Calibrate Ops
Fractional COO Services

Streamlining Your Business Operations for Sustainable Growth

We become the operational backbone you need — embedded fractionally, calibrated precisely to the way your industry, your team, and your trajectory actually work.

Avg efficiency lift
+38 %
across engagements
Industries served
12 +
and counting
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Services

Operations is where strategy becomes results — or quietly doesn’t. We help yours run on time, calibrated to how your business actually runs.

01 / Operations

Operational Consulting

Strategy, workflow design, SOP creation, and departmental diagnostics calibrated to your stage of growth.

02 / Tech

Technology Solutions

Operational tooling, workflow automation, system integrations, and reporting infrastructure that scales with you.

03 / People

HR & Team Alignment

People strategy, recruiting frameworks, leadership coaching, and the operating rhythms that hold a team together.

04 / Capital

Financial Partnerships

Trusted partner network for fractional CFO, accounting, credit, and capital advisory — coordinated through one front door.

Our approach

The backbone of your organization is operations

For the months we're inside your business, we treat your operations like our own — embedded in standups, writing SOPs, fixing what needs fixing. Then we leave it stronger than we found it.

Two colleagues working side-by-side at a desk, reviewing papers and a laptop together — the embedded, hands-on style of a fractional COO engagement.
  • i.

    We sit where the work happens.

    Not in a conference room. In your operations meetings, your standups, your war rooms.

  • ii.

    We build, then we leave.

    The goal isn't a perpetual retainer. It's a self-sustaining operation that no longer needs us.

  • iii.

    We've run the function we help you fix.

    Every senior partner has been the operator before being the consultant — not the other way around.

  • iv.

    We're measured by what you keep.

    Success is whether your team still uses the system six months after we're gone.

Trusted partners

A network we've vetted
— so you don't have to

When operations needs to talk to capital, the worst thing that can happen is a broken handoff. Our partner network is curated, coordinated, and accountable to you through us.

  • Fractional CFOs
  • Accounting Firms
  • Credit & Capital
  • Wealth & Tax
  • Legal & Compliance
  • M&A Advisory
Two professionals collaborating at a desk in a modern office, smiling and engaged — the candid, hands-on coordination that the partner network is built around.
Recent collaborations

Need a CFO, lender, or counsel introduction? We coordinate the first conversation — and stay accountable for the handoff.

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Case studies

Outcomes, measured

A small selection from recent engagements. Client names and identifying details have been withheld to protect confidentiality.

SaaS 10-month engagement

Operational efficiency overhaul for a Series A SaaS platform.

Re-architected fulfillment, support, and revenue ops across two offices — retired 8 redundant tools and saved $210K in annualized software spend along the way.

−30%
support cost per ticket within 8 months
8
redundant tools retired
$210K
annualized software spend saved
Operational Consulting · Technology Solutions
Construction 6 months

SOP overhaul for a regional construction firm.

Standardized 32 field and back-office processes across 3 divisions, cutting project ramp time by about a third.

−35%
project ramp time
32
processes standardized
3
divisions on one playbook
Operational Consulting
E-commerce 4 months

Tech stack rationalization for a $20M DTC brand.

Migrated 20 tools to 11, integrated cleanly, and trimmed $110K from annual ops costs.

$110K
annual operating cost reduction
20 → 11
tools in the operating stack
4 mo.
from audit to final cutover
Technology Solutions · Operational Consulting
Professional Services 9 months

Org redesign for a 70-person consultancy.

New service lines, hiring framework, and leadership coaching — utilization up, churn down.

+7 pts
billable utilization
−6 pts
annual voluntary churn
3
service lines with accountable leads
HR & Team Alignment · Operational Consulting
Manufacturing 11 months

ERP rollout & financial coordination.

NetSuite implementation paired with our fractional CFO partner — clean books in 90 days.

90 days
to a clean monthly close
1
system of record for operations and finance
11 mo.
from kickoff to a self-run close
Technology Solutions · Financial Partnerships
SaaS 10-month engagement

Operational efficiency overhaul for a Series A SaaS platform.

