The Light Retainer is advice. The Monthly Operator is execution. I run weekly working sessions on your business, jump into Slack/Notion/HubSpot to actually move things, and you get a written ops scoreboard every Friday so we both know where the dollars are.
This is the right move when you've outgrown 'advice' but you don't yet need a full-time COO ($150K+/yr fully loaded).
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Fractional operator reserves 10h of Ryan-led strategy, review, and delivery capacity. Planning estimate: 10h.
Weekly working rhythm with written ops scoreboard every Friday.
Monthly Operator is for businesses that need Ryan inside the rhythm: decisions, dashboards, follow-up, team handoff, content, and systems that keep moving.
The business stops drifting and gets a written operating rhythm.
Tasks, tools, and follow-up move from scattered to visible.
The system is built around the business owning the process.
Click the lines that are true. The page will tell you whether to buy this, step down, or talk first.
If most of those lines are not true yet, do not overbuy. Step down, talk first, or use the Quick-Look to get pointed in the right direction.
The visible offer is only part of the work. This is the hidden capacity Ryan has to reserve.
Weekly sessions, execution work, dashboard/ops updates, async decisions, and Friday reporting.
Total visible breakdown: 4.3 hours. Public capacity uses the reserved block because follow-up, QA, and admin time are real work.
This is the direct path. $4,997 /month · 90-day commit. The point is to stop thinking and put the work into motion.
Last month's fee credits toward Annual Advisor if you upgrade.
You're under $20K/mo (start with the $497 Audit + Light Retainer)
This is where the offer stops being a price card. You are paying for Ryan to narrow the problem, remove the fog, create the deliverable, and hand you a next move you can actually use.
A full-time COO is $150–250K fully loaded. The Monthly Operator is $60K/yr - without health insurance, without equity, without 'is this person going to work out?'
I'm not billing you for 8 hours/week of 'consulting.' I'm in the work, fixing the leak, shipping the system, in whatever tool gets it done.
After the 90-day commit, it's month-to-month with 30-day notice. No long contracts. No surprises.
The buyer should never wonder what happens after payment. This is the visible path from checkout to delivery, with the real workload accounted for in Ryan's capacity.
Same intake as the $497 audit, compressed. End of week 2: first ops scoreboard live, top-3 fixes named, weekly cadence locked.
Every Friday, 60 min. We go through the scoreboard, decide priorities for next week, I jump into the tools to execute.
Same-day Slack response Mon–Fri. I'm not a 9-to-5 employee, but I'm responsive enough that the work doesn't stall.
Once a quarter: half-day planning. In Texas → I drive to you. Outside Texas → 4-hour Zoom intensive. Rebuilds the next 90-day plan.
The page should tell people what to do. If it fits, reserve the work. If it does not, step down, book the call, or leave the spot open for someone ready.
Spending money on me is spending money on you - because I turn around and put it back into your business as a real result. Here's the math both ways.
Cost of a full-time COO/CMO (salary + benefits + equity + onboarding risk).
Monthly Operator at $4,997/mo. Cancel anytime after Day 90. No equity, no commission, no hire-fire drama.
Retainer is advice + briefings. Monthly Operator is execution - I'm in your tools, building, shipping, fixing. Different role, different price.
No. I work WITH your team. Often I help you hire / fire / retrain - but I'm not replacing your ops manager or marketing lead.
Yes - after the 90-day commit, pause anytime with 30-day notice. We document the state and you can resume in 1–4 months without re-onboarding.
Annual Advisor is the next tier - $75K/yr - and includes a board-style relationship (quarterly in-person, on every internal strategy call). This is execution; that's governance.
I won't take a direct competitor in your specific niche while we're working. Mutual.
Yes. Mutual. Sample available before payment if you ask. Every paid engagement runs under a Texas-law engagement letter.
Last month's fee credits toward Annual Advisor if you upgrade.
Real Ryan Nichols LLC · Texas-governed under mutual NDA. We do not promise specific outcomes - we deliver the work and the deliverables described above.