Fractional Chief of Staff & COO for Founder-Led Teams
I embed as your fractional Chief of Staff or COO, matching the role to the operating leadership your company needs. Through Mantle OS™, I strengthen decision flow, ownership, operating rhythm, and execution—so growth depends less on you.
Full diagnosis: 50 statements · approximately 10 minutes
Two roles. One operating method.
“I need priorities and people moving together.”
An operating partner alongside the CEO: decision flow, leadership cadence, cross-functional coordination, and follow-through.
CEO leverage & connected execution
Explore Chief of Staff support“I need someone to lead operations, not just coordinate them.”
Operating leadership and accountability within an agreed remit. We define the outcomes, decision authority, and working relationship before the engagement begins.
Operating ownership & accountable leadership
Explore fractional COO supportMantle OS™ is the shared methodology. The role depends on the responsibility you need to delegate—not just team size or weekly hours.
Is this you?
And suddenly hiring, investors, priorities and operations are all moving simultaneously.
The informal coordination that worked with six people has stopped working.
But decisions and context still keep routing through you.
And cross-functional execution is starting to drift.
But nobody has redesigned the workflow around it.
Operational questions keep pulling you out of strategic work, and the team is waiting on you to move forward.
Executive capacity reclaimed every week
Reduction in staff turnover through clarity
Faster leadership ramp-to-productivity
How I Work With Founders
“Growth adds complexity. I help founder-led teams turn it into clarity — building the operating rhythm, ownership, and systems that let you scale without holding everything together.”
Turn decisions into clear next steps, ownership, and steady forward motion.
Shift coordination and follow-through out of your head and into reliable systems and team habits.
Better visibility, accountability, and communication across people, projects, and priorities.
Structures, habits, and workflows that help your growing team move with consistency and calm.
I embed with early-stage CEOs who need clarity, follow-through, and systems — without enterprise overhead.
Pre-seed → Seed
Foundation — install rhythm, reclaim 5–8 hrs/week.
Seed → Series A
Momentum — cross-functional execution and calmer cadence.
Series A → Growth
Command — strategic ops partner for scale and fundraising.
Embedded operator, not sideline consultant
Built for startup speed and constraints
Systems that scale with your next hire
Teams of 1–50 people
Founder-CEO ready to delegate execution
Want structure without bureaucracy
At your pace
Start with a small reflection, go deeper into the operating diagnosis, or talk with me about the support you need.
Just discovering this
Five questions on decisions, ownership, repeated escalations, execution visibility, and your coordination hours. Free, with no email required.
Take the quick checkSeeing a serious pattern
The full 50-statement diagnosis across five operating dimensions — including AI readiness and automation opportunity. Allow approximately 10 minutes.
Take the full diagnosisReady to make a change
A proposed paid engagement to turn your diagnosis into a focused operating plan, without committing to an ongoing partnership.
Proposed deliverables
Scope, deliverables, timing, and a fixed fee are agreed before any paid work begins.
Discuss the assessmentNeed ongoing leadership
Chief of Staff support connects priorities and cross-functional execution. Fractional COO support leads an agreed operating remit with accountability and delegated authority.
Explore Foundation, Momentum, and Command for Chief of Staff support, or discuss a separately scoped COO engagement.
Compare servicesOperational Strategist partnerships
Foundation, Momentum, and Command are the existing Chief of Staff commitment levels. For fractional COO work, we agree the remit, authority, time commitment, and fee separately.
10 hrs / week
For early-stage CEOs who need immediate operational relief and stronger day-to-day coordination.
Founder-led teams that want to reduce operational drag and install basic structure, follow-through, and operating rhythm.
20 hrs / week
For companies that need a more embedded operator to strengthen cross-functional execution and leadership capacity.
Growing teams that require deeper structure, accountability, and operating rhythm as complexity increases.
30 hrs / week
For CEOs who need high-trust, deeply embedded support across both strategy and execution.
Companies preparing for scale, fundraising, hiring, or managing growing complexity — while keeping the founder from becoming the bottleneck.
| Partnership | Weekly commitment | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Foundation | 10 hrs / week | Founder-led teams that want to reduce operational drag and install basic structure, follow-through, and operating rhythm. |
| Momentum | 20 hrs / week | Growing teams that require deeper structure, accountability, and operating rhythm as complexity increases. |
| Command | 30 hrs / week | Companies preparing for scale, fundraising, hiring, or managing growing complexity — while keeping the founder from becoming the bottleneck. |
Diagnostic
Take the 50-statement Mantle OS™ Founder Operating Diagnosis in approximately 10 minutes and identify where decision flow, ownership, execution rhythm, communication, and AI Readiness & Automation Opportunity are slowing the company down.
Take the diagnosis