Cohort profile A
Executive Assistants
Senior EAs and administrative business partners who own executive rhythm, stakeholder architecture, board preparation and priority triage for C-suite leaders and founders.
Gated Operator Community
A room for the people who run the room.
An invitation-only community for Executive Assistants, Chiefs of Staff and Founder’s Office leads globally. Every member is reviewed first so the conversation stays practical, confidential and grounded in real executive office work.
Built for strategic operators, never framed as admin support.
The people running a founder’s or CEO’s office hold institutional context that nobody else sees. Yet most work in isolation inside their organisation. COvia gives them a peer bench of equals.
Cohort profile B
Chiefs of Staff
Operators driving cross-functional execution, operating cadences, quarterly planning and high-stakes decision support across growing teams.
Cohort profile C
Founder’s Office & strategic operators
Generalists and builders taking zero-to-one mandates straight from the founder’s desk—new market launches, strategic partnerships and AI-augmented operations.
What members get inside the community.
Practical playbooks, peer problem solving, AI workflows that strengthen human judgement and priority access to roles shortlisted by COvia.
Operational intelligence
What is working right now in executive offices like yours, shared by people doing the job.
Playbooks and frameworks
Templates, workflows and operating rhythms you can use on Monday.
Founder-led problem solving
Bring a live problem; get answers from peers who have solved it.
AI workflows
Practical ways to use AI that strengthen your judgement rather than replace it.
First look at roles
Openings shortlisted by COvia are shared with members first.
The Discourse
Priority places at roundtables, fireside chats and networking evenings.
Free for the first 50 approved members.
Membership in the Gated Operator Community is invitation-only and reviewed by our co-founders before access is granted. The first 50 approved founding members join at no cost; once all 50 seats are allocated, new applicants enter the waitlist or next membership tier.
18 / 50Founding seats allocated Sample
100%Reviewed prior to admission
18 of 50 founding seats allocated in the Gated Operator Community (32 seats open, illustrative sample count).
50 founding seats in the Gated Operator Community (18 allocated · 32 open)Sample
Roundtables, fireside chats and networking evenings.
Alongside our private Discord workspace, members gather through The Discourse for structured roundtables, workshops, career spotlights and in-person receptions.
Curated roundtables & workshops
Small-group working sessions where operators bring live calendar, board-prep or cross-functional challenges and leave with tested frameworks.
Fireside chats & career spotlights
Candid conversations with senior Chiefs of Staff, Executive Assistants and founders on how the partnership inside the executive office actually works.
Networking evenings in Bengaluru & Auckland
In-person gatherings hosted for approved members and invited guests to build trusted peer relationships across sectors.
Upcoming sessions
SampleChiefs of Staff and AI workflows
28 Nov 2026Roundtable · Bengaluru
What founders actually need from the executive office
11 Dec 2026Fireside chat · Auckland
From EA to Chief of Staff: a career spotlight
23 Jan 2027Career spotlight · Online
Recent sessions
SampleBuilding a founder's operating rhythm
16 Oct 2026Workshop · Bengaluru
Executive office networking evening
19 Sept 2026Networking evening · Bengaluru
Why we built a peer community for the executive office.
“Across fifteen years supporting C-suite leaders at Google, Citi, Credit Suisse, Nomura and DuPont, the hardest problems were rarely logistical—they were questions of judgement, timing and trust. Today, AI can draft a summary in seconds, which makes an operator’s contextual judgement more valuable than ever.”
“We started The EA Edge on LinkedIn and the Gated Operator Community so ambitious Executive Assistants, Chiefs of Staff and Founder’s Office leads have a place to sharpen that judgement together.”
Shweta Malekar
Co-founder, COvia · Author of The EA Edge