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Your tech spend is
outpacing revenue.
That's not a tech problem.

PE-backed companies and legacy enterprises share the same hidden problem: operational debt. It's eating your margin. The misdiagnosis is why the last overhaul didn't work.

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"Cost-saving ideas were never the bottleneck. Execution was. MK ran our infrastructure operations program end-to-end. She found where the spend was actually leaking, built the plan to stop the leaks, and delivered millions in savings. The real deal."
Jason Hudak, VP of Platform Engineering at Twilio
Booz Allen Hamilton NASA US Navy US Army Air Force Cost Analysis Agency Twilio RapidAPI Divisions Maintenance Group Google
$75M
Annual SaaS portfolio managed for a Series B company
$100M
Avoided technology costs for a Series C company
73%
COGs improvement delivered for a hypergrowth startup
97%
Reduction in resolution time from days to hours for a PE-backed company
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waste costing you?

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Based on industry benchmarks and engagement data. Actual recovery depends on your stack and org maturity. The call is free. The number gets more accurate from there.

The misdiagnosis

Most call it a tech problem.
It's not.

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Cloud, AI, or SaaS spend outpacing growth

The $2M overhaul didn't work. And no one knows why.

Tech costs growing faster than revenue

Heading into a transformation with no clear operational owner

Incidents frequent, escalations noisy, ownership unclear

No one's translating tech spend into business outcomes

Fix the operations.
Recover the margin.

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Fractional Leadership

  • Embedded CTO and COO leadership, structured as a retainer with 30/60/90-day milestones
  • Not hourly arrangements
  • I hit the ground running and go all-in on trust
  • You keep pace. The accountability runs both ways
Fractional CTO Fractional COO 30/60/90 Milestones Retainer Model Trust-First
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Project-Based Engagements

  • Defined scope, structured roadmap, clear end state
  • Built on the ALIGN™ framework
  • Operations transformation, cost recovery, and cloud or SaaS rationalization
  • Fixed scope, not an open-ended retainer
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Mary Kate, Founder of EmmeKaye Consulting
Mary Kate McAllister
Founder & Principal Consultant

Meet Mary Kate McAllister.
aka MK.

I've operated inside Booz Allen Hamilton, NASA, the US Navy, US Army, Air Force Cost Analysis Agency, Twilio, RapidAPI, Divisions Maintenance Group, and Google. Every environment, every scale. The same cost problem appeared in all of them.

That pattern recognition is what I bring. The misdiagnosis is why the overhaul didn't work. I fix the operations problem. Not the technology symptom.

Credentials
Former Twilio Chief of Staff, IPO readiness
PMP · UC Berkeley
MBA · University of Maryland
Certified Scrum Master · PMC-III
Business Analytics · IU Kelley
AWS · AI · Cloud & SaaS
San Diego, CA · Available Remotely
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The ALIGN™
framework.

Most transformations fail because they treat the technology symptom, not the operations root cause. ALIGN™ fixes that. A repeatable framework that starts with diagnosis, not prescription.

01
A
Assess

Diagnose what's actually broken. Not what it looks like on the surface.

02
L
Lead

Establish direction. Define ownership. Make accountability real.

03
I
Integrate

Bridge engineering and business. Connect systems and the people inside them.

04
G
Grow

Scale what works. Eliminate what doesn't. Build for where you're going.

05
N
Normalize

Make it stick. Embed accountability so the work outlasts the engagement.

Your Cloud, AI, or SaaS spend outpacing growth?
Let's talk.

No pitch deck. No sales process. Book directly or send a message.
Either way, let's figure out if it's an operations problem.

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mk@emmekayeconsulting.com
619.929.9885
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