Remove My Distractions
Key activities
- Manage your payroll
- Manage accounts payable / bills and cash
- Manage systems access (i.e. Google Admin, Notion, Slack, etc.)
Bring Order to My Chaos
Key activities
- Manage benefits and equity grants
- Attend full-team and executive meetings and manage action items
- Onboard employees and contractors
- Handle interaction with legal and bookkeeping services
Be My Right Hand
Key activities
- Interim team management
- Design, implement, and administer performance management program
- Support development and implementation of company strategy
- Strategic vendor identification and onboarding (i.e. legal, bookkeeping, compliance)
Custom packages also available
Your company is unique, and we are happy to provide a solution tailored specifically to your needs.
Please reach out using the contact form or via LinkedIn.
Remove My Distractions
Key activities
- Manage your payroll
- Manage accounts payable / bills and cash
- Manage systems access (i.e. Google Admin, Notion, Slack, etc.)
Bring Order to My Chaos
Key activities
- Manage benefits and equity grants
- Attend full-team and executive meetings and manage action items
- Onboard employees and contractors
- Handle interaction with legal and bookkeeping services
Be My Right Hand
Key activities
- Interim team management
- Design, implement, and administer performance management program
- Support development and implementation of company strategy
- Strategic vendor identification and onboarding (i.e. legal, bookkeeping, compliance)
Custom packages also available
Your company is unique, and we are happy to provide a solution tailored specifically to your needs.
Please reach out using the contact form or via LinkedIn.
SimplifyCOO Packages
In every package…
Regular interactions and updates in your preferred format
No matter how you choose to engage SimplifyCOO, I will meet with you regularly to discuss company priorities and your ongoing needs. You can think of this as a combination of a 1-on-1 with a direct report where you can assign work, and a meeting with an advisor where you can discuss the big issues you’re dealing with in the company.
Someone who feels like a part of the team
One of my goals at SimplifyCOO is to make everyone at your company feel like I’m a part of the team. I introduce myself on Zoom to the executive team, I will become part of your communications channels like Slack, and I will be responsive much like a full-time employee.
Speed and flexibility
Need someone fast? I can typically start as soon as the following week. Want to pay partly in equity in order to conserve cash or align our interests? No problem. I’m here to figure out the setup that works best for you and your company, and to make it happen way faster than a typical full-time interview process and onboarding would take. Plus, you pay me as a contractor, so the price you see is the price you pay, no added costs for benefits or insurance.
Zero long-term commitments
Want to try me out for a month? Great! Want to keep our contract month-to-month after that? Great! All of these packages are monthly prices with absolutely zero additional commitment.
Package 1: Remove My Distractions - $949 / month
Keep your business running every day
Your business requires a lot of your attention on things that need to get done just to keep the lights on. When a bill comes in from a vendor, you’re the one who needs to review it, make sure it’s paid, and get it into Quickbooks. When you hire a new employee, you’re the one who has to spend the time getting them access to all the company tools and systems. When an employee has questions about their paystubs or benefits, you’re the one who has to look into it.
You got into this business to solve a problem in the world, but every day your time is take up by things that are keeping you from doing that. What if you had a trusted partner who could remove some of these distractions so you could get back to doing the important stuff?
The “Remove My Distractions” package offers coverage for the main activities that are needed to keep your business running every day: payroll, invoices, cash management, and systems access. Get these things off your plate, get more of the important stuff done.
Key activities
Manage your payroll
- Ensure employees and contractors are paid on time
- Add new employees and contractors to your payment systems
- End payments for terminated employees and contractors
Manage accounts payable / bills and cash
- Verification and categorization of bills
- Single point of contact for company invoices
- Monitoring of cash flow
- Setup of auto-payment for strategic vendors
- Ensure company cash is in optimal account types (i.e. money market funds)
Manage systems access (i.e. Google Admin, Notion, Slack, etc.)
