TEMPURA
We fix broken operations.
When a company grows faster than it can run itself, things start to break. We come inside your company and fix them. We do the work ourselves. We do not just give advice.
Why we exist
Most growing companies hit the same wall. The founder used to build the product or serve clients. Now they spend the day managing, and everything runs through them. Work gets dropped because no one owns it. New people need direction that no one has time to give.
You feel it before you can explain it. You are busy all day and the company still moves slowly. You know you need someone who has run a company before, but a full-time COO is expensive and slow to hire, and most people who call themselves operators just hand you a plan and leave.
That is when companies bring us in. We come in, find what is broken, and fix it by doing the work. When your team can run it without us, we leave.
We do the work, not a deck.
Operations is just how your company runs: who owns what, how decisions get made, how work moves from one person to the next, how you hire, and how you close deals. When it works, you barely notice it. When it breaks, everything slows down and lands back on you.
A consultant studies your problem and hands you a plan to run yourselves. We run it. We work inside your company, take over the broken parts, and answer for the result, not for the advice.
What we fix
Operating systems
We sort out how the company runs day to day: who owns what, which meetings you actually need, and how decisions get made, so work stops piling up on you.
Hiring and teams
We hire the people you are missing, fix the roles that are not working, and reorganize the team so the right people are in the right jobs.
Focus
We cut a long list of priorities down to the few that matter, and stop the projects quietly going nowhere.
Mergers and restructuring
We put two companies together after a deal, or rebuild one that has stalled, so the combined business actually works.
Building and shipping
We build the product ourselves. We design it, prototype it, and write the code, up to a first working version.
AI, put to work
We put AI into the parts of the work where it saves real time, and train your team to use it. No experiments that go nowhere.
Diagnose. Fix. Run.
Diagnose
For the first two to three weeks we work inside your company and find what is breaking, where work gets stuck, and what it is costing you. You get a clear picture of what to fix first. Fixed price, and useful on its own, so you can see how we work before you commit to more.
Fix
We do the work. Depending on what we found, that means setting up how the company runs, hiring the people you need, closing deals that are stuck, or building the product. We do it ourselves, not on a slide.
Run
We set up the simple weekly routine your team runs on, hand over the tools and how to use them, and step back. If you want us to keep holding it together after that, we stay on a monthly basis.
Recent work
Design studio
A design studio grew faster than its two founders could run. We set up how the studio works day to day, who owns what, and how the team tracks projects. We ran the hire of their first project manager from first interview to signed contract, and moved an existing designer into a bigger role. The studio now runs on a team and a system, not on the founders doing everything.
Climate venture
An early company in biomass and biofuels was growing across many partners at once, with no one holding the work together. We set up the weekly meetings that kept decisions moving, ran the partner deals from first call to signed agreement, and built their measurement tool and handed it to the team to run. One operator kept a fast-moving company together while it grew.
Start here
Most work starts with the first two to three weeks: we find what is breaking and what to fix first, for a fixed price. If it makes sense to keep going, we move straight into fixing it.