Structure and accountability for founders building past traction.
Sydney-based · Supporting startups and scaleups across Australia and New Zealand
C2 Consulting provides Fractional COO and Fractional Chief of Staff support for founders and executive teams. We bring order and regularity to scaling organisations with lean systems, clear accountability structures, and direct support for the next stage of growth. Proud Anthropic Partner.
Growth exposes weak operating systems.
Most startups and scaleups do not fail because the strategy is unclear. They fail because execution, systems, and decision cadence are not strong enough to handle the next stage of growth. What the business needs is order, regularity, and a senior partner who can help the team hold it together.
Founder Bottlenecks
The business has traction, but nothing moves without the founder. Decisions, exceptions, and context all sit with one person. Growth stalls not because strategy is wrong, but because there is no operating system underneath it.
Fragmented Execution
The team is capable, but accountability is unclear, meetings lack structure, and follow-through is inconsistent. What the organisation needs is order and regularity - a clear rhythm of planning, execution, and review that runs without the founder holding it together.
AI & Workflow Lag
You know AI should be creating leverage for your team, but you lack the senior operational bandwidth to design, implement, and govern secure AI workflows.
Fractional Operations & AI Enablement.
Fractional support for founders and executive teams across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and remotely across ANZ.
Fractional COO for Startups & Scaleups
Senior operating leadership to help founders scale infrastructure, align teams, and execute strategy.
Embedded operational leadership for growing companies. This service is designed for founders who need a senior partner to own the operating cadence, streamline cross-functional delivery, and build the systems required for scale. Available as an ongoing retainer or as a scoped project for a specific operating initiative.
- ★Operating model design and execution rhythm
- ★Cross-functional alignment and accountability systems
- ★Revenue operations and GTM infrastructure
Fractional Chief of Staff
High-leverage execution support for CEOs navigating transformation or critical strategic initiatives.
Direct support for the CEO or Founder. This service focuses on maximising the executive's time by acting as a force multiplier: driving strategic projects, managing key communications, and ensuring cross-functional leadership alignment. Available as an ongoing retainer or as fixed-scope support for a defined strategic initiative.
- ★Strategic initiative design, scoping and delivery
- ★Leadership rhythm, OKRs, and quarterly planning
- ★Information synthesis and decision acceleration
AI Workflow & Enablement
Practical integration of Anthropic's Claude and AI tooling into your scaling operational workflows.
As an official Anthropic Partner, C2 Consulting helps organisations identify, design, and implement secure AI workflows. We focus entirely on pragmatic operational leverage, productivity gains, and execution over abstract technology hype.
- ★Identifying high-value workflow automation opportunities
- ★Implementing Anthropic's Claude for knowledge synthesis and operations
- ★Designing secure, governed AI policies and controls
Engagement Model
Engagements are scoped around the problem, not a fixed format. Most are structured as monthly retainers, typically one to four days per week, for founders who need ongoing operating leadership. Short-term project engagements are also available for defined, time-boxed work.
Conversations are free and scoped within 48 hours, regardless of engagement type.
Articles for founders who want the operating layer to hold.
When Is It Time to Hire a Fractional COO?
A practical guide for founders deciding whether operations need senior ownership before more headcount.
How to Build an Operating Cadence for a 10-50 Person SaaS Team
A simple operating cadence for SaaS teams that need clearer planning, review, and execution rhythm.
What Does a Chief of Staff Actually Do?
A grounded explanation of the fractional Chief of Staff role for founders and executive teams.
Order Before Scale: Why Lean Operating Systems Beat Hiring More People
Why the best response to growth is usually better structure, not a larger team.
Execution over advice.
C2 Consulting is built around a direct view: most scaling problems are operating problems. The work is practical: bringing order and regularity to how organisations run, building lean systems that scale without adding unnecessary complexity, and giving founders and executive teams the senior support they need to focus on what matters.
Engagements are hands-on. The output is a company that runs with structure and accountability, not one that has been advised on it.
* The "C2" name is drawn from the military concept of Command and Control - reflecting our belief that clear communication, disciplined execution, and decisive leadership are the bedrock of any successful operation.
Jayden Bartram
Jayden spent 12 years in the military before moving into B2B SaaS, where he co-founded Couchdrop and helped scale it from two founders to a global team before a partial exit. Along the way he built GTM, revenue operations, partnerships, and compliance functions from nothing - not advised them into existence, built them.
That experience shaped a simple view of how scaling companies actually work: they need order before they need more people, systems that stay lean as they grow, and a senior partner in the room who has done the job, not one who is learning it on your time.
He is completing an MBA at AGSM, UNSW and is an official Anthropic Partner.
LinkedIn ProfileOrder before scale.
Lean operating systems, clearer accountability, and senior support for founders and executive teams navigating growth.
Start with the operating problem.
Every engagement begins with a scoped conversation. The goal is to understand the operating constraint, identify the right engagement model, and determine if a Fractional COO or Chief of Staff is the right fit.