Operational Leadership & Hands-On Consulting
Executive-level operations leadership without the cost of a full-time hire. Gideon embeds in your business, works with your team, and takes real ownership of the operational load.
Explore this areaFractional COO Services for Small & Midsize Businesses · UK
From operational chaos to scalable clarity.
You've built something successful — but stretched teams, stuck decisions and systems that can't keep up are holding it back. Markinly delivers hands-on fractional COO leadership and operations consulting that streamlines your processes, boosts productivity and lets you scale profitably.
20+Years SMB operations leadership
25%Avg. reduction in wasted team effort
50+Businesses transformed
Trusted by founders & CEOs across industries
TNTNT Agency
CCChestnut Capital
RURumplers
LVLovery
LXLuxe Interiors
DCDatacrushers
CLClient
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Article · Fractional COO
The Operations Leader You Need Before You Can Justify the Salary
Video
What an embedded COO actually changes
Case Study
Trusted operations consulting for CEOs, founders and business owners
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Article · Operations Consulting
Why Every CEO Needs a Weekly Operational Rhythm (and a Partner to Keep It)
Webinar · Working Session
SOPs that actually stick — a working session
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New-Starter Onboarding Checklist
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Weekly Operations Meeting Agenda
Article · AI & AutomationAI and Automation That Supercharge Your Team, Not Replace It
Article · SystemsChoosing a project management system: ClickUp vs Monday vs Asana for SMBs
Assessment · 15 questionsThe Operations Health Score — where is your business still running on you?
Free Ops DiagnosticFind the bottleneck costing you hours every week — in one free session
New thinking published every week — the full library is free.
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Client Results
Six businesses. Six industries. One operating method.
Marketing, real estate, interior design, food manufacturing, SaaS and cross-industry advisory — the same nine capabilities, applied to whatever each business actually needed.
25%average reduction in wasted team effort
2×team size and client workload at TNT in 6 months
15–20%higher close rates from sales-focused consulting
3–5hreclaimed per week by leaders we work with
Marketing Agency
Scaling a global marketing agency with systems built for growth
How TNT doubled its team and client workload in six months — without losing operational control — on an agency-wide ClickUp system, SOP library…
2×team grew from 50 to 100+ employees
Real Estate
Operational turnaround for a real estate brokerage with systemised workflows
How a custom Asana system connected sales, admin, leadership and an offshore booking team at Chestnut Capital — recovering dropped leads and lifting rental…
70%increase in rental conversions
Interior Design
Streamlining sales and projects for a luxury kitchen design studio
A custom Monday.com system connected the entire client journey — from first contact to final reveal — lifting sales conversion and cutting missed deadlines.
Resulthigher sales conversion and fewer missed deadlines
Food Manufacturing
A UK food brand’s successful Amazon launch, built on product operations
How Rumplers went from reactive, scattered product releases to a repeatable go-to-market engine — launching on Amazon UK and Europe with demand visibility by…
100%successful product launches on Amazon UK and Europe
SaaS
Helping a SaaS startup recover lost ecommerce revenue by aligning teams
How an integrated feedback-and-execution loop across product, support and marketing helped a cart-abandonment platform ship faster, lift adoption and grow ARR.
55%+more abandoned carts recovered
Cross-Industry
Trusted operations consulting for CEOs, founders and business owners
A weekly structured advisory rhythm — Discovery → Planning → Implementation — that gives leaders clarity, accountability and measurable operational improvement.
25%less wasted team effort
Client Voices
What founders & CEOs say
“I’ve worked with Gideon on a project and his communication and ability to understand complex ideas is great. He really will take your business from chaos to clarity, make sure everything is tracked properly, and that your vision has a clear road to success”
“I had the pleasure of working closely with Gideon. Gideon improved the business’ ability to track and manage projects and workflow and created a process that empowered teams, improved efficiency and transforming performance.”
“From day one, he brought enthusiasm to the table and took initiative on big and small projects to progress our marketing efforts. Gideon took a fresh look at not just our social media presence, but our strategy as a whole, and implemented key improvements to make our strategy more comprehensive and cohesive.”
Free Assessment · 2 Minutes
Now find out where your own operation stands
The Operations Health Scope is based on the same five-dimension framework Gideon opens every client engagement with. This is fifteen questions that provide an instant score and highlight a clear picture of which constraint is costing your business most.
- ScoreInstant rating across Process, People, Data, Meetings & Execution
- InterpretWhat your result means, benchmarked against 50+ SMB engagements
- PrioritiseThe two or three constraints to fix first — and the free guides for each
- ActThe engagement that fits your result, or a free consultation to talk it through
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Free · No obligation · Personalised PDF report
Sample Scope17/30
Process Maturity4/6
People Clarity3/6
Data Visibility2/6
Meeting Effectiveness4/6
Execution Consistency4/6
Partly systemized. Data Visibility is the constraint here — that is where the work would start.
