STROO-oh · Latin for "I build" — first person, present tense
A modern ops stack for professionals who want a system that works for them — not one that depends on them.
Explore01 — The Missing Middle
Client work is solid. Revenue is real. Underneath it, everything depends on your availability, memory, and whatever system you patched together in year one. You tried upgrading — a project management tool here, an invoicing platform there — but each was either too simple to matter or too complex to keep up with on your own.
There is a structural failure, not a personal one: the tools were designed with assumptions that do not reflect the reality of solo practices. They were built for teams that may not exist in your office. Since the tools assume a support system — a team, manager, or process owner — that simply doesn't exist, solo professionals must manually fill that gap.
It's not dramatic. It's gradual — a few hours here over time, and now the weight of running this and that manually becomes the feeling that maybe this is just the way things are.
If that sounds familiar, it probably is.
Manual operations have a cost that is easy to stop calculating. Every hour spent on administrative work that a better system would handle is an hour that isn't billable. For most solo professionals, that ranges between 8 to 15 hours a week — quietly, and consistently.
02 — How We Work
Every engagement starts with an audit. The audit reveals what to build. The build earns trust for ongoing operations. No pressure to climb — each tier delivers standalone value.
Tier 01
Most of the friction in a solo practice is invisible from inside it. The Operations Audit is a structured look at what's actually happening — where time goes, where revenue slips, and what to fix first. A deep-dive assessment of your practice — workflows, tools, time leaks, and bottlenecks. You get an audit report and a prioritized action plan.
$1,500 – $3,000
One-time
Tier 02
This is where the audit becomes operational. The workflows, integrations, and SOPs identified in your assessment get built and handed to you — working, documented, and designed so you or your support staff can maintain them without becoming technical.
$3,000 – $7,500
Project-based
Tier 03
Ongoing operations management. Someone watching the systems, refining the automations, and keeping your practice running without you touching the back end. At this tier, the question shifts — from "how do I keep everything running" to "what do I do now that everything runs without me?"
$2,000 – $5,000
Per month
03 — The Builder
STRUO isn't retrospective. It's being built right now, in the open, by someone who's still employed full-time and engineering the escape hatch before stepping through it. Every system, every automation, every workflow — tested on the builder's own practice first.
That's on purpose. Systems, automations, and workflows built by STRUO are based on the operational problems its builder deals with every day — while inside a full-time role. Solutions built here are pressure-tested and intricately designed by someone still doing the work before they are ever offered to you.
If there is anyone who feels remotely close to how I feel, then the thought and idea of finding a viable solution to the problems uncovered is something I'd truly consider looking into.
04 — Start Here
Book a 30-minute call. No pitch, no pressure. Just a conversation where you describe the operation — the tools, the manual work, the parts that feel like friction. From there, we both decide if there's a fit and whether there's something worth building.
Book a Call05 — Questions
STRUO is Latin for "I build." It's my solo consulting practice focused on building the operations layer that most growing businesses skip — the workflows, automations, and systems that let your practice run without you in the room.
Solo consultants, attorneys, accountants, and other independent practitioners who are doing real revenue but running on founder memory and spreadsheets. If your practice stops when you stop, we should talk.
I spend one to two weeks mapping every workflow in your practice: how leads come in, how projects get tracked, how deadlines get monitored, how client communication flows. You get a prioritized action plan — what to fix first, what to automate, and what to document before it becomes a bottleneck.
The Operations Audit (Tier 1) is a fixed-fee project. Build engagements (Tier 2) are scoped and priced based on complexity. Ongoing consulting retainers (Tier 3) are monthly. All pricing is discussed on a 30-minute intro call — there's no rate card because every practice is different.
No. You need to know your practice. I handle the tooling — n8n, Notion, Claude — and I document everything so you and your team can understand it, even if you never log into the same tools.
An audit runs one to two weeks. A build engagement ranges from two to six weeks depending on scope. Retainer partnerships are ongoing. We'll set clear timelines before any work begins.
The core stack is n8n, Notion, and Claude AI. These are open, documented, and not locked to me — if we part ways, the system is documented and yours. That said, I work with what you already have where possible.
Most systems fail because they were designed for how a business should work, not how it actually works. The Operations Audit exists specifically to prevent that — it maps your real workflows first, then builds from what's there. Every system is documented, every workflow is trained, and the retainer option exists so nothing drifts after handoff.
Understood. The Operations Audit is the lowest-commitment entry point for that reason — it gives you a clear picture of what your current operations are costing you in time and revenue before you commit to building anything. If the math doesn't make sense after the audit, you have a report and a plan. Nothing further is required.