You run the trade.We run the business.
You've heard hiring an operations manager is the magic wand - wave it once and the chaos sorts itself out. Instead, your ops manager is overwhelmed just like you were, and when they're on leave it all lands back on you again. We help you fix systems, processes, roles, delegation and priorities - for you and your team. So you can run the trade, and we help you run the business. From a fractional operations manager to a full profit-share partner.
Where's your business right now?
You'll recognise yourself in one of these. That's your starting point.
Solo → 1–2 staff
On the tools all day, admin at night. Invoicing forgotten for weeks. Your partner does the books - and is over it.
Fix: Propel Assist - the admin, gone →3–8 staff, off the tools
You're now coordinator + salesperson. Quoting and follow-up strangle growth. Your customer database sits idle.
Fix: Assist + Growth Coaching →8–15 staff, running 2–3 jobs at once
You need an operations manager - but can't justify, find or manage a $120–150k hire.
Fix: Fractional Operations Manager →Senior owner, thinking about the end game
Great business, decades in, energy fading. Most trade businesses never sell - and most acquisitions are bought on gut feel.
Fix: Profit-Share Partner →The Propel Partner offers
Fractional Operations Manager
Part-time access to real operations leadership. We run scheduling, back office, follow-up and coordination - for a fraction of the cost of a $120–150k full-time hire, with no full-time commitment. It just gets done.
Operations & Revenue Growth Coaching
Systemise the business and grow revenue from the goldmine you already own - your customer database - instead of paying $2–3k a month for new Google and Facebook leads. Works alongside your job software, doesn't replace it.
Profit-Share Partner
We take on the entire business-management side; you run the trade you love. You keep your licence, stay the face of the business, keep equity and income - and drop the headache. Built for the mid-career owner who hates the office, and the senior owner who'd lose purpose by selling.
From support to a long-term partnership
- 01
Coaching
- 02
Assist
- 03
Fractional Ops
- 04
Partnership
Why now
A huge share of trade owners are approaching retirement, and roughly 4 in 5 trade businesses never find a buyer. Walking away shouldn't be the only option.
Why Propel
We already run the ops teams, the coaching, and the database re-engagement tech. We're the execution engine - not a coach on the sidelines.
Why it works
Coaching → Assist → Fractional Ops → Partnership is a natural ladder. You escalate only when each step has already paid for itself.