About — Front Office

What the show is

A long, careful conversation
about the work.

Each episode is a long, careful conversation with someone running the executive office at a hyper-growth company — usually a chief of staff, an executive assistant, or a head of operations at a company that has raised $30M to $150M in the last twelve months and grown from forty people to two hundred.

The format is one host, one guest. Thirty-five to forty-five minutes. Audio first; video is single-camera and lightweight. We release weekly on Tuesdays. Each episode is paired with a 200-word essay sent to subscribers that morning.

The closer reference is Acquired, not the productivity-influencer corner of the podcast world. The voice is calm, curious, well-prepared, never sales-coded. The host's job is to make the guest feel that her craft is being taken seriously, possibly for the first time on a public surface.

Discretion is the brand.

Guests may reference their principals by role, never by quote-able anecdote. We never share details that could embarrass a founder. Every guest gets right-of-refusal review on the final cut before publishing — courtesy, not editorial control.

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The guest is the contribution.

The show is not a favor to the guest. The guest is documenting a craft that nobody else is taking seriously. Every framing on this surface reflects that.

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Boston first.

Season I is anchored in Greater Boston — the Cambridge biotech cluster, the Mass AI Coalition cohort, the climate-tech entrants the Healey administration is pulling into the state. Season II opens NYC. Season III opens SF.

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No tactics-and-hacks energy.

No productivity-influencer framing. No founder-worship framing. No what's-the-one-app questions. The conversation is about craft and judgment, not about life-hacks.

The closer is the future question.

Sparingly — three times in the first ten episodes — the final question is: if you could outsource one part of your job that doesn't yet have a category, what would it be? This is the only question on the show that exists for a reason beyond the conversation itself.

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The peers in the room.

Every guest receives an invitation to the next EA Society dinner — the private peer network for chiefs of staff and executive assistants supporting Boston's most influential principals. Twelve curated evenings per year. Invitation only.

Editorial standard

A small group in conversation at an EA Society dinner.

The function exists at every company that scales. The craft is almost never written about. The community is mostly private.

If a piece of copy on this show makes the work sound luxurious, glamorous, or aspirational, it gets rewritten until it makes the work sound operationally precise.

That is the test.

A long, careful conversationabout the work.