THE INTEGRATOR RETAINER

Your business is ready to run without you holding it.

An ongoing embedded partnership for founders who are ready to hand the operational layer over, and stay handed over.

A small number of retainer clients at any one time

THE LIVED EXPERIENCE

You've built something real.

The vision is clear. The offer is proven. The clients come. But somewhere between the vision and the execution, everything still routes through you.

Your team is capable, and yet somehow, the questions still land in your inbox. The decisions still wait for your input. The backend still needs you watching it to hold.

You've done a lot to get here. Maybe an OBM, a VA, a systems person. Maybe a consulting engagement that got the structure clearer. You've built more than you give yourself credit for.

But there's a gap between a better structure and someone who actually holds it.

What you actually want, if you say it honestly, is a trusted operational partner. Someone who knows your business like you do. Who holds it with the same care.

Someone you never have to explain context to twice

That's what the Integrator Retainer is.

WHAT AN INTEGRATOR ACTUALLY DOES

Sits between the visionary
and the team.

YOU

Visionary

Holds the vision

↔

YOUR TEAM

Execution

Does the work

THE INTEGRATOR

Holds the execution

Makes sure the vision translates into action, the team moves in the right direction, and decisions happen at the right level — without routing back to you.

NOT THIS

Project Management

THIS

Operational Leadership

When it works, founders stop being the tiebreaker, the approver, the one who has to know where everything is. You lead. The integrator holds.

WHO IS KATIE

10+ years as the operational second in command.

Inside founder-led businesses from $400K to multi-7 figures, across online coaching, consulting, digital products, and service businesses. I've been the integrator for some of the biggest names in the online industry. Behind the scenes. Never in the spotlight. Building and holding the infrastructure so they could step forward.

I know what this role requires, not just the operational skill, but the trust it takes on both sides. A founder has to know that when they hand something over, it stays handed over.

I don't need managing. My clients don't explain context twice. They don't chase me for updates. They stop being asked questions that have nothing to do with them, because those questions come to me now.

[Founder testimonial, what they were carrying before the day, what we found together, what they were able to decide and do that they couldn't before.]

[First name] · [Business type]

WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE IN PRACTICE

YOU LEAD.

i hold.

I sit across the whole business.

Not inside one function, across all of them. I see how people, priorities, and execution connect. Which means I catch what department-level support misses: the friction in the gaps between roles, the decisions that need full-picture visibility to resolve.

Your team has an operational leader.

The questions that used to go to you come to me. I give direction, hold accountability, and keep the team moving without everything routing back up the chain. Your inbox stops being the place where the backend lands.

Decisions happen at the right level.

I establish clear ownership across the business so your team knows what's theirs, what needs a recommendation, and what genuinely needs you. Most of what ends up on your desk right now? Shouldn't be there. It won't be, once I'm in.

Nothing important falls through.

I track what's in motion, what's stalling, and what needs attention before it becomes a problem. You don't have to hold any of that — because I do.

You show up for the vision, the clients, the thinking that
only you can do. The operational layer is mine.

WHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITH — ONGOING

Not a project with

an end date.

WEEK ONE

You stop being the first point of contact for operational questions. They come to me.

MONTH ONE

Your team has clear ownership of their domains. Decisions that used to wait for you are being made without you.

ONGOING

The business runs. Launches execute. Client experience holds. Team accountability is maintained. You see final approvals — not everything that led to them.

WHAT YOU GET BACK

The hours you were spending on operational management. The mental load of tracking. The ability to take a week away and come back to a business that held.

WHAT YOU STEP INTO

The CEO role, fully. The strategic thinking, the vision, the client work, the growth. The part of the business that actually needs you.

[Founder testimonial, what they were carrying before the day, what we found together, what they were able to decide and do that they couldn't before.]

[First name] · [Business type]

THIS IS FOR YOU IF

**You're ready for the honest look.**

You have a specific problem, or a nagging feeling you can't quite name, that needs the right person in the room.

You want to work in a focused, high-impact container, not a drawn-out engagement.

You've been carrying something alone for too long.

You want to experience what it's like to work with me before committing to more.

You need clarity, decisions, and a path, not a strategy document to implement on your own.

This isn't for you if you're looking for validation of a decision you've already made, or a general strategy brainstorm. I'll go where the work actually is, and that requires you to be ready for an honest look.

A NOTE ON ENTRY

The retainer is not a cold starting point.

It's for founders who are ready for an ongoing embedded partnership which means the business needs the right foundations underneath it first. If you're not sure where you are, this is where we start.

Start here

VIP Day

One focused day

Then this

Vision to Execution

3 months intensive

You're here

The Retainer

Ongoing partnership

THE CHOICE

Stay the load-bearing wall, or finally put it down

Without this

You stay the load-bearing wall. The business grows, the complexity grows, and you keep scaling a model built entirely around your constant availability.

With the retainer

The backend is held. The team moves. Decisions happen at the right level. You lead the business instead of running it, and you get yourself back in the process.

READY?

Hand it to someone who will hold it the way you would.

I work with a small number of retainer clients at any one time.

When a spot opens, it goes to the right person.

If you're ready, let's start

LET'S TALK

Start with conversation. No pitch

Katie Kirsopp