You've become the ceiling on your own business.
We install the operating systems that let founder CEOs scale past themselves.
Book a 30-Minute ConversationNo pitch. Just a diagnostic conversation about where you're stuck.
We install the operating systems that let founder CEOs scale past themselves.
Book a 30-Minute ConversationNo pitch. Just a diagnostic conversation about where you're stuck.
You know growth has stalled because you've become the bottleneck. You just don't have the breathing room to step out of the work long enough to fix it. Most founders don't have a strategy problem. They have an operating system problem.
You're working 70-hour weeks and haven't taken a real vacation in two years.
Every decision routes through you. Your team can't move without you.
Growth has stalled, and you're on the critical path of every function.
You can't see a way out without stepping away from the work that's running you.
We work with founder CEOs of bootstrapped, operationally complex $5-20M businesses. If you built it yourself or with a partner, you're still running it day to day, and you care about your people and what you're building, you're exactly who we serve. The industries we know best: logistics, trades, custom builders, light manufacturing, and professional services.
Transportation & Logistics
Trades & Custom Builders
Light Manufacturing
Professional Services
$5M - $20M Revenue • 10-150 People
You're still actively running the business, not stepped back into a chairman role. Growth is happening, but visibility, accountability, or margin discipline are starting to slip. If that's you, let's talk.
Fifteen years of results across companies of every size, from 8-person teams to Fortune 50 enterprises. The same operating discipline, applied at your scale.
$186M
in revenue unlocked through commercial redesign
$87M
in cost savings identified and tracked
2x
EBITDA performance through execution discipline
40+
KPI and governance systems deployed
The numbers scale with the company. The operating discipline behind them carries to yours.
We had no formal KPIs, meeting cadences, or strategic plan. Within 90 days, LightPath built all of it from scratch. Now I have a trusted partner who brings me the right information at the right time so I can focus on running the business.
Founder & CEO
Scaling Freight Brokerage
LightPath came in and did exactly what we needed. They brought organization and installed doctrine I wish I'd had when I came in as president. It would have helped me get up to speed a lot quicker.
President
Leading National Nonprofit
I brought LightPath in because I needed a fractional COO to install the processes I knew we needed but had been too busy to build myself. In under 30 days, I can already feel the difference on both the finance and operations side.
Founder & CEO
Custom Home Builder
If any of this sounds like your business, the first step is a conversation.
Book a 30-Minute ConversationThe work runs across three phases, built to get you out of the bottleneck in 90 days and keep you out.
Founder and leadership interviews. An audit of your KPIs, reporting, meeting cadences, and decision rights, mapping where you sit on the critical path of every function.
Departmental OKRs, 8 to 12 critical KPIs with owners, an executive dashboard, a weekly leadership cadence, monthly OKR check-ins, quarterly reviews, and a decision rights map.
We coach your leadership team to run the cadence without us, ship 3 to 5 quick operational wins, and clean up financial reporting before we step back.
Three ways to start, depending on how ready you are to move.
Most founders begin with the 14-day diagnostic.
CEO and leadership interviews, an operational diagnostic, and a written roadmap with prioritized next steps. The low-commitment way to experience the work before going further.
The flagship engagement. Diagnose, install, hand off. By day 90, your business runs on installed systems instead of your bandwidth.
A fractional engagement after a successful install, or for founders ready to commit now. Fractional COO, Chief of Staff, or operating partner, depending on what the business needs.
LightPath Advisory
LightPath Advisory was founded by a 15-year operating executive with experience across logistics, financial services, automotive, and supply chain. As Chief of Staff to the president of a $1B logistics company, he ran a strategic planning cycle that delivered 200% of EBITDA plan and led the integration of $15B in revenue post-merger. Prior roles include senior strategy and operations leadership where he built the multi-year enterprise roadmap that delivered $87M in cost savings.
He is an Army veteran with 13 years of service in the National Guard, where he commanded an infantry company and planned operations for a 3,000-soldier infantry brigade. He now applies that operating discipline inside founder-led businesses.
LightPath was founded on one principle: most founder-led businesses don't have a strategy problem, they have an operating system problem. Solve that, and growth follows.
If you're working 70-hour weeks running every decision in your business, let's have a 30-minute conversation about what's actually slowing growth.
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