DON'T TAKE
OUR WORD FOR IT.
Real engagements. Real numbers. Real outcomes. Businesses and nonprofits that stopped guessing and started executing with experienced operational leadership.
SaaS STARTUP → SERIES A
A $3M ARR B2B SaaS company had been running marketing by committee. The founder handling positioning between product calls, a junior coordinator managing social, and an agency on autopilot running the same campaigns for 18 months. Pipeline had flatlined. Board was asking questions.
We embedded marketing leadership via LDM three days per week. Month one: complete audit of existing channels, fired the underperforming agency, rebuilt positioning from ICP research. Month two: launched a content engine targeting three buyer personas, restructured paid spend around bottom-funnel intent keywords. Month three: built a lead scoring model, implemented marketing-to-sales handoff process, and hired a senior demand gen manager. By month six, marketing was a self-sustaining function with clear ownership and weekly pipeline reviews.
PE PORTFOLIO → TURNAROUND
A mid-market PE firm acquired a $15M professional services company and quickly discovered what due diligence missed: no documented processes, 40%+ annual turnover, margin erosion accelerating every quarter, and a management team that couldn’t articulate their own org chart.
We embedded a fractional COO and a marketing lead simultaneously. The COO spent the first 30 days mapping every process, renegotiating three vendor contracts, and implementing weekly department standups. By day 60, we’d documented 14 core SOPs, launched a new hiring pipeline, and rolled out a performance management system. The marketing lead rebuilt the company’s positioning, launched a client retention program, and implemented a CRM that actually got used. At 18 months, the PE firm’s portfolio review showed the company had gone from the worst performer to the model for future acquisitions.
FOUNDER-LED → PROFESSIONALLY MANAGED
A $7M construction services company where the founder personally approved every purchase order, managed every subcontractor relationship, and handled payroll on Sunday nights. The business was profitable but the founder hadn’t taken more than two consecutive days off in four years. Two key employees had already left, citing “no room to grow.”
We deployed an embedded team across operations, finance, and HR. First 30 days: mapped every decision the founder was making, categorized them by value, and identified 60% that could be delegated immediately with documented approval thresholds. We built an operations playbook, hired an office manager and a project coordinator, implemented job costing software, and created a weekly financial review cadence. By month six, the founder was working four days a week and the business was running smoother without him than it ever had with him in every meeting. He took a three-week vacation in month nine. Revenue didn’t dip.
THE NUMBERS ACROSS
ALL ENGAGEMENTS.
Combined results from our operations consulting and embedded operations portfolio.
They didn’t just advise us. They embedded with our team and drove execution from day one. Within 90 days we had a pipeline we’d never been able to build ourselves.
We’d wasted $85K on a consulting firm that gave us a binder. Long Drive Partners gave us a COO who fixed our operations in 90 days. The difference between advice and execution is everything.
I was doing everything. Marketing, operations, sales, HR. They gave me my life back. Revenue is up 40% and I actually took a vacation for the first time in three years.
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COULD BE NEXT.
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