Longlight Operating Partners
Operations leadership for when growth outpaces systems
We are two senior operators who embed in founder-run companies, own the highest-leverage problems, and leave behind an operation your team can run without us.
Start a conversationWhat we do
We give leaders operational leverage
Fractional COO
For founder-run companies whose growth has outpaced their systems.
One of us works inside your team as the operating lead, from scoping the real bottleneck through to handoff. Typical work: supply chain, product launch, field operations, people ops, and the systems underneath.
How we work as your COOAI Chief of Staff
For executives and founders who want their time back.
We set up Claude Code around the way you work, using our proprietary chief of staff architecture and four working sessions. You spend your time on the work you love.
What a chief of staff doesOperator principles run through both: careful process, real execution, practical solutions.
The gap nobody is filling
Past the scrappy phase. Not ready for a full-time COO.
Founder-run companies between $5M and $100M have outgrown the scrappy phase but aren't ready to hire a full-time COO.
They often have capable operators stuck in firefighting mode, so momentum stalls. What's missing is a senior operator who can embed quickly and move at the speed of the business.
Sound familiar?
What it sounds like when a CEO calls us
Orders are growing and every shipment is harder.
Delivery is slower and more expensive, inventory is hard to trust, and nobody owns the whole result.
Demand is ahead of the operation.
Expediting has become normal, cost and capacity decisions happen reactively, and the founder is pulled into daily firefights.
We've outgrown how we coordinate.
Priorities change by conversation, work crosses functions without an owner, and meetings generate activity instead of decisions.
Results
We've done this before
Before Longlight we ran operations at venture- and PE-backed companies through exactly these transitions.
Faster order-to-delivery, with logistics cost cut in half, at a $300M tech-enabled services business.
Capacity, with product cost down 50% and gross margin doubled, through 300% annual growth at a consumer hardware company.
SKUs launched across six formats at a national consumer brand, alongside its long-term ingredient and manufacturing strategy.
Who we work with
Founder-led companies with real growth and an operation that hasn't kept up
Tech-enabled physical products, hardware, consumer goods, and field services.
- REVENUE
- $5M to $100M
- OWNERSHIP
- Founder-led
- STAGE
- Scaling, post product-market fit
- NEED
- Senior ops leadership
AI, used by operators
An assistant that does real work
We bring an operator's care for execution to AI: an assistant set up around how you work, with you approving everything that goes out.
Follow up on today's calls.
It reads the transcripts, drafts each follow-up in your voice, and logs every action item. You review and send.
