Lighten the draw.
Extend your range.
Cam & Bow adds an experienced founder-operator alongside the CEO to own the consequential work that crosses functions, lacks a natural owner, or should no longer depend on the founder.
Growing a fintech creates a particular kind of operating problem.
As the company adds priorities, people, partners and complexity, more work begins to live between functions — and too much of it still depends on the founder to move forward.
The founder becomes the person connecting product to compliance, following up with the bank, keeping the fundraise moving, chasing the vendor, preparing for the board meeting, resolving the issue nobody quite owns, and making sure the important thing actually gets finished.
The answer usually isn’t more advice. It’s more ownership.
A traditional bow gets heavier the farther back it is pulled — much like a startup can become more exhausting as it grows.
A compound bow solves that problem with a cam system that creates mechanical advantage: reducing the force required to hold the bow at full draw while preserving the energy needed to hit the target.
That is the role Cam & Bow plays inside a growing company.
Cam & Bow takes significant holding weight off the founder, distributes that energy more effectively across the team, and creates the operating leverage needed to pursue growth with greater focus and control.
Put founder time back on founder work.
Depending on the business’s needs, Cam & Bow can take ownership of:
Materials, diligence, investor pipeline, follow-up and process management
Bank, fintech, vendor and strategic-partner coordination, plus sales support and execution
Hiring, people operations, corporate administration and coordination across finance, legal and other specialists
Translating CEO priorities into owners, decisions, timelines and finished work across product, engineering, compliance, operations and growth
Executive positioning, strategic communications and the work required to ensure the company is telling its story when it matters
This isn’t another layer of project management.
Cam & Bow gets close enough to the business to understand the context, exercise judgment, and move work forward without requiring the founder to orchestrate every step.
Important work has an owner. The team knows what matters and where decisions sit. Risks surface earlier. Partners and vendors get managed. Priorities stop disappearing between functions.
The founder regains capacity for the work only the founder can do: vision, fundraising, customers, critical relationships, and the decisions that shape the company.
Built by someone who has been in the founder’s seat.
Amber Buker, J.D. built and launched fintech startup Totem Technologies, raised more than $4 million in venture capital, and managed relationships across 30+ banking and fintech vendors while navigating the fundraising, regulatory, operational and cross-functional realities of building a financial technology company.
With 9+ years in banking and fintech, her work has spanned bank technology, executive advisory, research, communications and business development.
Cam & Bow exists because she knows what it feels like to need senior operating capacity well before it makes sense to hire another full-time executive.
Where is founder time creating leverage — and where is it just keeping the company moving?
In a 45-minute working session, Cam & Bow examines the company’s priorities for the next six months, how founder time is actually being used, where execution keeps getting stuck, and which responsibilities continually find their way back to the founder.
Afterward, the company receives a concise Founder Leverage Map identifying: