Inner Operations

Self-leadership Circles8 weeks, online, for a team Leadership CoachingOne to one and groups, online Non-ordinary OffsitesIn person, in nature

Outer Operations

Fractional Operations90 days, month to month Self-led AI IntegrationThe people, the work, then the tools Operations for Law FirmsOperations and AI for firms of ten to fifty people

FINO

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Outer operations

The hours your team is losing

We find what is costing your team the most time, then we fix it. Built into how your team already works, and handed over so it keeps running.

90 days recommended From $4,500 a month Month to month Two weeks notice either way

Why we do this

Then Monday happens

The inner work changes things. We have watched it happen in circles, in sessions, in offsites. People come out clearer and more willing to say the hard thing.

And then they go back to work on Monday. Same emails. Same tasks that should take minutes eating hours. The operational noise grinding against everything that just opened up.

We kept hearing it. Anna spent over a decade running operations inside fast-moving organizations before co-founding FINO, and that background did not disappear. When the people we work with started naming the same operational problems, we started solving them.

Every one of these has started the same way. Someone said: this is costing us too much time, can you help. That is still the only question we start with.

How it goes

We start by watching the work

01

We map what actually happens

The process people actually run, including the workarounds nobody documented.

02

We find the expensive parts

The steps that eat hours, get skipped under pressure, or lose money where nobody looks.

03

We build it with your people

The people who do the work help build the fix. That is why it is still running after we leave.

04

We hand it over properly

Documented, owned by someone on your side, and simple enough that they will keep using it.

We recommend ninety days. That is how long it takes for a change to hold.

What you are buying

One operations partner, inside the work

One person in the operation with you, building the thing there has never been time to build. The scope is agreed with you and it moves when the business moves.

The person you meet does the work

The same one, from the first call to the handover. We take a few clients at a time, which is what makes that possible.

You set the priority

We agree what matters most this month. When it is done we take the next thing, and when something breaks we take that instead.

Regular time, and reachable between

A standing working session with the people who do the job, and someone to call when a decision cannot wait for the next one.

We scope it so the hours it gives back are worth more than the fee, and we tell you our estimate after the first week of watching the work.

Working with a law firm?

That work has its own page

Its own free scheduling tool, and a case story with real numbers in it.

Questions

The concerns we hear most

You do not manage it. We do. We come in, work out what needs fixing, build it, and stay with your team until it sticks. Your part is one thirty minute call to start.

Then that is where we start. We work with what your team already has wherever we can, and anything new has to be simple enough to use without training. If people will not use it, it did not work.

Nothing leaves your organization without your approval. Everything we set up runs inside your existing systems and permissions, and we agree what we can and cannot touch before anything starts.

The tools take the repetitive parts. The people end up doing more of the work that needed them in the first place. We say this to every team on day one.

No. We take nothing from vendors. We work with what you have, or help you choose based on the work in front of you.

From $4,500 a month, billed month to month with two weeks notice either way. The number follows the shape: a lighter engagement with fewer hours costs less, carrying a migration costs more. Nonprofit pricing is available. We agree the shape with you before any number is final.

Tell us what you would fix first

That is usually where we start.

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