Atlanta fractional COO for service businesses.
Local operating leadership for service founders doing $1M to $8M. CLN Agency is headquartered in Atlanta and embedded with founders across the metro and the Southeast. Published rates. No discovery call required to see the numbers.
CLN Agency is an Atlanta-based fractional COO practice. Founder Carter Natale serves $1M-$8M service businesses across Atlanta, Sandy Springs, Roswell, Marietta, Alpharetta, and the broader Southeast.
Engagements run from $3,500 per month for advisory to $12,000 per month for embedded operating leadership. Pricing is published. The Founder Dependency Audit takes two minutes and shows whether the timing is right.
What CLN Agency does
Operating leadership for service businesses that have outgrown founder-led operations. The work runs across three engagement structures.
- Strategic Advisor: $3,500 per month. Weekly working session with senior operating input, plus async access. 3-month minimum. Best for founders who need a sounding board for major operational decisions without an embedded retainer.
- Embedded Fractional COO: $12,000 per month. 10 to 12 hours per week of embedded operating leadership. Runs the leadership cadence, owns operating metrics, and executes the calls that have been sitting on the founder's desk. 6-month minimum.
- Diagnostic Sprint: $15,000 fixed. A 3 to 4-week operational assessment with a written walk-away plan. Best for founders who need the diagnosis and the prioritized fixes but are not ready for a multi-month retainer.
Before any of those, The Clean Sweep. A $2,500 paid diagnostic call with a written 8-page assessment delivered in 48 hours. If we never speak again after it, you still walk away with the assessment.
Service areas in metro Atlanta
CLN Agency works with founders across the Atlanta metro area. Most engagements run remotely with the option for in-person leadership meetings when useful.
Engagements also run regionally across Georgia and the broader Southeast, plus select national clients where the fit is right.
The Atlanta service business context
Atlanta has one of the most active small business communities in the Southeast. The metro is home to a dense network of professional services firms, agencies, consulting practices, healthcare practices, and real estate operations. Most of these businesses share the same growth pattern: they cross $1M in revenue on the strength of founder hustle, and then plateau in the $3M to $5M range when the founder becomes the operational ceiling.
The fractional COO is the structural answer to that ceiling. The fact that the operator is local matters more for some founders than others. Some want occasional in-person strategy sessions or leadership offsites. Others run fully remote operations and care more about experience than geography. Both work.
About Carter Natale
Carter Natale is the founder of CLN Agency. Locally rooted in Atlanta, she works with service founders doing $1M to $8M as an embedded operating partner. Past clients include service businesses across transportation, professional services, and growth-stage agencies.
The practice operates on three principles. Published pricing. No discovery-call gating. Real walk-away readiness as the success metric, not retainer length. Most CLN clients come through referrals from EO, accelerators, and peer founder networks.
Frequently asked questions
Start with the audit
Two minutes. Ten questions. The Founder Dependency Audit shows whether the timing is right for an Atlanta fractional COO, or whether the next step is something else.