For The Men

You Are The One
They Are Looking For

Imagine the phone going on a Thursday, and it is the exact problem you already solved in 2009 — the one that cost you a year and taught you where to look. Somebody is about to pay properly for the part of you that took the longest to earn.

What You Actually Have

Decades Of Knowing How It Goes, And A Head Full Of Ideas A Business Is About To Pay For.

You have been through a recession, a bad partner, a product that failed and a year you do not talk about. What is left is a man who cannot be rattled and has stopped needing the credit — and there is nothing in business more useful than that.

No job advertisement has ever known how to ask for it. That is the whole reason this exists.

Your Own Page

Your Portrait

What you have actually done, what you would take on, and how you work — drawn out of you rather than filled in by you.

See What A Business Sees

On Your Terms

A Day A Week, Or One Call

Steer, build, steady, rescue, open or hand over. You say which of those you are for, and how much of your week is going anywhere.

When You Want To Stop

Take A Break, Or Snooze Your Place.

Away for up to three weeks? Take a break. You are out of sight, your place carries on, and you are back on the day you pick. Longer than that, snooze it: the month stops while it lasts, and all of it is still standing when you come back.

The Same Man, Written Twice

One Of These Gets You Filtered. The Other Gets You Rung.

What You Have Been Sending

Two Pages, Reverse Order, Read In Nine Seconds

Curriculum Vitae

Operations & General Management · Melbourne · References available on request

2019 – 2024 · Chief Operating Officer
Responsible for operations, finance and supply chain across three sites. Managed a team of 90. Delivered process improvement and stakeholder engagement initiatives.

2011 – 2019 · General Manager
Oversaw day-to-day operations. Reported to the board. Drove continuous improvement and cost reduction programs.

2004 – 2011 · Operations Manager
Key achievements include budget management and team leadership.

Excellent communicator. Strong attention to detail. Works well under pressure.

Drawn Out In The Atelier

Asked Properly, Answered In His Own Words, Never Typed Into A Form

Available from 1 November · Two days a week · Melbourne

They Used To Ring Me After. Now They Ring Me Before.

Steer · Rescue · Hand Over By the hour, day, week or month 30 years

The turn he is known for

A manufacturer with 90 people, eleven months from the wall, and a founder who could not say the word out loud. He said it in the first week. They kept 74 of the 90 and the business is still there — and he will tell you what the other sixteen cost him.

What he will not do

He does not write strategy documents for somebody else to present, and he will not take the work if he thinks you need somebody cheaper.

The year he does not talk about

He talks about it. 2011, a partner he trusted, and a company he does not own any more. He says it is the most useful thing he owns.

And two businesses said so

“He said in week one what we had been going around for a year. We kept the company.” — a manufacturer in Dandenong, in their own words, with their agreement.

Both columns are written to show the shape. Neither man exists, and nothing here is a claim about anybody real.

What It Costs You

$29 A Month.
And Nothing Out Of What You Earn.

The month stops while your place is snoozed.

We take no commission, ever. What you agree with a business is entirely between you and them, and none of it comes back to us — so nobody here has any reason to push you toward the bigger job rather than the right one.

Why Here And Not A Feed

Be Available Without Ever Looking Available.

You are never looking. You are open from a date.Available from 1 November, two days a week, is a diary entry. Open to work is a cry for help, and it follows a man around for years.
A business you would rather not be seen by never sees you.Name your current client, the firm you left, the one your brother-in-law runs. They cannot find you here, and you are still perfectly findable by everybody else.
This is the page you were going to send anyway.The one a client asks for when they say what is it you actually do. Keep it good for that reason, and being open is a side effect rather than an announcement.
What a business said about you stays said.Companies fold, people retire, referees stop answering their phones. The lines given to you here are yours and they keep.

What You Share Here

Your Thinking Is Yours.

A business reads what you have already done. It never reads a plan for what you would do, because that plan is the work — and we never ask you to hand it over to win the job.

You choose the hour you show your hand, and by then somebody is paying for it.

If You Are Early

You Are Here Before The Businesses Are.

The first 100 men aboard begin with three months included, and then it is $29 a month, the same as every man who comes after. We do not charge a man for waiting.

The men who arrive first are the reason it opens at all — and when a business finally walks in, you are already standing there.

Come Aboard.

Your name, what you are for, and how much of your week is going anywhere. A few minutes is all it asks of you.

Come Aboard

Already aboard? Here is the way back in.

Give A Man A Wheel To Take, And Watch What Else Changes.

He is different at his own dinner table. Different in his own street. A man using everything he knows does not keep it at work — and that is why Skipper sits inside Lamoureux Lane, the Path to Love and the potential of humanity fully realised. One business gets a quarter turned around. Everybody near him gets the rest.