Operations help for small, founder-run businesses.
I work out where your time and money are actually going, and then I fix it. Usually it is not where you think.
of Bellweather Coffee's wholesale orders were never fulfilled. Nobody knew until we counted them.
Most small businesses hit a point where the thing that got them here stops working.
Revenue is up but margin is down.
The founder is the only one who knows how anything runs.
Nobody has looked at the numbers properly in a year.
That is the work. I go through what you already have — your orders, your suppliers, your tools, your actual costs — and I tell you what is going on. Then we fix the two or three things that matter most.
No transformation programme. No 40-slide deck. A short document you can act on, and someone to act on it with.
A founder who is still the operating system.
Businesses doing somewhere between two hundred thousand and three million a year. Product or service, it does not much matter — what they have in common is a founder who is still the operating system, and a business growing faster than anything underneath it.
Probably not me
Half an hour, two weeks, then a monthly rhythm.
We talk for half an hour, free, and I tell you whether I can help.
If I can, I spend the first two weeks going through everything and come back with what I have found.
After that it is a monthly retainer. Most engagements run four to six months.