Operations consulting & AI automation
Your business shouldn’t run you.
Odin Advisors helps small and mid-sized, founder-led companies take control of their business by finding the waste and variation in their business processes, improving those processes, and keeping them fixed for the long term.
Work enters tangled and leaves running in a straight line. We find what the tangle costs, fix the process behind it, and keep the fix working. You read the result on a one-page scorecard, every month.
01The problem
Why does your business feel harder to run every month?
It’s because the drag that comes with growth compounds: the manual handoffs, the re-keyed data, the spreadsheet only one person understands, the invoices that go out late and get collected later.
Most founders we work with are excellent at their craft. The drag is everything that grew up around the craft. Each piece looks small, and together they are why the business still needs you in the middle of it.
That drag has a dollar figure. Our job is to find it, fix it, and make the fix permanent.
Money rarely leaks in one dramatic place. It leaks at the seams, wherever work changes hands. These are the first places we evaluate.
02How we work
Find. Fix. Refine.
One method, three phases. Each phase follows the proven Lean Six Sigma improvement cycle, applied to the way a founder-led business actually runs.
PHASE 01Find.The operations audit
A baseline across your systems that prices the operational gap in hours and dollars, with a ranked list of what to fix. Fixed scope, quoted up front. If automation is not the answer, we say so, and you keep the baseline.
PHASE 02Fix.The redesign
We redesign the process first, then automate the parts that earn it across the systems you already own, so the improvement holds without adding headcount. Sized by the Find phase, never quoted blind.
PHASE 03Refine.Ongoing control
A one-page monthly scorecard, a regular review of what it shows, and monitoring of anything we automated, so the gain does not decay. An improvement that lasts is the product.
03Ways to work with us
Three ways in, one method behind them.
Some businesses need a process fixed. Some need an operator in the seat. Some need the fix to run without more people. Most need some of each.
Operations consulting
Process redesign, written procedures, clear roles, and the few numbers worth reviewing each week. Software only where it earns its place.
Fractional COO
An experienced operator in your business a set number of days a week, running the operating rhythm until it holds without you in the middle.
AI automation
The process fixed first, then automated across the systems you already own, and kept working on a one-page monthly scorecard.
04The disciplines
What makes the fix hold?
Two disciplines doing different jobs, held in equal weight.
Lean Six Sigma is how we see the work: map the process, set a baseline, find the waste and variation, and define what better means in dollars and hours before touching a tool. AI automation is how the improvement sticks: work that used to need a person happens reliably, on time, and without re-keying.
Neither discipline is the product on its own. The outcome is. Sometimes it takes both, and sometimes the process fix is enough.
05Track record
Where the method comes from
Twenty years of this work, from both sides of the table.
Consulting
National consulting firms, with clients ranging from government agencies and oil and gas to tier one auto suppliers and composite manufacturers.
Operating
A commercial construction business built from $500K to $7M in six years, then the private-equity turnaround of a second.
Method
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. MBA, University of Texas at Austin (McCombs). BBA, University of Wisconsin–Madison (School of Business).
Now
Operations consulting, fractional COO work, and AI automation builds for founder-led firms. AI Automation Certificate, Texas Executive Education at McCombs.
Since 2021, Odin Advisors has served founder-led companies, from startups to established businesses, in a variety of industries, including creative services, wealth management, sports technology, and the trades.
06The founder
“The person you meet on the first call is the person who does the work.”
Neil Nesladek · Founder
I founded Odin Advisors in 2021, after twenty years spent building, fixing, and running operations from both sides of the table. More about the firm.