Referred for fractional COO work? You're in the right place.
Chuck Temple is a hands-on operations partner for founder-led businesses. He is a founder with two exits. He builds the systems, automates the busywork, and stays until it works.
What the work is.
Most consultants hand you a binder of recommendations and disappear. Chuck shows up, builds the systems, and stays until they work. Your team runs them. He stays responsible for the results.
Operations & systems
Documented processes, shared scoreboards, and a playbook that takes a business from founder-dependent to hand-offable.
Hiring & training
Training systems strong enough that average new hires produce above-average results.
AI & automation
Modern automation built into how your business already runs, and that gets used because your team helped build it.
Exit readiness
Framed around what a buyer actually pays more for, so the business is worth more when it is time to sell.
Who it fits.
Service businesses, professional firms, and founder-led companies: any industry where the owner is the bottleneck. If your business has 8 to 50 employees and you're the bottleneck, it's worth a call.
- Home services, construction, and the trades
- Professional firms, and medical and dental practices
- Multi-unit service businesses
- Founder-led companies where the business works because of one person's head, not a system
How it usually starts.
A 30-minute call
You know what's broken. The call uncovers the rest. No pitch, just a conversation.
A free diagnostic
Chuck walks your operation and shows you where the money, time, and revenue are leaking. If it's genuinely running clean, he'll tell you straight instead of inventing problems.
The build, then the hand-off
SOPs, systems, and team training, built around how you work. About two hours a week of your time. When your team owns it, he steps back.
Start with one call.
Tell Chuck what's going on and figure out together if he can help.