Ops Partner

The person founders and small business owners hand the chaos to.

I take the messy "someone should own this" work and actually finish it. With the team, systems, and KPIs to prove it was done right.

Portrait of Bethany Bledsoe
Currently
Booking two new engagements
58%
fewer cancellation requests
after an onboarding overhaul
16%
lower support costs
through workflow automation
0→1
Solutions Engineering team
built from scratch at Zapier
Selected work

Handed the chaos. Here's what I shipped.

01
Retail Tech Company

Customers were cancelling because no one owned onboarding. I owned it.

There was no real onboarding. I audited the whole journey, rebuilt it end to end with a new customer portal, set KPIs the team could actually hit, and layered in automation so it scaled without burning anyone out.

  • 58% fewer cancellations
  • 59% faster onboarding
  • 15% team performance lift in 30 days
02
Zapier

Built a Solutions Engineering team from zero, then a Product Advocates team beside it.

Defined the role, ran the hiring, wrote the training, and stood up a real feedback loop between sales, product, engineering, and CS. Underperformers became top performers in 90 days.

  • Enterprise win rate up
  • Monthly ARR up
  • Two teams shipped from scratch
03
Locale Hospitality

The guest experience was good. The org behind it was bleeding money.

Audited the guest journey, redrew the org around clear ownership, and automated the work that was eating the team's week. Support costs dropped without service quality dropping with them.

  • 16% lower support costs
  • Faster response times
  • Cleaner ownership across the org
About

Most things don't fail at the start. They fail half-built.

Hey, I'm Bethany. I'm an Ops Partner with sixteen years across SaaS, hospitality, higher education, and retail tech.

Plenty of people will hand you a strategy. Far fewer will stay and build it. I do both. I think the problem through, then I actually execute it, and I do not leave until it runs.

My whole career has been the same job under different titles: walk into the ambiguous, half-built, "someone should own this" work and turn it into something real, with a team, a system, and numbers behind it.

I am not an executive assistant. I do not manage your calendar. I build onboarding programs, restructure teams, install the systems that should have existed a year ago, and stay until they run without me.

If you're a founder or small business owner who is scaling and nothing feels like it works, that's the exact problem I'm good at. Hand me the chaos.

Cross-functional team leadership
AI and automation rollout
KPIs and accountability systems
Change management and process design
Customer experience and onboarding
Org design and hiring playbooks
Services

One way to work with me.

No tiers, no menu. You get an operator who walks in, owns the messy work, and stays until it runs. Most founders and small business owners hand me one broken thing and end up handing me the next three.

The Retainer
Ops Partner engagement
$2,000
starting, per month — scales with scope

Ongoing capacity to own the half-built, "someone should own this" work as it comes up. Onboarding that needs rebuilding, a team that needs structure, systems that should have existed a year ago. I scope it, build it, and stay until it runs without me. Audits, builds, rollouts, and training all happen inside the retainer — no separate offers, no scope creep tax.

What it looks like. Every engagement runs on the same arc: Diagnose, Design, Implement. We start by finding where your operations are leaking time, money, or people. Then I design the fix. Then I build it. You get an operator in the room every week, not advice you have to go execute yourself.

Dedicated weekly operating cadence
Audit, roadmap, and KPI design
Hands-on program build and rollout
Cross-functional team leadership
AI and automation implementation
Async support between sessions
Tell me what's broken
What the first 30 days look like

No long ramp-up. Diagnose, Design, Implement — starting week one.

Week 1

Diagnose.

I talk to your team, look at how the work moves today, and find where time, money, and people are leaking. You get a clear, honest read by the end of the week.

Week 2

Design.

I bring a short plan, we pick the priorities together, and I start building. No waiting for a forty-page deck.

Weeks 3 to 4

Implement.

The first system, process, or structure goes live. You start seeing the messy thing become a finished thing.

From there, we keep going. Every week, something that was half-built becomes done.

Let's talk

Tell me what you've been avoiding.

Book a short call. I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right fit.

Tell me what's broken