# hehrmann.com · services

> Seven ways to work with Erik Hehrmann, fractional COO for creative agencies of 10 to 75 people in North America, each with a defined scope, fee, and commitment. Every engagement starts with two free thirty-minute calls. Fees in US dollars, listed rates, not quotes.

## Engagements

- [Discovery Calls.](https://hehrmann.com/services/): Free · 2x 30 min · None · for Any founder weighing an engagement
- [Advisory.](https://hehrmann.com/services/): $2,000/mo · 2 calls/mo + Slack/email · Monthly · for Founders who already have an operations lead
- [Project build.](https://hehrmann.com/services/): $5,000–$25,000 · By scope · As quoted · for Shops with one defined problem
- [Fractional Lead.](https://hehrmann.com/services/): $8,000/mo · 10 hr/wk · 3 mo min · for Shops that need a senior hand on one or two surfaces
- [Fractional Partner.](https://hehrmann.com/services/): $12,000/mo · 15 hr/wk · 3 mo min · for Shops without an operating layer yet
- [Founder Unstuck Sprint.](https://hehrmann.com/services/): $10,000 · 2–3 wk · None after · for Founders whose calendar has become the agency’s ceiling
- [Head of Operations.](https://hehrmann.com/services/): Negotiated · Open-ended · Fully · for A creative shop of 10 to 75 people in North America hiring the role

## Pricing and terms

- [Pricing as Markdown](https://hehrmann.com/pricing.md): the fee table, a comparison of time, deliverable and fit, and the terms
- [Services page as Markdown](https://hehrmann.com/services/index.md): the full text of every engagement
- What’s the minimum commitment? A Sprint has none after the 2–3 week deliverable. Fractional Lead and Partner are both a 3 month minimum, then month-to-month with 30 days notice. Advisory is month-to-month from the start.
- Remote, hybrid, or on‑site? Remote-first. I’m in the Chicago metro area, and I’ll travel to your office on a cadence that makes sense: e.g. kickoff in person where possible, then quarterly visits during a retainer. I’ve run engagements four time zones from the team, and I’ve sat down with founders for working sessions when the work needed the room. Both work. Not a fit if you need someone at a desk in your office multiple days a week.
- What’s not in scope? Day-to-day account management. Client pitches. Creative reviews. Direct line-management of your in-house PMs and ops staff stays with your internal operations leader. If you don’t have one yet, we will make hiring that person part of the engagement.
- How does a typical engagement start? Two 30-minute discovery calls. If it’s a fit, a move to a limited Advisor role, or a deeper Sprint. If the Sprint surfaces ongoing work worth doing, we move to a retainer. If it doesn’t, we don’t. There’s always a clear off-ramp.
- What if I want to end early? A 30-day written notice after the minimum is over. No penalty. If something is broken, I’d rather you tell me than wait it out.

## Start

- [Contact](https://hehrmann.com/contact/): the screened form; a person presses Send; replies within one business day; no public booking calendar
- [Notes](https://hehrmann.com/notes/): case studies with real numbers, scoped index at [notes/llms.txt](https://hehrmann.com/notes/llms.txt)
- [Site guide](https://hehrmann.com/llms.txt) · [developers](https://hehrmann.com/developers/llms.txt)