A fractional operating partner for service founders doing $1M to $8M. The work is real. The revenue is real. And you can't leave for a week without it falling apart. We unstick the business so it runs without you.
You've already read the books. You've had the strategy calls. You know what's wrong, sort of. What you're missing is the person who does the work.
A fractional COO isn't a consultant who hands you a deck. We embed. We build the systems. We make the hires. We document the playbook. And when we're done, the business doesn't need us. Or you. To keep running.
This is the calendar shift we work toward in an embedded engagement. The line items don't change. Where your time goes does.
That's the difference between owning a business and being owned by one.
You don't get an instant $15K invoice. You figure out what's actually broken first, then decide how far you want to go.
Ten questions. A score. A tier. You find out how dependent your business is on you, and where the leak is. Operations, team, financial visibility, or delivery. Honest answer in your inbox.
Take the audit →A paid diagnostic for founders who scored high on the audit. We pull the books, the team chart, the delivery model. You walk away with a written report on exactly where the waste is, ranked by what to fix first.
Book a Clean Sweep →Sprint, embedded fractional COO, or strategic advisor. Depends on what the diagnostic surfaces. We don't sell a package before we know what's broken. Most clients start with a Sprint, then move to embedded.
See the engagements →Once we've done a Clean Sweep, we both know what the work is. Then it's a question of how deep, how fast, and how much.
Full operational audit across team, tech, delivery, and financials. Documented bottleneck map. Prioritized 90-day execution roadmap. Three working sessions with the founder and key team. Written playbook handed off at the end.
Best for founders who want clarity and a plan, not a long-term commitment yet.
Weekly operations leadership inside your business. Build, hire, train, document. Not advise. Direct work with your team, not just the founder. Monthly financial review and operating cadence.
For founders ready to stop being the bottleneck. The business runs without you within 6–9 months.
Weekly strategic working session with the founder. Ad-hoc Slack and email access between calls. Light-touch operational guidance, no execution. Quarterly review of metrics and direction.
For founders with internal ops capacity who need senior judgment, not hands.
Came in to map the operational model, document the delivery playbook, and rebuild the operating cadence with the leadership team. Multi-month engagement. The work continues.
Ongoing fractional COO supporting the CEO across strategy, operations, and team building. What started as a sprint became the operating partnership the business needed.
I'm Carter. Before CLN Agency, I spent years inside service businesses and consulting practices, the person founders called when the COO function was the only thing that could untangle the bottleneck. I built the systems. I made the hires. I documented the playbooks.
CLN Agency exists because I got tired of watching smart founders trapped inside their own companies. The work is straightforward once you have someone who's actually done it before.
CLN Agency works with service founders doing $1M to $8M in annual revenue. Past the scrappy stage. Already know they need help. If you think you can figure it out alone, you're probably not a fit. That's fine.
Ten questions. Two minutes. A real score and a tier that tells you whether you need a Clean Sweep, a Sprint, or to keep building on your own. No call required. No sales sequence.