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30-DAY OPERATIONAL DIAGNOSTIC

Let’s Start Here.

Your business is growing. Your operations need to catch up.

What worked when you were building the company will not necessarily work when you are trying to scale it.

As the business grows, founders often find themselves buried in decisions, managing around broken processes, chasing accountability, and solving the same operational problems over and over again.

The 30-Day Operational Diagnostic gives you a clear picture of what is working, what is slowing the business down, and what needs to change before you add more people, customers, complexity, or cost.

In 30 days, we turn operational friction into a focused plan for scale.

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CONSULTING SERVICES

Advisory Services

  • Bi-weekly strategic sessions — a standing cadence, not an as-needed scramble

  • Chief of Staff-level proximity to your real decisions — not outside advice, but the kind of close-in perspective usually reserved for someone sitting inside the executive team

  • Board and investor meeting prep — narrative, materials, and anticipated questions worked through before you're in the room

  • Async access between sessions for the decisions that can't wait two weeks

  • Written recaps and decision logs after every session — so commitments and rationale are documented, not just discussed and forgotten

  • Ongoing accountability against the roadmap set in your diagnostic

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Operational Partner

  • Embedded, hands-on involvement — scope and weekly time commitment set per engagement, built around where the business actually needs hands, not a fixed hourly package

  • Finance operations cleanup and structure — the systems behind the numbers, not just the numbers themselves

  • Hiring process and org design support — building the team structure that can actually hold the business's growth

  • Process and systems building — the operational infrastructure that lets the business run without everything routing through the owner

  • KPI and reporting systems built around what actually matters to your business — not generic dashboards

  • Direct collaboration with your existing team — co-executing, not working around them

  • Regular progress reporting to ownership on what's been built and what's next

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Chief of Staff Support

  • An audit of your current operating rhythm — meetings, reporting, decision follow-through — and where it's breaking down

  • A built board-prep process and deck framework, ready to reuse every cycle

  • Executive communication templates — investor updates, all-hands, leadership memos

  • A KPI/reporting structure tied to what your leadership team and board actually need to see

  • A decision-tracking and follow-through system so nothing drops between meetings

  • Either direct training and coaching of the person who will own this role, or a documented playbook you can hand to whoever fills it next

  • Delivered as a fixed, 60-day engagement — not an open-ended hire

FOCUSED ENGAGEMENTS

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Executive Communications & Board Prep

  • Message strategy and narrative structure — what the room needs to hear, and in what order, to land the outcome you need

  • Materials review and refinement (decks, memos, board packages, talking points)

  • Anticipated-questions prep — working through the hard questions before they're asked live

  • Rehearsal and live coaching ahead of the moment that matters

  • Delivery coaching — pacing, tone, and handling pushback in real time

  • Stakeholder-specific messaging when the audience isn't one voice (board vs. investors vs. leadership team)

  • Post-mortem debrief for recurring engagements (board cycles, quarterly updates)

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Leadership Development & Coaching Programs

  • A needs assessment to pinpoint each leader's actual gaps before coaching starts

  • 1:1 or small-group coaching for leaders and rising managers

  • Real-scenario coaching — working through the situations a leader is facing right now, not hypotheticals

  • Practical skill-building: feedback conversations, delegation, running effective meetings, decision-making without full authority

  • A structured cadence of sessions, set to the size of the engagement

  • Progress check-ins and accountability between sessions

  • Manager-of-managers support for leaders who oversee other leaders

  • Optional pairing with Ninefold Academy’s self-paced courses and toolkit between live sessions

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Compliance Readiness

  • A structured compliance and risk review across your operations

  • Documentation and policy audit — what's written down versus what actually happens day to day

  • Gap analysis ranked by exposure and likelihood, not just a checklist

  • Benchmarking against the regulatory and industry standards that apply to your business

  • A remediation plan with clear ownership, priority, and timelines

  • Prep support for a specific trigger event — an audit, a fundraise, a due diligence process — when one's already on the calendar

  • Optional ongoing check-ins to keep readiness current as the business changes

  • ISO9001 prep and support

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Sales Execution Processes

  • Sales process design — pipeline stages, qualification criteria, handoffs

  • CRM and reporting structure built around your process, not a generic template

  • Sales execution and sales operations processes and procedures

  • Pipeline review cadence and deal-coaching rhythm your sales leader can run without you

  • Team training and rollout support

  • Clear role definition across the sales function — who owns what, and where the hand-offs happen

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