by KamyarShah | Dec 21, 2025 | Blog, Strategy Consulting
Most small and mid-sized businesses don’t struggle because they lack ideas.They struggle because “strategy” appears at the wrong altitude, in the wrong format, and without a mechanism that compels decisions to become execution. In a growth-stage company, that mismatch...
by KamyarShah | Dec 16, 2025 | Blog, Executive Coaching
Why Executive Coaching Breaks at Scale — and What Has to Be in Place Before It Works TL;DR: Executive coaching doesn’t fail because leaders resist change. It breaks when organizations expect behavior to compensate for missing architecture. Past a certain scale,...
by KamyarShah | Dec 16, 2025 | Blog, Chief Marketing Officer
Most founders do not wake up one day and decide they want a “fractional CMO.” They search for fractional CMO services after a predictable pattern shows up: marketing activity is constant, spend is real, the team is busy, and revenue still feels too dependent on luck,...
by KamyarShah | Dec 16, 2025 | Blog, Chief Operating Officer
Founders rarely search for “fractional COO vs COO” out of curiosity. They search because something in the business has started to push back. Execution feels heavier than it used to. Decisions take longer. Delegation doesn’t stick. A handful of people are carrying da...
by KamyarShah | Dec 15, 2025 | Blog, Chief Marketing Officer
Most founders don’t wake up wanting a fractional CMO. They arrive there after months—sometimes years—of marketing effort that feels busy but unproductive. Campaigns launch. Content ships. Agencies report metrics. Yet revenue growth stalls, messaging drifts, and no one...
by KamyarShah | Dec 15, 2025 | Blog, Executive Coaching
A founder-first, systems-level look at why growing companies slow down even with smart people — and why “fractional COO” is searched at the exact moment informal operating models stop working. When the Business Starts Pushing Back The dashboard hits your inbox again....
by KamyarShah | Dec 15, 2025 | Blog, Executive Coaching
TL;DR: Executive coaching works when the real constraint isn’t market demand or team talent, but the invisible patterns shaping how you decide, communicate, and respond under pressure. It’s not “self-improvement.” It’s leadership infrastructure—because your behavior...
by KamyarShah | Dec 8, 2025 | Blog, Chief Marketing Officer
Most founders hit a moment where marketing becomes a wall they keep running into. Lead flow stalls. Paid campaigns get more expensive. Messaging feels disconnected from what the business is actually selling. The internal team does their best, but no one is truly...
by KamyarShah | Dec 8, 2025 | Blog, Chief Operating Officer
A structural, data-informed look at when and how to use fractional COO support to remove founder bottlenecks, reduce decision latency, and stabilize growth — with NDA-safe blind scenarios that show what this looks like in practice. Growth, Entropy, and the Founder...
by KamyarShah | Nov 21, 2025 | Blog, Chief Operating Officer
If you’re systems-minded, you already know the uncomfortable truth: growth is an outcome, not a strategy. When teams obsess over top-line metrics, they quietly accumulate fragility—brittle processes, heroics culture, opaque data, and unit economics that deteriorate at...
by KamyarShah | Nov 21, 2025 | Blog, Chief Operating Officer
If you’re doing under $1M in annual revenue and considering a fractional COO, your real question isn’t “Who?” It’s “When?” Hire too early and you’ll spend scarce cash on structure you can’t yet use. Wait too long and you stall growth, burn out, or leak margin that’s...
by KamyarShah | Nov 19, 2025 | Blog, Chief Operating Officer
If your company is about to scale—new markets, more headcount, additional SKUs, bigger contracts—your operations will either carry that growth or choke it. An operations audit is the fastest way to see what is working, what is fragile, and what to fix first. Done...
