What Happens on the Call
Minutes 1 to 5. The shape of the company: revenue, headcount, and what prompted the call.
Minutes 6 to 15. Where work slows down, which decisions still route through the founder, and what has already been tried.
Minutes 16 to 20. A direct read on whether the constraint is structural or situational, and whether fractional operations leadership fits.
Nothing is sold on this call. Any proposal comes later, and only once the operating picture is clear.
Who This Is For
Companies between $2M and $100M in revenue that have outgrown the way they run. The pattern repeats: revenue grew, the founder stayed in the decision path, and the systems that worked at half the size stopped holding.
This is not the right call for companies under $2M, businesses wanting a strategy document rather than installed systems, or founders looking for an advisor to sit in meetings instead of changing how the work runs.
Most prospective clients are turned down. Fit decides the engagement, not availability.
Before Booking, Check the Record
Three pages worth two minutes before giving up twenty.
What clients say. Recommendations from CEOs, founders, and executives who have run engagements with Kamyar Shah, each named with title and company.
Where the work is cited. Expert citations across 17 publications, including Forbes, Zendesk, Fortune, American Express, and ProjectManager.com.
The full background. More than 650 engagements across 25 years, the operating philosophy, and what past engagements produced.
Kamyar Shah takes these calls personally. There is no intake team and no junior associate on the line.
What the Work Produces
A professional services firm losing project managers to a competitor did not have a pay problem. It had no visible career path, and the correction was structural rather than financial.
A manufacturing company whose founder signed off on every decision above $5,000 did not need a faster approval process. It needed decision rights moved down, at thresholds the founder could accept.
Companies arrive with a symptom and leave with a system. Every engagement is built to end.
Pick a Time That Works
Twenty minutes, direct with Kamyar Shah.
Not ready to book? Send a short description of the company and the problem to [email protected]. A written reply follows within two business days.