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Services

Everything we do, and how deep it goes.

Three ways to get help and two ways to partner. The three are the same work at different depths — sit alongside an operator, borrow one for a project, or hand us the whole problem. Every one runs the same six pillars and the same six SCOR stages.

Services

Four consulting lines. However you choose to work with us.

The three ways above are how you buy. These four lines are the work itself, and every one of them runs on the same six pillars and the same six SCOR stages. Guided means we coach you through the line; Flexible Talent puts an operator inside your team to run it; Done-For-You means we run it and stay until it holds.

Process Optimization

Find the friction. Remove it. Prove it.

We map what actually happens on your floor — pick paths, receiving docks, production lines, order flows — not what the SOP says happens, and rebuild the steps that cost you the most.

  • Time-and-motion and value-stream mapping
  • Bottleneck and constraint analysis
  • SOP rewrite with the people who do the work
  • Before/after measurement you can defend

Ops Strategy & Scaling

Build the operation the next stage needs.

Growth breaks the systems that got you here. We model capacity and headcount, plan the distribution network and the next site, and set the cadence for where you are going — including when fulfillment should move to a 3PL, and when it should come back.

  • Capacity and headcount modeling
  • Distribution network and multi-site expansion planning
  • Operating cadence and KPI architecture
  • Make-vs-buy, 3PL and outsourcing decisions

Systems & Automation

Stop paying people to be middleware.

We connect the WMS, ERP and order systems you already own, retire the spreadsheets holding the business together, and remove the handoff between two systems that a person is currently performing by hand.

  • Tool audit and consolidation
  • Workflow automation and integrations
  • Inventory, WMS and ERP process design
  • Reporting and dashboards that get used

Fractional Ops Leadership

A senior operator, without the senior salary.

An experienced supply chain or operations leader embedded in your business part-time — running the cadence, coaching your managers, owning the numbers.

  • Interim COO / VP Operations coverage
  • Manager coaching and development
  • Weekly business review facilitation
  • Hiring and onboarding your permanent leader
Coaching

Build the operating discipline yourself.

For owners and ops leaders who want to own the change, with an experienced operator in the room every week.

The Operator's Program

12 weeks, one operator at a time

A structured coaching program for owners and ops leaders who need to build the operating discipline themselves — with someone experienced in the room every week.

$1,500/month
  • Weekly 60-minute working session with a senior operator
  • A full Six Pillars diagnostic of your operation in week one
  • Your own KPI dashboard, built with you, not for you
  • Full access to the template library for the duration
  • Direct messaging access between sessions
  • A written 90-day operating plan you own at the end
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Not sure which rung you need?

Tell us what's breaking and we'll point you at the cheapest thing that fixes it — even if that turns out not to be an engagement with us at all.

Flexible talent

Hire an operator on demand.

Vetted operators, hourly or on contract. Cover a leave, run a project, or add capacity for a peak — without a permanent hire.

  • Every operator has run the function themselves
  • Matched in days, not weeks
  • Hourly, contract, or trial-to-permanent
  • No placement fee if it isn't a fit in the first two weeks

Are you the operator? Careers and we'll put you in front of the work.

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Not sure which depth you need?

Most people are not, at the start. Book a call and we will work out which of these actually fits — including telling you if none of them do.