Re-architected fulfillment, support, and revenue ops across two offices — retired 8 redundant tools and saved $210K in annualized software spend along the way.

−30%
support cost per ticket within 8 months
8
redundant tools retired
$210K
annualized software spend saved
Operational Consulting · Technology Solutions
Construction 6 months

SOP overhaul for a regional construction firm.

Standardized 32 field and back-office processes across 3 divisions, cutting project ramp time by about a third.

−35%
project ramp time
32
processes standardized
3
divisions on one playbook
Operational Consulting
E-commerce 4 months

Tech stack rationalization for a $20M DTC brand.

Migrated 20 tools to 11, integrated cleanly, and trimmed $110K from annual ops costs.

$110K
annual operating cost reduction
20 → 11
tools in the operating stack
4 mo.
from audit to final cutover
Technology Solutions · Operational Consulting
Professional Services 9 months

Org redesign for a 70-person consultancy.

New service lines, hiring framework, and leadership coaching — utilization up, churn down.

+7 pts
billable utilization
−6 pts
annual voluntary churn
3
service lines with accountable leads
HR & Team Alignment · Operational Consulting
Manufacturing 11 months

ERP rollout & financial coordination.

NetSuite implementation paired with our fractional CFO partner — clean books in 90 days.

90 days
to a clean monthly close
1
system of record for operations and finance
11 mo.
from kickoff to a self-run close
Technology Solutions · Financial Partnerships
In their words

Don't take our word for it

Calibrate didn't show up with a binder of recommendations. They showed up with rolled-up sleeves, sat in our weekly standups for six months, and quietly rebuilt the way we operate. By the time they handed it back to us, we didn't recognize how lean we had become.

Maya R.
Founder & CEO · Series B SaaS

We hired Calibrate to fix our ops. What we got was a team that understood our business better than most of our own people. They left us with systems we still use eighteen months later — and a hiring framework that's still the best decision we made all year.

David K.
COO · Regional construction firm

The thing that surprised me wasn't the work — it was the way they worked. No deck theater, no recommendations memo. They embedded, they built, and they handed it back. Six months later our ops cadence is something my team owns, not something Calibrate left behind.

Priya N.
Founder · $20M DTC brand
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Industries served

Calibrated to your sector

Operations are universal in principle and specific in practice. We bring frameworks; we adapt them to the way your industry actually moves.

  • SaaS & Software i.
  • E-commerce & DTC ii.
  • Professional Services iii.
  • Manufacturing iv.
  • Construction & Trades v.
  • Healthcare Services vi.
  • Financial Services vii.
  • Real Estate & PropTech viii.
  • Logistics & Distribution ix.
  • Hospitality & F&B x.
  • Nonprofits & Foundations xi.
  • Family Offices & PE xii.

Sector experience matters. The operating model underneath it matters more. Let's talk through both.

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Built by operators

Meet the team

Every senior member of our team has run the function they now help build. We don't hire from consulting first — we hire from the ground floor of real businesses.

Illustrated portrait of Sam Blan, Founder + Ops Expert

Sam Blan

Founder + Ops Expert

20+ years scaling operations for high-growth companies across SaaS, services, and consumer brands.

Illustrated portrait of Zach Mamot, Head Dreamer and Fractional COO

Zach Mamot

Head Dreamer + Fractional COO

20+ years as a hands-on operator, helping founders dream big and build the systems to match.

Illustrated portrait of Annie Lindgren, UI/UX + Web Designer

Annie Lindgren

UI/UX + Web Designer

15+ years in web and visual design, turning complex ideas into clean, polished digital experiences.

Illustrated portrait of Nanu Ahluwalia, SEO + Growth Strategist

Nanu Ahluwalia

SEO + Growth Strategist

Technical marketer and computer engineer helping businesses dominate search and drive measurable growth.

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Let's calibrate

Tell us a little about your business and what's keeping operations from feeling like a competitive advantage.

Every engagement begins with a no-cost discovery call. We'll listen, ask hard questions, and tell you honestly whether we're the right fit — or who else might be.