Work | Fredrik Sandvall
My work is focused on situations where value is created through alignment rather than activity. I operate through board-level work and dealmaking, where structure, incentives, and trust determine outcomes long before execution begins.
Over time, this has increasingly meant working at the intersection of governance, capital, and enabling technologies, using systems to amplify judgment, coordination, and speed without sacrificing decision quality.
I am not involved everywhere. I am involved where leverage matters.
Board-level involvement
I work with founders and leadership teams at the board level, supporting decisions that shape direction, governance, and long-term value creation.
This typically involves:
- Clarifying decision rights and accountability
- Aligning ownership, incentives, and time horizons
- Reducing friction between stakeholders with different perspectives
- Helping boards move from discussion to durable decisions
Technology has become a practical extension of this work. AI-enabled analysis, scenario modelling, and decision support help teams surface patterns earlier, test assumptions faster, and coordinate more effectively across complex environments.
My role is not to introduce tools for their own sake, but to ensure technology strengthens judgment rather than replaces it.
Strategic dealmaking
I engage in dealmaking where transactions are a means, not an end.
The focus is on:
- Structure rather than speed
- Alignment rather than optics
- Equity creation rather than short-term outcomes
Technology functions as a quiet advantage. Data-driven insight, AI-supported diligence, and system-level visibility make it possible to see risk, opportunity, and misalignment earlier in the process.
This does not remove the need for experience or trust. It sharpens them.
I am selective by design. Not every deal is worth doing, and not every structure is worth maintaining.
Equity-based platform building
Some of my work involves building and supporting platforms where multiple businesses, people, or initiatives are brought into alignment under a shared long-term direction.
These platforms increasingly rely on technology as a coordinating layer. AI-enabled workflows, shared intelligence, and scalable systems allow independent operators to remain autonomous while benefiting from collective insight and alignment.
This approach turns complexity into leverage.
Value is created by:
- Coordinating incentives across entities
- Establishing governance that scales
- Creating trust between independent operators
- Using technology to multiply judgment, not bureaucracy
Platforms built this way compound over time because alignment is reinforced, not enforced.
Long-cycle thinking and media
Alongside board-level work and dealmaking, I invest time in long-form publishing and conversations. Through projects such as Invest in You and broader platform work, I explore how value creation, incentives, and enabling technologies interact inside real systems.
These conversations test ideas at the edge of practice, particularly as AI reshapes how decisions are made, how work is coordinated, and how value scales.
This thinking feeds directly back into how I operate.
How I engage
I do not operate as a service provider or a commentator. I engage where there is:
- Mutual respect
- Shared ambition
- Long-term alignment
- A willingness to use both experience and technology to compound outcomes
When context, incentives, and tools are aligned, progress accelerates without shortcuts.
Some of my work is oriented toward building and supporting longer-term investment platforms, where multiple businesses, operators, and partners are aligned under shared governance, incentives, and decision frameworks. These efforts are deliberately quiet while they are being built, but they reflect a continued focus on durable equity, coordination at scale, and systems that compound over time.