Operating partner to visionary founders
The right hand to founder-CEOs for nearly 20 years. When the business grows faster than the operations can keep up, we install and run the systems that make the load disappear. The vision stays yours.
The workReal product, real customers, real traction, won the scrappiest way possible. But scrappy is not a system, it is a thousand decisions that all run through you. Another executive shifts the bottleneck. Consultants hand you a deck. Neither changes who the business depends on at 11 pm on a Tuesday.
"We have real traction. But everything still runs through me, and I've become the bottleneck."
Not another seat that owns a growth number. A partner who codifies what you built on instinct into systems, then runs those systems for you, carried by technology, never by a team you have to hire, manage, or replace. You own the outcomes. We own the operation.
We plug into the real data and get momentum on day one. By day 30 you have a clear map of the few moves that matter most.
The data, not an opinion, picks where we commit. A live, documented system for the engine we choose, plus the first measurable lift.
Day 90 is not a handoff. It is the day the weight moves for good: we keep running the engine, absorbing more of the load as you grow. You keep direction and final say. Everything in between stays off your plate.
MethodOrg structure, role clarity, accountability. Nothing else works until this does.
Not a thousand SOPs. The few workflows that drive the most impact, obsessed over. Process makes perfect.
The accelerant, never the substitute. Automation pointed at a broken process just makes the mess faster. Built on the first two, it carries the work a payroll used to.
The economicsAn agency sells people's time, so its cost climbs in lockstep with your revenue. A hire compounds the same way, in salary, management, and turnover.
Our systems are built once and cost the same at twice the volume. What we cost, as a slice of what we're driving, goes down every year. Nobody else in the room can say that.
ResultsThe test we hold ourselves to is simple. Is the load still gone, and is the engine stronger this year than it was last year?
A husband-and-wife founded brand with real product-market fit, trending the wrong way, every decision still running through the founders.
Doubled in the first 12 months. Now tracking past $30M.
Ten years as right hand to the founder-CEO. The custom insole program, built from scratch, became one of the most profitable lines in company history.
Seven years later the program still produces. That is the bar we build to. The difference today is that we stay at the wheel, running and evolving what we build.
A respected practice whose reputation carried it to hundreds of concurrent matters, and the paperwork that success generates threatening to bury the people doing the work.
Document production, deadline management, and matter administration now run through the operating system every day. The founder's time goes back to the work only he can do. Our newest engagement, in a field whose daily reality is exactly this load.
The teamVisionary founders go further with a steady operating partner beside them. I've been that partner for nearly 20 years, close enough to the founder's seat to know the weight of every decision landing on you.
Ten of them as right hand to the founder-CEO of a $100M+ specialty retailer, where the programs I built still run seven years after I left. Most recently, helping an 8-figure consumer brand double in year one.
When we work together, I am the partner in the room. The judgment and the relationship are mine, and stay mine. The execution underneath runs on something we built ourselves.
Linc is the operating system this site is named for. Not a tool we license. A system we built and proved on our own businesses, the calendars, the books, the pipelines, the follow-through, before it ever touched a client's.
Linc carries the eighty percent. The document production, the deadlines, the reporting, the thousand small executions that used to demand a payroll now run around the clock without one. August sets direction and judges what ships. Linc does the work in between.
It is also the honest answer to a fair question: what happens when the firm is one person? Our resilience does not live in our building the way an agency's does. It lives in your systems, running whether August is at his desk or on a plane.
Book a callTell me where you are and what's in the way. I read every note personally and reply within one business day. If it looks like a fit, we book a call. If it doesn't, I'll tell you that too.