ARISTOSImpact Operations

People · Finance · Technology

Embedded leadership for growing mission-driven organizations.

Senior leaders across people, finance, and technology, on your team, on retainer. Three disciplines, one contract, without the cost of three full-time executives.

Does any of this sound familiar?

The pattern we see in growing organizations.

01

You're the bottleneck. Nothing moves without you.

02

Your team waits to be told what to do.

03

You can't tell what's actually working.

04

Your board or funders are showing concern.

05

You're burned out. So are key people.

06

You're not sure you'd pass an audit or security review.

If three or more describe you right now, we should talk. Patterns like these rarely fix themselves, they compound.

What changes

Three months in, the picture looks different.

People, finance, and tech pull together

The three run off one plan instead of working around each other.

The hard stuff just runs

Payroll, the audit, and grant compliance stop being fire drills.

The board stops worrying

Reports land on time and hold up. Funders see an organization in control.

What we do

Three disciplines, one team, one plan.

We embed across people, finance, and technology, scaled to your size. Take one area, or take all three and run them off a single plan.

People

  • Strategic planning
  • Organizational design
  • HR policies & training
  • HRIS, payroll & benefits
  • Talent & leadership development

Finance

  • Budgeting & forecasting
  • Accounting & reporting
  • Federal & state tax compliance
  • Grants & Uniform Guidance
  • Audit readiness & board engagement

Technology

  • IT infrastructure & cloud
  • Cybersecurity & compliance
  • CRM & enterprise systems
  • Data & dashboards
  • Privacy & security policies

The front door

The Aristos Operating Diagnostic.

Four weeks. One senior read across all three disciplines. A roadmap you can act on.

Operating Diagnostic

Four weeks · Fixed fee

  • A full read across people, finance, and technology, run by the senior leaders who'd do the work.
  • A prioritized roadmap, ranked by impact and effort.
  • The two or three quick wins we find, teed up to act on in week one.
  • A board-ready summary for your next packet.
  • A 30-minute working session to walk the roadmap and plan next steps.

On time, or we credit 25%

Every named deliverable is in your hands by day 28. Miss it and we credit 25% of the fee.

One fixed feeQuoted on your scoping call, and it doesn't move.

We take a limited number of clients each quarter, but audits and funder reviews don't wait. Booking early keeps your options open.
Book a scoping call

Have a narrower question? We also run standalone audit readiness assessments and AI adoption assessments.

After the Diagnostic

Execute the roadmap with us.

The roadmap is yours either way. Take it and run it yourself, or hire us to execute it, one discipline or all three. What that looks like depends on the roadmap, so no two engagements are the same.

Project sprints

A fixed-scope project with a defined end: system implementation, process redesign, audit preparation, or a one-time build.

Monthly packages

Ongoing embedded leadership on a fixed monthly fee, scaled to the size of your organization and the disciplines you need.

Customized For You

We tailor scope and scale to your needs, and as your needs change, our engagement evolves with you. We settle what fits now on the scoping call.

Start a monthly package within 30 days of your Diagnostic and you also get

Rate lock

Your monthly rate stays locked for as long as you work with us, even if our standard rates increase.

Priority start

Implementation begins the following week. No separate scoping period, no queue.

Quick win included

Month one builds the top quick win the Diagnostic found, so the work starts with a result.

Leadership

Senior leaders, with the credentials to back the work.

We've stood up operations systems to establish effective policies, procedures, and reporting. We've worked with mission-driven small businesses and nonprofits, including charities, associations, foundations, and international NGOs in 70+ countries. We've prepared organizations to pass financial and technology audits, including those funded by multiple government agencies.

Kyle Walker
Strategy & People
20 years leading mission-driven operations and programs. Former CPO and VP of Organization Development.
Dionysios Karamalikis
Finance & Governance
25+ years in nonprofit accounting, audit, and government compliance. Federal grants and Uniform Guidance specialist.
Samuel Najjar
Technology & Security
25+ years in systems architecture and IT security. Federal IT and accreditation expert.

Why Aristos

Senior, connected leadership for less than hiring in-house.

01

Built for impact

Mission-driven organizations are all we do. That focus shows in every call we make.

02

Senior people, not junior staff

You work with senior team members directly.

03

Connected, not siloed

You don't have to take all three. Take one area, or take more than one and we connect them, so people, finance, and technology inform each other instead of working in silos.

04

Embedded, not parachuted in

Fixed monthly retainers, in your meetings, owning the work. We win when your operations improve.

How to start

Three ways in, lowest commitment first.

Start wherever you're comfortable. Each step is designed to be useful on its own.

1

Take the survey

Our 10-minute Organizational Health Survey shows your top pressure points and the likely cause behind each. Free and confidential.

Take the survey
2

Book a scoping call

Forty-five minutes. We'll talk through what you're trying to fix and whether we're the right people to help. The button opens our calendar so you can grab a time.

Book a scoping call
3

Commission the Diagnostic

Ready to contract us for the four-week Operating Diagnostic, or want to ask a question first? Email us and we'll take it from there.

Email us