Your business is doing well. But you know it could be working better than this.
Maybe things are moving slower than they should. Too much still depends on you. The same issues keep coming back. Or you've simply reached a point where the way you work needs to catch up with where the business is going.
I work with founders and growing teams to understand what's getting in the way, improve how work gets done and build the processes, systems and delivery capability needed for what comes next.
Inna Strizhevskaia — Product Delivery & Business Operations Consultant
Work is moving too slowly.
Projects or product releases take longer than they should, deadlines move, work gets redone or progress repeatedly stalls.
The same issues keep coming back.
You've discussed them, tried to resolve them internally, but somehow you keep ending up in the same conversations.
Too much depends on you.
Your team keeps coming back for decisions, information or direction that shouldn't require your involvement every time.
You don't have enough visibility.
It's difficult to get a clear view of what's happening, what's next, what has been decided or who owns what.
Your current way of working isn't keeping up.
The processes, systems or management practices that worked before aren't necessarily what the business needs now.
Or you simply know you could be doing better.
You have a good business and capable people. You don't need a crisis to improve the way you work.
I start by understanding how things work today. I speak to the people involved, look at how work is planned, managed and delivered, and follow the places where it repeatedly slows down, gets complicated or requires unnecessary effort. Then we work out what should change and what will make the biggest difference.
For startups and product teams that want to improve how they plan, manage and deliver products.
I can help with product roadmaps and priorities, delivery processes, ways of working, release cycles, ownership and responsibilities, visibility across product development, and building the delivery capability needed to launch or scale a product.
For founders and small businesses that want to make the business easier to manage and the work easier to get done.
I can help improve project and task management, planning, business processes, information management, internal systems, management practices and repetitive administrative work.
For businesses that want to understand where AI and automation can genuinely save time, reduce manual work or improve an existing process.
I can help identify useful opportunities, test ideas through practical proofs of concept, and build AI and automated workflows around the way your business actually works.
Not sure what needs changing?
I spend time inside the business, speak with the people involved and look at how work is currently planned, managed and delivered.
You get an independent view of:
Already know what needs improving?
I work alongside you and your team to put the agreed changes into practice, whether that means improving product delivery, introducing new ways of working, implementing a management system, supporting organisational change, or using automation and AI.
I take ownership of the agreed work and help move it from an idea into something the business actually uses.
I start with where you are now: your goals, people, processes and the systems you use to manage the work.
I talk to the people involved and follow the work end to end, paying particular attention to where progress repeatedly slows, information gets lost or unnecessary work appears.
I make what I've found visible, discuss it with you and propose practical changes in priority order.
Where it makes sense, I build a quick proof of concept so we can test an idea before committing to a larger change.
Once we've agreed on the direction, I can take ownership of implementation and work with the team to make the new way of working stick.
Improved product development processes and built a more effective delivery setup, including Product Development and Customer Support workspaces and automated workflows that increased visibility and reduced unnecessary work.
Defined the HIPAA compliance roadmap, coordinated vendor selection and aligned three executive stakeholders working across different geographies, giving the business a clear route towards launch and pre-sales.
Designed and implemented a central operations workspace, bringing fragmented business information and planning into one place. Worked directly with the founder to introduce an OKR and KPI framework across four departments.
Built an automated webinar registration and follow-up process using tools the business already had, removing repetitive administration without introducing another paid platform.
When a process is repetitive, unnecessarily manual or better handled by technology, I can explore, prototype and implement practical solutions using AI, automation and no-code tools.
I've built solutions ranging from automated business workflows to AI assistants for customer support, sales and e-commerce. Try one below.
Customer Support Assistant
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Open in new tab ↗I'm a Product Delivery & Business Operations Consultant with more than a decade of experience working in technology, product delivery and operations.
I've spent much of my career inside businesses figuring out how to get products and work moving: building delivery capability, improving software development processes, launching products, introducing better systems and helping teams change how they work.
Over time, that became the part of the job I enjoyed most: getting close enough to understand how a business actually operates, talking to the people involved, finding the points that are making everyone's lives unnecessarily difficult and doing something practical about them.
That's what I now do through lazyowl.ai.
Tools come second. People come first.
I'm comfortable with technology, systems and AI, but my work starts with people. The best process in the world is useless if the people expected to follow it can't work with it.
Sometimes you need someone outside the business to see what you can't see from the inside.
— Inna Strizhevskaia
You don't need to diagnose the problem before contacting me.
Tell me what's happening, what's frustrating you or simply what you think should be working better. We'll start there.
Prefer to talk?
I'll get back to you at the email you provided. Talk soon.
