Fractional COO · for founder-led companies

I turn operational chaos into a company your team can run.

I clarify ownership, fix broken handoffs, and build the systems that keep work moving, so you can stop being the person every decision depends on.

Six years embedded with founders across media, MSP, finance & professional services.

7Companies
operated inside
3Markets
across the globe
6+Years in
founder-led ops
10+CEO hrs returned
every week
Operating snapshotThis week
10+CEO hrs
returned
0missed
handoffs
1d→mreporting
turnaround
Throughput · work moving
RequestOwnerReviewDone
Operating history across
Dream Out LoudPoole MediaBrander GroupOnCall Home ServicesACAD.USWells FargoSimpli.Fi
Dream Out LoudPoole MediaBrander GroupOnCall Home ServicesACAD.USWells FargoSimpli.Fi
Before me. After the system.

Same business. A different way of moving.

Most founder-led companies route everything through one person. My job is to redraw that map, so work moves through owners, not through you.

Operating mapBefore → After
BeforeEverything routes through you
CLIENTSTEAM VENDORSAPPROVALS YOU bottleneck

Every decision waits for one person.

AfterWork moves through owners
REQUESTOWNER REVIEWDONE you monitor the rhythm, you don't gate it

Nothing waits on you to move.

The problem

The business is growing. The way it runs is not.

Demand is up, but the operation still runs on memory, messages and your personal involvement. Work gets stuck between people. Decisions wait for you. More revenue creates more coordination instead of more capacity.

SymptomsSound familiar?
  • 01Your team asks you questions they should be able to answer. Approvals and small decisions still route back to you.
  • 02Important work lives in scattered messages and undocumented processes. The system is your memory, and it doesn't scale.
  • 03Projects slow down at handoffs. Work stalls in the gaps between people, tools and departments.
  • 04Reporting takes too long or can't be trusted. You're deciding on gut feel because the numbers arrive late.
  • 05Every new client adds pressure to the same few people. Growth feels heavier, not easier.
What you get

I give your team a clearer way to operate.

Not a deck of recommendations. A working operation your people can actually run.

Clarity

Everyone knows the next step

Priorities, owners and decisions are visible. No one waits to be told what matters or who has it.

Capacity

Growth without more of you

The business handles more work without adding every new task to your calendar.

Consistency

Repeatable, not heroic

Important work follows a documented process instead of depending on the right person remembering.

Control

See what's moving and what's stuck

You get a real read on the operation, and your attention goes where it actually changes the outcome.

How I work

I step into the gaps that keep the business stuck.

01

Diagnose

Map the team, workflows, tools, bottlenecks and the decisions slowing execution. You leave with a clear picture of what's actually in the way.

02

Build

Create the SOPs, dashboards, automations, handoff rules and operating routines the business is missing, tested before anything goes live.

03

Lead

Run the weekly rhythm, coordinate the work, and make sure the system holds up in practice, not just in a document.

Case studies

Here is what changed.

Not capability statements. What was breaking, what I changed, and the number that moved.

10+ hrs

returned to the CEO every week

OnCall Home Services
CEO = traffic controllerteam owns the handoffs

Calendar, vendors and lead tracking all ran through one person. I documented the workflows, assigned owners and built the follow-up system.

1 day→min

reporting turnaround

Brander Group · IT Services
CRM nobody trustedreporting at a glance

Rebuilt CRM data integrity, authored the SOP library and tightened leadership reporting. The team finally trusts the numbers.

0

missed releases since taking the wheel

Dream Out Loud · Media
hustle & late nightsa repeatable pipeline

Built the full episode pipeline from recording to publish and coordinated production across time zones. Cadence, not a scramble.

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Companies operated inside
media, MSP, finance & pro services
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Years in founder-led ops
embedded with founders & senior leaders
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Markets operated across
a global operating footprint
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CEO hours returned weekly
from one operations engagement
Why bring in a fractional COO

An operator, without the full-time overhead.

An operations manager keeps the machine moving. I help decide what the machine needs, build it, and lead it until the team can run it with confidence.

Fractional COO
Full-time ops hire
Speed to impact
Operating in days, systems shipping in week one
Three to six months of ramp-up and training
Cost
From $2,500/month, no benefits or overhead
$90k+ salary plus benefits, tools and management
Experience
Patterns from 7 companies across 3 markets
Usually one industry and one playbook
Scope
Decides what to change and builds it, hands-on
Typically one or the other, rarely both
Risk
Month to month, scale up or down anytime
Severance, rehiring and sunk training if it misses
Ways to work together

Choose the level of support you need.

Start where it hurts most. Each one can grow into the next.

Level 01

Fix one bottleneck

A focused engagement for one broken workflow, team, handoff or reporting problem. Fast, contained, measurable.

Start here →
MOST COMMONLevel 02

Build the operating system

SOPs, CRM structure, dashboards, automation and a weekly rhythm your team can actually use, built and documented end to end.

Build the system →
Level 03

Run operations with you

Ongoing fractional COO leadership for a business that needs an operator inside the work, not just a plan on a shelf.

Discuss ongoing support →
Point of view

Good operations should make people more capable, not more controlled.

I care about clear standards, useful documentation, and systems that make it easier for good people to do good work, without waiting for permission at every step. The goal is never process for its own sake. It's a business that keeps its standards when you're not in the room.

Outside work I train early and play competitive basketball. It's where I learned that standards matter because they make good performance repeatable.

What founders say

The operator founders wish they'd hired sooner.

★★★★★

Jeremy quietly runs the entire backend of our media brand: episodes, guests, publishing. Zero missed releases since he took the wheel.

Media brand founder
Podcast & media company
★★★★★

He rebuilt our CRM and wrote the SOPs we should have had years ago. Reporting that used to take a day now takes a glance.

IT services founder
B2B technology firm
★★★★★

Jeremy ran my calendar, vendors and lead tracking like a true chief of staff. He bought back ten hours of my week, every week.

Home services CEO
Multi-crew field business
Questions

The things founders ask me first.

What does a fractional COO actually do?

I take ownership of how your business runs: the weekly leadership cadence, KPI dashboards, team accountability, processes and the systems underneath them. You stay on vision and growth while I make sure execution actually happens.

How is this different from an ops manager?

An ops manager keeps the machine moving inside a system someone else designed. I decide what the machine needs, build it, lead the people running it, and report at the leadership level, until the team can run it without me.

Where do we start?

We start with the bottleneck. A focused conversation about the messy handoff, the reporting you can't trust, or the process everyone works around, and we figure out what needs to change first.

Do you work inside my existing tools?

Yes, hands-on across HubSpot, Zoho, GoHighLevel, ActiveCampaign, ClickUp, Notion, Zapier and most tools with an API. We start exactly where you are. No rip-and-replace unless it genuinely helps.

Where does automation fit in?

Where it actually pays. I automate the repetitive follow-up, reporting and data entry that keeps your team busy without moving the business forward, built around your process, not bolted on top of it.

How fast can we see results?

A focused SOP or dashboard sprint lands in days. CRM and automation buildouts go live in one to two weeks. Embedded engagements show visible accountability shifts within the first month.

Find the part of the business that should no longer depend on you.

Bring me the bottleneck, the messy handoff, or the process everyone keeps working around. We'll figure out what needs to change first, whether or not we end up working together.

Talk through the bottleneck →