How We Help Clients
Let's turn your biggest operational headaches into your next stage of growth.
Fractional COO Leadership →
Executive-level operations leadership embedded in your business — without the cost of a full-time hire.
Operations Consulting →
A structured weekly advisory rhythm for CEOs who need a trusted operational partner alongside them.
AI & Automation →
Practical automations and AI integrations that cut manual work and make your systems work harder.
Services
One operator. One joined-up business.
Every engagement draws on the same core areas, used in whatever combination your business actually needs. Explore any area to see how it works, what it fixes, and the results it has produced.
Process Optimisation & Efficiency Systems
We audit what you run today and rebuild the workflows that leak time and margin — removing bottlenecks, cutting rework, and making the good version of each process the default one.
Explore this areaStrategic Operations Planning
Aligning your goals with what actually happens week to week: data-driven plans that allocate resources deliberately and position the business for growth it can absorb.
Explore this areaTeam Leadership & Project Execution
Clear KPIs, explicit ownership and a rhythm of accountability — so your people know what good looks like and can deliver it without waiting on you.
Explore this areaSOP Development & Systems
Standard operating procedures and the systems around them, built so quality holds as you scale and a new hire can be useful in weeks rather than months.
Explore this areaOperations Monitoring, Analysis & Reporting
The five numbers that tell you the truth about your operation, tracked weekly — so decisions run on evidence instead of the loudest anecdote.
Explore this areaOnboarding & Training
Onboarding that gets new people productive from day one, plus ongoing development that keeps the team matched to where the business is going.
Explore this areaCulture & Communication
A high-performance environment built on trust, ownership and measurable outcomes — the part that makes every other system stick after we hand it over.
Explore this areaAutomations & AI Integrations
The high-impact automations first: CRM workflows, handovers, reporting and the manual work that quietly consumes a day a week. Technology that earns its place.
Explore this areaConsulting Services
How consulting works Three ways to work on the business, not just in it
Consulting elements that run alongside the core areas — for CEOs who want the thinking, the system and the leadership capability without an embedded COO.
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Operational Consulting
Diagnose where your operation leaks time, margin, and management attention, then get a prioritised plan you can act on. We find the few fixes that move the numbers and sequence them realistically for your team.
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Blended Operating System Implementation
Draws on EOS-style principles (vision, accountability, meeting rhythm, scorecards) and combines them with other proven frameworks, shaped around how your business actually runs. You get one cohesive system without a rigid, off-the-shelf model.
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Training & Leadership
I coach CEOs and leadership teams on running the system: owning their numbers, running effective meetings, and holding people accountable. The goal is a team that leads the operation without needing me in the room.
Read moreNot sure which of these you need?
That is exactly what the Free Ops Diagnostic is for — 60 minutes to find the constraint that is actually costing you, and the two or three capabilities that will move it.
How It Works
The Free Ops Diagnostic is just the beginning
A four-phase approach that takes your business from assessment to embedded, self-sustaining operational systems.
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Free Ops Diagnostic
Deep assessment of your operations, workflows and biggest constraints.
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Strategy & Planning
Tailored roadmap with clear priorities, measurable KPIs and a realistic timeline.
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Implementation
Execute improvements alongside your team with hands-on support.
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Embed & Optimise
Monitor, refine and scale systems as the business grows — then hand over fully to your team.
Watch
How Markinly gets your business running without you, in three minutes
Coming soon — the introduction film is being recorded
The Operations Room
What an embedded COO actually changes
A short film on the disciplines behind a business that doesn’t need its owner in every decision, and what the first ninety days look like.
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The systems, playbooks and hard-won lessons Gideon shares with client CEOs — in your inbox every Tuesday.
Common Questions
What you might be wondering
There's no catch. The Ops Diagnostic is genuinely free with no obligation — many businesses benefit from the session whether or not they proceed.
A fractional COO embeds within your business: working with leadership and team, overseeing processes, resolving bottlenecks, building systems and SOPs — without the cost of a full-time executive hire.
Most clients see meaningful improvements within 30–60 days. Deeper structural improvements embed over 90 days and are designed to sustain without ongoing support.
Pricing varies by scope and duration; every proposal is tailored after the free Ops Diagnostic, once both sides understand exactly what is needed.
Markinly is UK-based and primarily serves UK businesses. Remote and hybrid engagements are possible depending on scope.
The best way to know if Markinly is right for you is to have the conversation.
The Free Ops Diagnostic is genuinely useful — whether or not we work together. No pitch, no pressure.
Gideon's introduction film is being recorded — it drops in here as soon as it is published.