Compensation Advisory
We design salary structures, equity incentive plans, and compensation frameworks that help fintech, digital asset, and technology companies attract, retain, and reward top talent.
Cycas Solutions is a specialist compensation advisory firm. We partner with ambitious technology companies — from venture-backed startups to PE-backed platforms — to design compensation architectures that align with their growth trajectory.
Our expertise sits at the intersection of compensation design, equity incentive strategy, and market intelligence. Whether you’re building salary bands from scratch, structuring an ESOP for a Series B raise, or benchmarking executive compensation for a portfolio company, we bring the domain depth and hands-on implementation experience that generalist consultancies can’t.
“We focus exclusively on compensation. It’s all we do — and we do it for the companies shaping the future of finance and technology.”
What we do
End-to-end advisory and implementation across the full compensation spectrum.
We build the foundational pay architecture that enables you to hire competitively, pay fairly, and manage costs as you scale.
From ESOP creation to RSU implementation, we design and implement equity incentive programs that drive long-term retention and value alignment.
We help boards and leadership teams build the governance infrastructure to make defensible, transparent compensation decisions.
Proprietary benchmarking intelligence for fintech, digital asset, and technology companies — because generic surveys miss your market.
Why Cycas
We work exclusively with fintech, digital asset, and capital-driven technology companies. Our benchmarks, frameworks, and advice are calibrated to your market — not borrowed from a generic cross-industry survey.
We don’t hand you a slide deck and walk away. From compensation philosophy to plan rules and award certificates, we stay through implementation — designing, documenting, and operationalising every element.
We build with high-growth companies, so we think from first principles. Every salary band, equity plan, and governance framework we deliver is built bottom-up — calibrated to the realities of your stage, your sector, and your talent market — not retrofitted from someone else’s playbook.
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We also work with several stealth-stage startups and Web3 companies under NDA.
From the founder
The companies that need compensation expertise most rarely have access to it. Fast-growing fintechs, digital asset firms, and tech platforms hit 200, then 500, then 1,000 people — and the comp framework that worked at 50 quietly fractures. Equity grants drift out of band. Salary decisions get made deal-by-deal. Levelling becomes politics. By the time leadership notices, the cleanup is twelve months of work.
I spent fifteen years inside fast-paced, multi-jurisdictional fintech and technology businesses — scaling compensation alongside them through their high-growth years across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. What I learned is that good compensation work follows a sequence: understand the business deeply, design for where it’s going, then implement with the speed and iteration that high growth demands. Cycas exists to bring that cadence to companies that can’t justify hiring it full-time.
We work with a small number of clients at a time, deeply. We build frameworks you can run yourselves once we leave. We have no products to upsell and no commission tied to outcomes. If that’s the kind of advisor you’ve been looking for, I’d like to hear from you.
We’re building technology-enabled compensation intelligence tools for the next generation of high-growth companies. More to come.
Whether you’re building from scratch or optimising what you have, we’d welcome a conversation.
