Senior operating leverage, without a full-time hire.

Senior operating leverage, without a full-time hire.

A part-time Chief of Staff who closes the gap between what leadership decides and what actually gets executed. Not administrative support. Not project management software. A senior operator who runs point.

A part-time Chief of Staff who closes the gap between what leadership decides and what actually gets executed. Not administrative support. Not project management software. A senior operator who runs point.

The cost of no one owning it

I’m the only one who knows how half of this actually works.

Every initiative that doesn’t belong to one department ends up on my desk.

I don’t have time to think strategically because I’m buried in operations.

We keep saying we’ll build a process for this and then never do.

Sound familiar? That’s the gap Leverhaus Fractional CoS fills.

Engagements typically start at $5,000/month, scoped to your organization’s actual needs on a discovery call.


See how engagements are structured, start to finish

Who we work with

Where Fractional CoS support fits best.

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Founders who do not yet have a true #2, but need one before the org chart can justify it.

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Post-raise startups with more initiatives than execution muscle.

3

Nonprofit executive directors stretched across fundraising, board work, staff, and programs.

4

Agencies growing past founder-led operations, where every decision still rolls uphill.

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Small business owners whose operations have outgrown what they can run solo, but who aren't ready for a full-time operations hire.

If you don't see yourself above: what matters isn't team size — it's whether you already have real clients, real stakeholders, and operational complexity that needs owning, headcount or not. A solo attorney with an active caseload has that. A pre-revenue idea with no clients yet usually doesn't. If the coordination burden already exists, that's the fit — not the org chart.

Proven at Scale

Backed by 20+ years running point on exactly this kind of work — office relocations, executive promotion cycles, board-level coordination, and building infrastructure from scratch where none existed.


See the full track record on the Fractional CoS page →

We also help with

Automated Systems

We move repetitive work into quiet, reliable systems: intake, reporting, research, follow-up, data cleanup, and the handoffs that eat entire days.

Competitive Intelligence

Know which funders — or which competitors’ moves — are actually worth your attention, before you spend the effort finding out the hard way.

Get more done, without more people.

Whether we build the system or run point on what's stalled, you focus where it counts.

Built around the work you're already doing.

You already have the tools. We build the logic that connects them and point it where it matters.

10-40

hours a month, lost to one repetitive task

3

steps from diagnosis to running rhythm

The real cost

The work slows down when no one has time to own it.

A single repetitive task costs you 10–40 hours a month — a full week of someone's time lost to manual, mechanical work, at the high end. A stalled initiative costs more quietly: it sits for months, not because the work is hard, but because no one has the bandwidth to own it. And sometimes the real cost isn't time lost — it's a decision made blind. We find the real bottleneck, then systemize it, run point until it moves, or hand you the intelligence to decide with confidence.

Step 1 — Talk

A short discovery call to understand what's slowing you down. Often that's enough to point straight to a focused fix for the specific problem you described. If the picture's broader — it touches more than one thing, or the scope isn't obvious yet — we'll recommend the fixed-fee, two-week Readiness Audit to map it properly, credited toward whichever fix follows.

Step 2 — Build

We design the right response: a system that removes repeat work, a CoS cadence that keeps priorities moving, or the research that answers a specific question — sometimes more than one at once. No disruption, no theater.

Step 3 — Run

The system runs quietly in the background, we run point on what needs steady ownership, or you get a clear recommendation to act on. Either way: fewer stalls, cleaner handoffs, more time back.

Why Leverhaus

Merry Jones

Principal

Email: merry@leverhaus.co


Phone: (213) 875-5100

I spent 20+ years inside Fortune 500 companies, a national bank, consulting firms, healthcare organizations, and nonprofits, solving the operational problems that quietly slow good teams down. Leverhaus brings that experience directly to growing companies — pairing senior judgment with practical systems and operating support. You're not handing your operation to a junior automation shop. You're working with someone who has lived the work.

Why Leverhaus

Merry Jones

Principal

I spent 20+ years inside Fortune 500 companies, a national bank, consulting firms, healthcare organizations, and nonprofits, solving the operational problems that quietly slow good teams down. Not a junior automation shop — someone who's lived the work.

Email: merry@leverhaus.co


Phone: (213) 875-5100

INDUSTRIES IN MOTION

Different industries. Same Three Fixes.

Wherever the bottleneck shows up, it traces back to one of three things — manual work that should be automated, ownership that's missing, or intelligence you don't have yet. Here's what that typically looks like, based on patterns we commonly see — not specific client results.

Automated Systems

  • Independent Food Businesses: Catering often sits invisible and unsystematized, even when it's a real growth channel. → A catering-forward restaurant turns cold, scattered inquiries into a tracked pipeline that actually converts.

  • Staffing Firms: Overwhelmed by manual candidate screening and submission write-ups. → A recruiter reclaims hours a week by automating applicant screening.

  • Automotive & Repair Groups: Chasing estimates, scheduling, and insurance follow-ups by hand. → Estimate and scheduling handoffs run themselves, with no one chasing paperwork.

  • Accounting Practices: Re-keying client data between incompatible systems, month after month. → Data moves between systems automatically — no more manual re-entry, no more drift.

