When your priorities outrun your bandwidth, strategy is the first thing that gets left behind.

You know what needs to happen – you just don’t have the capacity to make it happen. Your hiring is behind, your execution is inconsistent, and the team is stretched across too many competing priorities. The operational foundations that got you where you are now aren’t built to take you where you’re heading.

The Alignment Sprint is a six-week embedded engagement – one to two days per week, working inside your business. We start with an intake session to understand your strategic goals and key friction points, then map the highest-priority areas that will move you closest to them. From there, we execute. We don’t advise. We get in and actually do the work.

Six weeks later, your business is in a materially better position – external expertise applied where it matters most.

The Alignment Sprint runs across three phases.

  1. Intake & Priority Mapping We identify the three to five priorities that will move the business closest to where it needs to go – mapped directly to your strategic goals and sequenced for maximum impact. Not a generic checklist. A specific plan built around what your business actually needs right now.
  2. Six-Week Embedded Delivery One to two days per week, working inside your business alongside your team. We take ownership of the agreed priorities and see them through – whether that’s building out a hiring process, tightening onboarding, restructuring how a team operates, identifying process improvements, or implementing AI tools and automations that create real efficiency gains. Whatever the business needs most, that’s where we focus.
  3. Handover & Setup for Success At the close of the Sprint, everything is documented, the team is across it, and what we’ve built is handed over cleanly. The goal isn’t dependency – it’s a business that operates better when we leave than when we arrived.

For founders and leaders who know what needs to change – and need someone to actually change it.

Founders who can see exactly what’s broken but don’t have the bandwidth or in-house expertise to fix it at pace.

Businesses with a clear operational gap – a process that doesn’t work, a system that needs building, a function that needs standing up – but no one in-house with the experience or capacity to do it properly.

E-commerce and product businesses that know AI tools and automation could be working harder for them – but haven’t had the time or the right expertise to figure out where to start.

Leaders who’ve had things like hiring, onboarding, or team restructuring sitting on the to-do list for months – and keep pushing them because the day-to-day won’t stop.

If the gap between what needs to happen and what’s actually getting done keeps widening – this is the engagement for that.

Because the work gets done. Not just the thinking.

You know exactly what you’re getting. A clear scope, a defined timeframe, and agreed priorities before we start. No open-ended retainers. No scope creep. Just focused work with a clear end point.

The scope is yours, not ours. Every priority is set against what your business is actually trying to achieve – so nothing we work on is theoretical, and nothing is wasted.

The defined six-week period is intentional. It’s long enough to make real progress and short enough to ensure there’s no room to deprioritise. The urgency is built in – and that’s what ensures what gets started, gets finished.

The Alignment Sprint runs across three phases.

  1. Intake & Priority Mapping We identify the three to five priorities that will move the business closest to where it needs to go – mapped directly to your strategic goals and sequenced for maximum impact. Not a generic checklist. A specific plan built around what your business actually needs right now.
  2. Six-Week Embedded Delivery One to two days per week, working inside your business alongside your team. We take ownership of the agreed priorities and see them through – whether that’s building out a hiring process, tightening onboarding, restructuring how a team operates, identifying process improvements, or implementing AI tools and automations that create real efficiency gains. Whatever the business needs most, that’s where we focus.
  3. Handover & Setup for Success At the close of the Sprint, everything is documented, the team is across it, and what we’ve built is handed over cleanly. The goal isn’t dependency – it’s a business that operates better when we leave than when we arrived.

For founders and leaders who know what needs to change – and need someone to actually change it.

Founders who can see exactly what’s broken but don’t have the bandwidth or in-house expertise to fix it at pace.

Businesses with a clear operational gap – a process that doesn’t work, a system that needs building, a function that needs standing up – but no one in-house with the experience or capacity to do it properly.

E-commerce and product businesses that know AI tools and automation could be working harder for them – but haven’t had the time or the right expertise to figure out where to start.

Leaders who’ve had things like hiring, onboarding, or team restructuring sitting on the to-do list for months – and keep pushing them because the day-to-day won’t stop.

If the gap between what needs to happen and what’s actually getting done keeps widening – this is the engagement for that.

Because the work gets done. Not just the thinking.

You know exactly what you’re getting. A clear scope, a defined timeframe, and agreed priorities before we start. No open-ended retainers. No scope creep. Just focused work with a clear end point.

The scope is yours, not ours. Every priority is set against what your business is actually trying to achieve – so nothing we work on is theoretical, and nothing is wasted.

The defined six-week period is intentional. It’s long enough to make real progress and short enough to ensure there’s no room to deprioritise. The urgency is built in – and that’s what ensures what gets started, gets finished.

Six weeks from now, the things that needed doing will be done let’s talk.

OUR SERVICES

We partner with founders and leaders navigating growth, change and complexity.

Fractional COO

Get your business out of the weeds. Build the engine that drives scale.

Hands-on, embedded operational leadership to drive structure, focus and delivery. For when you need momentum and maturity – but not a full-time hire.

Leadership Mentoring

High-trust support for the person steering the business.

Confidential, strategic mentoring for founders and senior leaders. Think: perspective, decision support, and calm in the chaos – without internal politics or performance.

Executive-led Projects

Strategic support for companies navigating major change.

Confidential, senior-level guidance for CEOs and leadership teams during M&A, restructures or operating model shifts – bringing clarity, alignment and a steady hand through complexity.