The senior judgement Vancouver small businesses cannot afford full time.
You built the business through hard cycles. What it needs next is rarely more effort. It is experience that a company this size cannot yet carry on the payroll.
Why a full executive team is hard to justify here
A permanent CFO or COO looks like the answer. In a city this expensive it often is not:
Every senior hire is costly
Housing and living costs push offers higher than the role is worth to a business at your size.
The search drags on
Strong candidates are in demand, and a full search takes months you do not have.
The cycle is not on your side
A hire made at the top of a boom is hard to carry through the quiet stretch.
You need the skill, not the week
Most businesses of this size need a few days of real senior input, not five.
A fractional executive is an experienced operator working with your business for an agreed share of the week. Not an outside voice who comments from the edge. A senior person inside your team, making the decisions in their field and answering for them.
Who this is for, and who it is not
Best for
- Founders carrying a C-suite function themselves with no time left to lead
- Businesses that need senior capability two or three days a week, not five
- A specific gap in finance, operations, marketing, technology or people that is holding growth back
- Teams that cannot yet justify, or afford, a full-time executive salary
- Owners who want an operator accountable for outcomes, not a consultant with a deck
Not for
- A junior or purely execution role a full-time manager should own
- A one-off project an agency could deliver and hand back
- Businesses wanting a figurehead rather than someone who does the work
- A pre-revenue idea with no function yet to lead
What working with us involves
We match an operator to the business and stay with the engagement for its full length.
Check-ins kept
A set rhythm of check-ins with the owner and the executive means drift is raised early.
Behind your executive
One executive in your business and 800+ operators behind them for the questions outside their field.
The thread stays with us
The owner deals with us throughout, so if the executive changes, the knowledge and the relationship do not.
Sized to the business
We match on the business you run through its cycles, not the one in a textbook.
What an engagement looks like
From first call to an embedded operator in weeks, not months.
Discovery
We spend time understanding your business: challenges, goals, team dynamics, and what 'success' looks like in 90 days.
Match
We introduce the right fractional executive from our vetted collective. You meet them, ask hard questions, and confirm the fit.
Scoped engagement begins
The engagement launches with a defined scope, clear deliverables, and a structured cadence. Your fractional is embedded, not advisory.
Adapt and evolve
As your business changes, the engagement changes with it. Add hours, shift focus, introduce a second specialist, all without restructuring.
Which executive do you need first?
You do not need to know the answer before you call. Match the problem you feel most to the operator who owns it.
Each fractional role maps to a different SME challenge
Start with the gap that is costing you most, and the roles below show which leader owns it.
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