How are the three StackOS tiers different — and where does the Axis Method fit?

The StackOS methodology (free) is the four-step pattern — Audit · Architect · Build · Own — that underwrites everything on the operator track. StackOS Framework ($29 PDF) is the Saturday execution kit: 5-account foundation, five working automations, three bonus full-app prompts. StackOS Build ($2K–$3.5K) is a single 3-hour live session running the framework custom for your business. Axis Method / Fractional COO ($3K–$7.5K/mo) is a different track: multi-month embedded practice for post-acquisition / lower-middle-market operators. Diagnose · Stabilize · Document · Hand-off · Compound.

What does the $75/month actually cover?

Your complete operating infrastructure: an edge compute layer, an owned database, a productivity suite, and AI tooling — all on usage-priced or flat-fee plans. The exact stack and account-by-account setup is documented in the StackOS Framework PDF, taught at the webinar, or installed for you in StackOS Build. This replaces a typical $500–$3,000/month SaaS stack: CRM, automation tooling, scheduling, reporting, form builders, knowledge base. After the hand-off, growth doesn't create new SaaS costs.

Who is this for, exactly?

StackOS Build fits small operators ($2M–$50M revenue) who can feel they're doing too much, suspect their AI strategy is making the bloat worse, and want to own their infrastructure rather than rent it. Fractional COO / Axis Method fits lower-middle-market companies ($10M–$100M) — particularly post-acquisition situations where a sponsor needs documented operating discipline installed and handed off cleanly. If you're a $500M enterprise looking for a transformation deck, this isn't it.

What's the proof this actually works?

Obsidian Axis Group runs on this exact stack — $74/month, live, today. The framework was stress-tested inside DefaultFail, the operator community where every system was proven by real business owners before it became a consulting engagement.

How does the math work for me?

If you're spending $500–$3,000/month on SaaS, a StackOS Build pays for itself in the first month of savings. A Fractional COO engagement at $3K–$7.5K/month typically replaces $15K–$25K/month in operational overhead — SaaS plus the hidden labor cost of managing it. You're not hiring another person. You're retiring the bloat that was costing you silently.

What is a fractional COO?

A fractional COO is a senior operator embedded part-time inside a company to install operating discipline, fix process bloat, and document playbooks — without the cost of a full-time hire. At Obsidian Axis Group the engagement runs multi-month at $3K–$7.5K/month and is structured to make itself optional through a documented hand-off.

Fractional COO & Operations Consulting

We cut your operational waste. We make AI actually work. Then we teach you to run it without us.

In 90 days. Without hiring more, firing your team, or ripping out the tools you actually like.

What that means, exactly

Cut 30–40% of operational waste. Layer AI on processes that actually work. Stop being the bottleneck in every decision.

You learn the framework — and own every piece when we leave.

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$75/mo to run a business

30–40%Operational waste, eliminated

10+ yrsEnterprise operations

200+Person teams led

3hrBuild session, owned forever

$75/mo to run a business

30–40%Operational waste, eliminated

10+ yrsEnterprise operations

200+Person teams led

3hrBuild session, owned forever

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$3B+ in operational impact.

A decade inside enterprise distribution, fulfillment, and manufacturing — now compressed into a process any operator can run.

Amazon · International Paper · Spirit Halloween · Maersk · Levi Strauss

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First, we diagnose.

We embed for two weeks. Map the real org chart, the real cash cycle, the real decision tree — not the version that was in the deck. The honest picture is the only one that lets you fix what's actually broken.

Then we stabilize.

The first ninety days protect the operating perimeter. We triage vendor risk, lock in working capital, rebuild the weekly cadence the team needs to see. Calm — before clarity.

We document the playbook.

Every pricing rule, every escalation path, every reconciliation step — written down, validated by the people who run them, installed as the standard. Not a binder on a shelf. The operating system itself.

We hand it back.

The next operator inherits a company with its own runbook, its own metrics, its own bench. We brief them, hand over the keys, and exit on a date the board picked. Not ours.

It compounds.

The playbook keeps earning after we leave. The same documented operating system gets ported into the next acquisition or the next quarter. Institutional memory grows with the business.

We cut your operational waste. We make AI actually work. Then we teach you to run it without us.

Three things are quietly compressing your capacity.

You're doing too much.

Your AI strategy is making the bloat faster — not better.

Every decision still routes through you.

$3B+ in operational impact.

Three disciplines. One operating system.

We streamline what's already there.

We integrate AI deliberately.

We teach you the system.

First, we diagnose.

Then we stabilize.

We document the playbook.

We hand it back.

It compounds.

The StackOS Framework — four steps, one session.

Audit

Architect

Build

Own

Rented stack. Or owned.

What $75/mo actually replaced.

Three ways in. All make us optional.

StackOS Framework

StackOS Build

Fractional COO

Built on the floor. Not in a classroom.

Cedric.

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Thirty minutes. No pitch deck.