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Fractional COO vs EOS Integrator

A fractional COO and an EOS Integrator do the same core job: run the company day to day so the founder does not have to. The Integrator does it inside the Entrepreneurial Operating System, beside a Visionary, using the Level 10 meeting, Scorecard, Rocks, and Accountability Chart. The COO does it in whatever operating system the company already runs. If your company is on EOS, start with the Integrators. If it is not, start with the COOs.

Definitions of the work each seat owns. No salary figures, no market statistics. Updated .

What a fractional COO owns

Cadence, accountability, delivery. The weekly leadership rhythm, the hiring plan, the process map, and the handoffs between sales, delivery, and finance that keep leaking margin.

A fractional COO adapts to your system. If you run on OKRs, Scaling Up, or nothing formal yet, the COO installs enough structure to make the quarter land and no more.

What an EOS Integrator owns

The same outcomes, with a defined toolkit and a defined counterpart. In EOS the Visionary sets direction and the Integrator makes it real: runs the Level 10 meeting, holds the Scorecard, drives the Rocks, breaks ties, and manages the leadership team.

A fractional Integrator sits in the seat a set number of days a month. The vocabulary is fixed, which makes the job legible to a team that already speaks it.

Where they overlap

Almost entirely. Both run the business. The difference is the system and the vocabulary. An Integrator is a COO who has committed to one framework; a COO is an Integrator who has not.

One listed operator appears on both pages because the practice sells both paths. That is honest and it tells you how thin the wall is.

Which to hire

Already on EOS with an empty Integrator seat: Integrator. Not on EOS and not planning to be: COO. Thinking about EOS: hire an Implementer first to install it, then decide whether the seat should be an Integrator or a COO.

See the people

The COO and Integrator pages are linked below with live counts. Read the who-they-serve line on each; many COO rows describe agencies by revenue band, and most Integrator rows name EOS outright.

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