Operations for founder-led businesses

Grow the business. Get your time back.


Most small businesses run on the owner. Trunkr maps how yours actually works, finds where the hours leak, and builds the systems to stop it, without hiring anyone.

Free · about 2 minutes · no sales call

01 — What we fix

Three things costing you hours every week


Wasted time

Repetitive tasks, unclear handoffs, and decisions that shouldn't need the owner.

Missing systems

No consistent process for onboarding, delivery or follow-up. Every job starts from scratch.

Slow decisions

No dashboards, no numbers. Gut calls where there should be data.

02 — How it works

Four steps, start to handover


  1. 01

    Map

    I go through how the business actually runs day to day. Not how it's supposed to run.

  2. 02

    Find the leaks

    Where the hours go, which work repeats, what only happens when you do it.

  3. 03

    Build

    SOPs, automations and dashboards that take the repetitive load off you.

  4. 04

    Hand over

    Documented and yours to keep. I stay on retainer to keep it running.

03 — Example outcome

What this looks like in practice


Before

The owner approved every invoice and chased every job.

Nothing moved without them. The team knew the work, but not the status of it.

Built

Approval workflow, job dashboard, and documented handover.

Clear thresholds for what the owner sees, and a single place to see what is happening.

Result

Six hours back in the owner's week.

The team stopped asking for updates because the answer was already visible. Decisions got faster.

04 — Who this is for

A good fit, and a bad one


Good fit

  • Founder-led UK businesses, roughly 1 to 20 people
  • The owner is still the bottleneck
  • Growing, but the systems haven't kept up
  • You want to own what gets built

Not a fit

  • You want someone to run it for you forever
  • You're looking for the cheapest option
  • You need a full-time hire, not systems

05 — Pricing

One price. Published.


Setup, one-off

£3,000

Then, monthly retainer

£995

Cancel with 30 days' notice · no lock-in


  • The operational map of how your business actually runs
  • The systems built and documented: SOPs, automations, dashboards
  • Handover and training for you and your team
  • Ongoing retainer to keep it running and keep improving it

06 — Free assessment

Find out how much of your business still runs on you.


15 questions, about 2 minutes. You get a practical readout across six areas. No call, no pitch.

  • 01Founder Dependency
  • 02Systems & Processes
  • 03Time & Capacity
  • 04Visibility & Data
  • 05Team & Delegation
  • 06Growth Readiness

07 — Who you're dealing with

Phillip Dawson


I'm a senior operator. I've run and fixed operations inside businesses, so I know what a working process looks like and what a tidy diagram that nobody follows looks like.

I do the mapping and the building myself. No junior consultant, no framework you have to implement on your own afterwards.

Everything I build is documented and handed over. You own it. If we stop working together, it keeps running.

08 — Questions

Straight answers


Usually four to six weeks from the first mapping session to handover. The mapping takes about a week. The rest is building, testing and training your team on it.

Grow the business. Get your time back.


No junior team. No framework you have to implement alone. Everything you own.