Mae North · Fractional Operations

I built the business I wanted, then went back for the operations.

I'm Becca. I took a content marketing agency from six to seven figures in two years and stayed profitable the whole way — without five-day weeks. Not through discipline. Through structure.

Now I do that for other people's businesses.

Rebecca Nash, founder of Mae North.
The thing I'd want you to know first

Operational overwhelm isn't a discipline problem. It's a structure problem.

When a business grows around the founder instead of around a system, you become the single point of everything. Every decision routes through you. Every process lives in your head and nowhere else.

Then it gets messy. Resentment builds. Fatigue takes over. And at some point your health starts to go, which is the part nobody warns you about because it doesn't show up on a P&L.

I know that sequence because I ran it myself. I got out of it by building processes, not by trying harder. That's the entire basis of how I work.

Receipts

These aren't theoretical numbers.

They come from Beam Content, the agency I co-founded and ran as COO. When the systems work, the rest follows.

238%

Net income growth year over year in 2025, in a content marketing agency, in the year AI was supposedly taking over.

42%

Annual contract value increase after overhauling the operational framework.

7 figures

Scaled from six to seven figures in two years, profitable throughout.

30+

Founders who've been through this approach to operations.

How I work

All seven areas point at one North Star.

I don't fix marketing in isolation, or money in isolation. They're connected — tighten one and you move three others, usually without meaning to. So I plan projects across all seven core areas at once, each pointed at the same goal.

That's the Northbound Mapping Model. One framework, sized to whatever your business actually needs right now.

The seven core areas

What we actually look at

01

Financial steadiness

Numbers tell the truth before anyone else will. A strategic read on your margins, owner pay and cash, so decisions get made on data rather than dread.

02

Customer experience

The path a client travels from first hello to renewal. Every touchpoint mapped so it feels intentional rather than improvised — and runs whether or not you're in the room.

03

Operational efficiencies

The quiet systems holding everything together. The workflows currently living in your head get documented and handed back to you, working.

04

Visibility

How people find you, and what they understand about you when they do.

05

Product development and innovation

What you sell, how it's built, and what comes next.

06

Growth and development

Where the next stage of the business comes from, and what has to change — in the offer, the pricing, or you — to reach it.

07

Team growth

Who you have, who you need, and what they can genuinely take off your plate. Delegation only works once the process exists, which is why this one usually follows operational efficiencies rather than leading it.

Rebecca Nash at a running event.
The rest of it

A few fun facts, for when I'm not helping founders

  • I coach cross country at Antigua International School.
  • I've lived in Guatemala for more than a decade.
  • 10% of all profit goes to supporting girls' and women's education and health in Guatemala.
Fit

Who this works for

I work with coaches, consultants, therapists, educators and creatives — mission-led people who are excellent at their craft and stretched thin by everything around it.

We'll get on well if

  • You're good at your craft and the business side never caught up.
  • You'd rather be handed structure than motivation.
  • You're willing to say the real numbers out loud.
  • You want a plan that survives a bad week, not a perfect one.

We won't if

  • You want someone to take the work away entirely. I hand it back to you, working.
  • You're looking for a motivational coach. I'm an operator.
  • You want a deck for a board rather than a system for a Tuesday.

If you've been holding too much for too long, let's map it.

And hand it back to you, working.