You’re scaling fast and the operational weight is landing on you
You need a senior pair of hands who can run the engine room while you focus on growth. That's what a Fractional COO delivers — embedded, senior and accountable.
You’re the bottleneck. And you know it.
You’re making decisions about things you shouldn’t be deciding. You’re the one who knows where everything is, who’s working on what, what’s at risk. Every operational problem land on your desk because there’s nobody else to catch it.
You need senior operational leadership. Someone who has done this before, at real scale, under real pressure.
But a full-time COO is a €100,000+ hire. The overhead. The commitment. The risk if it’s the wrong person. There’s another way.
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of processes contain waste that adds cost with zero value
of employee time is spent on low-value or duplicated work
average productivity gain when AI is properly implemented
A Fractional COO gives you exactly what you need — senior, embedded, accountable operational leadership — without the full-time cost.
We become part of your leadership team. We learn your business, your team, your challenges. We own the operational delivery. We build the systems, reporting and rhythms that mean you are not the only one holding everything together.
This is not a consultancy relationship. It is a leadership relationship.
Founders and CEOs of growing businesses — typically 5 to 50 people — who are scaling faster than their operational foundations can support.
You know what good looks like. You just don’t have the bandwidth to build it yourself anymore. And you can’t afford — or don’t need — a full-time hire yet.
Twenty years of senior operational delivery at international scale. Events to tens of thousands. Programmes across government, federations, commercial sponsors and media. AI implementation before it was a boardroom buzzword. Qualified GDPR Officer.
I have sat in the seat. I know what it costs when operations fail at scale. And I know how to build the systems that prevent it.
Tens of thousands of attendees. International audiences across multiple continents. Events and programmes spanning government bodies, sporting federations, commercial sponsors and broadcast partners — all coordinated, all delivered, all on time
We have operated across jurisdictions, cultures and time zones — managing complex stakeholder environments where the cost of failure was high and the margin for error was zero. That experience is baked into how we design every engagement.
We have been embedding AI and intelligent systems into operations for years — long before it became a boardroom agenda item. We know what works, what does not, and how to make it stick with real teams in real organisations.
We have our own IT delivery team. That means we scope it, we build it, we embed it — and you deal with one point of contact. No handoffs. No gaps. No extra cost from third-party IT contractors.
European Sponsorship Awards — Sports Event of the Year for the PwC Camogie All Stars. Dubai Sevens taken from 5th to 2nd in the global World Rugby rankings. These are not inherited wins. They were built through operational overhaul, disciplined execution and teams that were set up to succeed.
Revenue growth. Increased sponsorship value. Significant cost savings through waste elimination and process redesign. We do not just improve how things run — we improve what they return.
Our founder is neurodivergent. That is not a footnote — it is a design principle. Every system we build is clear, logical and genuinely usable. Not just for high performers. For everyone. Because organisations run better when every person on the team can actually use the tools they are given.
Every system we build is compliant by design. With a qualified GDPR Officer leading delivery, data protection is embedded from the start — protecting your organisation and removing risk from the leadership team.
Let’s talk about what embedded senior operational support could look like for your business.