Operational Consulting for Owner-Led Businesses

Growing Shouldn't Feel This Hard.

Revenue is up. But so is the chaos. More people, more fires, more decisions landing on your desk. You didn't outgrow your market. You outgrew how you operate.

Built by recovering corporate problem solvers. Serving owner-led businesses from $5M to $35M.

The Problem

You Built Something Real. Now It's Running You.

Most owners reach a point where growth creates more problems than it solves. The business needs a different operating model. But there is no time to figure out what to fix, let alone fix it.

Sound familiar?

  • Every decision still routes through you
  • The team can't execute without constant involvement
  • Margins are shrinking even as revenue grows
  • The same problems keep coming back
  • Hiring more people isn't solving anything
  • You're too busy firefighting to build anything better

"We should be making more money than this. Why does growth feel worse instead of better?"

That's what we hear from almost every owner we work with. The business isn't broken. It's stuck between where it is today and where it needs to go.

Why Bare Bones

We've Walked These Floors.

Bare Bones Solutions is not a strategy firm. We are operators who have spent decades inside complex businesses solving the exact problems you are dealing with now.

We come in, find the constraint that is costing you the most, and fix it. No endless engagement. No 80-slide deck. Measurable progress in 4 to 12 weeks.

  • Corporate operations experience at scale
  • Fixed-fee projects. No open-ended scope.
  • Side-by-side implementation, not just advice
  • Targeted on one core problem at a time
  • 8 to 10x ROI is the standard we hold ourselves to

Judson Armentrout

Co-Founder

Former corporate operator with experience managing large-scale production and supply chain programs. Spent years identifying and fixing operational constraints inside complex, high-pressure businesses before co-founding Bare Bones Solutions.

Bryan Gunn

Co-Founder

Former operations manager with deep experience redesigning workflows, eliminating inefficiencies, and building systems that hold up under pressure. Spent years leading teams responsible for process improvement and operational oversight, consistently making complex organizations run cleaner and faster.

How It Works

A Simple Path Forward.

Three steps. No ambiguity about what happens next.

01

Get Clear

A focused 60-minute call. We talk through where the business stands today, where you want it in five to seven years, the pain points holding you back, and how we'd approach it.

02

Get the Full Picture

The Operational Health Assessment: a broad-based look at the business. We map the bottlenecks and build a workstream portfolio: every opportunity gap, its financial impact, and how fast it can close.

03

Get It Fixed

Take the portfolio and run with it yourself. Or hire us to implement one to three workstreams on a fixed fee, and the assessment fee is credited to that invoice.

Start Here

The Point Z Diagnostic.

Most consulting engagements start with a proposal. Ours starts with a real conversation about your business.

You bring the business reality. We bring outside eyes and operator experience.

No commitment beyond the session itself. If there's a real gap worth closing, the next step is an Operational Health Assessment: a broad-based look at the business that surfaces the full workstream portfolio. Take it and run, or bring us in.

Entry Offer

Point Z Diagnostic

  • 60-minute call
  • Where the business stands today
  • Where you want it in 5 to 7 years (Point Z)
  • Your biggest pain points, on the table
  • How we'd approach it, explained plainly

Move forward with a workstream engagement, and the Operational Health Assessment fee is credited to your invoice.

The Fork in the Road

Two Versions of the Next Two Years.

With Bare Bones Solutions

  • You know exactly what is holding the business back
  • Operations can handle the next stage of growth
  • The team runs day-to-day without pulling you in
  • Margins improve as revenue grows
  • You have a clear path to the business you actually want
  • Growth feels like momentum, not burden

Without It

  • The same fires keep burning
  • Every new hire adds complexity, not capacity
  • You stay the bottleneck for every decision
  • Margins stay flat or erode
  • The business is harder to run each year
  • Growth stalls or the owner burns out first

Ready to Fix It

One Call. A Clear Path Forward.

No commitment required beyond the diagnostic itself. Just a real conversation about your business and a clear path forward.

Schedule Your Diagnostic

Email us directly at info@barebones.solutions