A 90-day engagement that takes a founder-led firm off the founder's back and onto a system that runs without them. Senior-led, embedded, and built to leave.
The problem
As revenue rises, coordination complexity rises faster than structure. The firm that got you here, where every real decision routes through you, is the firm that now caps you. More hiring adds more chaos, not more capacity. You are the single point of failure, and you feel it every week.
The offer
Operating Spine Install is a 90-day, senior-led engagement that installs the operating system a founder-led firm needs to scale without the founder as the bottleneck. We do not write a deck and leave. We build the cadence, the metric spine, and the decision rights inside your business, then hand them to your team.
Weeks 1 to 2
We diagnose where coordination outruns structure and baseline the metrics that matter. We find the few constraints that actually cap your scale.
Weeks 3 to 10
We build and embed the operating cadence, the single source of truth for your numbers, the decision-rights map, and the handful of systems that lift the ceiling.
Weeks 11 to 12
We transfer everything to your team so the spine runs without us, and leave a prioritised AI and automation roadmap.
What you walk away with
The founder stops being the bottleneck. The firm runs on a spine, not on a person.
How it works
This is not advisory and it is not staff augmentation. Operating Spine Install is led by MetMov's partners and embedded in your operating rhythm for the 90 days. We take a small number of engagements at a time so each one gets senior attention. The goal is not to make you dependent on us. It is to leave a system that does not need us.
Fit
Founder-led, execution-heavy firms across services, consumer brands, tech-enabled and operations-driven businesses that have hit the scale ceiling and know the founder is the constraint.
Pre-revenue startups, teams looking for a body to manage delivery, or anyone choosing a partner on rate alone.
Track Record
Monthly GMV Managed
Hubs Built / Managed
Largest Team Led
Category Growth Enabled
Network Scale Built Across Regions
Cumulative Cost Savings & EBIT Improvement Delivered
Loss Reduction
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The minimum operating system a growing firm needs to run without the founder in the middle of every decision: a cadence, a single source of truth for the numbers, and a clear map of who decides what.
A COO is a permanent hire you have to find, afford, and onboard. A consultant writes recommendations and leaves. Operating Spine Install installs the system inside your business in 90 days and hands it to your existing team.
90 days, in three phases: Map, Install, Hand-back.
It is a retained, senior-led engagement scoped to your firm. We agree scope and fee on a short scoping call. We are selective about who we take on, so the call is also where we both decide it is a fit.
We do the work, embedded in your operating rhythm, then transfer it to your team.
Most firms continue into an ongoing operating partnership. Some take the installed spine and run it themselves. Both are by design.
Founder-led, execution-heavy firms: services, consumer brands, tech-enabled, and operations-driven businesses.
The first step is a short scoping call. We will pressure-test whether Operating Spine Install is the right move for where you are, and what it would cover. If it is not a fit, we will tell you.
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