Stabilize the operation before optimizing it: standard work, quality gates and decision rights that take the business off the founder's calendar.
Fast-moving, made defensible.
Food production, personal-care goods, multi-SKU distribution. Operations that grew faster than their processes, now running on the founder's calendar instead of a system. We've run the stabilization workstreams in parallel on exactly this — eight at once, on a business growing faster than it could organize itself.
One lens, three moves.
The diagnosis decides which to lead with. Consulting fixes the operation, automation puts it on a system, and AI takes the parts that earned the right to be automated. In fmcg, that looks like this.
ERP and WMS across production and distribution, so multi-SKU complexity stops living in spreadsheets and people's memory.
Demand forecasting and quality control across the SKU range, plus agents that handle the repetitive ordering and reconciliation.
The pains we press first.
Same nine questions across every sector, sharpened to this one. The first hour decides which to press, and whether the answer is consulting, automation, or AI.
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01 · Run the operation through rapid growth.
Decision rights and standard work that survive a business doubling before its processes catch up.
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02 · Make the model defensible.
Unit economics that hold under scale, with the parts of the range that don't earn their place cut.
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03 · Take it off the founder's calendar.
An operation that no longer needs the founder in every decision to keep moving.