For small and medium-sized businesses · Strategy × Operations × AI

Turn strategy into execution—and execution into measurable business performance.

Vanix helps owners and leadership teams of ambitious small and medium-sized businesses identify where performance is breaking down, fix the operational and commercial issues constraining results, and improve profitability. We combine senior executive leadership, hands-on implementation, practical AI automation, and embedded measurement to strengthen accountability, build operating discipline, and turn priorities into measurable results.

A 30-minute conversation to understand your priorities and determine whether Vanix may be a fit. Available in English or Spanish.

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Senior-led support for small and medium-sized businesses
ProfitabilityAccountabilityOperating disciplineOwner capacityPractical AI

01 / The operating challenge

The business has grown. Has the operating system kept up?

In small and medium-sized businesses, growth often exposes what informal management once concealed.

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Revenue is increasing, but margin, cash flow, or job-level profitability is unclear.

02

Too many decisions still depend on the owner.

03

Priorities are discussed, but accountability and follow-through vary.

04

Leaders lack timely, trusted information to manage performance.

05

Sales, operations, and finance work from different assumptions.

06

Manual processes consume time that should support customers and growth.

07

AI initiatives are being considered without clear priorities or a credible business case.

These are signs that the company needs a stronger operating system for its next stage.

02 / Business outcomes

Build a company that performs with greater clarity and control.

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Stronger profitability

Improve pricing, job costing, resource use, operating visibility, and the decisions that shape margin and cash.

02

Clearer accountability

Define priorities, decision rights, ownership, and management rhythms so commitments translate into action.

03

More reliable execution

Build practical processes, KPIs, and operating disciplines that surface issues sooner.

04

Greater owner capacity

Reduce unnecessary owner dependency by strengthening leaders, systems, information flow, and decision-making.

05

Better use of technology and AI

Automate recurring work and implement practical solutions only where value, risk, and return justify them.

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03 / Small and medium-sized businesses

For ambitious owners and leadership teams ready for the next stage.

Vanix is designed for established small and medium-sized businesses—especially owner-led companies whose growth has outpaced the way they manage, measure, and execute.

  • The owner wants growth without carrying every decision personally.
  • Leadership needs clearer priorities, stronger accountability, and useful reporting.
  • Profitability or cash performance is not keeping pace with revenue and effort.
  • The company needs senior operating leadership, but not another permanent executive.
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04 / Services

Focused support for the issues that constrain performance.

Every engagement is shaped around the business problem—not a predetermined package or technology.

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Structured problem-solving. Clear ownership. Measurable execution.
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Growth Strategy & Commercial Acceleration

Choose markets, develop opportunities, manage pipeline, align incentives, and measure conversion, pricing, and sales performance.

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03

AI Implementation & Operational Automation

Identify high-value use cases, redesign workflows, implement fit-for-purpose technology, establish controls, and measure business impact.

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04

Fractional Executive Leadership

Add experienced operating leadership supported by executive scorecards, accountability, and disciplined management reviews.

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05

Infrastructure & Transaction Advisory

Support telecom, digital infrastructure, engineering, and investor-led situations with measurable commercial and operating performance.

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05 / Vanix Profitability Architecture

From assessment through execution to measurable improvement.

Vanix Profitability Architecture identifies and fixes the operational, commercial, and management issues that constrain profitability. It creates a shared fact base, concentrates effort on the highest-value priorities, and stays focused on implementation. Measurement is built in from the beginning so the leadership team can see whether performance is actually improving.

1

Assess

Establish the facts, economics, constraints, risks, opportunities, and performance baseline.

2

Prioritize

Rank actions by value, urgency, feasibility, dependencies, and risk.

3

Build

Put the required roles, processes, measures, ownership, and practices in place.

4

Automate

Remove avoidable manual work and improve speed, reliability, and visibility.

5

Improve

Compare results with the baseline, correct deviations, and extend what works.

Measurement & Performance Visibility

If improvement cannot be measured, it cannot be managed, verified, or sustained.
  1. Baseline
  2. KPIs
  3. Reporting
  4. Management Review
  5. Verified Improvement

A practical path from first conversation to implementation

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AI implementation

Practical AI starts with a business problem—not a tool.

Vanix helps leadership teams move from scattered experimentation to responsible implementation: mapping workflows, prioritizing use cases, integrating appropriate technology, establishing controls, and measuring impact.

  • Save time and increase capacity
  • Improve reporting and management visibility
  • Strengthen customer and sales workflows
  • Establish human oversight and information controls
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Fractional leadership

Experienced operating leadership—with authority to move the business forward.

The principal offering is Fractional COO leadership. Depending on the situation, Vanix may also serve as CRO, Chief Commercial Officer, Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Transformation/AI Officer, interim CEO, or advisor.

Leadership means operating authority.Leading meetings, clarifying decisions, assigning accountability, and helping the team execute.
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Don van Splunteren working at an active construction site
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06 / Leadership & delivery

Direct access to the executive doing the work.

Vanix is led by Don van Splunteren, an operator and advisor with more than 20 years of senior commercial, operating, and strategic leadership experience.

His background spans owner-led businesses, startups, and global enterprises across the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, and international markets. Clients work directly with Don. Selected specialists can be added when required while Vanix retains senior oversight and accountability.

BSEE + MBAEnglish · Spanish · DutchSenior-led delivery

07 / Industries we know

Operating context matters.

Vanix draws on experience in businesses where project execution, field operations, labor, assets, and customer commitments must work together.

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Construction and trades

Residential and civil construction, telecom construction, roofing, HVAC, garage-door services, and specialty trades.

02

Automotive and field services

Organizations balancing customer experience, technician capacity, scheduling, sales, consistency, and margin.

03

Telecom and digital infrastructure

Wireless, fiber, TowerCo environments, engineering services, construction, and infrastructure strategy and operations.

Institutional capability

Senior support for portfolio-company, infrastructure, and investor priorities.

Vanix’s owner-led focus is supported by experience in complex institutional environments. Relevant situations include portfolio-company improvement, fractional or interim leadership, diligence, post-transaction integration, and telecom or infrastructure priorities.

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For small and medium-sized businesses ready to improve

Identify what is constraining performance—and what to do next.

A focused introductory conversation can clarify the issue, the desired outcome, and whether Vanix is the right partner to help.

Schedule an Introductory Call 30 minutes. No obligation. Available in English or Spanish.