A private membership for women founders
Stop carrying it alone.
A peer board of six who carry the big decisions with you, and a vetted team on call for the work you'd rather hand off.
- $99 per month
- then $199 per month
- Six women
- on your board, matched by fit
- September 30
- applications close
- 6
- women on your board
- 25
- members in the room, in total
- 2
- things off your list every month
- Sept 30
- applications close
The problem
You are capable. That's the problem.
Being the one who can handle it means being the one who handles all of it. There is nowhere to put that down, and no one who has the whole picture to put it down with.
- You make the big decisions alone.
- You are the only one who has to have all the answers.
- You can't say you're stuck without it feeling like failure.
- Nobody around you knows the heart behind the business.
What it is
Four things. One membership.
Most founders assemble these one at a time and pay for all four separately. Tangram is the version where they arrive together — and the business, the clients and the credit all stay yours.
On your own
With Tangram
The weight
You carry every call, and there is nobody who knows the whole picture.
A board of six who know your business carries it with you, every two weeks.
The work
You find a bookkeeper, a designer, a developer. You vet them. You manage them.
A vetted bench across 6 seats, already there. 2 Fracs credits a month for your first 3 months.
The know-how
Every offer, hire and price starts from a blank page, or from someone's template.
What the other women already worked out — what worked, what it cost, what they'd skip.
The permission
You spend the first thirty minutes justifying a business you chose on purpose.
A room where quality over scale is the default, and nobody asks how you juggle it.
One membership, one monthly fee, and the room stays small on purpose. Membership is by application. Any woman founder can apply; admission is reviewed rather than automatic, and the room stays small on purpose.
Five questions, two minutes. Applications close September 30.
What it is not
You have tried the other rooms.
- Nobody stands up and pitches
- No referral quotas
- No upsells
- Not a mastermind — nobody on stage
- Not a networking group
- Nobody asks how you juggle it
Permission
You are not a small version of something else.
Plenty of women decide, on purpose, not to build the biggest possible company — and get treated as less serious for it ever after. In here that is the default rather than the thing you defend.
Run it three days a week
If that is the business you wanted, that is the business.
Work in bursts, not hours
A huge week and then a flat one is a rhythm, not a failure.
Stop at 3:30
School pickup is a constraint, not a character flaw.
Where ambition meets peace.
Three days a week
Three days a week, and it is still a real business.
What it does
Everything you carry alone. Now carried together.
Three jobs you are hiring it to do. Everything in the membership does one of them, and if it does not, it does not belong in here.
01
Think it through with me
Say the whole thing out loud.
Bring it to six women who know
Matched by values and stage. You meet every two weeks and talk in the group chat in between.
Ask what you can't Google
A monthly expert panel, members only, on whatever the room is stuck on. From November.
Ask the question nobody asks you
Not just what to do next — what it will cost you, and whether you want it.
Miss one without being chased
Some weeks are flat. The room is built around that, not around attendance.
02
Take it off my plate
The boring stuff stops being yours.
Hand off two things a month
2 Fracs credits a month for your first 3 months. One credit is about an hour of senior work.
Skip the hunt for a vetted person
Money, Leadership, Marketing, Sales, Ops & HR, Tech & Dev. Already on the bench through Fracs, our sister company.
Approve the scope before anything starts
You say what's on your list, we say what it takes, you decide. No surprise invoices.
Buy back the hours at home too
The room will tell you to hire the cleaner, and then tell you what it freed up.
03
Tell me what's working
Don't build what she already built.
Take the room's playbook
What worked for the others, what it cost them, and what they would skip — kept current.
Fix the money nerve
What to charge, how much runway, and what the numbers should look like before you scale.
Use AI to protect your capacity
Skills for your own Claude account, built to give you hours back rather than add volume.
Keep the tools you already run on
Gusto, Stripe, Canva, Notion. Member discounts and partner support, added as each is confirmed.
Five questions, two minutes. Applications close September 30.
A month in it
What you are buying, on an ordinary month.
Your board
Board 02 · Des Moines
Six women, matched by values and stage
- Next board meeting
- Tuesday, 8:00am
- On the table
- Whether to hire, or hand it off
- Off your list this month
- 2 of 2 handled
- If this week is a flat one
- Come to the next one
Illustrative. Your board and your cadence are set on your call.
Any day you like
Two things leave your list
You say what's on it, we say what it takes, you approve the scope. Nothing starts before that.
Once a month
The expert panel
Members only, on whatever the room is stuck on. In the library the next day if you miss it.
Once a quarter
Everyone in one room
A Des Moines dinner, and the retreat. Bring the thing you have been carrying.
The grant
When the thing in the way is money.
Small, member-funded, opening in Q1. It is not a reason to join — it is what the room does when one of us is stuck behind a bill.
Where the money comes from
Members chip in what they can, and match partners double it.
Who can apply
Any member, when a real cost is standing between her and the next thing.
What it is for
A certification. A deposit. A month of Fracs she can't fund yet.
What we won't promise yet
The amount. It gets set before applications open in Q1, not now.
Who it's for
“I do not fit in any box at all.”
a fractional CEO
Good. Neither does anyone here. Women founders, roughly $500K to $3M in revenue, running lean on purpose. Not trying to build a big team. Looking for people who already did the vetting, and a room where you don't have to prove you belong.
How it works
Two minutes now. A board in October.
01
Apply
Five questions, two minutes
We read every application ourselves. No form letter, no funnel.
02
Talk
A fifteen-minute call
With Bonnie or Amanda, so your board fits — matched by values and stage, not by signup order.
03
Join
Boards start in October
A meeting every two weeks, a chat in between, and your credits from week one.
Five questions, two minutes. Applications close September 30.
Pricing
One price. No contract.
$99 per month
For your first three months, then $199 per month.
No contract, no term, no minimum. Change or cancel any month.
“Founding” means you are one of the first twenty-five members, and the room stays that size. It is not a rate lock.
Five questions, two minutes. Applications close September 30.
What the membership includes
- A board of six women, matched by values and stage, every two weeks
- The group chat in between, and a person who answers
- Monthly expert panel, members only, from November
- Des Moines dinners and a quarterly retreat
- 2 Fracs credits a month for your first 3 months
- Standing access to the vetted Fracs bench at member rates
- The room's playbook — what worked, what it cost, what to skip
- Skills for your own Claude account, and Tangram AI as it lands
- The Tangram Grant, launching Q1
Beyond the credits included above, work through Fracs is billed as you use it, at member rates, and nothing is charged without your OK.
Membership is by application. Any woman founder can apply; admission is reviewed rather than automatic, and the room stays small on purpose.
Good to know
The details, plainly.
- Who it's for
- Women founders, roughly $500K to $3M in revenue, running lean on purpose.
- Who's behind it
- Bonnie Le Page and Amanda Nagle.
- Based in
- Des Moines, Iowa. Members anywhere.
- Board size
- Six women, matched by values and stage.
- The founding 25
- The first twenty-five members. The room stays that size.
- Applications close
- September 30, for the October start.
- Sister company
- Fracs, for the work you'd rather hand off.
Apply
Put some of it down.
Ninety days from now, the thing you are carrying alone has six women carrying it with you, and the two jobs at the bottom of your list are done.
Five questions. We read every application ourselves, and a person replies, usually within a couple of days. Then a fifteen-minute call with Bonnie or Amanda, and if it's a fit, a seat on an October board.
Applications close September 30.
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The monthly download
One free thing a month. Yours on the first.
A template, a finding, a tool from the room. No sequence, no countdown, one email a month with the thing in it.