The complexity curve
Complexity compounds.
More products, people, systems, customers, regulations, and acquisitions create interfaces that no single function can resolve alone.
Executive Operating Partner / Atlanta
Building organizations that outperform their complexity.
B7i works with founder-led and private equity-backed companies when growth, technology, and organizational complexity have outpaced the operating model.
Start a conversation01 / The problem
Growth creates complexity. Complexity slows execution.
The companies that keep creating enterprise value are not the ones that avoid complexity. They are the ones whose operating systems remain stronger than it.
The B7i perspective
Integration creates leverage.
B7i builds the operating architecture that connects strategy, finance, product, engineering, operations, security, legal, and AI into one execution system.
02 / Operating architecture
One company. One operating system.
Transformation fails when it is treated as a series of isolated functional initiatives. B7i designs the interfaces, decision rights, cadence, systems, and accountability that allow the enterprise to operate as one.
Executive strategy
Product
Commercial
Finance
Engineering
Operations
Legal / Security / People
Applied AI and decision intelligence
Design principle
AI is not a bolt-on initiative. It becomes operational when it is embedded in the workflows, decisions, controls, economics, and accountability of the business.
03 / Practice areas
Engage where the operating model is under pressure.
B7i enters at moments that require experienced cross-functional leadership, not another layer of recommendations.
AI Strategy & Applied Deployment
Identify where AI changes cost structure, decision quality, or organizational capability, then move from proof of concept to production-grade workflows, agentic automation, and computer vision integration.
Operating Architecture
Integrate Finance, Engineering, Legal, Security, Product, and Operations into a coherent system with clear decision rights, operating cadence, capacity planning, and accountability.
Exit & Acquisition Readiness
Prepare the organization, systems, governance, controls, and leadership team to withstand buyer diligence and execute a credible transition before, during, and after a transaction.
Embedded Executive Leadership
Provide interim or advisory operating leadership when the business needs a President, COO, or enterprise transformation partner before it is ready to make a permanent hire.
04 / Operator proof
Built under real operating pressure.
B7i is led by an executive who has held the P&L, reorganized companies, built technology and operating systems, led integrations, and taken three businesses through successful acquisitions.
3Successful company exits
20→3Product portfolio consolidation
$15MNew SaaS ARR in year one
Same dayFulfillment reduced from weeks
Representative results from executive roles at Infinite Athlete, PWCC Marketplace / Fanatics, and iGrafx.
05 / Approach
Diagnose the system. Change the trajectory.
The work starts with operational reality and ends when the new model is executable without external dependency.
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Observe
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Diagnose
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Design
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Execute
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Institutionalize
06 / Operator-led
Built by an operator, not an observer.
Mark Bednarski is a three-time C-suite operator whose career spans enterprise software, marketplaces, AI and computer vision, sports technology, M&A integration, and private equity value creation.
He founded his first companies while still in school and built his career by connecting strategy, technology, people, and execution across complex organizations.
01President and COO leadership
02Product, technology, finance, operations, legal, and security
03Reorganization, integration, commercialization, and exit execution
Operating principle
AI is not the strategy. It is an accelerator of a well-designed organization.
07 / Contact