You're booked.

Two things lock it in before we meet.

Get it on your calendar

The call happens on Zoom. Your join link is in your confirmation email.

  1. Confirm the invite so your spot is locked in
  2. Click "I know the sender" so future emails don't go to spam
  3. Check your spam folder if you don't see it

Complete your Expertise Inventory

This is the first exercise of the Incubator, and you do it before we ever speak. Most people have never written down what they're actually an expert in. The ones who do show up to the call already seeing their skillset differently.

Eight questions, about ten minutes. Your advisor reads your answers before the call, so instead of an hour of background questions, you start at the part that matters: what your expertise is worth.

Start the Expertise Inventory

From inside the Incubator

It starts with conversations

Weeks in, the calendar starts filling.

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Then the first yes

The first signed contract changes what feels possible.

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Then it compounds

Pilots become retainers. Retainers become twelve-month engagements.

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Until it's a real business

Team hires, repeat orders, partners, pipeline.

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See how it actually works

The one thing we ask.

We hold this time for you and prepare for every call, so in return all we ask is a word if anything changes. If the call passes without one, we'll wish you every success, but you won't be able to book with us again, under any circumstances.

250+

Fractional & Consulting Practices Launched

Different lives. Same decision.

Adam Gray case study

$175k in 60 days

Adam Gray

Career Background

Manufacturing Operations Executive

Why Fractional

Burned out running billion-dollar P&Ls at Blue Origin and wanted real time with his kids.

"I just dropped my kids off at school. I've never been able to do that."

Sean McDonald case study

$20k/month recurring

Sean McDonald

Career Background

Pet Industry Growth Marketing Executive

Why Fractional

Burned out as a public-company SVP and wanted to drop off and pick up his newly adopted son.

"Rejection is protection."

Jon Hovage case study

$100k+ in 60 days

Jon Hovage

Career Background

Corporate Procurement & Supply Chain Specialist

Why Fractional

Tired of 15 years in a corporate procurement seat that could be outsourced any day, and wanted something nobody could take from him.

"I sleep like a baby now."

Grant case study

$91k in 84 days

Grant

Career Background

Customer Success & Operations Executive

Why Fractional

Walked away from a real estate equity deal that wasn't going to materialize and bet on himself to get time back for his family.

"I replaced my income on my first engagement. And I got 60% more time."

Jessica case study

$40k in 64 days

Jessica

Career Background

Federal Government Tech Services Executive

Why Fractional

Laid off after 25 years in federal contracting, finally chased the dream she'd been deferring for 16 years.

"My son once asked me, 'Mom, shouldn't you be working?' I don't want that anymore."

Don case study

$12k in 60 days

Don

Career Background

High School Band Director

Why Fractional

Loves teaching but wanted entrepreneurial freedom and a bigger financial future for his six kids.

"I had to stop making it so hard for myself."

Tony case study

$260k over 12 months

Tony

Career Background

Lockheed Martin Engineering & Program Management Veteran

Why Fractional

Laid off at the end of a 40-year engineering career and chose to bet on his own expertise rather than fight the traditional job market again.

"I probably did 200 blind calls. This is a better way to present yourself."

Steven case study

$20k month on the side of a W2

Steven

Career Background

Financial Services Data Analytics Specialist

Why Fractional

Five years into his data career and sure his skillset was worth more than one paycheck, he built on the side rather than stay replaceable.

"Doesn't matter your age, doesn't matter the years of experience."

Kevin case study

Replaced his executive salary in year one

Kevin

Career Background

Public Company M&A and Corporate Development Executive

Why Fractional

Fifteen years on the executive team of a public company he took public and then private again. He had offers to run corporate development somewhere else and wanted to use the same skill set on his own clients instead.

"I had spent 30 years closing deals for other people and you taught me how to close one for myself."

Zack case study

$50k a month, then a client made him CEO

Zack

Career Background

Private Equity Chief Commercial Officer

Why Fractional

Fifteen years as an operator, ending on 80-hour weeks at a private equity firm he expected to retire from. Four kids at home and a wife who called herself a private equity widow. He left in May, won a client in his first week, and never launched his website.

"I never publicly launched. My network introduced me to a person or two, they introduced me to another person or two, and I started winning clients immediately."

