Situations
Start from what is actually happening.
Most companies do not wake up wanting a fractional COO. They wake up with a problem that has outgrown the people currently holding it. These are the six that account for most of the engagements we see.
Raising capital
Getting the numbers, the story and the data room to a standard an investor will not pick apart.
Entering a new market
Structure, entity, licensing and the local obligations that are cheap to get right and expensive to retrofit.
Turnaround and restructuring
Stabilising cash, renegotiating the balance sheet and rebuilding the reporting the board lost confidence in.
Scaling past the founder
Building the structure that lets a business grow without everything routing through one person.
Family business and succession
Professionalising governance without displacing the family that built the business.
Sustainability and CBAM reporting
The reporting burden that arrives from a customer in Europe or a regulator at home, long before you chose to take it on.
Preparing for an exit
Making the business legible to a buyer, eighteen months before you need to.