Over the past decade, I’ve spent thousands of hours speaking with founders, operators, investors and high performers through The Startup Playbook Podcast, Playbook Ventures and my own businesses. On the surface, many looked successful. But privately, the story was often different. People were exhausted. Disconnected. Reactive. Making unintended trade-offs across their health, relationships and personal lives in pursuit of growth.

This wasn’t just what I saw in others, I lived this for a long time as well. Like many ambitious people, I spent years optimising for business performance without building the same level of structure around my own recovery, sustainability and life outside work. The company had systems for everything. I didn’t.

Komo was built from a simple belief: You should be able to build ambitious, meaningful businesses without sacrificing everything else that makes life valuable. Not through motivation or hustle. But through better systems, structure, accountability and support.