli helps early-stage founders and emerging VCs build high-performing teams and scalable People systems. We provide embedded advisory, fractional executive leadership, and project-based support to strengthen talent strategy, guide team alignment, and drive organizational growth.
We bridge strategy and execution — aligning talent with mission, designing durable organizational systems, and building teams that execute through complexity and change.
For founders and funds that view talent as a strategic lever, Ayehli embeds as a trusted partner, helping leadership scale with clarity, discipline, and intent.
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Fractional CPO / VP, Talent
Seed ➔ Growth
☐ Functional Builds (People + Talent)
☐ Optimization + Scaleup Support
☐ Org Alignment + HC Planning
☐ TA Strategy, Brand + EVP
☐ Executive Hiring
☐ Systems, Process, + Tooling
☐ M&A + Integration
☐ Culture + Experience
☐ Development + Performance
Service Model:
➔ Monthly Advisory Retainer
Impactful People and Talent project support for early-stage founders and teams.
Org Assessment, Design + Alignment
☐ People / Talent Strategy
☐ People Tech Optimization
☐ Operating Systems, Process + Rhythms
☐ Team Design + Alignment
☐ Culture + Experience
☐ Development + Performance
☐ Transformation
Service Model:
➔ Project-based flat-fee
Fund-wide Talent Infrastruture + Founder Support
Emerging VCs + Early-stage Portcos
☐ Organizational Design + Alignment
☐ Early Hiring Strategy + Team Design
☐ Search Advisory + Founder Coaching
☐ Scalable Talent platform resources
☐ Vetted ecosystem Talent networks
Service Model:
➔ Fixed-rate retainer tailored to the needs of the fund.
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Modern, Tailored Executive Search
Early to mid stage ventures
Head | VP | CxO
☐ GTM / New Products
☐ Sales, Revenue, Partnerships, + CS
☐ Mission, BD + Government Relations
☐ People + Talent
☐ Operations / G&A
Service Model:
➔ Fixed-rate, full-cycle retained search
➔ Search Advisory / Market Maps
Ayehli crafts durable People + Talent operating systems that drive alignment and accelerate the impact of emerging teams.
Building the Foundations for Growth
We partner with early-stage founders and venture teams to design and scale the People foundations that drive and sustain growth. From early hiring strategy to organizational design, our work centers on aligning people, structure, and mission. We help teams move deliberately through the transitions that define early-stage scaling — building clarity, resilience, and operational maturity along the way.
Partnering with Emerging Venture Firms
We serve as a Fractional Talent Partner to emerging venture funds, embedding alongside investors to strengthen their platform value and portfolio impact. This includes advising on talent strategy, supporting critical executive searches, and helping portfolio founders build strong leadership and team alignment early. For funds without full-time platform resources, we offer flexible, embedded partnership that scales with the firm and its portfolio companies.
Project-Based People Advisory
For founders and executives tackling pivotal inflection points — growth, reorganization, fundraising, or leadership transitions — we deliver defined-scope, flat-fee People projects that create clarity and momentum. These engagements may focus on leadership alignment, role architecture, People foundations and systems, early team design, or hiring strategy, depending on the organization’s stage and goals.
Seem aligned? Let's talk.
We’re a collective of experienced operators that move with focus and speed, enabling leaders to make high-stakes decisions with clarity and confidence. We’re drawn to audacious problem sets and unrelenting in delivering committed outcomes.
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format to discuss:
➥ People / Talent Strategy
➥ Org Design + Alignment
➥ Search Advisory
➥ Founder coaching
➥ Development + Performance
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Advisory, Fund-Level Talent Partner, critical Search, or project-based need.