This Is Not a Course. You Already Have the Job.
No modules, no certificate, and nobody here will call you a rockstar. The Vault assumes you are in the seat, the meeting is Thursday, and the document has to exist by Wednesday night. The library is versioned: when a playbook changes, every member gets the new version, and the changelog says what changed and why. You are paying for documents written by people who have done the job, not a stack of stale downloads from 2023.
Ten Shelves. Both Sides of the Desk.
Organized around the role, not the calendar: what the job is, the systems you run, the situations that arrive without warning, one shelf written for your executive, and two for after your first year.
The Seat
What the job is: your first year, and the scorecard that defines the role.
Meeting Operations
Agendas, the decision log, the meeting audit, the pre-read.
KPIs & Measurement
Numbers for a job that does not come with any, and the tool that builds them.
Executive Communication
The weekly update, the board pack, the all-hands, the cascade, and one real update with our notes.
Planning & Execution
The annual plan, the quarterly reset, the offsite that produces decisions.
People & Stakeholders
Onboarding an executive, and hiring the person who comes after you.
Special Situations
The reorg, and the crisis you get one hour to answer.
The Executive’s Side
Five documents written for your executive to read: how to work with a Chief of Staff, a guide for first-time CEOs, the board map, the transition plan, and the page a job description always leaves out.
The Hold
Keeping the job once you have it: telling hard truths, reading the politics, being a sounding board, and deciding what reaches your executive.
The Second Year
For when you have been in the role long enough to be taken for granted: renewing your mandate, your title and pay, and a planned exit.
A Real CEO Update. With Our Notes in the Margins.
A real weekly update to a CEO, with names and details changed and our notes on every line: what earned trust, what nearly cost it, and what was left out on purpose. Blank templates show you the format. This shows you how it works in practice.
Every Playbook Ships at Two Depths.
Inside the library, flip one switch and every playbook reads differently. The document you need in month two is not the one you need in year three. The downloads are separate: a Member Edition that explains the document and an Executive Edition you fill in and hand over.
Built for Your First Pass.
Why the document exists, what good looks like, and where first-timers go wrong. Annotated templates, worked examples, and the mistakes that cost credibility.
Built for Your Hundredth.
Shorter, and focused on what the basic version skips: office politics, edge cases, the point where a document starts working against you, and how to tie each one to your KPIs.
The KPI Builder. Numbers for an Invisible Job.
Answer four questions and get a three-part scorecard: the time you give back to your executive, the operations you run, and the outcomes you influence but do not control, labeled as exactly that. Every metric comes with a target range and a note on how people game it. The Mandate Architect, on Shelf 10, does the same for year two: fourteen questions from your own instruments produce a drift score and the renegotiation you are owed.
$495 a Year. Less Than One Hour of the Consultant You Will Not Need.
- Ten shelves, thirty-nine playbooks, both editions
- The KPI Builder and the Mandate Architect
- The annotated CEO update
- Every update as it lands, with the changelog
- This library and The Fractional Vault
- Both interactive tools, one sign-in
- $95 less than the two apart
Membership sales open October 1, 2026.
Annual membership, billed by Stripe, cancel anytime before renewal. Membership does not include our time; if you need a conversation rather than a document, that is Executive Advisory.
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Common Questions. Direct Answers.
Is This a Course?
A course teaches you what the role is. The Vault assumes you are already in it, the meeting is Thursday, and the document has to exist by Wednesday night. No modules, no certificate.
What Formats Do the Documents Come In?
Every document comes in two editions. The Member Edition is the cheat sheet: every part of the document explained, with a worked example under each, so you are never wondering what we meant. The Executive Edition is the same document with only the titles and the boxes, a fillable PDF you complete and hand over, with nothing on the page that gives away the advice behind it. The logs and trackers are Excel workbooks with live formulas, the formulas protected and the entry cells open. The interactive tools run in the browser and export to Markdown or print.
Can I Give the Executive Edition to My Executive?
That is what it is for. It carries The Coul & Gold Group's name and a line saying it is not for redistribution, and nothing else that is ours. The Member Edition is licensed to you alone and stays with you.
How Do I Find the Right Document?
Browse the shelves, or tell us the problem. At the top of each vault there is a box: describe what you are dealing with in a couple of sentences and the library builds you a shelf of the documents that fit, in the order to read them, with one line on why each is there. If the library has nothing for it, it says so, and your request goes on the list of what we write next.
Does the Library Change?
Constantly. It is a working library, not a finished product. Documents are revised as the role changes and as members tell us where one broke under use, and new ones are added when they have earned a place on the shelf. Updates land regularly rather than on a published schedule, because a document ships when it is right, not when a calendar says so. Every change is dated in the changelog inside the Vault, so you can always see what moved and when.
Does This Include the Fractional Vault?
No. The Fractional Vault is a separate library for the seat held part-time on retainer, with its own membership. Join both for $895 a year and switch between them from inside either one.
Can I Expense It?
Almost certainly. It is $495 a year for a professional resource library, less than one hour of most consultants, and the invoice carries The Coul & Gold Group's name. Most members expense it under professional development or team tooling.
What If I Cancel?
Your access runs to your renewal date, with every update that lands before then. Cancel before that date and you will not be charged again. The documents you downloaded are yours to keep.
Is There a Team Price?
Yes. Email info@coulandgold.com.