Engagements
One day a week. Embedded. Ongoing.
The engagement model in plain terms. Here is how it works.
The model
The terms are the offer.
- One day a week in your building. Or one day every two weeks, by arrangement.
- Twelve thousand dollars a month, flat. No hourly billing. No expense markup.
- Thirty-day rolling term. Either side can end with thirty days written notice.
- Five clients at a time. Never more.
The constraint
Five clients. The number is the offer.
Five is the number of clients the work can carry at this depth. The cap protects the engagement, not the calendar.
For the owner who hires, that means time, attention, and the partner's full reading of the business. It buys a seat that is not stretched across a portfolio.
In practice
The embedded day is a working day.
Read the books. Walk the floor. Sit with the principal. Sit with the team where useful. The day is for work, not for a meeting.
Between days, the work continues. Decisions get made. Drafts come back. The engagement carries forward at the pace of the business, not the pace of a deck.
Partnership at one day a week.
Methodology
The operating frame.
The operating frame is the Lift, the Team Hiploch methodology for moving businesses out of red oceans. In the operating seat it is not a project. It is the lens.
Fit
Owner-led, two to twenty million.
Restaurants and restaurant groups. Service trades. Specialty wholesalers. Sports professionals managing post-career income and operating businesses.
Adjacent. Family offices placing operating partners with portfolio companies, and private equity firms running a fractional operating partner model. Evaluated case by case.