Aaron Post · Strategy · Marketing · Operations

I've built companies, broken some, rebuilt them, and sold a few. Now I help founders skip the expensive parts.

20+ years as a founder and operator across software, marketing and the automotive aftermarket. I help small B2B companies find the market, build a revenue engine, and get the operations off the founder's back.

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No pitch. A straight read on where you're stuck and what's worth fixing first.

Find the marketStrategy & marketing
Make it repeatableSystems & AI
Make it holdOperations

How I help

Most consultants sell one thing. I move with the company.

What a business needs at twenty customers is not what it needs at two hundred. The work changes. So does my role in it. Find where you are.

Stage 01Sunrise

You have something. You don't have a market yet.

The product works. The pitch changes every call. Sales depend entirely on who happens to be in the room.

  • Positioning and the customer you're actually for
  • Pricing and packaging that survives a real negotiation
  • The first channel that repeats not the first that works once
  • The story that gets you the meeting

You stop guessing who you're selling to.

Stage 02Midday

It's working, and it's held together by you.

Revenue is real. So is the spreadsheet everything runs on. Growth is capped by your calendar and nobody wants to say it out loud.

  • No-code systems that run the work without a dev team
  • AI applied where it pays for itself, not where it demos well
  • Partnerships that open channels ad spend can't reach
  • Handoffs that don't route through you

Growth stops depending on your hours.

Stage 03Afternoon

The company is established and the seams are showing.

Six tools, none of them talking. Reporting assembled by hand. Every decision waits on someone pulling numbers.

  • Operating cadence: who owns what, and when it's reviewed
  • The connective tissue between the tools you already pay for
  • Reporting leadership will actually open
  • Process documented well enough to hire against

The business runs without heroics.

How we work together

Three ways in. Most people start with the first.

I get paid on outcomes wherever I can. But the first step should be small, fast and clear, for both of us.

Start here · 2 weeks · fixed fee

Growth Diagnostic

I dig into your market, pipeline and operations, then hand you a ranked plan: what to fix first, what to stop doing, and what each move is worth. Run it yourself or have me run it.

Monthly · 3-month minimum

Fractional operator

I work inside your team to run the plan: positioning, channels, partnerships, systems and the weekly operating rhythm that keeps it moving.

Revenue share

Growth partner

For the right company, I tie my pay to the growth I create. If it doesn't grow, I don't get paid. This usually starts after a Diagnostic, once we both know the opportunity is real.

Built into all three

AI where it pays for itself

Quoting in seconds, the inbound email and document pile handled, QuickBooks reconciled with your store, numbers you don't have to assemble. I run these in businesses I own before I put them in yours.

What I'm working on now

I'm not describing this from the outside.

Right now I'm building QPQ, AI-powered parts quoting for collision suppliers, and advising a small number of companies in automotive, senior care and death care. The ventures are where the methods get tested before anyone pays me for them.

About Aaron Post

I've run the whole business. That's the difference.

I'm Aaron Post. I've spent more than 20 years starting, running and growing companies, and advising the founders who run theirs.

I raised $3M for BarVision, grew it and sold it. I co-founded Refresh Phoenix, a startup community that grew into Refresh USA. Through One Orange Day I've advised more than 50 founders, and I co-authored Turn Parts Into Profit after the better part of two decades inside the collision repair and auto parts world.

That range is the point. Most businesses don't have a marketing problem or an operations problem in isolation. They have a marketing problem that operations created, or the reverse. Seeing both is what makes the fix stick.

I'm based in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and work with clients anywhere.

20+ yearsFounder, operator, builder
6,400%Valuation growth to acquisition · BarVision
20 → 900+Customers via partnership strategy
1,400%+Customer growth, revenue doubled, no new headcount · B2B auto parts platform
50+ foundersAdvised through One Orange Day since 2009

Track record

Built, broken, rebuilt, sold.

Companies I've founded, co-founded, raised money for, sat on the board of, or learned the hard way from. The shut-downs taught me as much as the exits.

…and a few more I'm still not ready to talk about.

Let's find where you're stuck.

Thirty minutes, no pitch. You'll leave with at least one thing to do next, whether we work together or not.

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