Six to twelve months in the trenches — side by side with whoever needs us, rebuilding the operating system from the inside. We learn the business, build the foundation, and bring the team up with us — retraining, mentoring, and raising the standard of how the whole operation runs. We leave when the business can run without us, or we keep going if the dream gets bigger.
Sometimes the business isn’t on fire, but there’s a specific thing to address — a system to build, a process to streamline, an opportunity to take advantage of, or a problem that’s been on the list a little too long. We’ll scope it, build it, and make sure your team succeeds. Same principles, but a narrower target.
Revenue band, typical engagement
Owners of complex or regulated service businesses, somewhere between two and fifty million in revenue, who personally feel the operational pain. The cracks show up in cash, customer experience, team capacity, the owner’s own bandwidth, or stagnated growth and ability to scale.
These are our lines in the sand.
Strip away the noise, the history, the baggage and the formula is almost always there. It’s been buried somewhere along the way, or the business built on a flawed version of it. We dig until we find it, and determine what it needs to succeed.
We map the whole machine so the cracks show bright as day. No more black boxes.
We get paid for outcomes, not hours. Our success is tied to yours. Same target, same stakes.
We run meetings, lead teams, define workflows, and build what’s missing. We also give pretty good advice. We leave when the business runs cleanly without us — and when we go, the value stays.
No buzzwords, no ego, no theatre. If something’s broken, we say so. If we’re not the right call, we say that too.
What really happened.
Repair Lift was doing seven figures when we showed up, but every system was held together by the founder’s personal attention. We rebuilt the operating system so the business could run, scale, and even pivot industries without breaking.
Parry Athletics makes combat sports gear that earns real loyalty — customers include Google, Meta, Westside Barbell, and more. George Hribar, with support from early Lululemon talent, had built something rare; a brand with a soul you can feel, and it had grown to the point where the business needed more operational infrastructure than any one founder can bootstrap alone. We embedded, mapped the full operation, and built the systems so the team could run it and George could get back to the work only he can do.
“Evan didn’t bottleneck us with him as a gatekeeper. He built things for the business — not for himself. A lot of consultants try to dig their claws in so you’re screwed without them. Evan wasn’t like that at all.”
lastslice studio is led by Evan Thompson. Engagements at scale have one or more studio personnel embedded simultaneously.
We operate from Carleton Place, Ontario. Engagements are typically remote, on-site visits welcomed when warranted.
The first call is thirty minutes. We listen, we ask hard questions, and we tell you whether we’re the right call — or who is.
