Operations, AI and automation for founder-led companies

We rebuild the ship while you are still sailing it

I find the work you stopped noticing you do, and I get the fix adopted. Your company cannot stop for six months while someone fixes how it runs, so we replace the machinery a piece at a time, in production, and document every part we touch. Nothing about the business stops. It just stops leaking.

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Founder led, $1M and up

North America

Scoped in writing before we start

Five steps. In this order, every time.

You can stop after any step and keep everything built up to that point, including the documentation.

Show

A working session inside your business on where AI and automation actually apply. You leave with at least five opportunities named and scoped.

Five or more opportunities named, scoped and costed, plus the recording.

Audit

We map the operation end to end and find where handoffs, tools and data are costing you time you already paid for.

A process map of how work actually moves, with every leak located.

Backlog

Every opportunity scored on effort, impact and build order. A sequence you can fund, not a wish list. Leave it alone is a real score and it appears on the list.

A ranked, costed build order you can fund one line at a time.

Build

CRM, integrations, automations and agents, shipped against the backlog and handed over with written SOPs and recorded walkthroughs.

Working systems in your own accounts, and the passwords in your name.

Sustain

Monitoring, maintenance and a weekly scorecard, so it keeps working without anyone on your team chasing it. At ninety days we measure whether people are actually using it, and fix it if they are not.

A weekly scorecard, a named owner per number, and a written 90-day usage report.

We build it. We do not only advise it.

Most fractional operators deliver a recommendation and leave. You get working systems, live in your own stack, before the engagement ends.

Documented, so you are never dependent on us.

Written SOPs and recorded walkthroughs for every system. Most consultants engineer lock-in. We build ourselves out of the job on purpose.

Run from inside live operations.

Not a course seller teaching automation. An operator with client systems running in production today, including the ones that broke last week.

Four things you will not hear from the other quote.

Every one of these costs us money to say out loud. They are here because you will find out anyway, and it is cheaper for both of us if you find out now.

Sometimes the answer is build nothing. If the task happens four times a year, a written checklist beats a system, and I will say so and bill you for the afternoon instead of the build.
Some of what I build for you will be replaced by software you can buy, in about two years. That is fine. It is cheaper to have the thing now and replace it later than to wait for a vendor to notice your problem.
AI mostly means you get to stay on spreadsheets and email longer, not that you rip them out. Ripping them out is the expensive advice.
Building the thing is the easy part now. Knowing which thing, and getting eleven people to actually use it on a Tuesday, is the job.

Built for founders who are the glue.

Companies with real revenue, a growing team, and an operation still held together by one person remembering things.

SCALING FOUNDERS

Revenue and a team, and you are still personally holding operations together.

MANUAL-OPS TEAMS

Your people burn days on copy-paste work a system should quietly own.

FUZZY OWNERSHIP

Nobody is sure who owns which number, so things quietly slip.

Ways in

Six ways to start, and you can start at any of them. See the detail on each one, or search the things I have already built.

AI Presentation

A live session for your team on what these tools do, what they do badly, and which parts of your specific operation they touch. Not a keynote. People leave with a list of their own tasks, sorted.

The Automation Audit

I sit with how you actually work, not how the org chart says you do. You get a ranked list of every repeated task with hours attached, and a build, simplify or leave-alone call on each line. Leave alone is a real answer and it appears on the list. Buy this on its own, it stands up without hiring me for anything after it.

Build Engagement

Only the lines from the audit that earn it. Wired into the tools you already pay for. Documented in plain English, and yours to keep if we part ways. Includes rollout and the ninety day check.

Fractional Operations

I run it. The cadence, the numbers, who owns what, and the systems underneath. Ongoing, monthly, cancel when the machine runs without me.

Upkeep Retainer

Ongoing care for the systems already running. Monitoring, fixes, changes when your business changes, and a standing check that people are still using the thing.

The 90-day Adoption Check

Ninety days after anything goes live, I measure who is actually using it against who was supposed to. You get the numbers, the reasons people stopped, and the fixes. Works on systems I did not build. Already included in a build engagement, sold on its own for everything else.

Free guides. Run them yourself.

The same methods we use in paid work, cut down so you can run them without us. Real worked examples, the arithmetic shown, and the spreadsheets included. Each one costs you an email address.

Free guide 01

The Leak Finder

A five-day self-audit that finds the hours your team loses to work nobody notices any more, costs each one, and ranks what to fix first.

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Free guide 02

The Software Bill Cleanup

A 45-minute exercise that finds unused seats, tools that do the same job twice, and the annual renewal about to charge you for another year.

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Free guide 03

The Adoption Checklist

Twenty checks for before, during and after you roll out a new system, so it is still being used in ninety days.

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The person you would be hiring

I am Maria Traver. You are hiring me. I do the diagnosis myself and I am in your business every week. When a build needs more hands I bring in subcontractors I have worked with before, and I stay on it. Nobody hands you off to a stranger.

I came up through operations inside other people's companies, holding the coordinating, the chasing and the spreadsheet nobody else would own. That is why I go looking for the work you stopped noticing you do. I spent years being the person doing it.

I have client systems running in production right now, including the ones that broke last week. I am inside them every week. Nothing on this site is theory.

Tell me what is leaking

Four boxes. I read these myself and reply within a working day. To schedule directly instead, email admin@argomodern.com.

Your operation should hold the line for thirty days without you

That is the standard we build to, and the test we run before we call it finished.

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