A consultancy that builds, then steps back.
SPLX helps operators and leadership teams build the standard work, metrics, and leadership habits their team can actually run. The deliverable isn’t a binder. It’s a business that no longer needs you in every meeting.
Why we exist
Companies hit the same wall at two very different sizes. In an owner-operated business, the founder built the company on instinct, relationships, and long hours — and is still the chief everything: chief salesperson, chief problem-solver, chief decision-maker. In a multi-site business the wall looks different but breaks the same way: three plants run the same process three ways, the numbers don’t reconcile, and nobody can say whether a good month was execution or luck. Either way, the business can’t grow past the bandwidth of the few people holding it together in their heads.
We started SPLX because we spent our careers fixing this inside complex, regulated operations — pharmaceutical equipment, aerospace composites, biopharma supply chains — where a broken process is measured in millions and months. That playbook scales down as cleanly as it scales up. Neither a $5M shop nor a $200M multi-site operation needs another strategy deck. Both need clear standard work, the right handful of metrics, and a leadership team that holds itself accountable.
How we work differently
Plenty of consultants will hand you a deck and an invoice. SPLX is a build-with, not a build-for. We work alongside your team to install the operating habits, run the cadence with them for as long as it takes, and leave only when the team can run it without us. We run engagements on SPLX OS — the operating system we built for this work — so the standard work, metrics, and cadence live somewhere your team keeps using after we go. The test we hold ourselves to is simple: when we’re gone, does the work still get done?
That’s why our clients tell us the most valuable part of an engagement is often the leadership coaching — the conversations that don’t fit in a process doc. Processes don’t run themselves. People run them. We coach the people too.
Servant purpose, leading excellence.
Three things this means in practice:
The team comes first.
Our job isn’t to make ourselves look smart. It’s to make your team capable. We coach, we hand off, we leave.
Data over opinions.
Decisions get made on numbers and observation, not on whoever talks loudest in the room. We build the metrics that make that possible.
Practical, not perfect.
The best process is the one your team will actually follow next Tuesday. We build for adoption, not for the binder.
If this sounds like the help your organization needs, start with a conversation.
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