Get the partner you need to grow your brand profitably

Big brands have full-time execs to guide them. You don’t need that. All you need is someone to help you find clarity, shape the right plan, and let you take it from there.

Fractional Partner:
not a consultant, not an executive—something better

Most businesses hire too narrow, too soon—bringing in a CMO, COO, or CFO before fixing their core strategy. A Fractional Partner helps you get clear on where to focus before making expensive hires.

The experienced partner you’ve been missing

You’ve built something great, but scaling it takes more than effort. A Fractional Partner helps bridge the gap between ideas and execution, pushing your business from a bootstrapped company to a highly valued and profitable brand.

Lead with confidence

Make decisions with confidence, knowing you have a trusted partner to guide you and keep you from costly mistakes

Maximize what you’ve built

More clarity means more options. We help you maximize your business’s value so you can grow, sell, or scale—whatever path you choose

Make strategy a team sport

When your team is aligned, strategy becomes exciting. We create clarity, momentum, and a shared vision that makes growth feel fun again

Grow profitably, not just bigger

For bootstrapped businesses, growth is only valuable if it's profitable. Every decision we help you make is designed to help you grow profitably

Our process:
Clarity, one session at a time

Every 90-minute session is focused on filling in the Clarity Canvases that matter most to your business. Using our Clarity Canvas Framework, we work through the key sections step by step—so you get the right clarity, exactly when you need it.

Your Fractional Partner

Yarin is our in-house lead Fractional Partner. He is a serial entrepreneur, former Entrepreneur in Residence at a VC, and a top MBA. By day he is the founding partner at Fractional Partners and by night is a business mentor at University of Chicago.

Choose what we focus on

Initial Session

FREE 60-min session

We dig into your business, find the gaps in clarity, and decide together where to focus for the best results

Financial Canvas

Requires 2 Sessions

We help you see the real story your numbers tell so you can optimize the right metrics to grow your bottom line

Strategic Canvas

Requires 4-12 Sessions

We help you get 100% clear on your entire growth strategy so you know exactly how to grow profitably

Operational Canvas

Requires 2-6 Sessions

We help you set the correct goals for the quarter and design the key initiatives to bring your strategy to life

Clarity gives strong entrepreneurs confidence to build amazing brands

Hear what other entrepreneurs had to say about how clarity transformed their businesses

You made me think about and consider things that would never come to mind on my own. I was able to clear my head and narrow my focus down to specific things that we further my business instead of having my mind all over the place.
Victoria Sledge

Victoria Sledge

Faux Boujie

Yarin offered me great insight into key areas of my business that I was overlooking. No matter how prepared you think you are, I would recommend getting his perspective.
Matt Kotin

Matt Kotin

TheBaconCellar.com

Working with Yarin has brought our business perspective to a much higher level. We’ve experienced a huge upswing in organization, automation, leadership ability, strategy and more. His clarity and ability to ask the questions that get to the real issue is amazing.
Amelia Murdock

Amelia Murdock

Dash into Learning

He's young - possibly younger than me - which was briefly questionable. But he knows his stuff, he asks good questions, and he is approachable with my own questions.
Cass Westover

Cass Westover

Homegrown Wrappings

Having Yarin as a mentor helped me look at my business from a different perspective. He listened to my questions, and posed new questions that helped me think in a different way to overcome the challenges I was facing in my business. Additionally, his expertise in understanding the financials behind a business was extremely helpful for me in learning about the viability of my business and what areas I needed to focus on in order to ensure the business made sense financially. Yarin is extremely knowledgeable and we always leave with clear action steps.
Mary Liu

Mary Liu

MEIA

Yarin Gaon’s Clarity Challenge helped Whitestone redefine who we are by aligning our purpose, values, strengths, and ideal customers into a clear, actionable framework. It brought clarity and alignment to our team on key fundamentals like why we exist, what we do best, and who our perfect customer is. Now, we’re entering 2025 with a stronger sense of purpose and a shared vision. For any founder looking to refine their strategy and align their team, I highly recommend Yarin and Fractional Partners.
Joseph Sommer

Joseph Sommer

Whitestone

Great conversation! Helped me put all my thoughts into a concise to-do list in order of importance which was super helpful because I couldn’t do that myself previously and was struggling to see things big picture altogether.
Amanda Finck

Amanda Finck

Little luxuries

As a founder Yarin is the person you want to talk.His unique experience and direct approach will help you simplify your pitch until it becomes crystal clear and gleam insights you may not think through. When Suneel Gupta talks about the importance of "exhibition matches"..practicing in a low stakes environment to help you prepare for high stakes moments, Yarin gives you those matches.
Leslie Amonoo, MD

Leslie Amonoo, MD

Resident Physician

Yarin helped me narrow my focus to problem-solving and helped me find the most profitable parts of my business so I could cultivate them first. He encouraged me to focus more on the online portion of my business which ended up saving me in the long run (pandemic hit shortly after!) my business is still thriving today because of this advice.
Brittany Almeroth

