Highlands Ranch, Colorado
Fractional COO for Highlands Ranch business owners
We improve businesses. So your Highlands Ranch business can run without you.
What we do for Highlands Ranch 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 Highlands Ranch
We work with owner-led trades and service businesses in Highlands Ranch and across the Colorado Front Range.
South Denver metro
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 Highlands Ranch
Highlands Ranch has more than 100,000 residents and no city government. The Census Bureau counts it as a census-designated place in Douglas County, with 103,444 residents at the 2020 Census. Without a city hall, much of the local business support comes from county and regional groups.
It is a homeowner community. About 78 percent of homes are owner-occupied, and the median home value is $712,700. That adds up to steady demand for the companies that keep houses running: roofing, HVAC, plumbing, painting, landscaping, cleaning and remodeling. Owners in those trades know the hard part is rarely finding work. It is finding and keeping people who can do it to your standard when you are not there.
The labor pool is growing. The Douglas County Economic Development Corporation reports that the county's working-age population grew by 46,264 people, or 26 percent, between 2013 and 2022, and Census data shows county employment rose 5.6 percent from 2022 to 2023.
For local support, look to the Douglas County Economic Development Corporation, the South Metro Denver Chamber, which started in 1921 and now has more than 700 members across the south metro, and the Aurora-South Metro Small Business Development Center. The Colorado SBDC network also runs statewide exit planning programs, which are worth a look if selling or handing off is on your mind.
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.