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Fractional COO Sprints

Stop being the bottleneck in your business.

Digital Co-Foundry is a 90-day Fractional COO sprint that helps founder-led service businesses step out of day-to-day delivery and enable scale, without unnecessary hiring.

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Does this sound familiar?

It's 1:30 AM.

​Your product roadmap is a mess, marketing's on pause, customer emails are stacking up, and you're debating if now's the time to fix your billing system or have yet another cup of coffee.

You probably started your business because you'd found something you were great at, you enjoyed doing it and it seemed like a no-brainer, right?

But now, you're buried under a mountain of half-finished plans, decisions, and stress. No one to sense-check your strategy or bounce ideas off. Just you, spread razor-thin and constantly second-guessing yourself.

If you're anything like the founders we help, you're overworked and overwhelmed. You probably feel like:

Projects don’t progress without you

You're asked to check every decision

Your business is too dependent on your capacity

You’re the default problem-solver

Growing your business just means more work for you

You're constantly firefighting

Find Out Why

Most advice out there tells you to increase revenue or give away equity so you can hire a COO, fix your ops and start scaling. But what if you can’t afford that, or just don’t want to?

Here's what no one tells you: it's not about doing more of the same thing. It’s about doing the right things now to build a strong, reliable foundation so you can consistently enable scale without just adding to your own workload.

We’ve been founders. We’ve screwed this up and fixed it. We watched others burn out, stall, or quit.

We knew there was a way to get out of your day-to-day business ops without sacrificing time, sleep, or months of trial and error.

So we built one.

90-Day Fractional COO Sprint

Digital Co-Foundry offers a focused, hands-on 90-day Fractional COO Sprint that helps founders like you to step out of the day-to-day operations of their business, so they can focus on growing it.

Instead of adding more people for you to train, we fix the real constraint: over-dependence on the founder.

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Picture this.

You wake up and reach for your phone.

You see projects moving, decisions made and clients updated, all without you having to jump in and fix anything. You check your Founder Dashboard and are delighted to see this week's metrics are even better than they were yesterday.
You're not trapped in Slack or email, you are planning the next offer, building partnerships or working on something fun because you can trust that your team is on top of today's deliverables.

You open your project board and see clear owners, simple steps and real progress instead of a wall of overdue tasks with your name on them.
Your team knows how the decision making process works, so they already solved a couple of issues without waking you up.

Sales calls feel lighter, because you know exactly who will deliver the work and how, without guessing.
Your calendar shows blocks set aside for deep work and real time off, not tiny gaps between back-to-back 'emergency' calls.
You have a real lunch break.

Growth doesn't mean 'great, more work for me'. It means a manageable increase in both revenue and profit, with consistent cashflow and no surprises.

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How the 90-Day Sprint works

The 90-Day Sprint is a hands-on Fractional COO engagement. We work alongside you to redesign how your business runs so you can get out of the weeds and back into your role as Founder.

It's not an online course or a how-to guide, there are no vague 'weekly check-in' meetings or generic templates.

We'll design, build and implement your operating workflows, metrics and systems together.

1. Map

We map where delivery depends on you, across workflows, systems and decisions.

You’ll see exactly where the business relies on you, and why.

You'll leave with:

A clear map of founder dependency across delivery.

2. Design

We redesign your core service workflows so work moves through your team without you.

Roles, responsibilities, decision points and handoffs become clear.

You'll leave with:

Your service delivery structure and workflow model.

3. Build

We build and document your real processes,
turning workflows into useable assets.

Everything is neatly filed in a Business Operations Playbook, ready for use.

You'll leave with:

Documented delivery processes your team can use immediately.

4. Handover

We embed the new workflows and train your team on the new way of working.

Your team uses them on live delivery while you step back and observe.

You'll leave with:

Peace of mind that progress can happen without your involvement.

5. Track

We track, refine, adjust and strengthen until delivery runs smoothly without you.

You easily monitor results on your new Founder Dashboard.

You'll leave with:

Confidence that your business can truly run without you.

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By the end of your Sprint...

The right decisions are made and managed without you

Clients get consistent results without your involvement

The business doesn't rely on you to keep things moving

Growth isn't dependent on your capacity, focus or energy

Investment

The 90-Day Fractional COO Sprint is a focused, hands-on engagement to remove founder dependency from your service delivery.elect a text bo

Investment for the full 90-day sprint:
​£7,000 / $9,500

This solution is designed to create lasting operational change in a defined timeframe, without the commitment and cost of a traditional COO.


What’s included?
👉 Hands-on Fractional COO support inside your business
👉 Mapping of founder dependency across delivery
👉 Redesign of service workflows, roles and decision flow
👉 Documented delivery processes your team can use
👉 Implementation during live delivery
👉 Stabilisation so work runs without you

Most founders find us when they realise their business still depends heavily on them to run.

The sprint redesigns your day-to-day operations so your business can scale beyond you as the founder, before needing to hire.

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We’ll confirm fit, answer questions and map next steps.

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​Are you the bottleneck in your business?

Most service businesses still rely heavily on the founder to keep work moving — even after they’ve grown a team.

Get your Founder Bottleneck Scorecard to see how dependent your delivery is on you, where capacity is limited and how ready your business is to scale without you in the middle.

FAQs

What is a Fractional COO sprint?

It’s a focused 90-day engagement where we work together to redesign your business workflows, so that day-to-day operations don't have to depend on you.

Unlike hiring a full-time COO this is a short, hands-on sprint focused specifically on removing founder dependency to enable scale.

By the end of the Sprint, your core services can run through your team and systems without you getting stuck in the middle.

How is this different from hiring a consultant or coach?

This isn’t 'here's how to do it' training, or giving you a strategy with no implementation.

We map, redesign and document your workflows, metrics, systems and processes, then spend time to make sure they actually work for your business.

You get the benefits and expertise of an experienced COO, for a fixed-term, fixed-price project where you know exactly what you'll get at the end.

How much time will this take from me?

We've designed our Sprints to work around your schedule as a busy founder.

Most founders spend around 5-8 focused hours per week on their Sprint, with our team working in the background.

Will this work for my type of service business?

This sprint could be a great fit for you if:
- You run a founder-led service business with a team supporting you.
- You’re still involved in most projects or delivery decisions.
- Work tends to flow through you by default.
- Your team relies on you to keep things moving.
- You feel like growth still depends on your capacity.
- You want the business to run without you in the middle.
- You’d like to scale before hiring more delivery staff.

It’s probably not for you if:
- You’re a solo provider with no team yet.
- Your services are already fully systemised and team-run.
- You’re looking for general business coaching or strategy advice.
- You’re not involved in delivery day-to-day.
- You want someone to run operations entirely for you.
- You don't have at least a few hours per week to focus on the Sprint

What kind of results can I expect in 90 days?

By the end of the sprint, founders typically see:
- projects progressing without their constant involvement
- teams able to work consistently and independently
- clear delivery workflows and responsibilities
- fewer decisions flowing through them
- more predictable capacity
- the ability to step back from day-to-day delivery

In short: the business no longer relies on the founder to keep work moving.

Why not just hire a COO?

Hiring a COO is a big, long-term commitment and often premature at startup stage.

Most service businesses don’t need a full-time COO... yet.

They need delivery systems and structure first.

The sprint builds those foundations so the business can enable scale without adding leadership or delivery hires too early.

What happens after the 90 days?

By the end, your delivery systems and team structure are in place and running.

Some founders choose light ongoing support as they move into scale-up mode, but many simply continue using the new operating model independently and keep us updated about their success.