Fractional Executives · COO

A COO who gets the company off your desk.

Senior operating leadership embedded in your leadership team one to two days a week. The rhythm, the systems, the seats, and the numbers that tell you it's working.

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What your fractional COO owns

The operating system underneath the company, built so it keeps working when they step back.

  • The operating rhythm: a weekly leadership meeting with a fixed agenda, quarterly planning, and follow-through you can measure
  • Systems and process: documented, adopted, and improved when they fail, not just written down
  • Structure: one owner per seat, one number per leader, and the hard conversations that come with it
  • Delivery: throughput, utilization, and rework on the scorecard six weeks before they show up in revenue
Working session mapping how work moves through the business
Is This You

Signs you need one

Everything still routes through you

Decisions wait for the founder. The company is capped by one person's calendar and attention.

Headcount went up, throughput did not

You added people to fix capacity. You got more meetings and the same output.

The same problems keep coming back

Every fix is an instance, never the process. The reminder gets sent again next month.

You've crossed fifteen people

Informal coordination stopped working and nobody announced it. You feel it as slower decisions and repeated mistakes.

The First 90 Days

What happens before you decide to keep going

1

Days 1 to 30

Operational assessment: how work actually moves, where it stalls, who really owns what. Pick the three processes that break most often.

2

Days 31 to 60

Weekly leadership meeting and scorecard live. Seats drawn and named. First three processes documented with owners.

3

Days 61 to 90

Cadence holding without prompting. Committed next steps completing at 85 percent or better. Clear read on which hires are needed and which are not.

Rebecca Brady
Who You'll Work With

Rebecca Brady

Co-Founder · COO

Rebecca runs operations at Branch and has built the systems, structure, and rhythm inside growing companies. She's the one in your leadership meeting.

1 to 2 days a weekFixed monthly retainerQuarter to quarter commitment
Questions We Hear a Lot

Straight answers

Do we need new software for this?
Rarely. Most companies have the tools and lack the rhythm. Where a system change is worth it, your COO scopes it, picks it, and owns the rollout.
Will this slow us down with process?
The opposite is the goal. Process that is 80 percent right and followed by everyone is faster than heroics. Anything that adds steps without adding throughput gets cut.
How is this different from your operational assessment?
The assessment finds the problems in a few weeks. A fractional COO finds them and then fixes them with you, owning the result quarter after quarter.

Looking at the other seats? Compare all three fractional roles.

Ready to stop being the system?

Fifteen minutes with Rebecca. We'll tell you what would break first if you took a month off.

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