Fractional Chief of Staff

  • Marketing Agencies: Growing past founder-led operations, where every decision still rolls uphill. → An agency cleans up client reporting while an operator runs point on internal follow-through.

  • Nonprofit Executive Directors: Stretched across fundraising, board work, staff, and programs, with no one owning the connective tissue. → A nonprofit ED gets donor research, board follow-up, and program workflows out of their head and into motion.

Competitive Intelligence

  • Nonprofits: Applying to funders who've quietly stopped giving in their space, not finding out until after the proposal's written. → A clear pursue-or-hold call before a single hour goes into drafting.

  • Small Business Owners: Pricing and positioning decisions made on guesswork. → A synthesized brief on what competitors are actually doing, before the next pricing decision gets made.

    Illustrative examples based on patterns we commonly see, not specific named clients.

Wherever the bottleneck shows up, it traces back to one of three things — manual work that should be automated, ownership that’s missing, or intelligence you don’t have yet. Here’s what that typically looks like, based on patterns we commonly see — not specific client results.
Automated Systems
Independent Food Businesses: Catering often sits invisible and unsystematized, even when it’s a real growth channel. → A catering-forward restaurant turns cold, scattered inquiries into a tracked pipeline that actually converts.
Staffing Firms: Overwhelmed by manual candidate screening and submission write-ups. → A recruiter reclaims hours a week by automating applicant screening.
Automotive & Repair Groups: Chasing estimates, scheduling, and insurance follow-ups by hand. → Estimate and scheduling handoffs run themselves, with no one chasing paperwork.
Accounting Practices: Re-keying client data between incompatible systems, month after month. → Data moves between systems automatically — no more manual re-entry, no more drift.
Fractional Chief of Staff
Marketing Agencies: Growing past founder-led operations, where every decision still rolls uphill. → An agency cleans up client reporting while an operator runs point on internal follow-through.
Nonprofit Executive Directors: Stretched across fundraising, board work, staff, and programs, with no one owning the connective tissue. → A nonprofit ED gets donor research, board follow-up, and program workflows out of their head and into motion.
Competitive Intelligence
Nonprofits: Applying to funders who’ve quietly stopped giving in their space, not finding out until after the proposal’s written. → A clear pursue-or-hold call before a single hour goes into drafting.
Small Business Owners: Pricing and positioning decisions made on guesswork. → A synthesized brief on what competitors are actually doing, before the next pricing decision gets made.
Illustrative examples based on patterns we commonly see, not specific named clients.

Wherever the bottleneck shows up, it traces back to one of three things — manual work that should be automated, ownership that’s missing, or intelligence you don’t have yet. Here’s what that typically looks like, based on patterns we commonly see — not specific client results.

Automated Systems

  • Independent Food Businesses: Catering often sits invisible and unsystematized, even when it’s a real growth channel. → A catering-forward restaurant turns cold, scattered inquiries into a tracked pipeline that actually converts.

  • Staffing Firms: Overwhelmed by manual candidate screening and submission write-ups. → A recruiter reclaims hours a week by automating applicant screening.

  • Automotive & Repair Groups: Chasing estimates, scheduling, and insurance follow-ups by hand. → Estimate and scheduling handoffs run themselves, with no one chasing paperwork.

  • Accounting Practices: Re-keying client data between incompatible systems, month after month. → Data moves between systems automatically — no more manual re-entry, no more drift.

Fractional Chief of Staff

  • Marketing Agencies: Growing past founder-led operations, where every decision still rolls uphill. → An agency cleans up client reporting while an operator runs point on internal follow-through.

  • Nonprofit Executive Directors: Stretched across fundraising, board work, staff, and programs, with no one owning the connective tissue. → A nonprofit ED gets donor research, board follow-up, and program workflows out of their head and into motion.

Competitive Intelligence

  • Nonprofits: Applying to funders who’ve quietly stopped giving in their space, not finding out until after the proposal’s written. → A clear pursue-or-hold call before a single hour goes into drafting.

  • Small Business Owners: Pricing and positioning decisions made on guesswork. → A synthesized brief on what competitors are actually doing, before the next pricing decision gets made.

    Illustrative examples based on patterns we commonly see, not specific named clients.

What a typical engagement delivers.

You walk away with less manual work, clearer ownership, and hours back on your calendar — built around how you already work, not bolted on top of it.

Your data, handled with care

We treat your systems and data with the same discipline we learned in regulated, enterprise environments. Confidentiality is built into how we work, and we’re glad to sign an NDA before we begin.

FAQs

Still have questions about your bottleneck? Reach out and we'll walk you through it.

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How long does an engagement typically run?

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What if it’s not the right fit after we start?

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Why isn’t pricing listed on this page?

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Who is this not a good fit for?

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What if the audit doesn’t find anything worth fixing?

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How is this different from hiring a part-time employee or a consultant?

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How confidential is this?

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How long does an engagement typically run?

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What if it’s not the right fit after we start?

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Why isn’t pricing listed on this page?

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Who is this not a good fit for?

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What if the audit doesn’t find anything worth fixing?

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Let's find your bottleneck.

Tell us a bit about what you're dealing with, and we'll get back to you within two business days to set up your discovery call.