Pocket COO

A focused 90-day engagement built around two things: clearing your plate down to the work only you can do, and getting the rest of the business running well without you in the middle of it.

Most businesses this size have never been looked at this way, all four angles at once.

How I look at your business

Four audits, each one feeding the others.

• Goals Audit. Whether the goals exist, whether they're the right size for the business, and whether anyone could tell you, mid-quarter, if you're on track to hit them.
• Team Audit. Maps every person on the team, including you, into one of four Worketypes, the kind of work each person is built to do well, and shows where the person and the seat don't match.
• Traction Audit. Where the week actually goes against what the goals need: which decisions the goals are driving, which fires keep pulling people off the plan, and what your meetings settle versus what they recirculate.
• Delegation Audit. Traces every item on your plate back to the reason it hasn't left yet, and there's always a reason: a Worketype mismatch, a fuzzy definition of done, a handoff with no real owner.

What you'll have after 90 days

✓ Team Map. Every person mapped by Worketype, including you: what each person is built for, where the challenge spots are. Until now you've probably been explaining the same missed handoffs with theories about effort or attitude. Most of them are mismatches between the person and the work and are things you can fix.

✓ Core Function Map. Your core functions outlined at the 10,000-foot level, with an honest read on how well each one runs without you in the middle of it. Until now, you've been finding this out one vacation at a time.

✓ The gap list. Everything the audits surfaced, in one place, prioritized. The biggest section is the hand-off list: every item on your plate that shouldn't be, with the reason it keeps coming back. You've been discovering these gaps one at a time, usually as fires. Here they are all at once, in order, with nothing left to be surprised by.

✓ Annual and quarterly goals, set properly, with the method you'll use to keep setting them. This is usually where founders find out that the list of things they want to build and the way the business currently runs can't both be true. Better to know that in week one of a quarter than in week thirteen.

That's what ninety days buys: a clear read on the whole business, and a ranked list of what to do about it. Continue into the next 90 days or graduate, your call.

Bring the business as it actually is, mess included. We'll figure out the right next step together.

Fee: $3,500/month for 90 days