Start with an hour. Know which seat to fill first.
Every call is with Ali personally, by video, phone or in person in Vancouver. You leave with a written seat map and a clear next step. Prices in Canadian dollars, plus GST.
Strategy Session
A full read of the business and the team behind it: which seats are empty, which the owner is filling, and which to fill first, with an action plan and follow-up recommendations.
Best for: Owners who are the bottleneck of their own company
Startup Advisory
The first hires versus the first fractional seats, founder coaching, and a team plan that matches the runway.
Best for: Founders building a first team
Business Acquisition
The management team a buyer needs after closing: who stays, who leaves, which seats to cover with interim or fractional executives in the first 100 days.
Best for: Investors who have bought, or are about to buy, a company
Canadian Market Entry
Building a Canadian team for a company entering the market: roles, remote versus local, outsourced departments, alongside employment lawyers.
Best for: Companies setting up a team in Canada
Engagement bands
Published so you can plan. Never hourly. Exact fees are confirmed in writing after the call.
| Engagement | Fits | Fee |
|---|---|---|
Fractional executive A senior operator on your leadership team, owning the function, with an outcome contract and a monthly scorecard. | CMO, CTO, COO or CFO, six to eighteen months | Monthly retainer for a set number of days per month, from a few days a month. Full embedded seats at two to three days a week run $25,000 to $60,000 per month |
Outsourced department A whole function with a weekly cadence, a scorecard and the playbooks to hand it over later. | Growth, marketing, sales systems, technology or operations | Monthly fee for a senior lead plus the specialists the function needs, quoted in writing |
Interim executive Someone senior in the seat within days, holding the function until the permanent hire is made, and helping make it. | Cover for a departing manager or executive | Per month for a defined period |
Growth Partner program The whole bench across marketing, sales, operations, finance and technology, paid on your growth. Selective by design. | BC companies between $500K and $30M with proven demand | Revenue share, equity, or a lean retainer plus performance bonus |
90-day sprint Embedded senior partner and delivery team with an outcome contract signed at scope and a 30-day hand-off. | One function transformed in a quarter | $80,000 to $250,000 |
Questions about fees
What does a fractional executive cost compared with a full time hire?
A full time executive in British Columbia is a senior salary plus benefits, recruiting fees and months of ramp, and most companies under $30M do not have forty hours of executive work a week in any one function. Our Fractional Executive band is $25K to $60K per month, outcome based, with a three month minimum, and an Advisory Retainer runs $8K to $25K per month. You buy the judgement and the authority without the idle time, and you can scale the seat down as your own people grow.
How long until I can step back from the day to day?
Most owners feel the difference inside the first month, when a weekly meeting and a scorecard start catching problems before they reach you. Installing a full operating cadence takes about a quarter. Stepping back from the seats you hold personally takes longer and depends on how many decisions only you can make today. We count that number from week one and report it.
How do you handle confidentiality?
We sign NDAs on request before we see anything, and most engagements begin that way. Your numbers, customers, staff matters and plans stay inside the engagement. We never publish client names or results without written permission, which is why the results we cite publicly come from Ali's own agencies. Access to your systems is documented and removed when the engagement ends.
Tell us which seat is empty.
A 30-minute call with Ali about the business and the people running it. You leave knowing which role to fill first and whether fractional, outsourced or a hire is the right answer, whether or not we work together.