You didn't start a studio to become its operations department.

Book a free Next Step Call.

Whether you need someone to find the leaks, build the system, or run the whole operation, there's a way in for exactly where your studio is right now.

You're constrained to 12+ projects annually, leaving significant revenue unrealized and experiencing exhaustion that makes you question whether continuing this business serves you. Without operational systems, even the best brand positioning can't save you from burnout.

Lead the studio. Stop feeding it.

Talent got you booked. Operations keep you sane. That's why I look at the whole journey, from first inquiry to final delivery. I find every place your studio still depends on you, build the system it should be running on, and if you need it, run that system for you, so your studio can grow without everything growing through you. If you're ready to lead your studio instead of feeding it, you're in the right place.

You hired help... 

but somehow you're managing more than ever.

You bought the systems...

but you're still the one running them.

You're booked out....

but every project still moves only when you push it.

Choose where you start.

Because "I'm just busy" isn't a diagnosis.

The Founder-Fed Diagnostic

Because somebody should be driving this train.

Studio Operations

Your CRM isn't broken. It's just underemployed.

The Six-Figure Systems VIP Weekend

I don't believe in one-size-fits-all. Every studio is at a different point, so every service meets you exactly where you are: find the leaks, build the system, or hand over the whole operation.

What's Included

Investment:$75
Credited toward another service if you book within 30 days

  • A 10-minute questionnaire. Your services, team, tools, and what's frustrating you most. Due 2 days before the call, so we spend our time on the real problem, not background.
  • The 50-minute call. You walk me through one recent project from inquiry to delivery, and I find every place it waited on you.
  • Your top three fixes. The three changes that would take the most weight off you, in order.
  • My honest recommendation. The VIP Weekend, Studio Operations, or a fix you can make yourself. If you don't need to hire me, I'll tell you.
  • Your recording and recap. Within 2 business days, so you never have to remember any of it. The irony would be too much.

50-minute call

The Founder-Fed Diagnostic

Recording + recap

Your top 3 fixes

When you're the one holding everything together, you're too close to see where it's slipping. Projects stall unless you push them. You hired help and somehow got busier. You've thought about a new tool, a VIP build, maybe even an operations hire, and you're honestly not sure which one you need.

You don't need to guess your way into a fix. You need someone to look at how your studio actually runs and tell you the truth.

You're too close to see where your studio is leaking. In fifty minutes, we walk one real project from inquiry to delivery and find every place it waited on you.

Perfect for: (Founders who know something's off but don't know what to fix first.)

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Investment
 $2,500 · HoneyBook or Dubsado

  • Automated workflows for your 3 main services
  • A custom proposal and service guide
  • Your scheduler, client portal, and branded forms and contracts
  • Emails from inquiry to offboarding, written in your voice
  • A walkthrough video, offboarding packet, and 60-minute team training
  • 45 days of support with 2 check-in calls

Built in 3 days

The Six-Figure Systems VIP Weekend

45 days of support

6+ Automated Workflows

You pay for HoneyBook or Dubsado, and you're still doing the work it's supposed to do. Every new client means remembering every next step yourself. Your proposal gets rebuilt from scratch, the welcome email sometimes doesn't go out, and when you finally want to bring on help, there's nothing written down to hand them.

If you have to remember every next step, you don't have a workflow. You have a memory.

You pay for HoneyBook or Dubsado and still do the work it's supposed to do. In one weekend, I build your whole client process around how your studio actually works, and document it so your team can run it without asking you.

Perfect for: (Booked studios whose client process still lives in the founder's head.)

Investment:
$3,000/month · 4-month minimum

  • Project flow and status, plus a biweekly stand-up
  • Your shared studio inbox and client follow-up
  • Deadlines and boundaries, enforced the same way every time
  • Team coordination and a weekly founder summary
  • Your CRM and Studio Hub, built in month one and kept current
  • Your SOP library and a monthly team training

Covered Monday to Friday

Studio Operations

Studio Hub included

Replies within 1 business day

You bought the CRM. Maybe you even hired help. And you're still the one who knows where every project stands, chases every client for feedback, answers every "what's next?", and quietly lets policies slide because enforcing them feels awkward.

Systems don't run themselves. Someone has to own the operation. Right now, that someone is you.

You bought the CRM. Maybe you even hired help. And you're still the one holding it all together. I own the operation, so problems reach you only when they actually need a founder.

Perfect for: (Studios where everything still runs through the founder, solo or with a team. I work with 3 to 4 studios at a time.)

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Everything your client experience needs, from inquiry to goodbye

  • A walkthrough video of your whole system, for you and every future hire
  • aA 60-minute team training
  • 45 days of support and 2 check-in call

Built in HoneyBook or Dubsado, around how your studio actually works.

Your support

So the system keeps running after the weekend.

