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Fractional COO & EOS® Integrator leadership
Senior operating leadership embedded in your team, at the level of involvement the business actually needs, without a full-time executive hire.
The Problem This Solves
The founder is doing four jobs, and this one badly
There is a stage where a founder/owner-led business outgrows the founder's ability to run everything personally, but cannot yet justify a full-time COO at market compensation.
The usual result is that the founder keeps doing the job badly, because they are also doing four other jobs at the same time. Fractional leadership fills exactly that gap. The same seniority, a fraction of the time, and no equity conversation attached to it.
In Practice
What this looks like in practice
A meeting rhythm that actually holds. Quarterly planning that produces commitments rather than documents. Clear ownership of each function with metrics attached, so accountability is a structure instead of a personality trait. Issue resolution discipline that stops the same three problems resurfacing every quarter.
We run inside EOS® where a company already uses it, and provide an equivalent operating cadence where it doesn't. The system matters far less than whether anyone actually follows it.
What It Is Not
Not advisory. Not permanent by default.
It is not advisory. We are not producing a deck and leaving you to implement it. Fractional means being in your leadership meeting, holding people to what they committed to, and doing the unglamorous follow-up that turns a plan into something real.
It is also not permanent by default. A good number of these engagements exist to build the structure and then hand it to a full-time hire once the business can carry one.
Why It Sits Next to the Reporting Work
Two directions, one job
Operating leadership and business intelligence are the same job approached from two directions. Metrics only matter if somebody runs the meeting where they get discussed, and that meeting only matters if the numbers in it can be trusted.
Most of our engagements end up doing both, which is why the dashboards and the meeting rhythm tend to arrive together rather than as separate projects with separate invoices.
Who This Fits
The trigger is usually specific
Companies of roughly ten to two hundred people, usually founder/owner-led, usually at the point where growth has outpaced structure.
Often there is a specific trigger. A key departure. An acquisition. A year where revenue grew and profit did not, and nobody can say precisely why. That last one is the most common reason anyone calls.
How the Time Commitment Works
Built to scale down, not just up
Engagements run anywhere from a day a week to a few days a month, and the right answer changes over the course of the work. The early weeks are usually heavier, because building a structure takes more presence than maintaining one does.
We would rather scale down than have you paying for time the business no longer needs. A fractional engagement that never reduces is usually a sign that nothing was actually built, only attended.
Start with a conversation
Thirty minutes. We'll look at what systems you run and what question you can't answer today. No pitch, no pressure.