Derr Consulting

08/28/2026

As a kid, I wanted to be an engineer.

I liked solving problems. I wanted to understand how things worked and figure out how to make them work better.

So I went to college to become an engineer.

Then I flunked out.

Funny thing is, I became an engineer anyway.

Just not the kind I expected.

Today, I’m a business engineer.

I solve business problems. I look at people, processes, and structure. I find what is broken, figure out why, and help build a better way.

Turns out, I was an engineer all along.

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08/28/2026

Most Integrators are using AI like a search engine. They ask a question, they get an answer, and they move on.

That is not where the value is.

The value shows up when you give the tool context. Here is what I mean.

Build a project inside Claude for each client. Then load it up with the meeting notes from your AI notetaker, the V/TO, the accountability chart, the core processes, the scorecards, and the marketing documents. Anything that explains how that business actually runs belongs in there.

Now you are not asking a generic tool a generic question. You are asking something that understands the business almost as well as you do.

Another example is to leverage AI for information distribution.

I had a client running an older financial system they could not migrate off of for several years. The finance team could not get actionable reporting on accounts receivable. What they could get was a hundred page A/R detail report, which is exactly the kind of document that makes a team freeze instead of act.

So we stopped fighting the system. We exported the A/R report exactly as it came out, and we had Claude build two reports off that same data set every week.

The first one ranked the top 15 past due accounts by dollars. The second one ranked the top 15 oldest past due invoices by age.

That is two pages instead of ten. The team stopped being paralyzed staring at the report and started working the list. We even built a weekly scorecard to see the progress on reducing the past due AR that showed the team progress.

Nothing changed about the software. Everything changed about the decisions.

That is the opening for Integrators right now. Our job has always been to bring people, process, and structure together. AI does not replace any of that. It multiplies how much of it one person can carry, which means you can hold more seats, serve more clients, and solve problems you used to have to route around.

I still write my own words and make my own calls. The judgment stays mine. The capacity is the part that got bigger.

If you are an Integrator sitting on a client problem that looks like bad data or an old system you cannot replace for three more years, challenge your thinking. AI can be a huge leverage point just by updating the user interface with data that appears locked behind an old platform.

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08/27/2026

Scaling a business should not mean creating more chaos.

In this episode of Fixers & Founders, John Wallet shares what it takes to scale without losing control. From sweeping startup floors to doubling revenue at STC, John has learned that growth requires more than good people. It requires clear systems, meaningful metrics, and a meeting rhythm that keeps everyone focused.

We talk about the difference between operations and true integration, scaling EOS in the real world, and why founders often get systems wrong.

If growth has started to feel like a fire drill, this episode is for you.

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08/27/2026

Who's Number One: The Overlooked Importance of the Second-in-Command will be released for purchase on Saturday.

Will post the link to get your copy.

My hope is this book will help founders recognize the power of putting a second-in-command in place but also the thousands of people have been a closet second-in-command to recognize the work you are doing but also how to define it.

08/26/2026

I had a conversation with a leader about helping my team.

I hired her for six months to help me figure out how to leverage her across the team.

What I didn't expect was realizing I needed a coach myself.

The coaching has had a huge impact on how I lead, think, and make decisions.

Sometimes the best way to improve your team is to improve the leader.

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08/26/2026

The most valuable question I get asked in a leadership team meeting usually has nothing to do with the agenda.

It sounds like this. How did other companies you have worked with handle inventory counts? How did they coordinate benefits? What did their payroll cycle look like, and how did they handle bonus distributions? What about PTO?

None of those questions are asking for proprietary information. They are asking about patterns.

Over the last three years as a fractional Integrator, I have sat inside a lot of different companies. The industries were different, the revenue was different, and the maturity was different. I have seen what works, what breaks, and what only appears to work until the company grows another twenty percent.

That is perspective, and it is the part of the job most founders do not realize they are buying.

They think they are hiring capacity. Someone to run the L10, own the scorecard, and hold the leadership team accountable. That part is real and it matters.

The second thing they get is an outsider who has already seen another way to do it.

Every company builds habits, and those habits harden into the way we do it here. Nobody on the inside questions them, because everybody on the inside helped build them. You cannot see the walls of a room you have been sitting in for ten years.

I can see them, and not because I am smarter. It is because I have been in other rooms.

So when a leadership team tells me their PTO policy is fine, I can tell them how three other companies structured theirs and what happened next. When someone says the payroll cycle cannot change, I can tell them about a company that said the same thing right up until it did.

That is not theory. That is pattern recognition earned by sitting inside real businesses while they solved real problems.

I do not only get paid for what I can do inside a company. I get paid for what I have already seen outside of it.

Here is my challenge to you. Find one policy or process nobody on your team has questioned in three years, and put it on the IDS list this week.

If you want a second set of eyes on it, send me a message and I will tell you how I have seen it handled somewhere else. You can decide whether it fits.

Are you a founder looking for a fractional Integrator, I can help with that too. We launched the FIRN (Fractional Integrator Referral Network) and are actively placing experienced fractionals in founder led businesses who need perspective and expertise.

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08/25/2026

Lizzy Blasko is a natural problem-solver who found her calling as an Integrator.

In this episode of Fixers & Founders, Lizzy shares lessons from leadership mistakes, finding the right people for the right seats, and using EOS tools to bring structure to chaos.

We also talk about the trust between Visionaries and Integrators, and why emotional intelligence matters just as much as ex*****on.

Sometimes, your career takes you somewhere better than you planned.

Listen in here:

Fixer & Fractional COO Lizzy Blasko on why great teams aren’t built...

08/25/2026

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I'm Forrest, the Fractionator. I sit in the second seat for visionary founders who've been running both jobs. Hire me, find a fractional integrator/COO, or get the playbook.

08/24/2026

Written posts get more views.

Videos get more traffic and, more importantly, more leads.

That tells me something important about content.

Written posts can build awareness. Videos can build trust.

People may scroll past a written post and keep moving. A video gives them a chance to hear you, see you, and understand how you think.

So the answer is not choosing one over the other.

Use written posts to get attention. Use video to build relationships and create opportunities.

Views matter. Leads matter more.

👋 Hi, I'm Forrest, the Fractionator.
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08/24/2026

One of my clients got sick and had to be in the hospital.

He was out for three months. He did not work. He did not steer the ship from the couch. He did not answer Slack at midnight because something was on fire.

His phone did not ring.

Not because the business stopped. Because the business had a structure in place that let his team make decisions without him. The systems were running. The accountability was clear. The right people were in the right seats doing the right work.

When he came back, he told me that his phone had never been quiet like that before. That in 15 years of running the company, three months of silence was new territory.

That is what the Integrator seat is for. Not to be needed forever, but to build the structure that holds when the Visionary steps out.

A fractional Integrator can build that structure. You do not need a full-time hire to get there.
If a three-month absence would break your business today, that is the problem worth solving first. Send me a DM and let us talk about where to start.

👋 Hi, I'm Forrest, the Fractionator.
👉 I Make YOUR Cell Phone Stop Ringing and YOUR Bank Account Start Singing
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