sideKick

A second workforce

A second workforce.
Same team.
A bigger business.

You're not buying software. You're buying capacity.

We put another team on the systems you already pay for. The extra team you wish you had.

No lock-in. Your systems, your data, your call. We stay as long as we are worth it.

Take the 20 minutes

Complimentary 20 minutes. Then the paid audit if it fits.

The problem we are solving

Where you are

Your business is surviving.

You are taking on too much.

Your people are overworked.

You know technology could help.

You do not know what is actually useful.

You will not buy another tool.

You want capacity.

What actually happens

Your best people do not have the hours.

They know the work, so the work finds them.

Everything else forms a line behind it.

Then the customer waits.

An hour they lose is an hour out of the whole business.

That is not a people problem. That is a capacity problem.

What gets done

The hours your best people do not have.

You do not need another tool. Here is the kind of work that stops waiting on a person.

Data

Ready before you walk into the room.

Hiring

The opening does not wait until someone has time.

Payroll

Approvals do not wait on one person.

Marketing

It still goes out when nobody had time.

Systems

The tools you already pay for actually get opened.

None of it is glamorous. All of it is hours.

You keep the work only you can do. We take the rest.

How we work together

Four steps. No deck.

sideKick puts another team on the systems you already pay for. That is what we are.

Take the 20 minutes.

We name what is stuck this week.

We put the second workforce on it.

We run it. We report. We keep finding the next hour.

Some clients take it in-house and run with it. Most keep us on. Both are a win.

After the twenty minutes

What did we learn?

One question decides the next step. Not a ladder — two different shapes of the same move. Either way you keep what we build.

If the leak is unclear, or spans workflows

Assessment

I go look at what is actually running before anyone acts. Fixed fee, fixed time. You keep the findings whatever you do next.

Talk it through with Keith

If one workflow is already the problem

Workshop

Half a day on-site with the people closest to it. We pick one workflow and something small is actually running before we leave.

Get the room booked

Some calls do not produce a clear enough leak for either. Another twenty minutes is a fine outcome too.

Who you get

Keith Kostrzewski

Owner and operator, sideKick

What walks in the door

Rooms from LEGO to Pearson to the Buffalo Bills.
Individual contributor to CEO.
Founder and partner.
Analyst, seller, marketer, developer, operator.
Nonprofit executive and board member.
Road warrior.
D1 athlete. Six marathons. Kellogg MBA.
Father of three.

I am Keith Kostrzewski. I own and operate sideKick.

You built something good. You are also the one who answers the questions nobody else can answer. It all piles up. The to-dos. The must-fixes. The I'll-get-to-thats. All of it sitting on top of the business you grew with your own hands, and there is only one of you.

If we get in a room, you will not get a deck. You will get me. I want to know what you built, and I will not talk over it.

That is what sideKick is for. The extra team you wish you had. A second workforce, running on the systems you already pay for. Your people keep the work only they can do. The rest runs.

I will not treat the last ten years as a mistake. I will tell you what is leaking. Then we go to work.

I am the name in the first meeting. I am not the workforce. If this only works when I am in the room, I did this wrong.

I will not spend your hour proving I have had a job. But you should know what walks in the door.

You built this.
You should get to lead it.

Not by hiring more people. By giving the systems you already have a better way to run.