Ryan built the first version for himself. The hard part of a senior fractional practice was not the client work. It was everything around the work: reloading context, tracking follow-up, producing documents, staying visible, billing, collections, and keeping a pipeline warm.
Gauges Green is the answer to that operating burden. You own the client work. The practice supplies brand, distribution, back office, peer review, and the operating harness underneath it.
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Gauges Green handles public positioning, referrals, contracts, invoicing, collections, templates, client context, document production, and peer review.
We run marketing, PR, LinkedIn, and the website. Each partner is represented as the operator for a real function. Introductions flow across the practice: a product client who needs a People executive meets the People partner. A growth client with messy forecasting meets the Finance partner.
We bill your clients, collect the money, maintain contracts and templates, and deposit the rest after the agreed share. You never write a check to Gauges Green. You pay when billing starts.
The harness keeps client context current and tied to sources, captures meetings with speaker attribution, checks outbound work, and keeps commitments visible. Extending it to another function means adding that partner's channels, clients, rules, and quality gates.
You have owned a real function at a serious company. You have carried the number, hired the team, made the tradeoffs, and lived with the result. You may call yourself fractional CPO, CFO, Head of People, CTO, CRO, RevOps leader, Head of Sales, or something else. The label matters less than the operating standard.
The economics stay simple: a share of collections, and no cost until billing starts.
The model only works if the back office, distribution, harness, and peer review are worth more than they cost.
Each partner owns a function, chooses their clients, and runs engagements their way. Grow the practice area and bring practitioners underneath you, or keep it small. Both can work.
Existing partners vote on new partners. The standard is what a top company would trust with a core function. One weak engagement damages trust across the entire practice.
If this doesn't work for you, you keep your clients and walk away. No lock-in.
If this sounds familiar, book a conversation about the function you would want to own.