In my opinion, it takes two entrepreneurs to scale a business that lasts.
One to cast the vision.
Another to carry it through.
Most founder-led businesses begin with a single driver. Someone scrappy, visionary, passionate, and unstoppable. But eventually, the weight of growth becomes too heavy for one pair of shoulders. And the very traits that made a founder successful start becoming bottlenecks.
They are pulled between 30,000 feet and the weeds.
They are juggling strategy and supervision.
They are across every decision, every deliverable, and every breakdown.
They are doing too much. And it shows.
And they shouldn’t have to.
I’ve spent over 20 years inside fast-growing companies.
Early-stage startups scaling from scratch.
Founder-dependent teams losing traction at the edge of momentum.
Global brands creating clarity amidst chaos.
And my own business, built from zero to sustainable with systems that hold.
Every time, the turning point was the same.
Not another hire.
Not a new tech stack.
Not a shiny productivity tool.
The shift came when vision was met with infrastructure.
When a founder finally brought in an operator to own the load.
In Rocket Fuel, Gino Wickman explains the magic of pairing a Visionary with an Integrator.
It’s not just about roles. It’s about relief.
The Visionary is the spark — the one with ideas, ambition, and drive.
The Integrator is the stabilizer — the one who turns momentum into systems and ideas into execution
I don’t believe you need a full-time hire to get that kind of partnership.
But I do believe every founder deserves a second-in-command.
As a Fractional COO, I step into founder-led businesses that are ready to grow but are still too dependent on the founder to run sustainably.
I embed inside the business.
I build the operational foundation.
I create rhythm where there was once only reaction.
• Growth is happening, but every new client feels heavier
• The team relies on you for everything
• You spend more time managing than leading
• You know you need systems, but there is no time to build them
• You are in rooms you should be leading, but buried in operations instead
At Soluna Partners, we build businesses that don’t rely on the founder to function. That means:
• Operational clarity so decisions don’t live only in your head
• Systems that scale without chaos or micromanagement
• A business that runs even when you step away
This isn’t theory.
It’s what I’ve done for decades, for founders across industries who were ready to stop holding it all together on their own.
If the hustle is no longer working
If growth is starting to feel like a grind
If you’re holding a vision but need support to carry it through
Let’s talk.
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It’s not a sales pitch. It’s a conversation about where your business is now, and where it could be with the right operational partner.
We embed within founder-led businesses to build the operational backbone that frees you from running the company and empowers you to start leading it.