  • A custom proposal and service guide with your welcome, process, policies, and pricing
  • Emails from inquiry to offboarding, written in your voice
  • Branded forms and contracts: questionnaires, intake forms, contracts, and feedback forms
  • A branded client portal where clients find everything without emailing yoe

What your clients see, designed to look as good as your work.

Your client experience

  • Automated workflows for your 3 main services, so every next step happens on time
  • Your scheduler, set up for every call type with reminders so clients actually show up
  • Payment plans and packages, built in so you can sell without rebuilding anything

Your system

The engine that moves every client forward without you pushing.

  • Two questionnaires that capture your business, your process, and the step-by-step for every service
  • An optional strategy session if you want to talk your homework through
  • A Workflow Mapping Call where you see your maps before a single automation is built

Before anything gets built, we get it right on paper.

Your plan

What changes the Monday after your VIP Weekend.

Your process is written down and running. Hand a new designer or second shooter a system instead of three weeks of your time.

Room to finally bring on help

The follow-ups, reminders, and paperwork happen without you. That time goes back to the creative work, or to your life outside the studio.

Your evenings back

When your back end matches your work, you stop discounting to make up for the chaos. You choose who you serve and charge what the work is worth.

Raising your rates without flinching

Every step is already waiting for them, from the first reply to the final gallery or file delivery. Your process finally looks as polished as your portfolio.

Clients who never have to ask "what's next?"

Want your whole studio in one place?

$1,500, added to your VIP Weekend. Ask about it on your Next Step Call.

Studio HQ

A simple page your client can open: what stage we're in, what we need from her, and when it's due. Contracts and invoices stay in your CRM.

Client status view

Who owns what, what's due, and who's at capacity, so your team stops asking you and you stop guessing.

Team hub

Add the Studio Hub: every project, person, and process, organized in Notion or ClickUp.

Project lifecycle board

Every project from booked to delivered, with stages built from a lifecycle template for your kind of studio: design, photography, or marketing.
Your SOPs, templates, brand assets, and team resources in one home, so your business lives somewhere other than your head.

Everything your studio needs to run, from first inquiry to final delivery.

Your processes get written down and recorded, so they live in the system instead of anyone's head. Updated as workflows change, and used in every team training.

Six things I own, Monday through Friday, so you never have to hold them again.

SOP library

The handoffs between people stop running through you. Contractors get the context and files they need to keep moving, and you get a weekly summary of what moved, what's blocked, and what needs a founder.

Team coordination + founder updates

The policies in your contract finally get enforced, without you being the one enforcing them. Feedback deadlines, revision limits, and late fees are held consistently, and scope creep gets flagged before it turns into free work.

Deadlines + boundaries 

Every project's stage, owner, and next step lives in one place: your Studio Hub, built in month one. What's late or blocked gets flagged before it stalls, and a biweekly 30-minute stand-up walks every active project with you and your team.

Project flow + status

Every client conversation runs through one shared studio inbox. Feedback, content, photos, and approvals get chased on schedule, and every email is answered within one business day, Monday through Friday.

Client communication + follow-up

In month one, I build your CRM workflows and Studio Hub from our Studio Deep Dive and Blueprint Call. After that, I keep them current as the studio changes, with a monthly team training so everyone stays on the same page.

Systems build + upkeep

Here's what I'm doing behind the scenes, and what stays with you.

  • The creative work: designing, shooting, editing, creative direction, and final approval
  • Sales calls, pricing, and your client relationships
  • Your policies, your team, and your money
  • The founder decisions: refunds, pricing exceptions, creative calls, and anything that touches your reputation

What stays with you

  • Monday, I review everything that came in over the weekend and plan the week across every project.
  • I rebalance timelines so deadlines, revision rounds, and launches don't pile up in the same week.
  • I make sure your contractors have the files, context, and deadlines they need to keep moving.
  • I send your weekly summary: what moved, what's stuck, and what needs you.
  • Every other week, I run a 30-minute stand-up with you and your team.
  • Friday, I update the SOPs for anything that changed.

Every week

  • I run your team training, so everyone works the same process.
  • I look at anything that broke more than once and fix the process behind it.
  • I keep your CRM and Studio Hub current as your services, pricing, and team change.
  • At month one, month two, and every renewal, we review what I handle on my own and what comes to you, and adjust it together.

Every month

  • I read and answer your shared studio inbox, so every client and team email gets a reply within one business day.
  • I check your CRM and Studio Hub: who's waiting on us, who owes us something, and which projects haven't moved in 3 days.
  • I send the reminders before anything is due: feedback, content, payments, and questionnaires.
  • I hold your policies when a deadline is missed or a request drifts out of scope, so you stay the person your clients are excited to hear from.
  • I keep every project's stage, owner, and next step current.
  • I send you one short note with only what actually needs a founder.

