I'm starting something new.
I'm launching SeriesOps — a fractional COO for early-stage startups, from pre-seed or seed to Series A and beyond.
Here's the thesis:
Building a startup from scratch doesn't just require an innovative idea. It requires establishing all of the support systems every company needs. And the technical founder cannot spend her time on it. The opportunity cost is too high.
There's a task trio that needs to be the founding team's singular focus: developing the product, landing the initial customers, and fundraising. Every moment founders spend doing anything else delays progress and decreases the probability of success.
SeriesOps enables the founding team to focus on that trio while the rest of the company is designed and built by an experienced second-in-command — 30 years in tech, six startups, two exits.
What that looks like in practice: I embed in your company, attend your leadership meetings, present to your Board, and build the operational machine — your Company OS — systems, processes, financial modeling, KPI dashboards, AI-powered automation, and corporate governance. And if yours is a hardware startup, where operational complexity is considerably higher, that's my specialty — supply chain, hardware NPI, manufacturing, fulfillment, field support.
Operations becomes your startup's hidden superpower.
I'm writing regularly about startup operations at seriesops.com/insights — tactical, opinionated articles on topics from financial modeling to board reporting to why your ops stack is probably already obsolete.
If you're a founder at an early-stage startup, I'd love to talk. If you know an early-stage founder, I'd be grateful for the introduction.