The founder is the dispatcher
The week disappears into reminders, renegotiation and other people's dependencies.
When this helps
Busy is no longer enough.
Functions run separate plans
Sales, delivery and finance disagree about capacity and what has been promised.
A full-time COO is premature
The business needs a specific operating outcome for part of the week, with practical boundaries.
Scope
An agreed scope with an end.
- Weekly priorities, ownership and follow-through within the agreed scope.
- Work with functional leaders, contractors and cross-functional dependencies.
- Useful metrics, plan-versus-actual reviews, early risk escalation and decision proposals.
- Keep the process working and transfer ownership as internal capability grows.
How it works
From facts to a working change.
Start · define the scope
Agree the problem, decision rights, functional owners and the decisions that remain with the founder.
First month · establish the cadence
Test actual workload, working windows, metrics and team availability.
Ongoing · run execution
Review commitments and dependencies, remove friction and revisit scope when new work arrives.
Handover · preserve the operation
Document decisions and transfer the scope to an internal owner or a permanent hire.
Acceptance
Know what the team will keep.
Choose function-specific measures before starting: reliability of commitments, approval lead time, capacity or founder coordination time. Reviews end with an owner, action and date; the state of work is visible between meetings.
Boundaries
Ownership needs boundaries.
From $4,000 per month covers up to one working day per week. More functions or availability require a different agreed budget. This is not automatically a full-time COO, accountant, lawyer or round-the-clock support role. Founder accountability is a separate service and does not include this operating mandate.
Relevant experience
I have worked inside the change.
At Nord Beaver, I owned P&L, resources, key clients and delivery. At True Lab, I connected two international offices across product, engineering, commercial and regulatory work. This experience matters when functional teams need to agree and carry decisions through to execution.
More about the experiencePricing and start
From 3 months · from $4,000 per month
From $4,000 per month for an agreed operating scope and up to one working day per week. Initial term: three months, with each month paid in advance. Agree hours, working windows, response expectations and notice before starting. Extra capacity and commercial success fees are agreed separately.
Before starting, agree the outcome, scope, team involvement, decision rights and acceptance. Calendly books an introduction, not a paid project.
Questions
Is this advisory or a role inside the company?
It is execution inside an agreed company scope. Advisory and accountability support the founder's decisions; an operating mandate adds delivery and explicit authority.
Can we begin with an Operational Reset?
Yes. A bounded project can reveal the recurring scope. Ongoing support is not a required continuation.
Who makes the final decisions?
We agree this before starting. Without delegated authority, I bring decisions to the founder; with it, I act within the mandate.
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Advisor or fractional COO: choose by the work and decision rights