ABOUT

Built on one idea: leave it better than you found it.

WHO WE ARE
MISSION

To help organizations build premier experiences for their customers, employees and shareholders while achieving scale, efficiency, and higher revenues.

VISION

We envision a world where every business's competitive edge lives within and across the company, not in the software and tools you purchase, or the heads of those employed.

WHAT GUIDES THE WORK

Four Values.

People First.

Systems don't run themselves, neither does AI. The people inside your organization are what make a GTM motion hold — or fall apart. We design with your team in mind, not around them.

Diagnose with Candor.

We tell you what's broken before we tell you what to build. We deliver honest findings, direct conversations, and recommendations that serve your business.

Design and Build for Independence.

Every system we build is designed for you to own and run without us. We're not in the business of creating dependencies. A clean handoff, with your team capable and confident is what we strive to deliver.

Specific Over Generic.

We prescribe and develop solutions based on your needs, and based on your business archetype. Using the right software and glue, with the right processes helps unlock advantages your competitors will struggle to overcome. Your market, your team, and your stage are specific. The system we build for you should be too.

THE BLACK BUBBLE THESIS

Businesses are bubbles.

Bubble Pop

They are fragile, yet flexible. Some pop before they have a chance to float. Others grow, float, consume other bubbles, and continue on wayward tides of headwinds and tailwinds. All of those things – market shifts, new competitors, leadership changes, acquisitions that don't integrate cleanly, and poor decisions – reverberate along your business bubble, giving you opportunity or risking the stability of your bubble.

Every business is becoming a “black box.” It’s our belief that we’re entering a new stage of business evolution and growth. In the past, competitive edge was obtainable through resource accessibility, enterprise software and tools, and cash. Today, those things have materially shifted. The cost to build is going to zero, even if it’s not there yet. Old-world advantages have become commonplace – making differentiation impossible. Your competitive edge now resides in proprietary operating systems that are built to support your strengths, isolate your weaknesses, and accelerate your ability to deliver phenomenal outcomes to your customers – without your competitors clueing in to how you’re doing it.

Businesses have always been bubbles – they’re now becoming black bubbles.

THE FOUNDER

Josh Kondik

Founder, Black Bubble

Josh Kondik
6X
ARR increase at Activated Insights
8
M&A integrations led
13 yrs
Inside PE-backed HealthTech
100+
Sales professionals hired, trained, and managed

For as long as he can remember, Josh has been drawn to the broken thing in the room. Not to complain about it — to figure out what's wrong, fix it, and move on to the next one. In every role, every company, every team, the pattern was the same: diagnose the problem nobody wanted to name, build the system to fix it, and hand it off to the people who'd run it after him.

It just so happened that he was also good at selling. That combination — natural problem-solver who could carry a number — set the path: 13 years inside PE-backed HealthTech companies, scaling revenue, building teams, and constructing the operational infrastructure that made growth possible.

Black Bubble exists because consulting is the logical extension of that pattern. As an operator inside one company, you solve one company's problems. As a consultant, you solve them for many. The work is the same. The reach is larger.

CAREER
Activated Insights
VP Sales → VP Sales Strategy & Operations → VP Business Operations · 2021–2025
Joined as inaugural VP Sales. Scaled the sales team, and operating system, owned the revenue number, then transitioned to architect the RevOps infrastructure and lead M&A integration across six acquisitions as the company scaled ARR more than 6X in under 5 years.
athenahealth / GE Healthcare
Sr. Account Manager → Enterprise AE → Sales Strategy Consultant → Sr. Sales Manager · Multi-year
Led full-cycle SaaS sales to health systems and physician groups across the Midwest. Finished top 5% nationally, earned Circle of Excellence twice, and played a key role in the GE–athenahealth merger — including GTM system design and migration with Slalom Consulting.
Inovalon / ABILITY Network
Sr. Account Executive → Region Manager → Sales Strategy & Engineer → Sales Director · 2014–2017
Built from individual contributor to Sales Director, managing sales execution across ambulatory and post-acute care markets. Trained and provided ongoing enablement to a team of 40+. Designed onboarding programs, led sales engineering, and built internal reporting that surfaced 45,000 previously undocumented pipeline targets from existing data.
Greenway Health
Inside Sales Consultant · 2012–2014
Delivered over $1M in SaaS sales during tenure. Played key integration roles during the Vitera / Greenway merger regarding sales process, function, and data. Developed Sales ROI tool and Commission calculators that were adopted across the full sales organization.
EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS
MBA — Strategic Leadership & Data Analytics
University of Illinois · 2022
BA — Cultural Anthropology & Technology Evolution
Kent State University · 2012
Sales Management — Rutgers · Certified Trainer — ATD · Analytics Edge — MIT

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