Fractional COO
Operations
A CPG brand's operations either scale with the business or become the reason growth stalls. If yours feel like they're held together with duct tape and good intentions, that's exactly what we fix — supply chain, cash, the co-man relationship, the systems you never had time to build — and we stay in the seat until it runs without needing to live in your head.
Scope
What the seat actually covers
Supply chain & co-manufacturer relationships
Sourcing, production planning, and the co-man relationship managed as an actual partnership — not discovered to be unmanaged the week a run goes wrong.
Unit economics & cash discipline
Knowing your true cost to serve, modeling the impact of a trade spend change before you make it, and keeping cash visibility ahead of the number, not behind it.
Playbooks & standard operating procedure
The recurring decisions in your business — monthly close, a new retailer onboarding, a production run — documented once as a repeatable process, not re-solved from memory every time.
Accountability & operating cadence
The weekly and monthly rhythms — reviews, reporting, decision cadence — that keep the business moving without depending on any one person's memory, for as long as we're in the seat.
How we work
Three levels of operating partnership, scaled to where you are
We're not in the business of building a system and handing it back. We stay in the seat, at whichever level of partnership your business actually needs.
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Embedded
Full operating capacity built into your team.
Full ownership across ops, logistics, finance, and sales strategy — available as much as you need. A real COO, not a slice of one.
A dedicated Ops Associate, full-time and solely yours, owning day-to-day execution — POs, logistics, item builds, special projects.
Everything a full-time COO and ops team would deliver in-house — end-to-end operational leadership and execution.
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Partnered
Steady strategic and operational partnership.
Strategy and daily direction across ops, finance, sales, and marketing — a true right hand to the founder or CEO.
Shared execution support — PO and order entry, project management — scaled to volume rather than dedicated full-time.
The same scope as Embedded: full COO leadership, plus shared execution support underneath it.
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Advisory
Executive guidance without the build-out.
Strategy and direction, plus light demand-planning and vendor support — oversight and course-correction, not day-to-day management.
No dedicated Ops Associate. Execution stays in-house — your team runs it, with our judgment behind it.
High-level strategic deliverables — the guidance a business needs without adding to the build-out.
Operations