Executive · build
Fractional Executive Leadership
Senior operating leadership inside the business, accountable for delivery rather than advice.
Senior operating leadership inside your business, part-time, accountable for delivery rather than advice.
£1,250–£1,850 per day·10 working days·4 executive days
What you get
Clarity on the constraint. Evidence behind it. A plan to act.
Not a template with your name on it. This is the fixed section plan for this service — the same one your executive and the delivery engine work to.
01 — Remit as understood
Restate the accountabilities in the executive's own words to confirm alignment.
02 — Baseline position
Where the measures stand today, from the evidence supplied.
03 — 90-day plan
Three thirty-day blocks with specific, checkable commitments.
04 — What could stop this
The three biggest risks to the appointment succeeding, including client-side ones.
05 — Reporting rhythm
What the board will see, when.
Who leads it
Someone who has sat in the seat.
A sector-matched senior operator from the Nuub network leads the work — an operator who has run a business of your size, not a junior consultant or a generalist analyst.
Chair · NED · MD · COO · CFO · CTO level
Matched for relevant operating experience, sector context and business scale.
Named before kick-off, verified by Nuub, and signed up to the Nuub Network Agreement — confidentiality, conflicts and insurance — before they are assigned. One rematch at no cost if the fit is wrong.
The discipline applied
A fractional operating executive writing for the board they report to.
How it works
From evidence to action in 10 working days.
01 — Remit brief complete
The client completes the appointment wizard.
By day 1 · You
02 — Executive matched
Nuub matches against the constraint and confirms availability.
By day 3 · Nuub
03 — Chemistry meeting
Client meets the matched executive.
By day 5 · You
04 — Appointment agreement signed
Client agreement and executive schedule issued and signed.
By day 7 · Nuub platform
05 — Start and 90-day plan
Executive starts and publishes a 90-day plan against the measures.
By day 10 · Your executive
06 — Client review and acceptance
The client reviews the released deliverable and either accepts it or asks for changes.
By day 15 · You
Delivery: 10 working days from a complete brief and the required evidence. You then have 5 working days to review, with 1 revision round included in the fee.
What we need from you
- Required
- Last twelve months of management accounts · Organisation chart
- Helpful
- Most recent board pack
Your time commitment
Approximately 3 hours
Brief, evidence, interviews and review across about 2 weeks. Nuub OS carries the analysis and the drafting; this is the part only you can do.
See the dated stage plan, the gates and where your hours goOpen
- Stage 1
Remit brief complete
By day 1 · YouComplete when: Remit, measures and commitment agreed.
- Stage 2
Executive matched
By day 3 · NuubComplete when: Shortlist presented and one executive selected.
- Stage 3
Chemistry meeting
By day 5 · YouComplete when: Client confirms the appointment.
- Stage 4
Appointment agreement signed
By day 7 · Nuub platformComplete when: Both signatures recorded with contract version.
- Stage 5
Start and 90-day plan
By day 10 · Your executiveComplete when: 90-day plan accepted by the sponsor.
- Stage 6
Client review and acceptance
By day 15 · YouComplete when: Client accepts the deliverable, or the review window of 5 working days closes.
Completing the brief
The intake wizard, saved as you go and finishable in more than one sitting.
20 min
Assembling the evidence
2 required items — accounts, management information and operating data. Most of it already exists.
1 h
Kick-off call
Live time with your executive.
45 min
Reading and responding
Inside the 5-working-day review window, with 1 revision round included.
45 min
The brief
Delivery starts on a complete brief, not on payment. Your workspace opens the moment you buy, with 5 short sections, 24 required questions and progress saved as you go.
- Business context
- The constraint
- The remit
- Measures and review
- People and decision rights
Nuub OS
Human judgement. AI-assisted analysis.
Nuub OS structures the evidence, the analysis and the working draft so your executive spends their time where it matters — interrogating the problem, testing the conclusions and applying judgement.
Nothing reaches you until your executive has reviewed, challenged and approved it.
What “done” means
- Final board report issued
- Handover to internal successor documented
- Client feedback captured
Quality promise
- Every figure in your deliverable is traceable to evidence you supplied, or clearly labelled as an estimate.
- If we recommend something you have already tried, we explain what would be different this time.
- Every recommendation states the owner, the cost, the effort and the expected commercial effect.
- Plain board-level language. No padding, no jargon, no reheated slides.
- When the evidence is not enough to support a conclusion, we say so — and we name exactly what is needed.
Proof
See what the process looks like in practice
Cutting nine days out of quote-to-placement
An illustrative scenario based on patterns we see repeatedly in recruitment businesses between £4m and £12m turnover.
9 days to 2 days Time to price a role
Manufacturing and engineering · IllustrativeAn operating rhythm that removed the founder from daily firefighting
An illustrative scenario drawn from common patterns in owner-managed manufacturing businesses.
-66% in 90 days Founder escalations
Illustrative examples are labelled as such. Published client outcomes are reported against a stated baseline, measure and timeframe.
Price
£1,250–£1,850 per day
One engagement. Defined scope. Terms in writing.
You set the shape of the appointment, we match the executive and put the terms in writing before anything is signed.
Price basis
£5,000 buys 4 executive days and every artefact listed above, delivered in 10 working days from a complete brief.
Not included: implementation of the recommendations, travel outside standard UK visits, and any additional workstream you ask for later. Each is quoted in writing before it starts.
What is included
- 4 executive days
- Signed remit and appointment agreement
- 90-day plan
- Monthly board report
- 5 working day review window
- 1 revision round
£1,250–£1,850 per day · 10 working days
Priced by days per month. One day a week (4 days a month) from £5,000 per month. Commitment discount at two days a week and above.
Full terms — scope, review window, revisions, cancellation and ownership — are shown in full in the engagement terms and must be accepted before signature.
How an appointment comes about
Not a marketplace. Nobody is booked by the hour from a listing page.
- 01
Understand the requirement
What the business actually needs from a senior operator, and for how long.
- 02
Nuub shortlists suitable executives
From the Network, against work type, sector, geography and genuine capacity.
- 03
Introduction
You meet the executive before anything is committed.
- 04
Agreement and start
Scope, rate and notice in writing, then the appointment begins.
Not ready for the full engagement?
Take the free 12-minute Nuub Constraint Assessment to see where the greatest constraint is likely to sit across your business.
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£1,250–£1,850 per day · 10 working days