12 pre-mapped decisions
Hiring, vendor contracts, client escalations, refunds, marketing spend, and more. Starting defaults included.
EFFICIENCYSPRINTby Luba Inz
Decision Authority Matrix
Before you hire your next COO or Chief of Staff, install the system they'll run.
You hired senior people. The decisions still come to you.
The Authority Matrix is a 15-minute worksheet that maps the 12 decisions your next COO, Chief of Staff or fractional operator needs settled before day one.
You hired a Head of People. You still run hiring.
You hired a CFO. You still approve invoices.
You hired a Head of Client Success. You still take the escalations.
The work didn't leave your desk. Adding another senior hire won't change that.
A senior hire walks into whatever is already there.
A senior operator needs four things: which decisions they own, what they can spend, when to bring it back to you, and what done right looks like. If none of that is written down, they guess or ask you.
Install the system first. Then make the hire.
Luba Inz, founder of Efficiency Sprint
Fifteen years in leadership. I was a founder and exited three companies. Now I'm building Efficiency Sprint. I'm a fractional CXO, and I spent the last eight years scaling a company as chief operating officer.
Efficiency Sprint makes companies operationally ready for AI.
The Authority Matrix is free because it's the fastest way to show what needs to exist before the hire walks in.
What the Authority Matrix gives you.
4-field structure
Owner, Spending Limit, Escalation Trigger, Standard. One page. One glance.
Downloadable PDF
Print it, or work through it with your leadership team.
15 minutes
One page you fill in once and keep using.
A filled Authority Matrix answers the questions a new operator would otherwise bring to you.
One engagement. One owner for receivables.
$1.2M of $1.4M in overdue receivables collected in three months, once one person owned receivables.
Before you bring anyone in, define what they're walking into.
Free. At the end you'll know which decisions have an owner, and which still come back to you.
Free. Leave your name and email, and the PDF comes straight back.
Before you start.
How long does it take?
About 15 minutes, twelve decisions, one page. Fill it in whenever suits you.
How does this help me hire senior operators?
It gives senior hires the authority map they need to scale existing systems, instead of walking in and building from scratch.
What do I get?
The matrix as a PDF: twelve decisions with the four columns, ready for your names and your numbers.
I'm already in an active COO or Chief of Staff search. Is this too late?
No. This is the moment to do it. Candidates looking at your role will see what they're signing up for.
Does this apply the same way to a Chief of Staff as to a COO?
Yes. The closer the role sits to the owner, the faster undefined authority compounds.
Is this a sales funnel?
Partly. If the tool is useful and you want to go deeper, there's a paid diagnostic at the end. The tool itself is the tool.
Build it first. Hire second.
Twelve decisions, one page, 15 minutes.