Strategic Executive (United States)

coLAB, Inc. is a technology company focused on improving how nonprofit organizations make strategic decisions.

For more than a decade, the leadership team has worked alongside nonprofit executives and boards on strategic planning, governance, fundraising, organizational performance, and long-term sustainability.

Across hundreds of engagements, the same problem kept appearing: organizations needed high-quality strategic planning, but traditional consulting engagements were often too expensive, too time-intensive, and difficult to scale.

coLAB therefore developed VERVE, an AI-powered SaaS platform that transforms a traditionally expensive strategic planning engagement into an affordable annual subscription.

Built on more than ten years of proprietary nonprofit consulting methodology, VERVE helps leadership teams assess organizational health, identify strategic priorities, strengthen governance, develop implementation plans, and continuously track performance.

Rather than producing a static strategic plan that becomes outdated over time, VERVE is designed to operate as an ongoing strategic intelligence platform for nonprofit leadership.

The platform is already live in the market. coLAB has completed its pilot, onboarded paying customers, established tiered pricing, and successfully productized its consulting methodology.

VERVE has also demonstrated that it can reduce a traditional 150-hour consulting engagement to approximately 10 hours while lowering costs by more than 90%. The company’s longer-term goal is to build the strategic operating system for the nonprofit sector — a platform that helps organizations make better decisions continuously, rather than once every few years.

coLAB is looking for experienced Strategic Executives who can contribute relevant operating experience, commercial perspective, relationships, and ownership alignment as the company grows.

This is not an employment role.

The company is looking for individuals who have experience helping businesses move from early validation into commercial scale and who can contribute in specific areas where coLAB intends to grow.

Those areas include:

• SaaS growth and commercialization
• Customer acquisition and go-to-market
• Distribution and strategic partnerships
• AI and product strategy
• Organizational growth and capital strategy

Strategic Executives may contribute in one or more of these areas based on their background.

Engagement is strategic and periodic rather than operational.

coLAB serves the nonprofit and social impact market, but the underlying commercial opportunity is significant. The U.S. nonprofit sector contributes more than $1.5 trillion annually to the economy and employs more than 12.5 million people .

More than 97% of nonprofit organizations operate with annual budgets below $5 million , creating a large market of organizations that need better strategic infrastructure but are frequently underserved by traditional consulting firms and enterprise software providers creating a natural and sustainable moat for this business model.

VERVE addresses that market through a recurring-revenue SaaS model. The social impact and commercial model are directly connected.

If nonprofit organizations can improve how they allocate resources, make strategic decisions, strengthen governance, and measure performance, they are better positioned to deliver against their missions.

coLAB is therefore building a commercial software company around a problem with a clear social impact outcome.

The company already has:

• More than a decade of strategic and organizational experience
• A live AI-powered SaaS product
• Proprietary nonprofit strategy methodology
• A completed beta pilot
• 8 of 9 pilot organizations converted to paying customers
• Established annual subscription pricing
• Early commercial validation
• An underserved customer market

VERVE is not built around generic AI alone. Its differentiation comes from more than a decade of proprietary nonprofit consulting methodology, sector-specific workflows, organizational data, and strategic frameworks embedded directly into the platform. The product is designed around nonprofit decision-making rather than operating as a general-purpose AI tool.

Depending on experience, Strategic Executives may contribute across:

Helping coLAB build repeatable revenue growth, pricing, customer success, commercial processes, and expansion strategy.

Providing experience around demand generation, enterprise selling, sales process development, positioning, and customer conversion.

Helping identify channel partners, industry relationships, foundations, nonprofit networks, associations, and other routes to market.

Supporting product development, AI strategy, roadmap prioritization, data strategy, usability, and platform scalability.

Contributing experience around scaling teams, leadership structure, capital planning, governance, and long-term company development.

The intention is to match each Strategic Executive to areas where their experience can directly support company growth.

coLAB is looking for individuals who are willing to contribute both strategically and financially.

Candidates should have experience evaluating private-company investments and should have the capacity to consider an investment where there is strong mutual alignment.

We are looking for individuals who can contribute relevant experience and relationships while also having skin in the game as long-term owners of the business.

This is not a salaried position.

We are looking for individuals with 10+ years of senior executive, founder, or investment experience , particularly across:

• SaaS and enterprise software
• Artificial intelligence and data
• Technology commercialization
• Sales and go-to-market
• Strategic partnerships and distribution
• Strategy and consulting
• Nonprofit leadership
• Philanthropy and foundations
• Social impact
• Venture capital, private equity, or principal investing
• Board and governance roles

We are particularly interested in individuals who:

• Have helped companies grow from validation into scale
• Understand recurring-revenue businesses
• Have built or led commercial teams
• Bring relevant industry or institutional relationships
• Understand the nonprofit or social impact market
• Have previously invested in private companies
• Can contribute beyond capital
  

coLAB welcomes applicants from a wide range of professional and industry backgrounds.

The company believes different perspectives and experiences improve decision-making and long-term company development.