Fractional Integrator for US Companies Running on EOS®
Fractional Integrator for US Companies Running on EOS®
In-person or hybrid operating leadership for US leadership teams - the Integrator seat, run properly, without a full-time COO hire.
Typical engagement: $2,500–$6,000/mo
The framework
What is a Fractional Integrator?
The Integrator runs the business day to day. The Visionary drives ideas and relationships. A Fractional Integrator fills the Integrator seat part-time.
The US is where EOS® started and where it's most deeply established: EOS Worldwide, co-founded by Gino Wickman and Don Tinney in 2008, built its original Implementer network here, and the country still has the largest concentration of Certified EOS Implementers® of any market in the world.
That maturity cuts both ways. On one hand, it's easier to find an Integrator who's seen dozens of leadership teams run the Level 10 Meeting™ well. On the other, the market is crowded enough that it's genuinely hard to tell a Fractional Integrator with real operating experience from someone who picked up the vocabulary from a weekend course.
Most US engagements run in-person one day a week or hybrid - video for the weekly Level 10 Meeting™, in-person for the quarterly session - with the whole Leadership Team inside one or two timezones. That's simpler logistics than a distributed team, but it puts more pressure on execution discipline, since there's no timezone excuse for a meeting that starts late or runs long.
Symptoms
Signs the Integrator seat is open - even if no one's said it out loud
The founder is running both seats
Founders who built the product often end up owning the vision AND chasing execution. Rocks slip, meetings run long, and nobody outside the founder is holding the team to the plan.
Level 10 Meetings run long or get skipped
Meetings move without a firm agenda, run past 90 minutes, or get cancelled during a busy sales quarter - a sign nobody owns the meeting pulse.
The Scorecard sits in a spreadsheet, unread
Numbers exist somewhere, but nobody reviews them weekly against goal, and nobody is accountable when a number goes red for three weeks running.
Rocks get set at the offsite, then stall
Quarterly priorities get set with energy in the room, then quietly stall by week six because no one is checking in weekly on percent-complete.
Scope of work
What the seat actually covers, week to week
Not advisory hours. Not a slide deck at the end of the quarter. This is the operating work of the Integrator seat, done consistently, every week.
Own the Level 10 Meeting
Set and hold the agenda, keep the meeting inside 90 minutes, drive the Issues List, and make sure IDS produces decisions instead of another round of discussion next week.
Own the Scorecard
Review the 5–15 weekly numbers against goal, flag what's off-track before it becomes a crisis, and assign a name and a date to fix it.
Drive Rock completion
Check in on each Leadership Team member's Rocks weekly, unblock what's stuck, and report a clear on-track/off-track status at the next Level 10.
Run the Accountability Chart
Confirm the right person sits in the right seat for what the business needs today, and flag GWC gaps to the founder early.
Translate vision into a plan
Take the Visionary's ideas from the V/TO and turn them into a sequenced quarterly plan the rest of the Leadership Team can execute against.
Manage in-market vendor relationships
Sit at the intersection of sales, ops, and delivery, and manage the US-based contractors and vendors that a growing Leadership Team relies on.
“We went from a Level 10 Meeting that ran two hours and solved nothing, to a 78-minute meeting with a clean Issues List and Rocks that actually finish. The Scorecard is the first thing our leadership team checks Monday morning now.”
Operations Lead, 34-person services firm - Austin, TX
Want the full picture first?
EOS® basics, the Six Key Components, engagement models, Fractional Integrator vs. EOS Implementer® vs. full-time COO, and the books this is built on - all covered on the main overview page.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
How many days a week does a US engagement run?+
Most US engagements run half a day to a full day per week in person or hybrid, with light-touch availability the rest of the week for urgent issues.
What does a Fractional Integrator cost in the US?+
Engagements typically run from $2,500 to $6,000 a month depending on company size, days on site, and scope - a fraction of a full-time COO's salary and benefits.
Can this convert to a full-time US hire later?+
Yes. Many engagements are explicitly a bridge - the Fractional Integrator builds the operating rhythm and documents the seat so a future full-time Integrator can step in with minimal disruption.
Do you work with companies outside major US metros?+
Yes - hybrid engagements (in-person quarterly, video weekly) work well for Leadership Teams outside primary metro coverage. Timezone alignment matters more than city.
Why is the US EOS® market considered more competitive than others?+
Because it's the oldest and largest EOS® market, there are simply more Fractional Integrators to choose from - which makes vetting real operating experience, not just framework familiarity, more important here than in newer markets.
See if the seat is a fit - 30 minutes, no pitch deck
We’ll walk through your current Level 10 Meeting™, Scorecard, and Rocks, and tell you plainly whether a Fractional Integrator would help right now - or whether it’s too early.
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