A fixed-scope, flat-rate management-system installation for scaling companies
Install Professional Management Systems in Four Months
Grow more smoothly and reliably as you scale—with less stress and risk.
- Stop CEO overloadPut clear owners and a management rhythm in place.
- Get priority goals back on trackTurn intentions into visible commitments and follow-through.
- Reduce stress and surprisesSpot performance problems earlier through practical dashboards.
- Lift morale and retain good peopleGive managers clear expectations, coaching and a path to grow.
- Replace firefighting with consistencyBuild systems that work without heroic effort.
- Lower execution risk as you scaleMake decisions, accountability and improvement repeatable.
A finite, teach-to-fish installation of the management disciplines, capability and dashboards your company needs to scale confidently.
Schedule a Fit CallSee the Installation Options
Typical engagement: $5,000 per month, with a 1% performance-based stock-option grant for qualifying companies that meet the agreed success milestones. Fixed scope and fixed timeline.
A lower-risk way to professionalize your management team—developing managers into executives.
Buy the AirTight Management Capability You Need—Not an Open-Ended Consulting or Advisory Relationship
This productized engagement gives your company the core management systems that normally become essential at roughly 15–30 employees: disciplined management practices, leadership cadence, team alignment, increased trust with less politics, and department dashboards to delegate more but monitor. We work with your entire team to install the proven methods, tools, meeting cadence and accountability needed to run the systems after the engagement ends. These are the disciplines and systems that highly successful companies like Intel, Apple, NVIDIA and the most valuable companies in the world figure out after eight to ten years (*As per Jim Collins of Good To Great). They help companies beat the odds: only 1 in 400 companies reaches $10 million, and 1 in 6,300 reaches $100 million. You get hands-on consulting, coaching and training—not a binder and a goodbye.
Choose your scope
Two Fixed-Scope AirTight Paths to Professional Management
Start with the systems that create immediate operating discipline and visibility, then add strategic planning when you want the complete leadership operating system.Management discipline + visibility
AirTight Two-System Installation
$20,000
$5,000/month for four months
Systems #2 and #3: Performance Accountability & Merit System (PAMS) plus Dashboards & Metrics.
- Install a clear management cadence, goal-setting and follow-through discipline
- Train managers in the five management styles, delegation and accountability
- Build a performance-focused, merit-based operating culture
- Design and install the company dashboard plus priority department dashboards
- Teach managers to manage by the numbers, spot trends early and own results
- Build the routines for continuous improvement—not just activity reporting
Complete core management system
Add Strategic Planning System with full facilitation-All Three Core Systems
$30,000
$5,000/month for six months
Systems #1, #2 and #3: Strategic Planning with full facilitation—a “teach-to-fish” approach designed to improve strategic clarity, valuation potential, capital readiness and talent attraction—plus Management Best Practices and Dashboards & Metrics.
- Everything in the two-system installation
- Facilitated strategic-planning process with CEO and leadership team
- Vision, strategic priorities, market choices and long-range planning
- Align goals, dashboards, meetings and manager development to the strategy
- Give leaders the tools and facilitation model to repeat the process internally
- Create a coherent operating system—not disconnected initiatives
What the two-system installation changes
Make Managers More Capable—and Make Results Visible
The starting configuration deliberately focuses on the management behaviors and measurement systems that most founder-led companies need to support scaling before more complexity creates leakage, delayed decisions and avoidable friction.2 AirTight Professional Management Practices
- Replace ad hoc supervision with a visible management cadence and clear commitments.
- Improve delegation and decision making so the CEO stops becoming the operating bottleneck.
- Develop managers into executives through coached practice, not generic classroom training.
- Create a results-oriented culture with objective expectations and fewer politics.
3 Dashboards & Metrics
- Give leadership objective measurement and early warning of trends.
- Create company and departmental dashboards that translate strategy into action.
- Use monthly and quarterly metrics to focus management attention where it matters.
- Build accountability for outcomes, not merely completed activities.
The four-month delivery model
Install It. Practice It. Run It Without Us.
Week 1—Diagnose & Design
Rapid operating assessment, manager interviews, baseline measures and the practical implementation plan.
Weeks 2 to 3—Team Training
Align language and goals, then begin installing System #2: management cadence, goal disciplines, coaching tools and leader training.
Weeks 4 to 6—Implement the System
For example, design the company dashboard KPIs, main department metrics and ownership.
Weeks 6 to 8—Practice with Coaching to Make Sure It Sticks
Manager coaching, live operating reviews, refinements and a handoff plan your team can run.
1%
Performance alignment
A 1% Success-Only Equity Option Keeps Our Incentives Aligned
For qualifying companies, AirTight can include a 1% performance-based stock-option grant that vests only when the objective success milestones defined in the engagement agreement are achieved. The milestones, measurement methods, client responsibilities, required access and timing are agreed in writing before work begins. Pricing is higher when the performance-based equity option is not included.This is not an open-ended promise: we are accountable for the agreed work and outcomes, while the company remains accountable for timely decisions, data, participation and implementation commitments.
The logical next step
Plan the Strategic Planning Add-On
Optionally Add AirTight System #1: Strategic Planning + Facilitation
When the management team is ready, extend the two-system installation by two months and add the strategic clarity that makes the operating system compound.Add $10,000 + Two Months
- Facilitated long-term vision, market and strategy process
- Strategic priorities, goals and quarterly execution alignment
- Leadership-team ownership—not a consultant-authored plan
A True AirTight “Teach to Fish” Approach
- Leaders learn the facilitation process as they use it
- Management tools, templates and routines remain with your team
- Your company gains the capability to refresh strategy and execute it repeatedly
Frequently asked questions
Before You Commit
Is this a fractional COO engagement?
No. It is a fixed-scope installation product with a defined four- or six-month timeline. It includes many of the same implementation, coaching and operating skills as a fractional COO engagement—but it is designed to transfer capability to your management team.Which companies are the best fit?
Growth-oriented companies with a CEO, at least several managers and the willingness to adopt disciplined operating routines. The two-system option is particularly useful before management inconsistency and unclear numbers become expensive.What does “success-only equity” mean?
Where included, the 1% performance option vests only against objective milestones defined in the engagement agreement. It does not vest merely for activity, and the agreement also defines the company’s required participation, data and decision responsibilities.
Make management a scalable competitive advantage
Get an AirTight Professional Management System Installed—Then Own It.
Schedule a short fit call to determine the right two-system starting point, whether all three systems make sense now, and the specific outcomes worth measuring. Schedule a 30-Minute Fit CallFor founder-led and scaling-oriented companies ready to replace operating friction with repeatable management capability.
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