Fractional Operator · Melbourne · Global
Most advisors plan. I build.
A fractional operator for founders who've just raised and realised they need a build partner, not another advisor. Modelled $100M+ in savings at Aurecon. Shipped eight MVPs at Accenture. Founded two startups of my own. Now doing that work fractionally, one founder at a time.
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Decks don't ship. Operators do.
Newly-funded founders aren't short of decks. They're short of someone who can read the financial model, run the weekly leadership rhythm, take the board call, and push the product to ship in the same week.
That is what fractional actually means: a second operator in the room, paid by the month, answerable to the work.
A fractional operator, by the month.
Free 30-minute diagnostic. If the fit's there, we agree a monthly retainer with clear outcomes. No fixed end date — most engagements run three to nine months. We stop when capability has transferred, not when the calendar says so.
Meet Tanuj.
I'm Tanuj Ruhal. Consultant (Accenture, Aurecon), founder (MedClear, MVP Guru). Melbourne-based, working globally.
Before my own ventures I built and ran intrapreneurship programs inside two Tier-1 consulting firms, leading teams that wrote the financial cases behind hundred-million-dollar capital decisions for mining and energy majors. Eight MVPs shipped across six ICPs, hi-vis mining field crews to board-room executives. Different "done" for each audience.
Marga Haus is the second of those skills, made available by the month. Ex-consultant, current operator, a seat beside founders who'd rather have help than advice.
Why I do this
I left my consulting career to build my own startups, and the false starts that came with them. The learning was fast and brutal. Picking wrong partners. Trusting wrong providers. Building when I should have been selling. Optimising before anyone had proven they would buy. Burning cash without moving the business.
The fix was never harder work. It was the scientific method, applied to a company: name the hypothesis, design the cheapest test, read the result honestly, move.
Paul Saffo calls it "strong opinions, weakly held" — commit hard enough to move, loose enough to reverse the moment the data disagrees. I built that discipline inside two Tier-1 consulting firms, hardened it in my own ventures, and now I do the work fractionally for founders at the stage where wrong choices cost the most.
What you get is progress you can defend to a board, tested against a runway you can count.
If the cheque just cleared and you're not sure where to start, start here.
Thirty minutes. Free. No prep needed. If the diagnosis is clear without me, you go do it. If not, we book the sprint.