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for growth

Scaling companies need operational expertise that keeps pace with ambition

I have 25 years experience in technology and navigated the journey from 4‑person startup to 60-strong international team with revenues and investment capital in the multiple millions.

I help founders build the operational infrastructure that transforms the potential for scale into thriving growth stories and market reality, without the full-time executive cost.

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Fractional COO

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Operations that enable growth and work your way

The Fractional COO service plumbs a regular, fully engaged Ops practice into your growing business without the commitment to a full-time executive. Engagements can be a few days a month to regular involvement every week.

What you get:

Operational Leadership

  • Founder-level enthusiasm for your mission
  • A growth-forward and innovation-first approach
  • Combined commercial and product understanding
  • A collaborative practice that understands business is comprised of great people
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Strategic Planning

  • Refining and executing your growth strategy alongside your leadership team
  • Identifying operational improvements that drive sustainable growth
  • Contributing to your product development strategy with commercial insight
  • Working with product leaders to engage with commercial realities and priorities
  • Working with commercial leaders to fully understand and sell technical features and understand delivery challenges
  • Shaping your scaling roadmap from every angle: commercial, market opportunity, product, people, board, investor, process, legal, compliance and risk.
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Team Development

  • Fostering a high-performance culture that's fully aligned with your mission
  • Recruiting, retaining, and developing your most valuable asset: your team
  • Meaningful cross-functional collaboration that builds trust and breaks down silos
  • Performance management and metrics that unite the team around your core strategy
  • Building resilience for periods of rapid growth or turbulence
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Process Optimisation

  • Identifying and eliminating inefficient practices, set-ups and workflows
  • Building scalable processes that grow with your business
  • Carefully managing change so fresh approaches succeed and don't break
  • Deploying technology solutions only when they enhance operations
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Financial Oversight

  • Understanding the operational value of capital and costs
  • Supporting your finance function with budgeting and forecasting
  • Ensuring financial discipline during critical growth phases
  • Aligning resource allocation with strategic priorities
  • Translating financial insights into core business operations
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Risk Management

  • Balancing risk tolerance with business opportunities
  • Developing risk mitigation strategies that minimise impact on growth (e.g. for privacy and data)
  • Engaging responsive, value-driven legal assistance and advice
  • Preemptive-thinking for crisis management and business continuity planning
  • Understanding the value of good governance and business ethics
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Optimal Ops:

  • Practices designed to elevate growth rather than weigh it down.
  • A scale-ready organisation designed in the service of product excellence and commercial success
  • A balance of systematic efficiency and human-centred leadership

Scaleup Advisory

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Expert guidance where you need it most

The Scaleup Advisory service delivers high-impact operational consultancy through flexible engagement models (for example, through executive consultancy, or as NED) augmenting your team with the expertise to navigate growth challenges and transform business systems.

Example strategic interventions:

The Founder Advantage

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Unlike traditional consultants or full-time executives, I bring:

  • Founder Perspective: Having built and scaled my own company, I understand your challenges firsthand
  • Operational Architecture: Systems designed specifically for growth-stage companies, not enterprise bureaucracy
  • Cross-Functional Expertise: Experience across operations, product, legal, and commercial functions
  • Immediate Impact: Executive-level expertise that delivers value from day one

Engagement & pricing

Engagements can be based on number of workdays per month on a continuous basis, or as a limited, project arrangement through the Scaleup Advisory service. Rates are fair and calibrated for commitment.

Get in touch to describe your needs and for a comprehensive quote.

Ready to scale smarter?

If you're ready to transform how your business operates and delivers value, or want to find out more, let's talk about how Fractional COO and Scaleup Advisory services can help you.

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