What is GovOps?
GovOps treats governance and operations as one discipline rather than two. It spans the design, roles, decision pathways, and accountability, and the execution that keeps it running: daily cadence, follow-through, and decision tracking. The goal is governance that actually runs, not a framework that sits on a shelf.
What is the GovOps Check?
Ten questions about how your company runs today, three minutes to answer. It returns the operating shape you are in and what usually comes next for that shape. It is the first step before any call, and it is where every conversation with Arasakio starts.
What’s the difference between GovOps Design and GovOps Execution?
Design is the architecture: roles, decision pathways, voting structures, accountability frameworks. Execution is everything that keeps it running day to day. Most firms deliver the design and leave. Arasakio does both.
Who do you typically work with?
Two shapes. Founders of companies between roughly 30 and 80 people, past product-market fit, no COO in the seat yet, where every decision still routes through them. And unit owners inside larger companies, a COO or a head of ops who has been handed a new entity, a new market, a carve-out, or a function that has outgrown its owner.
Do you only work with DAOs?
No. The model applies to any organization running complex governance: foundations, scaling startups, corporate structures, and multi-stakeholder entities. The Sandbox DAO is where we proved it end to end, but it’s the proof, not the limit.
What does an engagement actually look like?
It starts with the GovOps Check, then a 45 minute call. If there is a fit, the mandate depends on the shape. For a founder: Fractional COO, part-time in the seat, scaling down as the team grows into the role and ending when the hire lands. For a unit owner: GovOps Design, fixed scope over 20 to 60 days, then GovOps Execution to run what was designed, six to twelve months, renewable. Advisory comes after a mandate, never instead of one.
What if someone else built our governance and it’s not working?
That’s a common entry point. Arasakio can take over operations on a system it didn’t design, diagnose where it’s breaking, and fix it in production.
How do I know if I have a GovOps problem?
Four signs. Every decision routes through you. Decisions get made and execution stalls because nobody owns the follow-through. Roles are unclear and meetings multiply. You are shipping and hiring faster than the way the company runs can hold. The GovOps Check tells you which shape you are in.
What does Cyril bring that a general operations consultant doesn’t?
He’s done this end to end: design through wind-down, on a live system with a $10M annual budget. That’s a different conversation than someone advising from the sidelines. The operating discipline behind it comes from senior product and operations roles at Allianz and HSBC, so it holds at enterprise scale, not just in crypto.
How do we get started?
Take the GovOps Check: ten questions, three minutes. Then a 45 minute call. You tell us what’s breaking, we tell you whether there’s a fit and what the next step would cost.