Hi there. Let's get ready.
Thank you for booking your Discovery Call. Our time together is about one thing: your path to scale. The solution we built, the methodology behind it, the results it delivers, and whether it's the right fit for you.
Before we meet, I need two things from you. Each takes about three minutes.
Both the assessment and the walkthrough video need to be finished before our call. Our time together is 45 minutes. Prep is how we spend it on your business, not on background.
Your path to scale.
The Discovery Call is a strategic conversation about where your business is, where you're trying to take it, and whether our solution, methodology, and results are the right fit for the next stage.
Where you are now
We walk through your assessment together. The real operational constraints, the bottlenecks you keep carrying, the chaos you've learned to live with.
Where you're trying to go
Your 12-month and 3-year vision for the business. What has to be true about operations for you to actually get there.
Our solution and methodology
How The COO Solution works, what we build, how we lead your team, and the results that come from embedding a vetted second-in-command in your business.
Whether it's the right fit
If our solution is the right fit for your path to scale, we outline how we move forward. If not, I'll tell you plainly and point you to what you actually need.
How we work, in my own words.
Three minutes that cover how we built The COO Solution, how our methodology actually runs inside a client's business, and the kind of results founders see in the first 90 days.
Diagnose. Design. Drive.
Our proven three-phase operating methodology. It's how we turn vision into execution without stalling the business while we do it, applied by your second-in-command from week one.
We identify the real bottlenecks, map the operating state, and find the one or two things actually holding growth back. No guessing.
We design the systems, cadence, and team structure your business needs to scale. Right-sized for where you are and where you're going.
Your second-in-command executes the plan. Weekly leadership rhythm, team accountability, measurable progress, and clear reporting to you.
Real transformation looks like this.
This is what founders feel within the first 90 days of working with us, and what sustains for every month after. It isn't a mindset shift. It's a structural one. Your business starts running on cadence instead of chaos, your team starts making decisions without you, and your time goes back to the work only you can do.
You lead from your highest value work
Your time goes to vision, strategy, and the few decisions only you can make. Everything else has an owner.
Your team is aligned and executing
Clear accountability, weekly rhythm, defined roles. Everyone knows what matters this week and the week after.
The business runs without constant fires
Systems in place, meetings that produce decisions, projects that finish. Chaos gets replaced with cadence.
You have the bandwidth to grow intentionally
Space to think, plan, and build. The pull of daily operations is off your calendar for good.
Across every area of your business.
Your second-in-command isn't siloed to one function. They lead across the full operating surface of your company and bring in specialists when the work calls for it.
The person we place has already run a business like yours.
You get a vetted, trained second-in-command who's wired to finish what matters and loves executing other people's ideas. They act as the air-traffic controller of your business, leading, managing, and holding your team accountable so you don't have to. They've already run operations for founder-led companies in your revenue range and know what the next stage of scale actually requires. The person we place isn't learning on your business. They're applying what they've already done, inside yours.
- Experience15+ years running operations
- Revenue fitCompanies $1M to $15M
- Operating system
Well-versed in the EOS Integrator seat for companies running on EOS - IndustriesProfessional services, financial advisory, legal, healthcare, coaching, technology, construction, and others
- EngagementEmbedded, 30 to 100+ hours per month
- VettingInterviewed, reference-checked, and personally endorsed by Derek
What a seasoned second-in-command actually costs.
Hiring a full-time COO at this caliber runs $250K and up, plus benefits, plus search cost, plus the risk if it doesn't work. For most founder-led businesses in your range, that math never works. The fractional model gives you the same operational leadership at a fraction of the carrying cost, with none of the hiring risk, and in a timeframe that actually matches your needs. Here's the alternative, side by side.
You're likely a fit if…
Our solution is built for founder-led businesses that have scaled past the startup stage and are ready for real operational leadership. If any of these sound like you, we should talk.
- ✓You feel like you're the bottleneck in your own business, and you know it has to change.
- ✓You spend too many hours managing people and putting out fires instead of leading.
- ✓You've outgrown your current team structure, and the systems that got you here won't take you further.
- ✓You know exactly what needs to get done, but you don't have the time or support to execute on it.
- ✓You want to build something bigger without being the one doing all the operational work.
- ✓You're running between $1M and $15M in revenue and ready to scale sustainably from here.
Results, not promises.
We measure a placement by what the business does, not by what the operator says they did. Here are two. Different industries, different starting points, same pattern: the second-in-command took on what was dragging the founder, built the systems and cadence the business was missing, and the numbers moved.
Monthly revenue, within 18 months of placing a fractional second-in-command. Same team. Same owner. New operating rhythm.
Thirty percent more revenue while maintaining consistent profit, with Jessica down to a 30-hour week and focused on her highest-value work.
Working with The COO Solution gave me back the parts of my business I was losing to the daily grind. My second-in-command didn't just execute. She rebuilt how we operate.
Three minutes each.
Then let's meet.
The founders who get the most out of our Discovery Call are the ones who show up prepared. The assessment focuses our time on your business. The video answers your early questions so we go further on the call.
Finish both before our call: the 3-minute Business Assessment and the 3-minute walkthrough video. Without them, our 45 minutes goes to background instead of your business.
Looking forward to our conversation.
I spent 16 years as a COO before I founded The COO Solution. Eight of those were in-house, running operations for founder-led companies. The next eight were fractional, usually brought in because something had broken and the founder had run out of road.
I built The COO Solution to give entrepreneurs something I always knew they needed: a trusted second-in-command who leads like I would, cares about the business like I do, and executes without being managed. I've personally vetted and endorsed every second-in-command on our bench.
Our call is where we find out whether our solution is the right fit for your path to scale. If we don't have the right methodology for you, I'll tell you plainly. If we do, you'll walk away knowing exactly how we move forward together.
Finish the assessment. Watch the walkthrough. Then I'll see you on the call.