Women + Tech Meetup: Using Data to Scale & Build Your Dream Team

You've built something worth scaling — but hiring on gut feeling, guesswork, or "when it feels right" is one of the fastest ways to stall your growth. In this talk, Adair Vilella breaks down how founders can use real operational data to make confident, strategic hiring decisions at every stage of their business.

From knowing your margins before you post that first job listing, to building a people plan that your budget can actually support — you'll walk away with a clear framework for building a team that scales with your business, not ahead of it or behind it.

You'll learn:

How to use your numbers  to determine when and who to hire

• The difference between hiring full-time, part-time, and contracted — and how data tells you which one you need
• How to stop reacting to chaos and start building a team with intention
• What an executive dashboard can reveal about your readiness to grow your team

This isn't theory. This is the exact framework Adair uses with founder-led brands doing $500K–$5M — and it works.

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Why You Should Attend:

If you're a founder who has ever said "I think I need to hire someone, but I'm not sure I can afford it" — this talk is for you. Adair turns that uncertainty into a clear, data-backed plan so you can build your dream team without the chaos, the guesswork, or the financial risk.

About the Facilitator

Adair Vilella is a Fractional COO, founder of La Pausa Consulting, and a trusted operational partner for founder-led consumer brands. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Adair works with product-based and service-based entrepreneurs — particularly female founders — to transform early momentum into scalable, operationally strong companies.

Her superpower? Translating data into confident decisions. Whether it's hiring, margins, or operations, Adair gives founders the clarity and executive-level support of a full-time COO at a fraction of the cost.

In addition, her team provides fractional COO support, technical support, and data visualization services to small business to help the scale smarter because they finally know their numbers and have the right technology and teams in place.

About the Women + Tech Meetup

Description:

It’s time to come together to make the phrase “Women in Tech” obsolete! Join us as we openly discuss personal and professional growth, challenges in the workplace, community involvement, and whatever else is on your mind. Our Village can be the one to make women in tech the status quo.

Mission: To empower women in tech through a kick-ass network, intentional teaching & purposeful community because it does take a village. Our goal is to make to Atlanta the number one place for “women in tech” (because clearly it’s not Silicon Valley).

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