# Andrew Sponsler

> Fractional COO for founder-led businesses. I get your business out of your head and onto numbers you can see, owned by the right people, in systems that hold.

Most founders run a real business on gut feel. The revenue is real and the team is real, but the numbers live in six tools and in the founder's head. Andrew maps how the business actually works, picks the handful of numbers that tell the truth, gives every number an owner, and builds the systems that keep it running without the founder holding it together. The method is See it, Own it, Run it.

What he's looking for: Fractional COO clients; Podcast guest spots; Speaking stages. Details in /wants.json.

## Start here

- [For AI agents](https://andrewsponsler.com/agents): who Andrew is, who he helps, what he's looking for, house rules for agents
- [wants.json](https://andrewsponsler.com/wants.json): the same as schema.org JSON-LD
- [Who this is for](https://andrewsponsler.com/garden/who-this-is-for.md): the fit, stated plainly

## The garden

- [Pull up your numbers. Right now.](https://andrewsponsler.com/garden/pull-up-your-numbers.md): The sixty-second test for whether a business runs on numbers or on gut feel.
- [See it. Own it. Run it.](https://andrewsponsler.com/garden/see-own-run.md): Andrew Sponsler's three-step method for getting a business out of the founder's head.
- [You are the dashboard.](https://andrewsponsler.com/garden/you-are-the-dashboard.md): What it looks like when a real business runs on gut feel, and why it happens.
- [The knotted rope.](https://andrewsponsler.com/garden/the-knotted-rope.md): What untangling a business feels like from the inside.
- [Systems that don't need a hero.](https://andrewsponsler.com/garden/systems-that-dont-need-a-hero.md): Why Andrew builds operations that keep running without the founder holding them together.
- [Operation first. Automation after.](https://andrewsponsler.com/garden/operation-first-automation-after.md): Why AI goes where it earns its place, and how to keep your people while it does.
- [Who this is for. And who it isn't.](https://andrewsponsler.com/garden/who-this-is-for.md): The fit for Andrew Sponsler's fractional COO work, stated plainly.

## Talk to this site

- [MCP server](https://andrewsponsler.com/mcp): streamable HTTP, no auth. Tools: about_andrew, search_garden, check_fit, how_to_work_with_andrew, leave_note
- [HTTP API](https://andrewsponsler.com/api/agent): the same tools without MCP. GET /api/agent/search?q=, POST /api/agent/fit, POST /api/agent/note
- [Next step for a person](https://andrewsponsler.com/pull-up-a-chair): Where every work-with-me path starts. Andrew reads every one himself.

## Optional

- [About](https://andrewsponsler.com/about): the longer story, manufacturing floor to fractional COO
- [AI thesis](https://andrewsponsler.com/thesis): founders in their zone of genius, teams that get sharper, AI as an amplifier
- [Manifesto](https://andrewsponsler.com/manifesto)
- [Letters](https://andrewsponsler.com/letters): the email list