We build the quarter the deck would have described.

EOMGTZ embeds seasoned operators inside mid-market companies at an inflection. We install what's missing, run it, train your team, and hand back the keys.

Your operationFour gaps keep it from scaling
The official mark·Click a piece
Strong C-SuiteMissing
  • Fractional CFO, COO, CMO, CIO
  • The Council. Operators on call
  • The Office. The full layer
Scalable ProcessesMissing
  • The weekly operating cadence
  • Role-based SOPs in plain English
  • A team trained to own it
Scalable DataMissing
  • One reporting spine
  • KPI frameworks and dashboards
  • Systems & data architecture
Applied AIMissing
  • AI Readiness. The honest assessment
  • AI Implementation. Built and shipped
  • Run on Claude, like our own outbound
We build the quarter with you. We leave your world more complete.
Member · Claude Partner Network
§ 00 — Operator-led value creation Diagnose → Install → Withdraw Est. 2022 · Tampa, FL

We are operators, not advisors.

A profitable business that runs on personal heroics isn't a system. It's a risk. A buyer pays for boring. Predictable cash, clean reporting, delivery that holds when the founder is on vacation. We replace heroics with installed systems your team owns. Then we leave.

W-01

We've sat in the seat.

Operators who ran PE-backed platforms, not career advisors. We've carried the cadence, the dashboard, and the integration calendar from inside.

W-02

We install and run it, then hand it off.

We own the outcome and leave a working system, not a recommendation you implement on your own. Your team is trained to run it before we go.

W-03

We're built to withdraw.

A defined endpoint and a variable cost. We engineer ourselves out of the building, so we never become a permanent line item.

W-04

A bench, not a single hire.

Cross-functional coverage and continuity. Capability doesn't walk out the door when one person does.

Our record
$2B+Value creation

Across the operating seats, platforms, and integrations our partners have built.

70+Companies integrated

Worked through diligence and integrated afterwards. Same data model, same rhythm, every time.

20+AI processes installed

In production today, ours and our clients'. Outbound, triage, reporting, month-end close.

Founder-led. PE-backed. Sponsor-side. The same missing pieces.

Founder-led

The business runs because you never stop.

Every quote, every hire, every escalation routes through you. The company is profitable and it is fragile, because the system is you. A buyer can see it. So can your family. We install the operating layer that runs without you in the room, and we train your people to own it. You get the company back. Then we leave.

Get your time back →
PE-backed companies

The clock started at close. The systems didn't.

The model promised an operating layer by day one hundred. Right now reporting is three spreadsheets and the leadership seat is thin. Every month without the cadence is a month off the multiple. We embed at the inflection, install the layer, integrate the acquisitions, and hand it back exit-ready.

De-risk the hold →
Sponsors & funds

Your operating team is stretched across the whole portfolio.

A new platform closes and the first hundred days start slipping while your operating partners triage somewhere else. We're the bench you drop in. We've run the post-close playbook from inside a sponsor-backed platform, and we hand back the keys when it runs.

Add us to the bench →

How the missing pieces get filled.

I Diagnose II Install III Withdraw Every engagement is built to end. We train your team, transition the hire, and leave.
P-01

The Seat

An embedded fractional executive

A seasoned operator in the seat you're missing. CFO, COO, CMO, or CIO. They build the systems, run the function, and transition a full-time hire in when the time is right.

Versus a single fractional hire: a bench behind the leader, and what they build stays when they go.
P-02

The Council

Operators on call

Operators who've run the play, plugged into your actual operating cadence. Not opinions from the sideline. Judgment, on call, from people who have done it.

Versus generic advisory: we sit inside your cadence, not on a quarterly check-in.
P-03

The Office

The whole operating layer

The full executive office, installed across functions. We build it, run it, train your team to own it, and leave the keys on the desk.

Versus traditional consultants: they hand over a diagnosis and bill to stay. We install and exit.
The diagnostic suite · Every engagement starts here
D-01

Market & Strategy

Where you sit, where the market is going, and the moves that matter in the next four quarters.

D-02

Value Creation

The full operating diagnostic. Cadence, reporting, margin, and the ranked interventions that move enterprise value.

D-03

Systems & Data Architecture

The deep technical pass. Systems, data layer, integration map, and the foundation AI actually requires.

D-04

Pre-Transaction

For owners heading toward a sale. What a buyer will see, what they'll discount, and what to fix before diligence.

You don't have a data problem. You have a decision and speed problem.

AI's real value is speed. Getting in front of customers, speeding up month-end close and decisions, all faster than your competitors can. The win goes to whoever completes the work fastest.

But none of it works unless your data, systems, and processes are connected first. The AI is the last step, not the first. That readiness is exactly what we install.

Member · Claude Partner Network

We run our own outbound and our own month-end close on the AI systems we build.

