Fractional COO for Founders | Operation Ninjas

Get back to doing what
makes you the visionary.

A fractional COO for founders. We rebuild the operations underneath the business, so it stops depending on you.

2,000+ businesses reached7+ years operatingSee the proof →

You know your why. Need help with the how?

You decide where the business goes. We build what gets it there.

Which one sounds like this month, or even the last few?

Three fixes, in this order.

Every engagement opens the same way. We audit revenue, spending, tech, and operations, then fix what it finds in the order that makes the next fix possible. You keep running the business while we rebuild what it runs on.

30 days

Fix your tech stack

Nobody designed your stack. It got assembled one emergency at a time, and now renewals climb every year while the team builds workarounds around tools that no longer fit. Outdated, overpriced, redundant, and half-used, all at once.

  • Outdated tools replaced with what the business actually runs on now
  • Overpriced plans downgraded, repriced, or renegotiated at renewal
  • Redundant tools consolidated, one job to one tool, data migrated before anything is turned off
  • Underused seats and licenses cut back to real usage
  • Every subscription, login, cost, owner, and renewal date documented in one place

A modern stack that delivers on what the business needs today, with room built in to add team, capacity, and new offers without rebuilding it again.

30 days

Get your data under control

Your data is everywhere and nowhere. The same person exists in four systems with three spellings, half the records are missing the fields you would actually filter on, and years of junk sits on top burying the people who matter.

  • Scattered data pulled out of spreadsheets, inboxes, and old platforms into one CRM
  • Duplicate records merged, so one person is one record with one history
  • Missing fields filled and enforced, so source, owner, and last contact are never blank
  • Junk and stale data archived, so the people who matter stop getting buried
  • Segmented by value, so your best clients and hottest leads are not treated like everyone else
  • Pipelines with real stages, a named owner, and follow-up automated so nothing depends on memory

You take back control of your inputs, so everything downstream runs on data you trust.

30 to 90 days, depending on scope

Build your operating system

Scoped to one offer at the short end, company-wide at the long end. The business runs on people remembering. Tools do not talk, so the same information gets retyped three times, the process lives in someone's head, and every report gets built by hand the night before.

  • Siloed tools connected, so information moves instead of getting retyped three times
  • Undocumented process written down, so it stops living in one person's head
  • Unowned steps assigned, so nothing falls in the gap between two people
  • Manual handoffs automated: intake, scheduling, reminders, and status updates
  • Hand-built reporting replaced, so goals, spend, and results track themselves
  • Sales, delivery, and admin workflows rebuilt end to end

The operation keeps running when someone is out, and nobody has to remember it.

Scoped on the fit call. In most engagements the audit finds recoverable spend that offsets part of the cost.

Are these headaches worth fixing yet, or is this another quarter of working around them?

Twenty minutes to find out. If we are not the fit, you will hear it on that call.

Book a call Remote. Usually starting within two weeks.

Built and ran a 400+ business federal accelerator.

400+Businesses served in 8 weeks, first year of the program
100+Webinars, coaching, and sessions delivered
$67M+Raised across the full 2-year program and all partners

"My business started to grow exponentially. Jeff gave me the courage to hire and structure my team."

Archie G., Archie's Garden Beds
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Before you book

Is this a fit?

We work with founder-led businesses, generally in the range of roughly $100K to $5M in revenue, that have outgrown doing everything by hand but are not ready for a full-time C-suite.

This is for you if you want systems, clean reporting, and accountability that sticks, and you are ready to change how things run to get there.

This is not for you if you want a task-taker, or you think structure will slow you down. We will point you somewhere better suited.

What don't you do?

We build the operation underneath. Your team keeps running the business.

  • We don't sell for you or run your sales team
  • We don't run marketing campaigns or ad spend
  • We don't deliver the client work itself
  • No branding, bookkeeping, or HR

What does a fractional COO actually do?

A fractional COO runs the operational side of the business part-time, so the founder does not have to. That means building the systems, data, and structure that let a company run without depending on one person to hold it together. It is hands-on execution across operations, technology, and process, not just advice.

How is this different from a VA or executive assistant?

A VA or EA executes tasks you hand them. A fractional COO owns outcomes: diagnosing where the business is stuck, designing the systems to fix it, and building the structure so it stays fixed. The work goes well beyond admin into operations, technology, and how the business actually runs.

How much does it cost?

It is scoped to the engagement rather than sold off a fixed menu, so the investment matches what the business actually needs. A fit call is where scope and cost get defined. In most cases the audit finds recoverable spend that offsets a meaningful part of the work.

When should a founder bring in this kind of help?

When the founder has become the bottleneck, and growth stalls because every decision, process, and fire routes back through one person. If you are working in the business instead of on it, with no operating backbone underneath you, that is the signal.

Are you remote, and how quickly can you start?

Fully remote and built to run that way. The systems, cadence, and accountability hold up without anyone needing to be in the same room. Work starts as soon as a fit call confirms it makes sense on both sides.

Your time is better spent leading.

One conversation about what the business needs right now.

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