Professional services firms. Agencies. Brick-and-mortar operators. SBMs. The pattern is consistent: the business has outgrown what got it here, leadership has been told to "do something with AI," and there's a long list of operations problems no one has time to fix.
We cut through AI hype to identify and ship the few use cases that actually move numbers, re-engineer the high-volume work eating the team's week, and install the org clarity that keeps the gains in place after the engagement concludes.
That's the practice.
The three or four use cases that actually move your numbers — built, integrated, and shipped to production. Nothing that lives only in a deck. Nothing that depends on a pilot running forever.
The high-volume work eating your team's week — re-engineered, automated where it makes sense, handed back with the documentation and ownership to keep it that way.
Brick-and-mortar operators, agencies, professional services firms, SMBs. Companies that have been pitched modernization by people who didn't understand the business. I do.
Two weeks of structured discovery. Stakeholder interviews, a process and tech audit, and a written brief identifying the three highest-leverage moves you should make next — including where AI fits and where it doesn't. Ends with an executive readout.
A bounded build on one workflow or function. Scoped at the front, shipped to production, handed off to your team with documentation, training, and a measurable end-state. No open-ended retainers.
Fractional transformation lead, embedded in the org for three to six months. Multi-workflow scope, direct stakeholder management, specialists brought in as the work demands, clean handoff at exit. For companies that need senior operating capacity but aren't ready to hire for it full-time.
If you know what's breaking and want it led by someone who'll actually sit inside the work, you're in the right place.
Twenty years spent across operations, growth, product, and technology at companies ranging from scrappy startups to growth-stage operators. The through-line is execution — knowing which systems to build, which to simplify, and which to get out of the way of.
Every engagement is run directly. No handoffs, no account managers, no one between you and the work.
Send a short note about what you're working on. Discovery calls are 30 minutes, off the record, no pitch deck.
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