COO readiness score
How ready the business is for senior operating leadership.
Before you hire a Fractional COO
Find out what your business actually needs.
A Fractional COO can be a brilliant investment. It can also be an expensive answer to the wrong problem.
In around 15 minutes, get a £500+ operating-leadership decision pack showing whether you need a structure fix, stronger internal operator, Ops Manager, Fractional COO or full-time COO.
Get my COO Readiness Audit — £29 →One payment · no sales call · immediate audit · personalised recommendation
Built for founder-led businesses
£500k–£10m+Growing teamsOperational complexityFounder bottlenecks
“Don’t buy senior capacity until you know what problem it must solve.”
You may need a COO.
Or you may be about to hire around a problem you could fix differently.
Founders often reach the same point: the business is too complex to keep carrying personally, but it is unclear whether the answer is a stronger manager, a new operating cadence, a Fractional COO or a full-time executive.
This audit gives you a practical operating-leadership prescription before you commit serious money.
What your £29 audit gives you
A hiring and operating decision you can actually use.
Your operating prescription
Structure fix, internal operator, Ops Manager, Fractional COO or full-time COO.
Role brief
What the role should own and where the authority boundary should sit.
First 90-day priorities
The three moves that should happen first if you follow the recommendation.
Interview scorecard
Weighted criteria to compare candidates against the actual mandate.
Questions + red flags
What to ask and what should make you pause before hiring.
The principle
“Before you spend £5k+ a month solving operations, spend £29 defining the problem.”
You are not buying a quiz. You are buying a decision framework built from the way your business actually operates today.
At the end of the audit
You should know exactly what to do next.
✓ Whether a Fractional COO is justified.
✓ What scope the role should actually own.
✓ What to fix before you hire anyone.
✓ What good should look like in the first 90 days.
Your result might say:Use a Fractional COO
Your operating requirement crosses functions and needs senior operating judgement without yet requiring a permanent executive.
What the audit replaces
A pre-hire decision pack that could otherwise take hours of advisory and hiring work.
COO readiness diagnosis + operating complexity score£95
Operating leadership prescription£125
Role brief + founder / operator authority boundaries£95
90-day priorities + implementation sequence£95
Interview scorecard + questions + red flags£75
Founder Independence OS£125
Comparable advisory / toolkit value£610
Your one-time price£29
Reference values represent equivalent diagnostic, role-design, interview and implementation-tool effort; they are not previous selling prices.
£500+ of decision value.
£29 before you hire.
£29CORE AUDIT
Before you hire
Know whether you need a COO—or a better operating system.
Get my COO Readiness Audit — £29 →
£29 once. Get the answer before committing thousands.