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A part-time chief operating officer, embedded inside a company. Typically one to three days a week. Builds operations, process and execution from inside the team rather than from the outside.

€6,000 to €15,000 per month for one to three days a week. Day-rate option from €1,800 with a four day per month minimum. Number depends on days, scope, travel and reporting cadence.

One, two or three. Most engagements start at three days a week for the first 90 days, then step down to two or one as the operation stabilises.

Typical horizon is 3 to 9 months. Exit when the operation runs without the COO or when the permanent COO is hired.

Fractional is part-time, ongoing, lower cost, exits by handing operations to the team. Interim is full-time, short, fills a vacant seat at full COO cost. A consultant advises; a fractional COO runs the work.

When two of these are true: founder stuck running operations, scaling chaos after rapid hiring, post-raise operating model gap, integration after M&A, turnaround, or a PE value creation clock.

Six things: process, systems and stack, KPIs and reporting, team and accountability, supplier and vendor management, and execution. The blocks vary by company; the seat does not.

No. I build the operating model around those seats. I do not occupy them.

No. Consultants deliver recommendations. I deliver outcomes. I am on the team, in the standup, in the tools.

Milan, Italy. Operating across Europe and the UK. Trilingual: English, Italian, Swedish. Remote-first with monthly on-site.

Strongest fit between €5M and €100M revenue, 20 to 300 people. Below that an operator does most of it themselves; above that a full-time COO is the right call.

Week 1: listen and diagnose. Weeks 2 to 4: quick wins, KPI cadence, reporting live. Month 2: build process for the broken workflows. Month 3: monthly business review live and leadership team running their own operations.