Every team optimizes its own department
Sales tightens close rate. Delivery tightens fulfillment. Each silo improves, and the handoff between them quietly becomes the bottleneck nobody owns.
Operational Infrastructure for Founder-Run Agencies
Your operation is bleedinghours a week you can’t see.Mine did too, on a Gigafactoryline, until we measured it.
Manufacturing-grade constraint elimination, the same discipline that finds a bottleneck on a Gigafactory production line, applied to your agency or portfolio company.
Free 15-min fit call · then the $697 diagnostic if it’s a fit · your #1 constraint, named and quantified
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#1 constraintthe handoff nobody owns
01Root Cause
Why it’s invisible
The real bottleneck sits at the handoff nobody owns
Constraints almost never live inside a single function. They live in the white space between them, where accountability ends and the next team’s hasn’t started.
Not a competence problem, a position problem
Your team is good. This happens to every team on earth. It’s not a reflection on them. You’re too close to the work to see the system you’re inside of.
02Fit Check
Who this is actually for
Built for
- Agency founders who are the bottleneck their business runs through
- Ops-minded operators trying to scale past what they can personally hold together
- PE ops directors managing multi-portco reporting chaos, still real, still served
Not built for
- Teams that haven’t tried anything internally yet, start there first
- Anyone looking for a strategy deck, not running infrastructure
- Solo operators or teams under ~10 people, not enough surface area yet
03The Mechanism
Manufacturing-grade constraint elimination
Not consulting, no decks. Not automation, no build-and-bail. The discipline comes from Toyota, was refined at Tesla, and is the reason a Gigafactory ships vehicles. It works on operations for the same reason it works on production lines: every system bleeds at its constraint.
01
Identify
Map the throughput chain. Find the one constraint governing the whole system.
02
Eliminate
Ship the fix as deployed, running infrastructure, not a recommendation.
03
Implement
Document the fix, hand off the SOP, move to the next constraint.
04Rung 1 · Fixed, Public
The diagnostic
$697
fixed · no rate card · booked after the fit call
Everything below is delivered whether or not you ever move to a Sprint. Nothing withheld pending a second call.
The fit call comes first and costs nothing. Fifteen minutes, both directions. You find out if this applies to your operation, I find out if I can actually help. If it’s not a fit, I’ll say so on that call and we’re done. The $697 diagnostic only gets booked if we both think it’s worth running.
0145–90 min live constraint-mapping session, recorded
02Full operational throughput map, laid out visually
03#1 constraint named and ranked against the next 2
04Quantified in hours/week and dollars/year
05Annualized ROI figure, stated plainly
06One-page board-ready summary, forwardable
07Session recording, yours to keep
087-day Sprint-credit window
You’re not paying $697 for a call. You’re paying $697 to find out, in writing, whether there’s a real problem in your operation you can’t currently see.
05Founder Proof
During the Model Y ramp at Tesla Gigafactory Texas, I identified roughly $340K in annualized operational waste through analysis of recurring operating patterns and constraints.
Same discipline, different production line. Yours.
06The Alternative
What this isn’t
Makiseyou are here
- Deliverable
- Running infrastructure
- Entry point
- $697 diagnostic
- Pricing after
- Custom, scoped to your number
Big 4 / KPMG
- Deliverable
- Slide packs
- Entry point
- $50K+ engagement
- Pricing after
- Fixed scope creep
Fractional COO
- Deliverable
- Meeting rhythms
- Entry point
- Monthly retainer
- Pricing after
- Ongoing, regardless
Automation agency
- Deliverable
- Scoped quote first
- Entry point
- Sales call, no proof
- Pricing after
- Estimate, then negotiate
07Objections, Handled
Before you book
Because they’re different things. The fit call is fifteen minutes to establish whether your operation is even the right shape for this. No analysis, no deliverable, nothing to charge for. The diagnostic is 45–90 minutes of real work that produces a throughput map, a named constraint, and a quantified number you keep. $697 is fixed and public because it’s a known scope, not a rate card that grows once we’re in the room. If the fit call says this isn’t for you, you’ve lost fifteen minutes and paid nothing.
Next step
Fifteen minutes to find out if this applies to your operation. If it does, the diagnostic names your #1 constraint and quantifies it in hours and dollars.
Any reason this isn’t a fit?