Fractional COO and business operations

Someone who runs the operating rhythm, a few days a month.

Startups and owner-led companies outgrow the founder’s memory before they can afford a full-time COO. We set the weekly scorecard, the meeting cadence, the hiring and onboarding steps and the written procedures, then keep them running.

Packages from
$1,750 a month
Instead of
A full-time COO or operations manager
Over the cap
$195/hr, after written notice

Packages

Three sizes, each with a cap.

Launch pricing. Every engagement is confirmed in a written scope after the consult; ad spend and software licences are billed at cost, never marked up.

  1. Package 1

    Operating rhythm

    $1,750 / month

    up to 8 hours

    Founder-led, under 10 staff, decisions still live in one head.

    • Weekly scorecard with 5-8 measures
    • Monthly leadership meeting run and minuted
    • Quarterly priorities set and tracked
    • Two procedures written per month

  2. Most chosen

    Operations lead

    $3,500 / month

    up to 18 hours

    10-40 staff, a few managers, growing faster than the systems.

    • Everything in Operating rhythm
    • Weekly leadership meeting run
    • Hiring and onboarding process owned
    • Vendor and software stack reviewed
    • Project board kept in monday.com or HubSpot

  3. Package 3

    Fractional COO

    $5,750 / month

    up to 30 hours

    30+ staff, multiple departments, the owner wants to step back from day-to-day.

    • Everything in Operations lead
    • Department scorecards and one-on-ones with managers
    • Annual plan and budget owned with the controller
    • Board or investor update prepared monthly

First 90 days

What you should see by day 90.

  1. 01A one-page scorecard reviewed every week
  2. 02The top recurring tasks written down so someone else can do them
  3. 03A hiring and onboarding checklist in use

Tools we work in

monday.com · HubSpot · Google Workspace · Microsoft 365 · Slack

One-time projects

Fixed-fee builds.

Operations Diagnostic$1,950 · 2 weeks
Interviews, a process map of how work really moves, and a ranked list of fixes. Credited to month one of an operations package signed within 30 days.
SOP Sprint$2,400 · 3-4 weeks
Your ten most-repeated tasks written as step-by-step procedures, with checklists, owners and a home for them.
monday.com build$1,500 / $3,500 · 1-4 weeks
One team’s boards, automations and dashboards (Starter), or a company-wide workspace with integrations and training (Full).
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Free · 30 minutes

Thirty minutes, no pitch.

You get a one-page note on what we heard and what we would propose.

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