Every day

Need something more?

These are possible add-ons, quoted separately.
Add-ons for the seasons when your studio needs extra hands, quoted separately.

Platform migration

Moving to a new CRM or project tool? I move your active clients, projects, and templates over so nothing gets lost in the switch.
 I answer new inquiries, send your pricing and process info, and schedule consult calls. You still take the sales call.

Inquiry + booking management

Launching a new service or changing how you work? I build the new workflow, automation sequence, or client portal view so it runs like everything else.

New workflows + automations

Production backup

Hands-on help when a deliverable has to ship: final-file packaging, an extra wireframe page, a mobile build that can't wait. You still own the creative work. I help get it out the door.

Reviews

Ariel Cormier-Burns,
Ariel C Burns Photography

Clients are super impressed.

Clients are super impressed by the seamless process and communication. Forms work great. The package was inclusive of my needs. The system has freed up so much time for me to focus on other parts of my business such as marketing and expansion. 

Niki Brown, McNeill Brown Interiors

"They can implement without me." 

Using flows takes 2 to 3 steps out of my lead management. I now have a process that I can teach associates of my firm and they can implement without me. Kelli took the time to learn about my business process and customized my solution based on that. Just this week alone after implementing everything, I've had 2 new inquiries go through the flow.

Tiffany Rolle, Palm Sahara Script

"They'll be able to follow along easily." 

I now have a plan. I can relax a little bit, and once I get to the point of being able to hire someone, they'll be able to follow along easily. The constant communication and updates were what I liked best. Do it. If you are struggling, don't stress yourself out trying to do it all on your own. 

Shantel Garcia, Innovative Consulting CT

"I'm not forgetting parts of my process."

I've gotten back so much time and have used it to focus on other parts of my business. I'm not forgetting to complete parts of my process, and sending leads reminders about my proposals ensures it stays at the top of their inbox. They are phenomenal. If you're looking for someone to give your CRM a complete makeover, then Kelli is the one you want to work with.

Danielle Neal, Digital with Danielle

"Time back for the CEO and the team."

It will help you gain more time as a CEO and help your team members gain their time back. The system setup is so streamlined that it makes it easier for you to make sales

How it works

BOOK A NEXT STEP CALL

Fix + decide

Leave with a plan.
You get your top three fixes and my honest recommendation: a fix you can make yourself, the VIP Weekend, or Studio Operations. Your recording and recap arrive within 2 business days, and your $75 credits toward a service for 30 days.

Share + prepare

Tell me the basics.
Book at least 5 days out, then fill out a 10-minute questionnaire about your services, team, tools, and what's frustrating you most. Pick one recent project to walk me through. It's due 2 days before the call, so our time goes to the real problem.

Walk + find

One project, start to finish.
On our 50-minute call, you walk me through that project from inquiry to final delivery. I find every place it waited on you: the steps that only happen when you remember, the questions that always land on you, and the policies that slide.

The Founder-Fed Diagnostic

The six-Figure VIP Weekend

Protect 

Built to stick.
Monday, it's delivered with your walkthrough video and offboarding packet, and your 45 days of support begin. We schedule your team training and two check-ins, so the system keeps running long after the weekend.

Prep 

Homework, but make it easy.
Before we start, I need some info from you. Two questionnaires cover your business, your process, and everything your proposal needs. Your homework is due 3 weeks before your VIP Weekend. Stuck? Book the optional strategy session.

Plan 

See it before it's built.
I turn your answers into workflow maps and walk you through them on our Workflow Mapping Call. You review and approve every email and design before the weekend, so nothing gets built that you haven't seen.

Produce 

Three days. Zero lifting.
The weekend is mine. I build your workflows, emails, forms, proposal, scheduler, and portal. Your only job is to stay out of your system until Monday.

Studio Operations

Run + refine

Every day, every week, every month.
From month two, I run the operation in full: the daily follow-up, the weekly updates and stand-ups, and the monthly training and SOP updates that keep your studio from sliding back to running on you.

Deep Dive + access

Learn the studio.
Week one, I get access to your inbox and tools, you fill out a short questionnaire, and we do your 2-hour Studio Deep Dive. Coffee's on me. By the end of the week, I'm already running the day-to-day in your current tools.

Map + blueprint

See the plan first.
I turn everything you told me into workflow maps and a Studio Hub outline, then walk you through them on our Blueprint Call. We make changes together before anything is built.

Build + move in

New system, live projects.
I build your CRM workflows and Studio Hub while you review every email and design. By the end of month one, every live project moves into the new system and your team is trained on it.

so, Would you rather your studio be Founder-Fed or Founder-Led?

Start with the Diagnostic, or skip straight to a Next Step Call if you already know.