AI-native operators for founder-led consumer brands. Formulation to fulfillment: we plug in, fix what's broken, automate the busywork, and keep the team small, fast, and focused on what moves the business.
We're not consultants with slide decks. We're operators with calendars. Partners who sit inside your business, own the outcomes, and ship. That includes the unglamorous middle: what the product is made of, who makes it, and whether it lands on time.
Small team, AI-leveraged, fast.
Operating inside consumer brands at every stage of the curve.
Founder-led brands shaped through fractional, agency, and operator work.
Deeper fractional engagements where we sat inside the business and owned the outcome.
Trusted by 50+ founder-led consumer brands.
"They understood our brand better than we did. Showed up, did the work, and left us in a stronger position than we've ever been."
All of our clients come from clients.
We work quietly, so client names stay off the site. Here's the shape of the work instead: industry, role, and what got done.
Founded and ran a custom print-and-packaging company for eleven years. Three channels under one roof (DTC, retail, and trade manufacturing) scaled into thousands of national retail doors.
Built the marketing, brand, and eCommerce engine for a small-batch food brand finding its DTC footing. Acquired the following year.
Formulation, co-packer selection, go-to-market, distributor strategy, and retail rollout for a ready-to-drink beverage brand. Four years across product, ops, marketing, and the P&L.
The full operator stack for a men's wellness brand: eCommerce, operations, supply chain, and brand under one roof.
Convenience retail on one side, DTC on the other. Running digital, retail, operations, and supply chain across both.
P&L discipline on one side, acquisition and retention on the other. Finance and marketing under one hat for a premium DTC food brand.
A few honest conversations, a look at the numbers, and a clear read on where the business actually is, not where it wishes it was.
A short, sharp plan you can actually run. Pricing, product economics, priorities ordered, owners named, and the dumb stuff dropped from the list.
We do the work. Hire the team, run the campaigns, fix the P&L, ship the launch, augmented with AI and automation so a small crew moves like a big one.
Documented, trained, running without us. The point isn't to be needed forever. It's to leave it better than we found it.
Dig into a role: Fractional COO · Fractional CMO · Fractional CFO
Org design, hiring plans, role definition, partner & investor syndication. We line up the people and the capital before you need either one to move.
Product idea to production-ready. We write the formulation brief, bring in best-in-class formulators and product developers, run the sample rounds, and pick the copacker. Then we build the supply chain behind it: ingredient and component sourcing, spec sheets, lead times, and cost per unit before a single case gets made.
Technology stack, workflows, purchase orders, inventory planning, 3PL and fulfillment, and the AI tooling that lets a small team run like a big one. The boring stuff that quietly decides whether the business works.
We don't just plan it, we run it. Channel strategy, paid media, lifecycle, retention, partnerships, retail rollout, executed by an operator inside your team, leveraged with AI workflows so the cadence actually holds.
The short version of how we work. Got something more specific? The contact form is right below.
When your tools disagree, rules beat dashboards. Six reconciliation rules for DTC operators, and what each one caught at a brand we work with.
6 min read →
DoorDash plans to buy Instacart, creating a third retail media giant beside Amazon and Walmart. How to budget for it and avoid single-platform dependence.
7 min read →
Hours and price are the wrong test for a fractional executive. Judge the seat by the decision rights, owners, rhythm, and handoff it leaves behind.
7 min read →Or skip the form and email hello@iniobrands.com directly.
No pitch, no hard press. Worst case, you walk away with our perspective on your brand. Consider it free counsel.
Schedule a Call →