Operations consulting for founders without a COO
You built the company. Now everything runs through you. We map how the operation works in real life, then build the structure so it stops needing your hands on every decision.
- Fractional COO horsepower without the salary
- Scorecards and KPIs that actually move the number
- Visibility into what’s happening, while it’s happening
What changes
Numbers we see across our engagements once the audit work lands.
Faster cycle times across core processes
Saved per department head, every week
From firefighting to predictable output
If any of this sounds familiar
Five things we hear from founders before the first audit call.
You’re the bottleneck. Every decision runs through you. Every problem lands on your desk. You built this thing, and now the thing can’t run a week without you standing in the middle of it.
Revenue is leaking. Money is falling through the cracks. Dropped follow-ups, missed upsells, onboarding that drags long enough to lose clients. You can feel it. You just can’t see it.
Execution drags. Things take too long. A two-day process eats two weeks because it bounces between people, tools, and inboxes.
Nobody owns anything. Ask three people who owns a specific outcome and you’ll get three different answers. Accountability is fuzzy. So is ownership.
You’re flying blind. No dashboard. No early warning. You hear about problems when they’re already on fire.
What ops consulting looks like with us
Most engagements start with an audit, then settle into a regular cadence of strategic calls and operational support. We work directly with whoever runs the company. A solo founder, two co-founders, a small exec team that needs to grow up.
Then we help you answer the questions you’ve been avoiding. Which scorecards matter? Which KPIs are actually moving the business and which are noise? Which OKRs are real and which are wishful thinking? Once we know, we set up the infrastructure to track them.
The biggest result we see? Company growth. When leadership has visibility and the team has structure, the business moves faster.
Deep Diagnostics
Real numbers. Real workflows. Real team interviews. Not vibes.
Scorecards & KPIs
The handful of metrics that actually move the business, wired up so you see them.
Fractional COO Support
Calls and guidance to keep things on track without hiring a full-time COO.
Audit. Map. Analyze. Execute.
Four phases, in this order. 130+ engagements taught us each one matters. Skip a step and the next one breaks.
Operations Audit
We go deep into how your business actually works. Not how you think it works. Not how you wish it worked. We interview the people doing the work, walk every workflow, and write down what we find. This is your honest baseline.
Process Mapping, The Company Brain
We take what the audit found and build the Company Brain. A digital map of every process, every handoff, every decision point. The whole operation, on one canvas, finally readable.
Bottleneck Analysis & Improvement Identification
We pull what we learned from 130+ engagements and overlay it on your map. Where are the bottlenecks? Where is time getting eaten? Where is money leaking? We come back with 15–30 things worth fixing, ranked.
Strategy & Ongoing Support
You get a prioritized roadmap. Then we stay on the calls that matter. Strategic check-ins, scorecard and KPI setup, OKR work, and the operational guidance you’d otherwise pay a full-time COO $200–$400K a year for.
What you walk away with
Real artifacts you can hold. Not a slide deck.
Operations Audit Report
An honest read on where the operation is today, what’s broken, and what it’s costing you in time and money.
Company Brain & Scorecards
A digital map of your entire operation, plus the scorecard and KPI setup. The handful of metrics that actually move the business, wired up so you see them.
Improvement Roadmap + Ongoing Support
A ranked list of what to fix, what to automate, and what to build. Plus regular strategic calls so you’re never doing it alone.
Explore our Onboarding Brain.
This is a real Company Brain, the one that maps our own client onboarding, end to end. Drag to pan, scroll or pinch to zoom. Same deliverable we build for you in the System Design Sprint.
Who this is for
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Companies doing $5M–$100M+ in revenue
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Teams of 10–100 people
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Founders preparing for scale or exit
Who this isn’t for
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Pre-revenue startups or solo operators
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Anyone shopping for "hacks" without follow-through
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Anyone unwilling to change how things actually run
Two stories from people we’ve worked with
No big reveals. Just what changed and how it went.
From firefighting to running on rails
“We easily reclaimed a good 20 to 30 hours a week. Now we have the clarity we need and our team knows exactly what they need to do, when they need to do it.”
When the wheels were about to come off
“We were driving 100 miles an hour toward a very large brick wall. This wasn’t about being more organized — it was a matter of survival.”
Frequently asked questions
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How is this different from hiring a COO?
Stop being the only one who knows how the whole thing works.
Book a call. We’ll talk about what’s going on in your business, where you actually are, and whether ops consulting is the right starting point. No pitch.