About Waypoint Black

We've lived this. Not just read about it in a book.

A bench of founders and entrepreneurs who have built, scaled and exited businesses of their own. Now we're the copilots we wish we'd had.

Who We Are

Operators who've sat in your chair, on both sides of the table.

What we are

A bench of founders and entrepreneurs who have each built and scaled businesses of their own
Operators with exits behind them, across SaaS, construction, healthtech and legal services
Hands-on: sleeves rolled up, inside the business, shoulder to shoulder with the leadership team

What we are not

Advisors or consultants who learnt about scaling from a classroom
Subject matter or industry experts. That's your job
Report writers who leave when the deck is delivered

Bench members are introduced by name once an engagement is scoped.

Why Waypoint Black Exists

Built by a founder who lived the whole journey.

Waypoint Black was founded by Olly Andrews. He spent 7 years in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse and Nomura before founding a B2B SaaS company, which he spent the next 15 years building into a business trading in 14 countries from 5 offices: 7 funding rounds, 5 of them equity, 3 acquisitions, and an exit in early 2025.

7 rounds meant years of term sheets and board packs, and of investors promising value well beyond the cheque. Few delivered it. Like most founders, he filled the gaps himself, bringing in specialist advisors one function at a time. The advice was often good, but it was siloed, and nothing joined it up.

Throughout, he kept one discipline: documenting the journey. The mistakes, the lessons, the advice that worked and the advice that didn't. Around the 10 year mark he realised the record had turned into a method. That method is now the SME Vector Framework: everything a scaling business needs to professionalise and de-risk, in one place.

He built Waypoint Black because he wishes it had existed when he was building his own business. The next founder gets it from day one, not in year 15.

Olly Andrews Founder

More operator than advisor.
More copilot than consultant.

How We Work With People

Candid, human and sharp.

We say the thing other firms wrap in 3 paragraphs. We write and speak the way we would in the room, because we're going to be in the room. And when we make a claim we can point to where it comes from, whether that is the framework, the playbook, or a page in the report.

The best way to understand how we work is to spend 45 minutes with us.

Just a straight conversation.