Reintroducing ourselves

Build the Framework: Operational Excellence Where Others Fall Short

At Build the Framework, we recognized a critical gap in the market that large consulting firms consistently fail to address: the need for hands-on, practical operational and financial leadership that doesn't come with enterprise-level price tags or cookie-cutter solutions.

While big firms excel at high-level strategy and theoretical frameworks, they fundamentally misunderstand what small and medium businesses need to succeed. They're built to serve enterprise clients, so they default to recommending large, expensive, systematic solutions that may be technically correct but are completely impractical for SMBs and startups. Instead of cost-effective, short and medium-term fixes that can deliver immediate impact, they push comprehensive overhauls that consume resources these businesses simply don't have. They arrive with armies of junior consultants, present beautiful slide decks filled with enterprise-grade solutions, and leave behind recommendations that sound impressive but ignore the resource constraints and growth realities of smaller businesses.

We saw an opportunity to do things differently.

Build the Framework bridges the gap between expensive enterprise consulting and basic business advice. We bring seasoned operational and financial expertise directly to small and mid-sized businesses—not through lengthy engagements that drain budgets, but through focused, fractional leadership that gets results fast.

Our approach is simple: we dive deep into your specific operational and financial challenges, identify the bottlenecks that are actually holding you back, and implement systems that work for your business, your team, and your growth stage. No generic playbooks. No junior staff learning on your dime. Just experienced operational and financial leadership that understands how to scale efficiently without breaking what's already working.

We're not here to reinvent your business—we're here to make it run better and more profitably. Because every growing company deserves operational and financial excellence, but not every company needs full time support.

Ready to experience operational consulting that actually delivers? Let's build the framework for your success.


- Kate Sapsford & Lea Jensen