- Onboard new employees and contractors to relevant tools for their work and pay
- Timely cutoff of access for terminated team members
- Ensure appropriate access for team and company leaders
- Verify and manage setup for each tool for stage of business
Package 2: Bring Order to My Chaos - $8,845 / month
People and Business Operations
Do you struggle to stay on top of what everyone is working on in your company? Are you sure they’re all focused on the right set of activities?
How nice would it be to have someone in the know?
Are you the one who has to onboard new employees? Get them benefits? Grant them equity?
How nice would it be to ask a trusted partner to do this instead?
Do you have a bookkeeping service that keeps asking you questions about how to categorize vendors? Do you have a law firm who needs your review of your new employee equity grants?
How nice would it be to be able to hit “Forward” and send those questions somewhere else?
The “Bring Order To My Chaos” package includes everything in the “Remove My Distractions” package, as well as coverage for the main People and Business Operations functions of your business, and also includes benefits management, equity grant management, company and executive team meeting participation and action item tracking, employee and contractor onboarding, and legal and bookkeeping services management.
Key activities
Manage benefits and equity grants
- Employee resource for any questions about benefits or equity
- Recommend and implement changes to benefits
- Provide guidance on equity grants and manage process for granting equity to new employees or refreshing equity for existing employees
Attend full-team and executive meetings and manage action items
- Attend full-company meetings to provide input and record and track key action items
- Attend executive meetings to provide input and record and track key action items
Onboard employees and contractors
- Act as company’s general point of contact for new employees and contractors
- Send employees and contractors offer letters
- Provide new employees and contractors with necessary payroll and benefits systems access
- Grant systems access to new employees and contractors
Handle interaction with legal and bookkeeping services
- Act as company’s general point of contact for legal and bookkeeping services
- Monthly review of balance sheet, cash flows, and income statements with bookkeeping service
- Engage legal team/service for matters delegated by CEO – equity grants, international employee/contractor compliance, cap table management
Package 3: Be My Right Hand - $16,805 / month
Strategy and/or Interim Management
Did your company recently lose a key leader? Maybe one of your teams is growing quickly and doesn’t have a manager? Are you in need of some temporary but immediate help with team management?
Does your company lack a performance management program? Do you have a mechanism to ensure employees are clear on expectations, and managers are giving appropriate feedback to help them deliver on those expectations?
Is your company strategy in need of some clarification or adjustment given changes in the business environment? Are you sure that employees understand the company strategy and are focused on work that is aligned with company strategy?
Have you recently outgrown your bookkeeping service and need to identify a new vendor? Are you in need of a security and compliance vendor but don’t know where to start?
Do you need a trusted advisor and partner who understands the ins and outs of your business and can be a sounding board and resource to you on a regular basis?
The “Be My Right Hand” package is our most comprehensive package. It includes everything in the “Bring Order To My Chaos” package, as well as coverage for key strategic and people management functions of your business. You get an interim manager for a key team, an owner of your performance management program, an owner of strategic vendor identification and onboarding, and a right hand on company strategy.
Key activities
Interim team management
- Regular 1-on-1s, team meetings, and work management for a team missing an executive leader on an interim basis while the company identifies a long-term replacement
Design, implement, and administer performance management program
- Develop bespoke performance management program that fits the needs of the company based on feedback from company leaders and employees
- Train company managers on how to deliver feedback as part of the performance management program
- Train employees on the need and function of the performance management program
- Solicit feedback from company leaders and employees to iterate on program
Support development and implementation of company strategy
- Participate in executive discussion around company goals and strategy for achieving those goals
- Develop proposal for any changes in company strategy
- Develop materials and plans for communication of company strategy to broader team
Strategic vendor identification and onboarding (i.e. legal, bookkeeping, compliance)
- Support CEO in identifying needs for new or replacement strategy vendors
- Executive solicitation process for vendors
- Provide proposal to CEO for vendor selection
- Manage onboarding of selected vendors