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What Is A Fractional Lead?

A vetted operator, manager to director level, who joins your team 1, 2, or 4 days a week and owns the follow-through: people, vendors, and cross-functional work with limited direction.

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Interviews in days●Working in about two weeks●Pay only for the days you need

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150+
Companies Transformed
95%
Success Rate
750+
Vetted Experts

Trusted clients who love our fractional executives

Aged Diagnostics Coursera Georgetown University Mindshare RightHear Tarsus
The quiet tax

Is this you?

This week's list, again

Doing $500-an-hour work between Slack pings.

Projects start. Nobody owns the finish.

You need the help now, not the headcount.

The last wrong hire cost you a year.

One operator model

Nine functions. One operator model.

Pick the function that keeps slipping. Your Lead covers the stack you already run.

Operations Lead

Day-to-day operations, SOPs, onboarding systems, project coordination.

AsanaNotionAirtableSOP builds

Marketing Lead

Campaign execution, content and email operations, paid media, website upkeep.

Paid AdsSEOEmailWebsite

GTM Lead

CRM and pipeline operations, outbound systems, sales enablement, RevOps.

HubSpotSalesforceOutboundPipeline design

HR Lead

Hiring coordination, onboarding, HRIS and payroll administration, compliance basics.

HiringOnboardingRipplingGusto

Product Lead

Roadmap execution, specs, user feedback loops, release coordination.

LinearFigmaSpecsUser interviews

Finance Ops Lead

AR and billing operations, reporting cadence, bookkeeping oversight, cash flow hygiene.

QuickBooksAR + invoicingStripeCash flow

Customer Success Lead

Client onboarding, support systems, renewals and account health tracking.

ZendeskIntercomOnboardingRenewals

Data Lead

Dashboards, KPI scorecards, analytics, CRM data hygiene.

Looker StudioPower BIGA4KPI scorecards

AI & Automation Lead

Workflow automation, AI implementation, prompt libraries and AI-powered SOPs.

ZapierMakeChatGPTClaudeAI SOPs
Investment

One number a month

2 days per week

8k/month
  • ✓Everything in 1 day
  • ✓Runs a key business function
  • ✓Leads team standups
  • ✓Keeps projects and people aligned
  • ✓Delivers a monthly scorecard
Most chosen

1 day per week

4k/month
  • ✓Owns one priority end-to-end
  • ✓Turns direction into weekly progress
  • ✓Keeps work moving without a full-time hire
  • ✓Weekly CEO sync

4/5 days per week

13k/month
  • ✓Everything in 2 days
  • ✓Senior director-level operator
  • ✓Leads your team's execution rhythm
  • ✓Builds and documents SOPs
  • ✓Brings in specialized support when needed
  • ✓Quarterly business review

Scale days up or down as your needs change.

Plus a one-time 4.5k Success Fee when we make your match. No other fees.

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15 minutes. Free. You'll leave knowing your next step either way.

The math

Manager-level follow-through without the manager's salary

Hiring a manager the normal way takes about eight weeks to an offer, months more to full productivity, and fails almost half the time.

The Full-Time Hire
$8,000 to $15,000+
per month, loaded
  • ✗About 17 weeks before they are productive
  • ✗You do the recruiting and the managing
  • ✗46% of new hires fail within 18 months
The Smarter Bet
The Fractional Lead
4k to 13k
per month, scaled to your days
  • ✓Working in about two weeks
  • ✓Recruiting and management included
  • ✓Scale days up or down as your needs change
  • ✓One 4.5k success fee when we make your match
Success story

What it looks like in real life

Marketing LeadWebsite RedesignDecision Bottleneck

The decisions stopped waiting on one person

Gray Street had every marketing decision bottlenecked through one executive, with a website redesign on a Friday deadline and designers, content, and an offshore team all waiting. Their Fractional Lead, Morgan Riley, stepped in and ran it: led the calls, made the decisions, and checked in after rather than before. The CEO got 15-minute updates instead of hour-long tactical meetings. The website shipped on time, and the executive got unbottlenecked.

