Vantage Operating Partners | Fractional COO & Operations Consulting

Sound Familiar?

Most $700K–$10M businesses do not have an effort problem. They have an operations problem.

Everything runs through you

Decisions bottleneck at the owner. Vacations are theoretical. Growth means more hours, not more profit.

You cannot see your numbers

Financial reporting arrives late, incomplete, or not at all. You are making six-figure decisions on gut feel.

Process lives in people's heads

When a key employee leaves, the process leaves with them. Every hire takes months to become useful.

Consultants gave you a binder

You have paid for advice before. What you needed was someone who rolls up their sleeves and executes.

The Entry Point

The Operations Diagnostic

A two-week, fixed-fee engagement that audits your business across seven operational pillars. No vague recommendations. You get a prioritized, sequenced Operations Roadmap you can execute immediately, with us or on your own.

This is not a sales pitch dressed as an assessment. It is the same diagnostic process used inside law firms, nonprofits, and a 28-center healthcare network to find the constraints that actually move the needle.

Week 1

Discovery and audit: leadership interviews, financial and process review, seven-pillar scoring

Week 2

Analysis and delivery: root-cause findings, your Operations Roadmap and priority plan

$3,000 · fixed fee, two weeks

Seven-pillar operational audit with scoring
Leadership and key-staff interviews
Financial visibility review
Prioritized Operations Roadmap (yours to keep)
90-minute findings and planning session

Retainer credit: continue into a fractional COO engagement and your full Diagnostic fee is credited toward your first retainer.

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The Framework

Seven pillars. One clear picture of your business.

Every Diagnostic scores your company across the seven areas where founder-led businesses most often stall, so you know exactly what to fix first.

Leadership & Accountability

Who owns what, and does anyone actually own anything?

Vision & Priorities

Is there a plan the whole team can see, or just a direction in the owner's head?

Financial Visibility

Timely, accurate numbers that support decisions instead of trailing them.

Core Processes & Workflow

Documented, followed, and measurable, or tribal knowledge and improvisation.

People & Team

Right people, right seats, real accountability, and a culture that retains them.

Systems & Tools

Technology that compounds your team's output instead of fragmenting it.

Sales & Client Delivery

A repeatable path from lead to delivered work that does not depend on heroics.

How We Work Together

Start with clarity. Continue with execution.

Step 1 · Start Here

Operations Diagnostic

The two-week, seven-pillar audit and Operations Roadmap. Every engagement begins here, because you cannot fix what you have not measured.

$3,000 fixed fee

Step 2

Fractional COO

Ongoing operating leadership on a retainer basis. We execute the Roadmap together: building infrastructure, installing accountability, and running the operational side of your business.

Monthly retainer · Diagnostic fee credited

Targeted

Project Engagements

Defined-scope initiatives such as intake redesign, financial infrastructure buildout, system implementations, or restructuring, delivered hands-on.

Scoped per project

Real Operating Experience

This is not theory. It is work we have already done inside businesses like yours.

Law Firm

Two divisions, a new profit center, and the infrastructure to run them

Led the split of the organization into two new branded divisions, leading a company-wide rebrand, creating a new profit center, and building the business infrastructure to support it. Also restructured client consultation and intake, moving sales from attorneys to a dedicated function so attorneys returned to billable work.

Nonprofit

Board-approved strategy, campus-wide savings

Oversaw finance, IT, and all support services reporting to the CEO. Developed a strategic plan approved by the Board of Trustees and led a campus-wide restructuring for cost savings with standing process improvement committees.

Healthcare · 28 Centers

Standardizing a regional network

Led clinical and administrative teams across 28 urgent care and occupational medicine centers. Implemented a new occupational medicine program and EMR system region-wide, standardizing operations and training.

Your Operating Partner

Christian Salem

Christian has spent his career as the operations leader founders hand the keys to: Director of Operations roles across law, nonprofit, and healthcare, with direct oversight of finance, IT, HR, and day-to-day execution.

He has built financial infrastructure where none existed, restructured intake and sales processes, standardized operations across a 28-center network, and served as an EOS Integrator, translating owner vision into a business that runs.

Vantage Operating Partners exists to close the gap between consulting and execution: strategy you can see, delivered by someone willing to do the work alongside your team.

EOS Integrator Director of Operations ×3 Finance & IT Oversight Shelby Township, MI Connect on LinkedIn

Two weeks from now, you could know exactly what to fix.

Book a 30-minute intro call. We will talk through where your business stands, and whether the Operations Diagnostic is the right first step. No pressure, no binder.

Email to Book Your Call

christian.salem95@gmail.com · (586) 921-4000 · LinkedIn · Shelby Township, MI