Business Operations · AI Operations · Fractional Leadership

Operations that scale, and AI that pays off.

Quanta Management helps growth-stage and mid-market companies scale their business operations and get their AI initiatives focused, owned and paying off. We work as a fractional or interim leader for operations and technology, holding the seat or working alongside your leaders, with senior specialists in architecture, business applications and data when the work calls for them.

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Led by a former CIO and operations executive
Specialists in architecture, business applications and data
Boston, working nationally

Why companies call us

Growth strains operations. AI raises the stakes.

The processes, systems and roles that worked at one size strain at the next. Now AI is arriving through every tool, vendor and team at once, usually with no clear owner. Both problems look the same: more activity, less control, and no clear answer to whether it is paying off. That is where we come in.

41%
growth in the number of apps at mid-sized companies in a single year, from 116 to 164.
Source: BetterCloud, 2026 State of SaaS (July 2026)
79%
of 145 enterprises surveyed have already had a real financial or operational control failure from AI.
Source: VentureBeat Pulse Research, The control gap (July 2026)
47%
of organizations report AI spending above what they planned.
Source: Futurum Group (September 2026)

What we do

Two sides of one job.

Scaling a company and making AI work are the same leadership problem, and both reward focus: clear owners, a short list of priorities, systems that fit together, and someone accountable for results.

Business Operations

Set up, scale and streamline the operations behind revenue, customers and G&A.

Operating model, team design and roles
Revenue and customer operations, from quote to renewal
Using technology to scale: CRM, CPQ, ERP and how they connect
Intake, priorities, and data everyone agrees on

AI Operations

Get your AI initiatives focused, owned and paying off, with clear guardrails and known costs, working alongside your team.

Focus and priorities for AI initiatives
Data readiness, architecture and patterns to build on
Ownership, intake and controls
Running AI day to day, inside your IT team
Oversight and reporting for leadership and the board

2 in 3

Focus is what pays. Two in three of the 20 companies McKinsey studied that consistently turned AI into financial results focused on three business areas or fewer, where small gains show up in the P&L. The same holds for operations: a few things done well beat a long list started.

Source: McKinsey, The new management playbook for AI (August 2026)

Fractional and interim leadership

Senior leadership, when you need it.

Most of our work is fractional or interim leadership, typically 20 to 25 hours a week. Sometimes we hold an open leadership role until the permanent leader arrives. Often we work alongside the leaders you already have, taking on the operations or AI work they need a senior partner for. Either way, we build your team's capability and leave the work with your people.

When it fits

Your leaders need a senior partner on operations or AI, not a replacement.
A CIO, COO or business technology role is open or changing hands.
AI is spreading across teams and tools, and no one is accountable for it.

How fractional leadership works

Selected experience

Problems we have helped solve.

Quote-to-cash
Data intelligence company
Reviewed the quote-to-order process, then rebuilt contract amendments and renewals in the quoting system, so ARR is calculated there with an audit trail instead of rebuilt by hand.
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Interim CIO · AI Operations
Cybersecurity software company
$300M+ ARR
Interim CIO after a restructuring: repositioned business technology around internal service, and put AI requests, administration and spend under one accountable owner.
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Fractional advisory
Healthcare technology company
Fractional engagement: a capability map and plan for where to invest, an intake and prioritization model, and shared data definitions.
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Automation
Professional services firm
Automated project setup from estimator spreadsheets, cutting a one to two hour task to under a minute.
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Earn your complexity.

We start with people, roles, processes and the business problem. Tools and systems come second. In the age of AI, simplicity and clear context matter more than ever: AI can only work with what your business has made clear.

Leadership

Led by an operator.

Reza has worked on both sides of the house: leadership roles in sales operations and professional services operations at EMC, IT and sales operations run as one function at Puppet, and more than five years as Commvault’s first CIO as the company grew to nearly $1B in revenue. He started Quanta Management to help companies navigate scale and growth: asking the right operational questions, connecting the dots, and prioritizing what matters most.

“Most companies don’t need more AI yet. They need someone to own it, and a clear answer for the board on what it is worth.”

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