What they hired: An operator to own the follow-through on a website redesign with a hard deadline.
What they got: Fifteen-minute updates instead of hour-long tactical meetings.
Tyler Gray
"The fractional lead is professional, personable, good with the clients, good with the teams. That's all positive and very much what we're looking for."
Tyler Gray CEO, Gray Street Solutions
Gray Street SolutionsMarketing engagement
Mike Malloy with clients at SaaSOpen
Lifetime Second Match Free Guarantee™

If the first match isn't right, the second one is on us.

Every match is backed for life by the Lifetime Second Match Free Guarantee™: if the match is not right, we replace your Lead at no additional fee. In 150+ clients, it has been used twice, both times inside the first two months.

Zero additional feesNo expiration dateForever
Frequently asked questions

Got Questions? We've Got Answers.

The process is three steps, everything up to the match is free, and a fractional executive can be working in your business in as fast as two weeks.

Day 1: Scalability Audit. 30 minutes. Free. Tell us what's slowing your growth, with no prep and no pressure. We pinpoint the biggest constraint holding your growth back and show you how fractional leadership can fix it. You decide whether you want to see a draft Statement of Work.

Day 3 to 7: SOW Alignment Meeting. 30 minutes. Free. We review your draft Statement of Work live on screen, adding, cutting, and adjusting in real time to fit your needs. You walk away with a clear scope, timeline, and investment range, and you keep the SOW to review with your team before anything is signed.

Day 7 to 14: Interview 2 Vetted Fractional Executives. 2 hours. Free. You meet operators one and two before you commit to anything, with no obligation to hire either one. Your Client Service Manager facilitates, so it's your interview to run while she keeps the conversation on track. You debrief with her right after and either schedule the kickoff or ask to see who's behind door number three, on a 4k to 15k per month engagement with a flat 4.5k one-time success fee.

The 4.5k success fee is a one-time fee per fractional executive placement, and you only pay it when we successfully match you and you decide to move forward.

Traditional executive search firms charge 20 to 35% of the first year's total compensation. That's $30k to $90k. Instead, we simply ask for a one-time 4.5k success fee.

This fee pays Malloy Industries for:

Matchmaking infrastructure: Sourcing, screening, vetting, and interviewing.

Lifetime Second Match Free Guarantee™: Ongoing protection on every placement.

Weekly TPS Reports™: Trust-building Progress Snapshot reports, every week.

Monthly check-ins: With your Client Service Manager.

Quarterly Strategic Business Reviews: With our CEO.

It is the price of your leadership safety net. We stay in the trenches with you for the life of the engagement.

Yes. Fractional engagements are month-to-month with no multi-year contracts, so you can increase hours during a growth sprint, decrease when things stabilize, or cancel entirely.

We activate the Lifetime Second Match Free Guarantee™. Our Client Service team and CEO step in first to understand what's not working, because sometimes the issue is fixable through coaching or a scope adjustment.

If a replacement is the right call:

New match: We replace your fractional executive from our network of 750+ at no additional matchmaking cost.

Interim coverage: Provided if needed.

Timeline: A replacement is typically ready within 1 to 4 weeks.

Yes, we design the onboarding and introduction process to set your fractional executive up for credibility from day one.

In our experience, teams respect competence, clarity, and follow-through, and they will be relieved. They've been waiting for someone to bring structure, accountability, and expertise to a function that's been held together with duct tape.

A fractional executive owns a function end to end, turning what lives in your head into systems your team can run, so you stop being the single point of failure.

They take what lives in your head and turn it into systems your team can run. They train the team to own it. They report back so you keep visibility without doing the work yourself.

The goal is to remove you as the single point of failure in the part of the business that is eating your time, so you get back to the work only you can do.

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