Brittany Almeroth

Aesthetics LLC

Sometimes we just need someone to kick us in the butt. That was the energy I felt. It's nice when someone can guide you and they feel so clear like they know what they're doing. That could be really nice especially on days where I'm not as confident. I really appreciate the no-bullshit approach.
Shaily Hakimian

Shaily Hakimian

Social Media Sherpa

Working with Yarin was an absolute pleasure and a transformative experience. Watching Yarin conduct and orchestrate a meeting was itself a masterclass worth thousands of dollars because it elevated my skills and leadership qualities to a whole new level and inspired me to level up my skills in leading productive meetings with my team.
Roudy Nassif

Roudy Nassif

VivaRays

Yarin's approach aligns with our belief in over-delivery and creating value. His knowledge and insights are shared freely, and his ability to create value is unmatched. Anyone seeking strategy, clarity, or perspective will benefit from Fractional Partners.
Andies Shepherd

Andies Shepherd

Next Level Valet

Working with Yarin has been nothing short of transformational. I can't even begin to list the number of things we have stopped doing after this process and how it has revolutionized our processes, strategy, and operations. Yarin went above and beyond for us, over-delivered, and gave extra time, energy, and space to ensure we reached our goals. He possesses a unique combination of holding nothing back, saying what needs to be said, and backing it up with solutions and processes that effectively address what doesn't work. Thanks to his guidance, we have significantly improved our productivity, communication, and focus. Remarkably, during what is usually the slowest quarter of the year for us, we doubled our revenue and secured donations to further our mission. We now have a well-defined strategy and process to continue thriving long after our work with him. I look forward to watching our progress as we grow. Yarin truly feels like a fractional partner, seamlessly integrated into our team and working with us to ensure we reach our desired destination. If you seek a no-nonsense, get-it-done partner who delivers results and provides a replicable process, look no further—Yarin is your man.
Eirik Grunde Olsen

Eirik Grunde Olsen

One Solution Foundation

Yarin comes with a ton of entrepreneur experience and deep understanding of the ecosystem and value proposition. It was a pleasure to work with him. He is very knowledgeable and a great communicator.
Malvina De Salvo

Malvina De Salvo

Plateful

Yarin provided immensely helpful mentoring to help my startup, allowing us to pivot in our early stage and structure amazing channel partnerships!
Vrishank Saini

Vrishank Saini

prehealth.ai

Working with Yarin on the Clarity Challenge was very insightful. Yarin’s approach helped us pinpoint gaps in our processes and communication. His guidance helped clarify our process, allowing us to streamline our workflow and improve collaboration.
Whitney Finlinson

Whitney Finlinson

Visionary Talent

Our session was extremely helpful in helping refine our pitch and strategy for partnerships. Yarin is a master business strategy mind who has advice for any venture or industry.
Dr. Sanjeev Bhatia

Dr. Sanjeev Bhatia

Joint Preservation Innovations

Yarin is a strong thought partner! I have gotten to know Yarin through a UChicago mentoring program for startup founders. He has given me some important advice/coaching based on the unique way he thinks and his impressive background. Specifically, he helps me push away all the noise that can surround a business and focus on the areas that matter the most. Then, he assists in creating simple yet powerful plans to tackle those areas. He is a strong partner for our business!
Nathan Ohler

Nathan Ohler

Nuooly

Yarin is an entrepreneur through and through and he's laser focused on helping other founders grow their business. He is a tremendous resource for people who want to get to that next-level of business growth, and personally, I've loved getting to know him over the last year. He's also a connector of high-caliber individuals and puts together excellent events for entrepreneurs in the Austin area who aren't in the tech sector. He's serving a segment of the market that is often ignored, and he does it with excellence.
Tim Vorhoff

Tim Vorhoff

CreoValo

Ready to up your clarity game?

Designed for bootstrapped brands

Who are:

Wanting to improve their overall strategy and profitability

Generating $500k-20m in yearly revenue, +2 full time employees

Biased towards action and open to change

Working with multiple clients or products (have volume)

90-Minute Clarity Session
You choose what we focus on
$1,250 /session
We'll help you update, refine, or refresh any part of the Clarity Canvases
We facilitate everything-- you show up, we do the work together
Fun, interactive, hands-on sessions that excites and motivates your team
You’ll get prep materials, follow-up tasks, and light support after the session
Stack sessions to create a full clarity day, retreat, or deep-dive workshop

Commitment-free first session

Have a free Clarity Session to discuss your business with one of our experts to decide if this experience is a good fit for your company

Value guaranteed or your investment back

If you don’t find the value, we’ll refund your investment or let you pay what you believe it was worth.

Full confidentiality

You business data is safe with us and will never be shared with anyone but you and us

FAQs

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