Your Biz Rules has definitely helped us get more organized, and more focused. They have given us many helpful tools to help our business grow and improve.
Build the Operating Structure Required
Fractional COO Services for Growing Businesses
A fractional COO is a part-time chief operating officer who leads operations for your business, by project or ongoing. Our fractional C-suite team works inside your business to improve how your people, systems, processes and priorities work together.
$450K → ~$3M
Revenue growth
For one client, in under three years.
160+
Owner tasks handed off
Mapped and moved to the team.
<1% → 17%
Net profit
From where one client started to this year's target.
20+
Training sessions
So the team runs new systems without us.
Results from Your Biz Rules fractional COO and CFO engagements.
Growth is exposing the gaps
The Business is Moving, But it's Getting Harder to Manage
Build a business where priorities are clear, work moves forward, and your team knows what they own. When it doesn't, the strain shows up in your people first. Here's why teams burn out when the business outgrows its structure.
Some firms call this an outsourced COO, a part-time COO or fractional operations leadership. It is senior operating leadership without a full-time executive salary, and it pairs with our fractional CFO services so operations and finance move together.
Has Your Business Outgrown the Way You Run It?
Workflows change depending on who is doing the work
Too many decisions still come back to you, the owner
Handoffs require repeated clarification
Priorities are not visible across the business
Systems don't guide execution
More effort without a way to move forward
Is a Fractional COO Right for Your Business?
We're a Great Fit If...
What Fractional COO Services Help Build
A Clear Operating Model Your Team Can Use Every Day
Defined Workflows and Ownership
- Turn priorities into executable workflows
- Clarify who owns each responsibility
- Create cleaner handoffs
- Simplify processes
- Build a visible path from decision to completion
Systems & AI That Improve Daily Execution
We optimize the tools you already use and identify where automation or integrations can make execution easier and more visible. See how the right systems build confidence.
Stronger Team Execution
- Introduce improved workflows & expectations
- Train the team on new ways of working
- Clarify communication & accountability
- Reinforce adoption so improvements last
The goal is to make your business easier to run, not harder to maintain.
A PROVEN PROCESS WITH PRACTICAL RESULTS
How Fractional COO Services Work
1
Understand the Way Work Moves Through the Business
We dig in to learn how work moves, where decisions get stuck, and what your team relies on you to clarify. Many engagements start with a business audit.
2
Organize the Operating Model
We document workflows, clarify ownership, improve handoffs, and create visibility around priorities and progress.
3
Strengthen the Supporting Systems
We evaluate your existing tools, identify opportunities for AI & automation, and implement solutions that reduce manual work, improve efficiency, and support your team's daily operations.
4
Train the Team & Reinforce the Changes
We help your team adopt the new way of working and reinforce the routines that make it stick.
Fractional COO vs. Operations Manager vs. Full-Time COO
Which Kind of Operations Leader Do You Need?
Each role solves a different problem. The right one depends on whether your business needs its operating model built, run, or owned at the executive level.
Fractional COO
Focus
Designs the operating model and gets your team running it
Time
Part-time, by project or ongoing
Cost
Scoped to the work, without an executive salary
Best when
The business has outgrown how it runs and needs it rebuilt
Operations Manager
Focus
Runs the day-to-day inside the current model
Time
Full-time
Cost
Salary and benefits
Best when
The model works and needs a steady operator
Full-Time COO
Focus
Owns operations at the executive level
Time
Full-time
Cost
$69,000 to $306,000 a year in total pay in the US (PayScale, 2026)
Best when
Revenue and complexity justify a permanent executive
Many clients hire an operations manager after we build the model, so the new hire has a system to run instead of inventing one. If your leadership team first needs to agree on direction, a strategic planning retreat is often the place to start.
Operations and Finance, Hand in Hand
What Changes When a Fractional COO and CFO Work Together
Operations and finance don't work separately in a growing business, so we don't either. In each of these engagements, the COO work on roles, processes and systems moved together with the CFO work on pricing, cash flow and profit.
