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You built the audience. We build the company.

You’ve built an audience and a high-ticket business. But growing the company still depends on you choosing the next move, connecting the team and making it happen.

A decade inside
creator-led companies.

In-house roles and client engagements

  • Scribe Media
  • Market Disruptors
  • Contrarian Thinking
  • SaaS Academy
  • Scaling.com
  • Vendingpreneur
  • Why We Buy
  • Unignorable
  • Studio Grow
  • Cybersecurity Girl

Fill the gap.
Free the founder.

You’ve built a team. You’re still the one holding it all together.

Your Growth Operator owns strategy and execution, alongside your team.

What we build into the business.

Your operating system

  • Business
    Intelligence
  • GTM
    Strategy
  • People and
    Leadership
  • Operating
    Cadence
Growth
Operator
Founder Extraction Your judgment where it matters.

Your Growth Operator leads strategy and execution across these connected capabilities, building the structure for your team to own more of the business.

Big wins.

Selected client outcomes. Company names anonymized.

  • Business education & media

    Two companies and a dozen offers split the team’s attention, with no clear path from audience to customer.

    $4M to $10M

    Revenue in one year

    Connected media, products, marketing and sales around a unified customer journey.

  • Entrepreneur education

    Marketing consumed 41% of revenue, with no clear view of customer acquisition costs by channel.

    $1.8M/year

    In recovered gross margin

    Brought the core webinar channel in-house and gave leadership the financial visibility to decide where to invest and which vendors to keep.

  • Medical education

    Daily operations depended on a founder who also worked full-time as a doctor.

    3 weeks off

    The founder’s first break from day-to-day operations.

    The rebuilt management team took ownership of daily decisions and kept the business running throughout her break.

These are individual client outcomes. Results vary based on your business, market and implementation. We do not guarantee earnings, revenue growth, cost savings or that your business will make a profit.

The problem is rarely the one you came to solve.

Most founders have a sense of what’s wrong. We find what’s holding back growth.

They asked forWhat the diagnosis found
They asked for“Give me dashboards.”What the diagnosis foundMarketing counted 350 booked calls; sales counted 152. No leadership team owned what the numbers showed.
They asked for“We need a COO. Or more people.”What the diagnosis foundEvery decision waited on the founders. Their best week was the one both of them were away.
They asked for“Fix marketing.”What the diagnosis foundDemand was already strong. Revenue was leaking through the handoffs between media, marketing and sales.

A few good questions.

Who is Piper Ops built for?

Established creator-led companies—businesses where the founder’s content, expertise and audience bring in customers. You have a proven offer and a team, but too many decisions still depend on you.

What exactly is a Growth Operator?

A growth operator is a senior leader who owns both the growth strategy and the systems that execute it. We train Growth Operators who lead the Growth Install inside your company, working alongside you and your team to turn strategy into growth.

How is this different from hiring a fractional COO?

The Growth Install combines CMO and COO experience in one engagement. We address growth strategy and operations together, with a Growth Operator leading implementation.

Do you replace our existing team or agencies?

We work alongside them. When a role, responsibility or capability needs to change, we work through it with you.

We’ve tried consultants, systems and AI. Why would this be different?

We start by finding out why those investments haven’t delivered. Then we address the strategy, ownership and execution around them, staying involved through implementation and adoption.

Build a company that can scale your vision.

Let’s talk about what still lands on you.

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