Services

Chief of Staff, EA & Operations Services for Founders, CEOs & Operators

Six services, one senior operator. Each one is a defined package: what is included, what you get out of it, and how it is scoped and priced.

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The Services

Six Services Founders Hire Me For

Defined outcomes, not a menu of tasks. Most engagements combine two or three, scoped to your real bottleneck on the discovery call.

Service 01

Executive Time Optimisation

Daily support for a single executive so the week runs on outcomes, not other people's requests.

What's included

  • Calendar architecture: meeting rules, focus blocks, buffer discipline
  • Inbox triage with agreed response and escalation rules
  • Meeting prep briefs and post-meeting follow-up tracking
  • Travel, logistics, and expense coordination

Outcome: 15+ hours a week back · Best for: founders losing 3+ hours a day to coordination · Format: hourly retainer, 10 to 20 hrs/week
Goes deep: Virtual Executive Assistant, Executive Assistant, Kenya

Service 02

Operational Accountability Systems

The systems that make a growing team's commitments visible, owned, and followed through.

What's included

  • CRM setup or clean-up and pipeline hygiene
  • SLA dashboards and response-time tracking
  • Process documentation and an SOP library
  • Decision log and a weekly reporting cadence

Outcome: 80% faster team response · Best for: teams of 10 to 60 with no clear operating rhythm · Format: project build, then a light maintenance retainer
Goes deep: Fractional Operations Partner, Remote Operations Manager

Service 03

Market Entry & JV Coordination

A coordinated, documented expansion into a new country or a new partnership.

What's included

  • Partner sourcing, shortlisting, and first-contact coordination
  • Due-diligence support and document management
  • Agreement and contract coordination with your counsel
  • Regulatory and compliance readiness checklist
  • A launch project plan with owners and dates

Outcome: entries supported across three continents · Best for: founders entering a new market or signing a JV · Format: project-based, fixed scope
Goes deep: Chief of Staff, Africa, Case studies

Service 04

Distributed Team Reliability

The onboarding and quality infrastructure a remote team needs to actually perform.

What's included

  • Onboarding playbooks and a structured first-30-days path
  • Training materials and knowledge-base structure
  • SOP library for every repeatable task
  • QA scorecards and escalation paths

Outcome: 200+ agents brought up to performance · Best for: BPO, support, or ops orgs scaling past 25 people · Format: project build, then retainer
Goes deep: Remote Operations Manager, Remote EA, Africa

Service 05

Project Execution & Stakeholder Alignment

A single cross-functional initiative driven end-to-end, with the status discipline stakeholders expect.

What's included

  • Project plan with a clear RACI
  • Status cadence and executive summaries
  • Dependency and risk tracking
  • Decision log and stakeholder communication

Outcome: 100% project success rate across 10+ companies · Best for: multi-team projects with mixed authority and unclear ownership · Format: project-based
Goes deep: Fractional Chief of Staff, Executive Business Partner

Service 06

Executive Communication & Presence

The founder's internal and external voice, handled on a schedule instead of in spare moments.

What's included

  • Stakeholder and investor updates on a set cadence
  • Board pack narrative and materials prep
  • LinkedIn content cadence and executive ghostwriting
  • Internal announcements and all-hands notes

Outcome: a presence that keeps pace with the company · Best for: founders whose visibility lags their growth · Format: monthly retainer
Goes deep: Executive Assistant to CEO, EA to Founders

Ways to Engage

One Operator. A Few Ways to Work Together.

Pick the format that matches where you are. Exact scope and pricing are set together on the discovery call, not guessed at here.

01

Free Discovery Call

Complimentary · 30 minutes

A focused call to map what's draining your week and whether we're the right fit. You leave with a punch list either way.

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02

Project Engagement

Fixed-scope · Weeks, not months

A defined deliverable: a market-entry push, a systems build, an operations fix that needs senior attention now, not a new hire.

03

Fractional Retainer

Ongoing · Monthly, Chief of Staff or Operations Partner scope

Recurring senior leverage across calendar, operations, and stakeholder management, without the cost of a full-time hire.

04

Embedded Executive Assistant

Ongoing · Hourly retainer, 10–20 hrs/week

Daily support for a single executive: inbox, calendar, travel, and communications, run with the same discipline as the retainers above.

Industries

Industries I Serve

Deep experience across sectors where structure and speed matter most.

BPO & Outsourcing

Customer ops, remote team management, process optimisation.

Fintech & Finance

Market entry, partnership coordination, scaling, regulatory readiness.

Automotive Technology

Multi-entity coordination, correspondence, decisions across a parent company and its subsidiaries.

International NGOs

Stakeholder coordination, donor reporting, multi-country program support.

Legal Services

Confidential fractional Chief of Staff work where privilege governs every note.

Wellness & Health

Executive administration and operations for wellness-brand leadership.

Executive Coaching

Operations Partner support for leadership performance and business scaling.

Multi-Country Business

Partnership coordination and market entry across multiple countries at once.

How I Work

A Structured Approach Built for Senior Operators

Four phases, clear ownership, no surprises.

1. Discovery

Free 30-minute consultation. Map priorities, pain points, and the highest-leverage week-one moves.

2. Strategy

Custom 30/60/90 plan with milestones, owners, deadlines. Approved before any execution starts.

3. Execution

Live tracker, weekly check-ins, proactive follow-through. You see status, not just activity.

4. Optimisation

Continuous improvement. Systems that scale with you and survive my eventual handoff.

FAQ

Services: Common Questions

What services does Abraham Otieno offer?

Six: executive time optimisation (EA scope), operational accountability systems, market entry and joint-venture coordination, distributed team reliability, project execution and stakeholder alignment, and executive communication. Most engagements combine two or three, scoped on the discovery call.

Can I hire you for one service or is it all bundled?

Single services are fine. A market-entry project or a systems build can run standalone. Ongoing engagements usually blend an EA-scope service with an operations or chief-of-staff one, because that is where the leverage compounds.

How are services priced?

Three formats. Hourly retainer (10 to 20 hrs/week) for ongoing EA support. Monthly retainer for chief-of-staff or operations-partner scope. Project-based fixed fee for market entry, system builds, and one-off launches. Rates are senior-operator level but Nairobi-based, well below US or UK equivalents. Exact pricing is agreed on the discovery call.

Do you work remotely, and do the time zones line up?

Every service is delivered remotely from Nairobi (EAT, UTC+3), which covers European hours live and the US East Coast for a working day. US founders get a pre-staged morning: work moves while they sleep.

How quickly can a service start?

Most engagements start within one week of the discovery call: a 90-minute kickoff, then a documented operating rhythm in place by the end of week one.

Which service do I need if I'm not sure?

Start with the bottleneck, not the title. Losing your week to coordination points to time optimisation. Commitments slipping through the team points to accountability systems. A stalled initiative points to project execution. The discovery call settles it in 30 minutes.

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