WEEKS 1-4
Assess
Focus interviews, online workshops and your data room. The as-is picture, validated with you, then the to-be plan: what changes, what does not, the quick wins and the longer-term plan, for growth or for cost.
Stop Being the Bottleneck
Stuck? Get the whole business moving again.
Founders come to us stuck: the bottleneck in their own company, unable to win the next customer, or still looking for product-market fit. Four weeks with Ben gives you the honest picture of the whole business and the plan that closes the gap. Then Ben comes in and delivers it with you.
Three ways founders get stuck.
Every company that stalls past a million is stuck in one of three places. The founder is the bottleneck, and every decision, deal and hire still runs through them. The next customer is not coming, because the referrals that built the business do not reach the next market. Or the product has not yet found the customers who need it most, and the team is selling to everyone. The plan finds which, and what to do about it.
The bottleneck: what to hand over, to whom, and the weekly rhythm that runs without you.
The next customer: who to go after, the offer that wins them, and the pipeline to reach them.
Product-market fit: which customers get the most value from you, and what to stop selling.
What it needs from you: your numbers and your data room, your leadership team for the interviews and two online workshops, and straight answers.
Not a report. A plan, and the person who delivers it.
This is not a consultant writing a report and leaving you to work out what to do with it. Ben audits the whole business against his own experience of having done it: accounts, pipeline and customers, and also people, process, systems, the operating model and how the organisation is set up. He builds the plan with you, then comes into the business and delivers it alongside you, with you and for you. When it is in place he stays on as executive coach to you and your leadership team, so that it sticks.
Assess: four weeks to the honest picture and the plan.
Implement: Ben in your team as fractional COO, for a limited period, so the plan happens.
Embed: light-touch executive coaching for you and your leadership team, so it sticks.
Assess, implement, embed.
THEN 3 MONTHS
Implement
If you want it, Ben joins your team as fractional COO and runs alongside you to put the plan into practice.
THEN 6 MONTHS
Embed
Ben steps out of the operating role and coaches you and your leadership team, light touch, so what was implemented sticks.
How it runs
Four weeks with Ben on the whole business, in two halves, then the choice of how to deliver it.
Week
What we do
What you get
One and two
Understanding. Focus interviews with you and your leadership team, two online workshops, and analysis of your data room: accounts, pipeline, customers, people, process, systems, operating model and organisation design.
The business as it is, validated with you
Three and four
The to-be. What we change, what we cannot, and how; the quick wins; and the medium and longer-term plan, for growth or for cost, depending on what you want.
The plan, talked through with you
After
The choice. Run the plan yourself, or Ben comes into the team as fractional COO to deliver it with you, then coaches you and your leadership team so it sticks.
Delivery, not a report on a shelf
What clients say
“Our profit margin was -97%, our client satisfaction survey was 15% and we were $50k in debt. Ben dove in and helped us to surgically resolve all the root causes and stabilize the company. Now our company is profitable.”
Hassan M
Founder, Enigma
“Every single suggestion Ben has made to plan my business and help me grow and manage my team has proven on point and very effective. He was able to see things clearly where I could not.”
Guillaume D
Founder, ASP
“Ben is great! He asks the right questions and has helped our business a lot after struggling with market, direction and strategy. He gave us a clear path and all what is left now is proper execution.”
Omar Adel
Founder, Bolder
Questions we get asked
Tell us where you are.
Ben comes back to you within one working day to arrange a 25-minute call, and tells you the fee on that call.