8Day Consulting | Operating Partner for Founder-Led Businesses

Great at the craft. Never trained to run the company.

The tech who became the owner. The engineer who became the CEO. Different industries, same pattern: the business grew around you, and the structure never caught up. That's a design problem, not a people problem.

Decisions that wait on youToo much still runs through one person, and the whole team feels it.
Handoffs nobody ownsDetails disappear between whoever sold the work and whoever delivers it.
Software you pay for but barely useLicensed fully. Adopted halfway. Run on spreadsheets anyway.
Fixes that never stickThe new process launched. Three weeks later, everyone's back to the old way.
Busy, but nothing closingIn motion all quarter, and not one initiative actually finished.

How we start, explained plainly.

You already know what's broken. The first 30 days close one of those things — and halfway through, we start mapping what comes after it.

Days 1–7

Scope it

Pick one initiative. What's in, what's out, who owns it, and what done looks like.

Days 8–14

Build it

The standard, the decision rules, the checklist. Your team helps design it, so it fits how they actually work.

Days 15–20

Review & map ahead

We check what's working, adjust, and start mapping the next initiatives together.

Days 21–30

Land it

Training, adoption check-ins, and the old way turned off. No reverting.

Day 31 on

Keep building

The next initiative on the map, with the same rhythm. You decide how long we keep going.

Why it sticks

Most fixes fail after launch, not before. This is how ours don't.

Most improvements fail on adoption, not design — so adoption gets planned as hard as the fix
One person owns adoption, not IT and not "everyone"
Weekly check-ins while the new habit forms
The old way gets switched off, not left as a fallback
People get seen doing it right — recognition builds the habit, enforcement only stops the slide

Start with 30 days. Stay because it works.

The first 30 days are how you find out whether this is worth it, with your money protected. What comes after is a working partnership, one initiative at a time.

Days 1–30

The first 30 days

One fixed price. One stalled initiative scoped, built, and landed — with a metric that shows whether it worked.

Day 30

The guarantee

If you're not happy with the first 30 days, you get half your money back. No debate, no fine print.

Day 31 on

The partnership

A steady monthly rhythm: the next initiative on the map, a regular review, and the owner-intervention count trending down.

The number I watch

Not revenue. How often you get pulled in.

Count how many times a week something lands on you that your team should handle. If that number climbs with revenue, you're not scaling — you're building a bigger job for yourself.

Revenue ↑ Owner interventions ↓You're scaling

Revenue ↑ Owner interventions ↑A bigger job for you

Three questions worth sitting with.

There's no quick diagnosis here. Every business is different, and the people inside it understand it best. These are the questions I start with — and the ones good teams keep asking long after we're done.

Where does your time actually go each week — and is that where the business needs you most?
What would make the next 90 days a clear win? Not a feeling — something you could point to.
What matters enough that you'd keep after it, even when the busy season says otherwise?

Talk through your answers 30 minutes. You know your business best — we start there and plan from it.

Who I am

Effort doesn't scale. Structure does.

I've spent two decades across SaaS, hardware, and revenue teams — building go-to-market strategies, running sales and partnerships, working alongside product, and aligning teams who weren't speaking the same language.

The pattern I kept seeing: good people stuck inside workflows that were never designed. 8Day exists to fix that one initiative at a time. No jargon, no transformation plans, no AI hype.

Go-to-market strategySales & partnershipsProductOperationsAutomation

— Chris Lawrence, Founder

Now booking founding clients

8Day is new. That's an advantage for the first few clients.

I'm taking on a small number of founding clients. You get my full attention and founding terms. In return I ask for honest feedback — and, if it works, a case study we write together.

Founding terms on the first 30 days
Direct access to me, not a junior team
Half back if you're not happy
You keep everything we build, whether or not we continue

Before you book.

Straight answers to the usual questions.

Do we need to buy new software?

Usually not. Most of the gain comes from using what you already pay for properly. If a new tool is worth it, you'll see the math first.

How much of my team's time does it take?

A few working sessions in week one, then short check-ins. The point is to give time back, not take more of it.

What happens after 30 days?

Most of the planning happens before then. Around days 15–20 we review what's working and map the next initiatives together. If it's paying off, we keep going one initiative at a time. If you'd rather stop, you keep everything we built — no lock-in.

What if the first 30 days don't deliver?

Then you get half your money back. I'd rather earn the next month than hold you to it.

What does the first call cover?

Thirty minutes. We find the initiative that's costing you most and one step you can take right away — whether or not we work together.

Your business shouldn't need you for every decision.