Built by operators
who got tired of
the gap
The gap between “you should be using AI” and AI actually running in your business on Monday. Everyone talks about it. Almost no one closes it. Operator HQ exists to close it, and to stay close enough to keep it closed.
Frank Tanner
Founder, Operator HQ
Before Operator HQ, Frank built and ran software-enabled operations across four verticals: professional services, home services, e-commerce, and SaaS. The through-line was always the same problem: smart teams burning hours on work that machines should be handling.
He started Operator HQ after watching too many businesses hire AI consultants who produced decks instead of deployed systems. The model is simple: diagnose with precision, deploy with speed, stay embedded to make it compound.
Operator HQ is not a consultancy. It is a fractional AI operations function. The difference is accountability. Consultants advise. Operators ship.
Four principles. No mission statement
Ship, then iterate
Running systems beat polished decks. We deploy working agents first, optimize second. Clients see results in weeks, not quarters.
Stay close
We do not hand off deliverables and disappear. We stay embedded because operations change, and so should the systems running them.
Measure in hours reclaimed
Not in AI maturity scores or innovation indexes. Hours reclaimed per week is the only metric that matters. Everything else is theatre.
Operator-grade quality
Every report, agent, and automation meets the standard of something you would put in front of a board. Because eventually, you will.
The AI adoption problem is not technical
Most businesses between $1M and $50M in revenue know they should be using AI. They have read the articles. They have seen the demos. Some have even paid for a pilot.
The problem is not awareness or technology. It is operational. Who figures out where to deploy? Who builds the agents? Who monitors them after launch? Who retrains when the process changes? Who makes sure the compound effect actually compounds?
That role does not exist in most companies. Not the CTO (too busy with product). Not the ops manager (no AI expertise). Not the consultant (no accountability after the deck is delivered).
Operator HQ fills that role. Fractional. Embedded. Accountable. Continuously deployed.
See what Operator HQ finds
in your operations
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