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01 Operating partners

The operating layer for founder‑led brands.

We embed inside the business and run the operation — growth, direct-to-consumer, supply chain, and the bridge to a future transition. Not advice. Execution.

Embedded
We operate from inside the business, not from a deck on the outside.
Multi-disciplinary
Growth, DTC, operations, and supply chain — under one team.
Accountable
We hold the KPIs and own the outcome, through to a clean handoff.
02 What Rothwell is

We run the work — from inside the business.

Founders don’t hit a wall on strategy. They hit a wall on execution — the systems, the people, and the throughput to get from idea to delivered.

Rothwell sits in the gap between a consultancy that hands over a plan and a full-time hire you’re not ready for. We bring multi-disciplinary operating capability as one coordinated engagement, embedded on a real cadence and accountable to the numbers.

20+
Years operating consumer brands, manufacturing through dealer and retail.
6
Operating disciplines run under one team — not one lane at a time.
2
Ways to engage: embedded for the long term, or set up and handed off.
03 What we do

The operating work, run end to end.

01

Operational Infrastructure

Embedded, ongoing operating leadership on a defined cadence — weekly standups, monthly reviews, quarterly planning, on-call execution.

02

Growth Acceleration

A fixed-scope project with a clear deliverable — a channel built and run, a re-platform, a forecasting or reporting rebuild — with a path into ongoing operations.

03

Fractional Executive

A part-time COO, VP Operations, or Chief Commercial Officer with real authority inside the leadership team — the seat run, not a full-time hire on the payroll.

04

Executive Coaching & Advisory

Founder and leadership coaching, team alignment, and organizational design — the human side of a business that’s professionalizing or preparing to transition.

05

Acquisition Readiness

Operating-side preparation for a future sale — documentation, metrics, data room, and diligence readiness — so the business stands on its own. Alongside your bankers, attorneys, and CPAs.

04 Capabilities

The actual work, and the systems we run it in.

Direct-to-consumer & ecommerce

Shopify and WooCommerce, conversion optimization, product feed and PIM, email and retention (Klaviyo, HubSpot), paid-media oversight.

Amazon & marketplace

Seller and Vendor Central, FBA/MFN, Brand Registry, Buy Box, sponsored ads and Helium 10, Walmart and international expansion.

Inventory & demand planning

Forecasting, replenishment, safety stock, ABC analysis, cycle counts — in NetSuite, Fishbowl, Cin7, DEAR, or Acumatica.

Supply chain & fulfillment

Warehouse SOPs, 3PL/4PL coordination, order-to-delivery, reverse logistics, and import/customs. We coordinate — we don’t take title.

Dealer & retail operations

Dealer onboarding, MAP enforcement, fill-rate management, and dealer-portal design — wholesale stays healthy while DTC grows.

Data & reporting

Power BI dashboards on your stack, KPI and margin reporting, and the unit economics an owner and a buyer both need to trust.

05 Engagement

Embedded for the long term — or set up and handed off.

Embedded operations

Long-term operating partner

We stay and run it — holding the KPIs and the day-to-day as the business scales. For owners who want operations off their plate for good.

Setup & handoff

Build it, then hand it back

We stand up the systems, SOPs, and operating cadence, get it running, then transfer it to your own team. For owners who want to own operations in-house once it works.

06 How we work

Operators, not advisors.

01

Discover

Walk the operation. Find where throughput breaks.

02

Scope

A clear, fixed scope and the right engagement model.

03

Embed

Inside the operating cadence — not a vendor.

04

Run

We run the work and hold the KPIs.

05

Measure

Reporting, accountability, and a path to hand off.

Inside the business.
Not advising it.

07 Who we serve

Founder-led and family-owned businesses — any market.

Businesses that have outgrown the founder as the operating system. We come in at one of three moments.

01

A growth ceiling

The next stage needs operating capability the team doesn’t have yet.

02

A channel to build

A new channel — DTC, marketplace, retail — has to be built and run.

03

The founder is the bottleneck

The business runs through the founder, and that has to change to scale.

08 Contact

Let’s find where the business is stuck.

A short conversation is the best way to see the fit.

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