EOMGTZ is a member of Anthropic's Claude Partner Network, the program for firms that put Claude into production for clients. The first client of our AI practice is us. When we tell you what it takes, we're speaking from experience inside our own operation.

Claude
Partner Network
Member · 2026
The catch "Put AI into the wrong environment and it makes your current problems a hundred times worse."
03.1 — AI Readiness

Find out how ready you actually are.

For companies that want AI and don't have the foundation yet

Before any AI spend, we assess your processes, data, and systems and tell you the truth. Sometimes that truth is "you're two years away, and here's exactly why."

  • A clear-eyed readiness diagnostic with a defined endpoint
  • The specific gaps in process, data, and systems, ranked
  • A sequenced path so AI lands on solid ground
  • Built for post-acquisition companies with fragmented data
Request the readiness diagnostic
03.2 — AI Implementation

You don't need a readiness lecture. You need it built and shipped.

For data-mature companies with a technology leader in place

You have the team and the foundation. We build the AI workflows, put them in production, and make them stick. Working systems, not pilots that stall.

  • AI workflows designed to your operating cadence, not a spec
  • Shipped to production with your team in the build
  • Your people leveled up to run it after we leave
  • Same premise as everything we do: install, then exit
Scope an implementation
What speed looks like in your industry
Home services
Two days same visit

An accurate estimate in the customer's hands before the truck leaves the driveway.

While a competitor takes two days to follow up.
Construction
Days of bid prep hours

A bid turned around while the window is still open.

First to respond when the GC asks.
Professional services
Hours of drafting minutes

A solid first draft of the deliverable ready for the team to review.

Answers back to clients faster.
Manufacturing
Three calls one

An instant quote and a straight answer on lead time.

While a competitor is still checking with the team.
Proof from our own operation · our outbound, reply triage, and month-end close run on these systems today · close work that took days runs in hours, with a human approving every send
And inside your departments
Finance
Three weeks close day

Month-end variance explained in plain English the day the books close.

Not three weeks and a fire drill later.
Sales
Hours minutes

Every inbound lead gets a researched, personal reply within minutes.

While the competitor's rep is still checking the CRM.
Operations
A planning day an overnight run

The schedule rebuilt overnight around tomorrow's demand.

Ready before the morning huddle.
Customer service
Days minutes

First response in minutes, with the full account history in hand.

Instead of a ticket queue measured in days.

Operators who've carried the seat.

TG

Tyler Goodhue

Managing Partner · Ops & Data
AI ReadinessAI Implementation

Built businesses that scale through data. Has helped grow three companies past $1B in revenue. Most recently the Chief of Staff seat at a national trades platform, building the BI function, KPI frameworks, and operating cadence across 40+ acquired companies.

Fractional COO · Head of Data · AI Readiness · PE integration
TG

Tim Goodhue

Principal · Technology
AI ReadinessAI Implementation

Four decades of enterprise technology. Contributed to NASA's database systems supporting rocket launches and led IT infrastructure work at JP Morgan and Bank of America. Institutional-grade systems leadership at a mid-market cost.

Fractional CIO · Enterprise IT · Data infrastructure
MG

Mikayla Goodhue

Principal · Finance
AI ReadinessAI Implementation

A finance operator with a record of driving profitability across multiple sectors. Deep in financial operations, margin improvement, and the systems that make a finance function run with discipline.

Fractional CFO · FP&A · Margin strategy
EG

Elyse Goodhue

Principal · Brand
AI ReadinessAI Implementation

A marketing leader with enterprise scale and mid-market instinct. Built and scaled brand and marketing operations at Lockheed Martin and Blue Cross Blue Shield.

Fractional CMO · Brand strategy · Category positioning
Every principal is certified across both lines of the AI practice, Readiness and Implementation. Behind the principals sits an extended bench of vetted associates and specialists, plus the Metzo network of investors, operators, and bankers cultivated across decades of building and holding businesses.

Operator notes. Written by the team that does the work.

What we're installing, what we're seeing inside mid-market companies, and where the market is going. Written by the team that does the work. No gate, no fluff.

We build the quarter with you. And when we step out, your world is more complete than we found it.

The mark. An unfinished globe, and the work of finishing it.

Start with the diagnostic.

A defined scope and a memo that tells you the truth about your business. You decide what to fix from there. Sometimes our advice is don't buy anything yet. You'll get that straight too.

See the full diagnostic: what you receive, how it works, and the fixed fee →

Got it. We read every one of these ourselves and reply within two business days.
Prefer email? director@metzollc.com
What happens next
01 — ReplyWithin two business days
02 — Working call30 minutes. Not a pitch.
03 — DiagnosticScoped, with a defined endpoint
04 — Your callIf it's not a fit, we say so