by KamyarShah | Dec 28, 2025 | Blog, Chief Operating Officer
You have a delivery problem. Projects are shipping late, errors are slipping through to clients, and your Operations Director looks exhausted. You sit down with your co-founder and decide the solution is obvious: you need to align their interests with the company’s...
by KamyarShah | Dec 27, 2025 | Blog, Chief Operating Officer
You walk into the weekly leadership sync. The agenda looks exactly like it did last week. The “Strategic Partnerships” initiative is marked as “at risk” just as it was seven days ago. You ask for an update.The VP of Sales looks at the VP of Product. The VP of Product...
by KamyarShah | Dec 26, 2025 | Blog, Chief Operating Officer
You hired a Chief of Staff because you were drowning. Your calendar was a war zone, your inbox was a liability, and you needed a “right hand” to help you survive the daily assault of operational noise. For the first thirty days, it felt like relief....
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, 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 | 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...
by KamyarShah | Nov 19, 2025 | Blog, Chief Operating Officer
When you bring in a fractional COO, you’re making a clear statement: your business has reached the point where structure, clarity, and execution can’t be optional anymore. The myth is that success hinges on finding a “unicorn operator.” The reality is simpler: the...
by KamyarShah | Nov 18, 2025 | Blog, Chief Operating Officer
When “Saving Money” Starts Costing You Growth If you’re a budget-conscious founder, doing operations yourself feels logical. Cash is tight. Agencies feel expensive. Hiring dedicated ops talent sounds like a move for “later.” So you piece together tools, patch gaps...
by KamyarShah | Nov 17, 2025 | Blog, Chief Operating Officer
If you’ve ever scaled a business past the $1M mark, you already know the truth most books leave out: growth doesn’t feel like progress. It feels like losing control. What worked at five people collapses at fifteen. The founder becomes the person everyone waits for,...
by KamyarShah | Nov 17, 2025 | Blog, Chief Operating Officer
Founder burnout doesn’t come from weakness. It comes from architecture. When the systems of a business stop matching its scale, the founder becomes the failsafe. Every stalled decision flows to them. Every exception lands on their desk. Every unstructured handoff...
by KamyarShah | Nov 14, 2025 | Blog, Chief Operating Officer
Founders rarely ask the real question out loud. They’ll ask about scope, hours, and experience, but what they’re really trying to understand is much simpler: “How quickly will this person change my day-to-day reality, and what will actually look different?” A...
