Fort Collins, Colorado
Fractional COO for Fort Collins business owners
We improve businesses. So your Fort Collins business can run without you.
What we do for Fort Collins business owners
- Operating Partner. A senior operator who runs the day to day with you, a few days a week, until the business runs on a steady rhythm.
- Turnaround. For owners whose cash, margin or sales are sliding. We find out what is really happening, stop the bleeding, and put a weekly rhythm in place.
- Succession Operating Partner. For owners getting ready to sell, hand off, or step back. We get the business to the point where it can run without you.
- Selling to Your Employees. Thinking about selling to your team through an ESOP, an employee ownership trust or a co-op? We get the business ready to run without you, and work alongside your attorney and valuation firm.
- The 30-Day Test. A free scorecard that shows how much your business depends on you.
Serving Fort Collins
We work with owner-led trades and service businesses in Fort Collins and across the Colorado Front Range.
Northern Front Range
Sworn to your company.
How we work
The Brandimarte Charter
Five plain steps, the same on every job.
- Step 1: ScoreYou take the free 30-Day Test. It shows how much the business depends on you.
- Step 2: FitA short paid review of how the business runs today, to choose the plan and the weekly rhythm that fit your team and your stage.
- Step 3: InstallWe put the plan in place in 90-day builds, with clear owners for every number.
- Step 4: RunWe run it each week with your team until a number two owns the seat. If you need one, we help find and place that person.
- Step 5: Hand off or holdYou choose: hand it off, keep us running and growing it, or get it ready to sell.
Running a business in Fort Collins
Fort Collins is the largest city we serve north of Denver. It grew from 143,986 residents in 2010 to 169,810 in 2020, and the Census Bureau estimates 171,500 in 2025.
Across Larimer County, there were 11,764 businesses with employees in 2023, and building permits authorized 2,436 new housing units in 2025. The Northern Colorado Sector Partnerships bring companies together in construction, manufacturing, health care, hospitality and financial services to line up training with what employers need. The construction group says it exists "to improve the Construction Industry Experience in NoCo."
The City of Fort Collins has its own economic development department on Laporte Avenue, which earned AEDO accreditation in August 2024. The Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce works on talent, infrastructure and local leadership. And the Larimer County Small Business Development Center, at Front Range Community College on South Shields Street, offers no-cost advising that runs all the way to succession planning.
If you wear every hat in your Fort Collins company, it is hard to sell and hard to hand to a family member. We help put the right people and the right rhythm in place, so the business can run without you.
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Ready to talk?
A free 30-minute Evaluation Call by video. No pitch, no pressure. You will leave with a clearer picture of what it would take for your business to run without you.
20+ years improving businesses.