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Operations & Growth Consulting

Consulting that moves the numbers, not the slides.

NovaWorks helps mid-size companies untangle operations, modernize their tooling, and ship measurable improvements in under 90 days.

The NovaWorks team collaborating around a table
+38%Process throughput
90 daysAverage engagement

Trusted by operators at

HELIXMeridianKAPPA CONorthlineArbor+VELA
120+
Engagements delivered
14
Industries served
$42M
Client savings found
4.9★
Client satisfaction

What we do

Six practices, one goal: operations your team can actually run.

Process Audits

We map how work really flows, find the bottlenecks, and hand you a prioritized fix list with owners and timelines.

Systems Modernization

CRM, ERP, and reporting stacks rebuilt around your workflow — not the other way around.

Growth Enablement

Dashboards, playbooks, and training so improvements stick long after we leave.

Data & Reporting

One source of truth: warehouse design, clean pipelines, and reports leadership actually opens.

Supply & Fulfilment

Inventory accuracy, supplier scorecards, and fulfilment flows that survive peak season.

Interim Leadership

A seasoned operator embedded in your team while you hire the permanent one.

Consultants working through a plan in an office
Our approach

We work inside your business, not above it.

No 80-slide deck at the end. We sit with the people doing the work, rebuild the process with them, and leave behind documentation your team owns.

  • Partner-led. The person who scoped it is the person who delivers it.
  • Fixed scope, fixed fee. No open-ended retainers or surprise change orders.
  • Handover built in. Training and runbooks ship with every engagement.
  • Measured. We agree the success metric on day one and report against it.
Talk through your operation

How an engagement runs

Four phases, ninety days, one agreed outcome.

Discovery

Two weeks embedded with your team, mapping the real workflow and pulling the numbers behind it.

Diagnosis

A prioritized fix list with effort, impact, and an owner against every line.

Build

We implement alongside your team — systems configured, processes rewritten, people trained.

Handover

Runbooks, dashboards, and a 30-day check-in so the change actually sticks.

Selected work

A sample of recent engagements and what changed.

Warehouse operations team reviewing a plan
Logistics12 weeks

Cut order-to-dispatch from 48h to 9h

Rebuilt the pick-pack workflow and replaced three spreadsheets with one dispatch board.

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Analytics dashboard on a laptop screen
SaaS8 weeks

One report replaced nine dashboards

Consolidated reporting into a single weekly brief the exec team reads in five minutes.

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Team reviewing financial charts
Manufacturing16 weeks

Found $1.4M in duplicated spend

Supplier consolidation and a procurement policy that survived the first quarter.

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Senior people, small teams

Every engagement is led by a partner — no bait-and-switch staffing.

What clients say

★★★★★
NovaWorks found six figures of waste in our first workshop. The fix list paid for the engagement before it ended.
Tom AldridgeCOO, regional logistics
★★★★★
They embedded with my warehouse team for two weeks. The changes stuck because my people helped design them.
Sarah LinVP Operations, Northline
★★★★★
Fixed fee, fixed scope, and they hit the date. That alone puts them ahead of every firm we'd used before.
Marcus BellCFO, Arbor+

Common questions

How quickly can you start?

Usually within three weeks. Discovery can often begin sooner if the scope is already clear from our first call.

Do you work with our existing systems or replace them?

We start with what you have. Replacement is a last resort, and only when the cost of keeping a system clearly exceeds the cost of moving off it.

What does an engagement cost?

Most 90-day engagements land between $40k and $120k depending on scope and headcount. Fixed fee, agreed before we start.

What happens after handover?

You get runbooks, dashboards, and a 30-day check-in included. Ongoing support is optional and month-to-month.

Ready to move your numbers?

Book a free 30-minute discovery call. We'll tell you honestly whether we can help — and what it would take.

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