Chief of Staff
Not because of a title. LeAnna Trube is the person Brandon Trube trusts most -- with hiring calls, with company direction, and with anything going out under this company's name.
She's not on the org chart as a technologist, and she doesn't carry a client caseload. Her role is the one every founder-run company needs and few actually have: someone close enough to see everything, removed enough to say when something's wrong, and trusted enough that her word settles it.
Where it comes from
LeAnna's background is education, not business -- years in the classroom, the kind of work where a relationship with a kid, a parent, or a room full of both has to be real, because there's no faking it twice a day, every day. She's mentored newer teachers coming up behind her and built a mindfulness program that's still running years later. That's not a soft skill on the side; it's the same instinct she brings to this company -- reading people accurately, building relationships that hold up under pressure, and knowing the difference between someone who's a good hire and someone who just interviews well.
It's also the deliberate complement to how Brandon is wired. He builds and fixes systems. She reads people and builds trust with them -- exactly the pairing a company actually needs, not two people doing the same job twice.
Where that trust actually shows up
Proposals going out to a prospective client, contract language, the copy on this website -- LeAnna has usually already weighed in on it before it goes out under the company's name. Not a formality, and not a copyedit pass: her judgment on whether something is actually right.
Where else she weighs in
When it comes to bringing someone new onto the team, her read on a person carries real weight -- the kind of judgment that's hard to teach and easy to trust once you've seen it be right. On the marketing side, she's the one telling Brandon what's worth advertising, what direction actually fits the company, and just as often, what not to do.
Above all, she's a sounding board -- somewhere to take an idea before it becomes a decision, and get an honest answer back either way.
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