ADVISORY RETAINERS
Experienced Leadership, Without Adding Another Full-Time Executive
Arellano Ventures advisory retainers give business owners, entrepreneurs, executives, and organizational leaders ongoing access to experienced strategic counsel and additional leadership capacity.
Instead of starting a new consulting engagement every time something comes up, a retainer creates continuity, familiarity, and trusted access to someone who already understands your organization.
What You Can Bring to Us
Advisory conversations may include:
- Business and organizational strategy
- Technology and AI decisions
- Cybersecurity and risk
- Operational challenges
- Growth and scalability
- Vendor and investment decisions
- Project and initiative oversight
- Leadership and management issues
- Review of plans, proposals, and major decisions
Sometimes the value is a detailed recommendation. Other times, it is simply having an experienced advisor available before you make an important decision.
Who Leads Your Advisory Relationship
Arellano Ventures advisory relationships are currently led by Founder & CEO Roy Arellano.
Clients receive direct access to Roy’s leadership, judgment, and experience at the level defined by their engagement.
As Arellano Ventures grows, additional consultants and specialists may support an engagement when their expertise adds value. Your primary advisory relationship and agreed level of access remain clearly defined.
Choose the Level of Partnership You Need
Advisory
$5,000 / month
Experienced counsel when you need it.
For leaders who want consistent access to an experienced outside advisor while primarily managing execution internally.
Relationship: Trusted Advisor
Engagement: Monthly
Priority: Standard Priority
Best For: Strategic decisions, technology, AI, cybersecurity, operations, leadership, and independent perspective
Strategic
$10,000 / month
A strategic partner helping shape direction with you.
For organizations that want Arellano Ventures involved more consistently in planning, priorities, growth, and major decisions.
Relationship: Strategic Partner
Engagement: Biweekly
Priority: Priority Access
Best For: Growth, technology direction, AI adoption, operational improvement, major initiatives, and recurring strategic decisions
Leadership
$15,000 / month
Additional leadership capacity working alongside your team.
For organizations that need more active involvement around significant priorities, complex initiatives, growth, or organizational change.
Relationship: Leadership Partner
Engagement: Weekly
Priority: High Priority
Best For: Transformation, major initiatives, executive decision support, technology and operational leadership, and organizational change
Fractional Executive
$25,000+ / month
Defined executive leadership integrated with your organization.
For organizations that need experienced executive capacity but do not require, or are not ready to add, another full-time executive.
Depending on the engagement, Arellano Ventures may assume defined responsibility across technology, operations, AI, transformation, strategy, or another agreed executive area.
Relationship: Embedded Executive
Engagement: Integrated with Leadership
Priority: Highest Priority
Best For: Defined executive responsibility, sustained leadership, complex transformation, and organizations needing senior capacity without a full-time executive hire
How the Retainer Works
A retainer is built around access, continuity, judgment, and the agreed level of involvement, not a bundle of consulting hours.
Some periods may involve more activity than others. The value is having an advisor who understands your organization and can engage as decisions, challenges, and opportunities arise.
When Advisory Becomes Execution
Sometimes advice identifies work that requires implementation.
An AI strategy may lead to automation. A cybersecurity concern may require an assessment. A technology decision may require deployment. A stalled initiative may need project support.
When that happens, Arellano Ventures can bring in the appropriate capabilities and separately scope work that falls outside the advisory relationship.
Your advisory relationship remains connected to the larger effort so strategy and execution stay aligned.
Is a Retainer Right for You?
An advisory retainer may be a strong fit if you:
- Need experienced perspective on recurring decisions
- Are growing faster than your internal capacity
- Need executive-level technology or operational guidance
- Are exploring AI and need practical direction
- Have staff or vendors doing the work but need senior oversight
- Need additional leadership capacity without adding permanent executive overhead
Ongoing Access. Greater Capacity.
You do not have to build every capability internally.
Arellano Ventures provides experienced leadership, continuity, and additional capacity so you can make better decisions, move important work forward, and scale more strategically.
Ready to Add an Advisor to Your Team?
Tell us what you are working through and where additional leadership or strategic support would help.
We can determine together which level of advisory relationship, if any, is the right fit.