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Operations expertise
on the days you actually need it.

Workflow mapping, ops advisory, service desk integration, AI readiness audits — delivered by operators who have run real businesses, not by a deck. You hire the bench. We bring the receipts.

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Talk it through

Tell Compass what's broken. She'll scope it.

Compass is the AI operations officer at the front desk. She runs intake the same way Robert would: a few sharp questions, a working hypothesis, an honest scope. No forms unless you want one.

Compass
AI Operations Officer · Operator-trained
  • Reads your situation in plain operator language. No jargon, no script.
  • Hands off to Robert with full context — nothing repeated, nothing lost.
  • Voice toggle ships next quarter. Text-first today, by design.
Compass · Intake — Session 7c4a-ops
C
Hi, I'm Compass. I'm here to scope your engagement before Robert spends a minute. What's the operations problem on your desk right now?
Compass · 2:14 PM
JM
Service tickets are piling up. We added two products last year and our help desk hasn't caught up. Can't tell where time is going.
You · 2:14 PM
C
Got it — backlog is the symptom. Two questions: (1) Is your desk on Zendesk, Freshdesk, HubSpot, or homemade? (2) How many tickets a week, and how many people working them?
Compass · 2:14 PM
JM
Freshdesk. ~420/week, 3 agents, no shift coverage outside business hours.
You · 2:15 PM
C
That's a service desk integration scope — workflow mapping first, then routing rules and an after-hours posture. Two-week diagnostic, then a Standard engagement. I'll line up Robert for an intro call. Want me to hold a slot?
Compass · 2:15 PM
What's delivered

Four engagements. Four working benches. No theory.

Pick one, pick all four. Each engagement is scoped to a deliverable you can hand to a successor on day one — not a slide deck that sits in a drive.

01 / WORKFLOW

Workflow mapping

We sit with the people doing the work, draw the actual flow, and find the four or five places it leaks. You walk out with a map your team can run from on Monday.

As-built process mapBottleneck inventoryKill / keep / fix listSOP starter pack
02 / ADVISORY

Fractional ops advisory

A standing seat at your operations table. Weekly review, monthly plan, quarterly reset. You get an operator's eye on the dashboards before they become the fire.

Weekly operating reviewMonthly action planKPI scorecardDirect line to Robert
03 / SERVICE DESK

Service desk integration

Tickets, routing, SLAs, after-hours coverage — wired into the rest of your stack so the desk stops being the place work goes to die. Freshdesk, Zendesk, HubSpot, or whatever you already pay for.

Routing & escalation rulesSLA frameworkCRM ↔ desk wiringAgent runbook
04 / AI READINESS

AI readiness audit

Honest read on where AI helps you, where it'll burn you, and where you don't have the data hygiene yet. Security and ops sections, no vendor pitch attached.

Data & access auditSecurity posture reviewUse-case shortlist90-day pilot plan
Or skip the chat

Drop the basics. We'll come back inside one business day.

Some operators want to type the whole thing in one shot. This works too. Same intake queue, same handoff, same Robert.

What happens next
  • 1Compass reads it within the hour and tags it.
  • 2Robert reviews and replies inside one business day.
  • 3If it's a fit, we schedule a 30-minute scoping call. If not, we tell you straight.

We don't share your information. Your intake enters the same operations queue Robert reviews for first-pass fit.

StackFast Store

Three benches. Pick the one that fits the season.

Team Hire starts with a tracked storefront scope request. The tier sets cadence, bench depth, and how many fronts we run at once; checkout stays assisted until fulfillment and entitlement proof are complete.

Pilot

Two-week diagnostic. One question, answered honestly.

First pilot: $3,000 available for first approved pilot
Diagnostic pilot: $5,000 · fixed fee · 2 weeks
  • Workflow map of one process
  • Bottleneck inventory & kill/keep/fix list
  • Two working sessions with Robert
  • Audit ledger of every artifact
  • Standing weekly cadence
  • Multi-track engagements
Start a Pilot
Most engagements
Standard

Quarterly cadence. One bench, one front, full advisory seat.

Pilot build: $15,000 build path when implementation is needed
Standard: $10,000/mo · 90-day minimum
  • Everything in Pilot, recurring
  • Weekly operating review with Robert
  • One service desk or AI readiness scope
  • KPI scorecard, monthly plan
  • Direct line · 24h response
  • Multi-track engagements
Start Standard
Enterprise

Multi-front. Dedicated bench. Operations across the whole org.

Quarterly or annual scope for multi-front operations
Enterprise: from $25,000/mo · custom SOW
  • Everything in Standard, on every front
  • Dedicated operations bench (3–5 operators)
  • Workflow + service desk + AI audit, parallel
  • Bi-weekly exec readout
  • Embedded operator (1–2 days/week on-site)
  • Successor onboarding & handoff
Talk to Robert

Pricing is fixed-scope or SOW-based; checkout, licensing, and fulfillment remain assisted through StackFast Store. No hourly drift; every engagement starts as a tracked scope request.

Trust posture

You take the work product when we're done.

Every artifact, every decision, every handoff — written down, hashed, and yours. We don't believe in lock-in, and we built the receipts to prove it.

Ledger

HBAR audit trail

Every working artifact gets a hash on a public, immutable ledger. You can verify the chain of custody without trusting us — that's the point.

Archive

Customer archive ownership

Your meeting transcripts, working notes, deliverables — all of it lives in your tenant. We hold a copy for ledger integrity. You hold the master.

Exit

No vendor lock-in

SOPs in your wiki. Workflows in your tooling. Runbooks in your repo. If we walk away tomorrow, your team operates Monday morning the same way.

Handoff

Take the work product

End of engagement, you get the full archive — frameworks, scorecards, runbooks, the lot — under a license that says: it's yours, do what you want with it.

Live ledgerpending transaction·Ledger status:Team Hire artifact queue·waiting for first hash
Ready when you are

Operator-built. Operator-scoped.
Operator-owned, when we're done.

Talk to Compass. Skip to the form. Or send Robert a note. Whatever feels honest from your side of the desk.

What's on your mind?

Ask anything. Your thought enters the reasoning engine.

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