A part-time Chief Operating Officer who embeds in your executive team, builds the systems your company needs to scale, and stays until they run without him. Kamyar Shah has served as a fractional COO for over 650 companies through World Consulting Group.
Most companies between $2M and $30M hit the same wall: the founder is still the operating system. Every decision, every approval, every customer escalation flows through one person. Growth stalls because the bottleneck is not strategy or product or sales. The bottleneck is operations.
Kamyar Shah solves this by joining your executive team as a fractional COO. Not as a consultant who observes and reports. As an operational leader who builds the management layer, installs the systems, and trains your team to run them.
Management systems. Kamyar Shah installs the reporting, accountability, and decision-making frameworks that let your leadership team operate without founder involvement in every choice.
Process architecture. Kamyar Shah maps your current operations, identifies where work is being duplicated, dropped, or bottlenecked, and rebuilds those processes to scale.
Team structure. Kamyar Shah evaluates whether your org chart matches your growth stage. Most companies at $5M-$15M have the org chart of a $2M company. Kamyar Shah fixes that.
Founder transition. The end goal of every engagement is to make Kamyar Shah unnecessary. The systems should run without a fractional COO. If they cannot, the engagement is not done.
| Kamyar Shah (Fractional COO) | Full-Time COO | Management Consultant | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Embedded in your team | ✓Joins leadership meetings | ✓Yes | ✗External observer |
| Owns outcomes | ✓Accountable for results | ✓Accountable | ✗Delivers recommendations |
| Cost | Fraction of full-time salary | $200K-$400K+ salary + equity | $15K-$50K per project |
| Time to impact | 2-4 weeks (90-day plan) | 3-6 months (hiring + ramp) | 8-12 weeks (report delivery) |
| Experience breadth | 650+ companies, 25+ years | Typically 3-8 companies | Varies widely |
| Designed to end | ✓Goal is independence | ✗Permanent hire | ✓Project-based |
"Kamyar Shah came in as our fractional COO and within 90 days, my leadership team was running weekly operations without me in the room."
"We tried hiring a full-time COO twice. Both failed within 6 months. Kamyar Shah accomplished more in 90 days than either full-time hire did in their entire tenure."
"When we decided to dramatically increase the scale of our operations, we chose Kamyar for his experience and skills in Operations Management. His know-how in operations management, growth, and scaling has been indispensable in our effort and success."
30 minutes. No pitch. Kamyar Shah will identify the operational bottleneck and tell you whether a fractional COO engagement makes sense.
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