What does a fractional COO actually do?
Everything a full-time COO does, from owning operations to turning the founder's vision into executable plans, running the team's cadence, and fixing the systems money leaks through, for a fraction of the week and a fraction of the cost. You get the senior operator; you don't fund the full-time seat.
What does a fractional COO cost compared to a full-time hire?
A full-time COO runs $150,000–$350,000+ a year in salary before equity and benefits. Fractional engagements in the market typically run $3,000–$10,000 a month depending on days and scope. Ours are scoped per engagement, and they're invite-only. We offer the retainer to clients we're already building with, on projects we're genuinely aligned with, which we consider a feature.
How is this different from your other work?
Everything else we offer is public and priced on its own page: websites, offer strategy, branding, email and marketing, and systems, plus MONDAi at $47 a month. The Marketing Audit is the paid diagnostic when the constraint isn't named yet. The fractional COO partnership is different: it is offered privately to founders we already build with, and scoped per engagement.
Who is this for?
Founders, in our practice most often women entrepreneurs, whose vision has outgrown their operations: revenue is real, the team is forming or formed, and the founder is still the bottleneck for every decision, launch, and follow-through. If you're pre-revenue, you don't need a COO yet; you need an offer that sells.
How do you become a fractional COO client?
You don't apply for it, and there is no form. It is offered privately to founders we are already working with. The reason is practical: by the time we've built your machine, we know your numbers, your delivery, and where the work actually breaks, and that knowledge is most of what makes an operator useful in month one. So the door in is a Marketing Audit or an implementation project. If the season afterwards calls for someone accountable for operations, we'll say so.
Why 'aligned projects only'?
Because operations leadership is intimate work. We're inside your numbers, your team, and your decisions. It only works with mutual trust and a mission we can stand behind. Saying no to misaligned retainers is how we stay excellent for the ones we say yes to.