Business Operating System Sprint
This is the engagement for first-time founders and operators in Western Pennsylvania who need a productivity and operating system they can run themselves. See starting points for founders.
You have the expertise and the clients. What is missing is a business that runs like one.
The Sprint builds the infrastructure around that expertise: offers and pricing, the client journey, delivery workflows, a minimum viable operating stack, an AI-enabled workspace, and a launch plan.
Fixed scope. Four to six weeks. From $4,500.
You own everything at handoff. No monthly retainer required.
Who this is for
Solo consultants, advisors, coaches, independent practitioners, and first-time founders who know the work they want to do but need a practical system for selling, delivering, and improving it.
A good fit if
- You are leaving a corporate role to build an independent practice.
- You have early clients, but your offers and delivery process are still improvised.
- Your tools, files, follow-up, and client experience are fragmented.
- You need a clear operating plan before investing in more software or marketing.
- You want AI to support the business without letting the technology define it.
Not the right fit
- This is not a prompt pack, a software installation, open-ended business coaching, or a substitute for legal, tax, accounting, or compliance advice.
What you build
One operating foundation, built around how your business actually works.
Six deliverable areas. Each one documented and owned by you at handoff.
Business architecture
Define your ideal client, positioning, priorities, and the decisions that shape the operating model.
Offers and pricing
Create a clear offer catalog, pricing logic, scope boundaries, and buyer path.
Client journey
Map inquiry, qualification, proposal, onboarding, delivery, invoicing, and follow-up.
Minimum viable stack
Select the essential tools for booking, payments, documents, files, and task management, without premature complexity.
AI-enabled workspace
Install reusable context, instructions, prompts, and playbooks, typically in Claude when that is the right fit.
Launch and visibility plan
Establish public-identity requirements, initial market actions, a 90-day priority plan, and a simple scorecard.
Process
Diagnose
Diagnose the current state.
Build
Build the operating layers.
Validate
Validate that the system works in your real week.
Hand off
Hand off ownership with documentation.
The work is collaborative, but it is not left as a stack of recommendations. The engagement is designed to leave you with documented decisions and usable operating assets.
The role of AI
The business comes first. AI supports it.
An AI workflow system improves how work gets done. A Business Operating System defines what the business sells, whom it serves, how clients move from inquiry to delivery, which tools support the work, and where AI can remove friction. The sprint may include AI workflows, but it begins with the business.
What an engagement looks like
What a representative engagement may include
For an independent professional preparing to launch an advisory practice, plan work may include ideal-client definition, offer design, pricing, order-to-cash workflow, delivery playbooks, an AI-enabled workspace, the operating model, and a 90-day market-activation plan.
Scope varies by engagement. This is a representative example, not a published client result.
Common questions
Questions people ask before getting started
It combines strategy, structured decision-making, and implementation. It is a fixed-scope build engagement rather than open-ended coaching.
No. AI is an enabling layer, not the product. Claude is often a strong fit for the operating workspace, but recommendations depend on your needs, tools, and data requirements.
A typical sprint covers business architecture, offers and pricing, the client journey, the minimum viable operating stack, an AI-enabled workspace, reusable playbooks, and a launch or visibility plan. Your statement of work defines the final deliverables.
A typical sprint runs for 4–6 weeks and starts at $4,500. Complexity, existing assets, and implementation requirements determine the final scope and fee.
No. The sprint can identify requirements and prepare working materials for review, but qualified professionals must provide legal, tax, accounting, medical, or compliance advice.
No. The sprint is a fixed-scope engagement. Additional help can be scoped separately if you need it.
Turn your expertise into an operating business.
Start with a fit call to identify what is already in place, what is missing, and whether a Business Operating System Sprint is the right next step.