Impeto exists to emancipate founders from the "How" so they can focus on the "What." We build the systems that run your company — and we build them so your team can own them, whether you keep us around or not.
You work directly with the person who developed this methodology and has deployed it through three funding rounds. No account managers. No junior associates learning on your dime. The person who designs the system is the person who builds it.
For specialized workstreams — legal review, complex CRM implementation, tax and compliance — Impeto maintains a vetted network of partners. Mike owns the strategy, design, and quality of every deliverable. Specialists execute under his direction.
I've spent 15+ years building the operational backend of companies from the inside. I've built finance systems from zero and carried them through Seed, Series A, and Series B. A VC firm once deployed me as emergency interim COO — operations were stable within six weeks. I built a CRM from zero to one inside a Fortune 100 insurer, ran M&A due diligence that kept 100% of the talent, and in 2008, when the crisis hit, investors picked me to lead through it.
Impeto is the productization of that career.
The reason I do this is simple: I've watched too many good products get dragged down by a backend nobody had time to build. You were right to spend your days on product and customers. Helping you get free of the rest — so you can stay on the thing only you can do — is the most satisfying work I've found.
Every engagement has defined deliverables and a defined endpoint, including the ongoing ones. You always know what you're buying and when it's done.
We solve with systems and process design, not by throwing people at it. Smart infrastructure beats brute-force effort.
An associate's questions, a partner's empathy. We expect the mess. We don't judge it.
Documentation, training, a named owner. Every system we build is designed so your team can run it — whether we're still around or not.
We protect your time. Solutions recorded, not scheduled. Synchronous meetings are deliberate and kept to a minimum.