Your business shouldn't fall apart when you take a week off.
You're good at the work. You're stuck doing all of it. I help owners document, delegate, and automate so the team can run the week without a 9pm text.
If you disappeared for a month, would the wheels come off?
If the honest answer is yes—or “probably”—that’s not a time problem. It’s a systems problem.
- Scheduling, exceptions, and “the way we do things” still live in your head
- You tried to delegate and the work bounced back
- Every important decision still waits on you
- Time off isn’t time off, because the phone doesn’t stop
The business can only grow as fast as you can personally carry it. That ceiling is optional.
I learned this the expensive way.
I spent 23 years in software and operations—building products, leading teams, teaching process. Then I bought a Conserva Irrigation franchise and ran it myself. No team. No safety net. A truck and a book of work I had to invent systems for.
I grew it to 1,500+ homes and kept 95%+ of those customers. I was also wearing every hat: sales, scheduling, service, books. I knew the theory of delegation. Living it with real money on the line is different.
So I wrote the work down. Automated the repetitive parts. Handed off what didn’t need me. The business got better. I could take a week off without my phone lighting up.
That’s the work I now do with other owners.
I speak in systems, stories, and the occasional Star Wars reference. If you get it, we’ll get along just fine.
A clear path off the hamster wheel
I don’t hand you a binder and leave. I stay until the handoff actually sticks.
See how the work moves
I map your current workflows, tools, and pain points and show you where the bottlenecks actually live—not where they feel like they live.
Write it down and hand it off
We document, automate, and delegate so the business runs on systems, not tribal knowledge stored in your head.
Stay until it sticks
You get time back. Your team gets clarity. I stay involved through the first messy handoffs so it doesn’t bounce back to you.
After we work together, you’ll have:
- Documented systems your team can follow without pinging you
- Hours back in the week for growth, family, and actual time off
- A team that owns the work instead of waiting on you
- A business that still runs when you’re not in the room
This is what I built in my own operation. It’s the same work I do with owners now.
Fractional COO consulting
I become your operations partner
For owners with a team of about 2–20 people who are ready to invest in systems and scaling. I audit, design, and implement the infrastructure so the business can grow without depending entirely on you.
Monthly retainer · Starting at $1,000/month
Building a career rather than a company? I also offer career coaching for technical leaders.
Let’s look at your bottleneck.
Free 30 minutes. No pitch. Bring the thing that’s eating your week, and I’ll tell you honestly whether I can help.
Writing on operations
Measure the few things that actually move the business
The hard part of KPIs isn’t the dashboard. It’s deciding what matters—and getting the data out of people’s heads.
Hand the work off so it doesn’t bounce back
Delegation fails when the system lives in your head. Here’s how to make a handoff actually stick.
Who’s got the ball?
Meetings waste the week when nobody leaves owning the next move. Clarity of responsibility is the fix.
Operations, leadership, and getting your time back.
Essays, frameworks, and notes from the field—plus MBA sketchnotes and early access to new resources.