For Operators | Gauges Green

Gauges Green is a practice of senior operators who each own a functional area. Not a marketplace. Not a staffing agency. A small group of people who run their own client work under a shared brand, with shared infrastructure behind them.

The Model

You can bill $250K a year, but you spend a quarter of your time on invoicing, contracts, pipeline hygiene, and context-switching between clients. At $200/hour, that's $40K in lost billing annually. And the highest-leverage activity for any independent practice, marketing, is the one almost nobody does. Most solo operators live on referrals and hope the phone keeps ringing.

GG fixes this with a shared layer. The practice handles distribution, operations, and infrastructure. Partners handle clients.

Distribution

GG runs marketing, PR, LinkedIn, and the website for the practice. Each partner is promoted as the go-to operator in their function. Introductions flow from GG's existing client base. A product client who needs people help meets the people partner. Most independents never build distribution because they're too busy delivering. GG builds it for everyone at once.

Back Office

Invoicing, collections, contracts, legal templates, benefits. The 5-10 hours a week you spend on things that aren't client work go to zero. GG bills your clients, takes 9.5% of collections, and deposits the rest. You never write a check and you pay nothing until you're billing.

AI Operating Platform

The platform is called Andale. Type a client codename and a dedicated session opens with that client's entire vault: every meeting transcript with speaker attribution, every email thread, product data, prior commitments. Nothing else loaded. No cross-client bleed. Overnight activity compiles automatically. Action items extracted from meetings route to the right person. A morning briefing tells you what changed while you slept. Extending Andale to a new partner is a configuration change, not a rebuild.

How the Economics Work

At $250K annual billing, the 9.5% take is $23,750. A solo operator spending $11K on accounting, legal, and software nets roughly $230K after those costs. A GG partner keeps $226,250 before factoring in reclaimed time. The cash difference is small. The question is whether the distribution, brand, platform, and network are worth more than the difference.

We think they are, but we'd rather prove it than argue it. The first few partners are the test case.

If a partner falls in love with a client and goes full-time, GG charges the client a placement fee. The partner keeps the relationship. That's not a failure mode. It's how a healthy practice circulates talent. The departing partner becomes an executive at a company that already trusts GG, which tends to create more work for the practice, not less.

How It Works

Each partner owns a functional vertical. You choose your clients, set your schedule, run the engagement your way. If you want to grow your practice area and bring practitioners underneath you, you earn on the full portfolio. If you want to keep it small, that works too.

Existing partners vote on new partners. The bar is high. The brand only works if every partner is someone a top company would hire as a full-time executive. One weak engagement damages trust across the entire bench.

If the model doesn't work for you, you keep your clients and walk away. There's no lock-in.

Who This Is For

You have 10+ years of operating experience at high-growth companies. You're already doing fractional work, or you're seriously considering the leap. You know you're good enough to run your own practice. What you don't have is the marketing engine, the operational infrastructure, or the network of peers that would make independence sustainable at scale.

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