Different niches. Some full-time, some on the side. But they all did the same thing:

They took the risk.

They bet on themselves.

They put in the work.

They made it real.

Two months ago, they were where you are right now.

Why The Incubator exists.

Back in 2020 I was in a senior role at a sports marketing startup. We'd grown from $400k when I joined, to projecting between $8-10M heading into the calendar year. Then the pandemic hit. Revenue crashed. I had to lay off the entire team I'd hand picked. These were hardworking people who'd done their job well. But you can't avoid layoffs by working harder.

That's when it clicked. Jobs aren't safe. You're betting 100% of your income on a single employer. Nobody does that with their net worth.

I kept at it anyway. Long hours. Constant travel. Then one night in a dingy hotel room in Myrtle Beach SC, I watched my son take his first steps through FaceTime.

I should have been there. I couldn't be. My company decided where I was, not me.

So I started working on a way out. Tried a bunch of new business models on the side. All failed. I was building from scratch on top of a full-time job.

Then the breakthrough: stop trying to invent something new. Monetize the skillset I already had. Marketing and sales for high-ticket services. I built it on top of the job, in the same hours I had, just used differently. Doubled my income inside a year, saved $100K, left full-time to run my own thing.

Now I help other executives do the same. Start fractional businesses on top of the careers they already built. Same skillset. New game.

Harrison Schenck

Harrison SchenckFounder, The Fractional Incubator

The freedom of having options

It was never W2 or fractional.

Choosing fractional doesn't mean quitting your W2, and it doesn't mean never holding one again. You can sign a fractional engagement alongside the role you have right now.

Our client Jon signed a $100K+ fractional contract while still working his W2. Around 20% of our clients land a W2 offer while they're out pursuing fractional engagements. Tony took a great W2 offer and kept building fractional on the side of it.

This was never about leaving one thing for another. It's about whether one employer has 100% control over your income, or you do.

With only a W2

  • No control over your schedule
  • One income stream you could lose to a layoff at any moment
  • Your time building equity in someone else's business, not yours

With fractional, even alongside your W2

  • The option to leave whenever you want. You're never stuck in a job you hate
  • Multiple income streams, so losing one doesn't take you to zero
  • Your time building something that's yours and can't be taken from you

The skillset you learn to secure fractional roles is the same skillset that helps you secure any role, including a W2. You don't lose anything by learning it. You only add options.

So the real question isn't W2 or fractional. It's whether you want all your eggs in one basket, or a skill that means they never have to be.

Twelve months from now, you're operating differently.

The tactical stuff in the Incubator works. How to attract, convert and retain long-term clients. We've taught it to hundreds of people and it works the same every time.

But the people who actually build something don't do it because the tactics changed. They build it because they changed.

Most of the people we work with have spent 10, 15, 20 years inside a corporate structure. Salary on autopilot. Permission to act granted from above. Identity tied to job title.

Going fractional isn't just a different way to earn. It's a different way to operate. You stop selling hours, you start solving expensive problems. You stop asking, you start deciding. You stop relying on the company's infrastructure, you start building your own.

That shift is what makes the tactics stick. There's no journaling, no morning routines, no mantras. It's a sequence of structured changes in how you describe your value, how you price it, how you handle pushback, how you keep going when a quiet outreach week tests you.

By month twelve you don't just have a different income. You have a different professional identity. The version of you who got on this call wouldn't recognise the version closing the year.

Wherever you are, we've helped someone exactly like you.

Some come to us with nothing. No plan, no offer, no clients. Just a hunch that the skills they've built shouldn't keep enriching someone else. Others have done the building but can't get the selling to click. The product's good, the website's up, the conversations don't convert.

Functional medicine

Tyler Hussey

Financial coaching

Armando

Career coach

Alex Egeler

Some are still sitting in the corporate job. Salary's good, calendar's terrible, autonomy's gone. Others are already doing the thing. Solopreneurs who've capped out, coaches running real businesses but stuck under their own ceiling. Different stages, same pattern: the skill is there, the structure isn't.

Elite Sentinel Coaching

George Hayworth

Marketing agency

Josh Wellman

Online fitness coaching

Jimmy Mackey

The wins don't stop.

Straight from the community, in their own words

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And plenty more besides

Smaller steps, early traction, and the days that kept people going.

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