A family-owned home services company
Before
Revenue was growing, but profit was barely there. Jobs stayed open for months, scheduling ran weeks behind, and the owners carried almost every decision.
What we changed
Systems for intake, service calls, open invoices and month-end close; a daily, weekly and monthly scorecard; job descriptions, onboarding and a technician retention plan; inventory tracking; and AI tools that cut bid turnaround time.
The CFO side
Financial dashboards, pricing for new service programs, and cash flow and profit planning.
Result
The team now runs scheduling, sales, ordering and financial operations, and owner meetings moved from weekly to every other week.
A remote law firm
“How to lead without doing.” The owner’s next challenge
Before
The firm grew fast without the systems to support it, and the owner was still doing the administration, including the invoices.
What we changed
Mapped every owner and admin task, built the path to an operations manager role, rolled out a project management platform with deadline automations, and trained the operations staff in recorded sessions.
The CFO side
Monthly strategic planning with the owner, and a simpler trust reconciliation and invoicing process that took finance tasks off the owner's desk.
Result
An operations layer that runs without the owner, and a firm that kept growing.
An independent financial advisory firm
“I don't think we're going to grow unless I get out of the weeds.” The owner
Before
The firm had outgrown its structure: a lean staff, unclear roles, no onboarding, and fees that were “under market and over delivered.”
What we changed
A responsibility matrix, staged org charts, job descriptions and a performance grid, 90-day onboarding plans, SOPs in a knowledge base, and a weekly and monthly meeting rhythm.
The CFO side
Tiered service pricing with fee increases rolled out through annual reviews, and cash flow, compensation and acquisition models.
Result
Clear roles, a team taking ownership of its work, and pricing that matches the value it delivers.
What Others Are Saying...
The transformation in my business and life is amazing. When I first started working with Your Biz Rules, I loved what I did, but I wasn’t happy with my business.
Patti Allen
I'm now making clear progress with a clear vision. It has been amazing working with Your Biz Rules. I was stuck in the day to day of my business and overwhelmed by the sheer amount to do. I had realized that I was at the limit of what I knew. That's when I started talking and working with Your Biz Rules. They have made this process so rejuvenating, and I am very excited to jump into my business again.
Kendra Erkamaa
Investment
How Much Do Fractional COO Services Cost?
Fractional COO services are scoped to what your business needs: a defined project, such as rebuilding a set of workflows or rolling out a new system, or a longer-term engagement where our team leads operations with you month to month.
We price each engagement after a conversation about your goals, your team and how much support you need. For comparison, a full-time COO in the US costs $69,000 to $306,000 a year in total pay (PayScale, 2026), before benefits.
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Fractional COO Services FAQ
A fractional COO is a part-time chief operating officer who improves how a business operates day to day. The work may include workflows, systems, team responsibilities, communication, accountability, and the way projects move from decision to completion.
At Your Biz Rules, Fractional COO Consulting focuses on creating an operating structure that allows the business to run with greater clarity and less dependence on the owner.
Fractional COO Consulting focuses specifically on operations. It addresses how work moves, how systems are used, how responsibilities are carried out, and how the team follows through.
Private Advisory may cover multiple areas of the business, including profitability, leadership, growth planning, marketing, sales, and broader owner decisions.
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Fractional COO Consulting creates the structure that helps the team work more effectively without repeatedly relying on the owner for answers or direction.
Build the Operating Structure Your Business Needs Next
Let's identify what needs to be organized, simplified, implemented, and reinforced so your business can carry more with less dependence on you.
Your Biz Rules provides fractional executive support, Fractional C-Suite partnership, fractional CFO services, business operations consulting, business growth strategy, leadership development for business owners, systems and process improvement, business audits, workshops, group programs, and private consulting for owners who are scaling a founder-led business and ready to reduce owner dependency, resolve business bottlenecks, and build profitable growth.
Your Biz Rules is a dba of Designs By Leslie Inc., headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and serving clients globally.