About
Operations is the work nobody sees until it breaks.
I'm Imelda Salmon. I help established founders stop being the bottleneck in their own business — through systems, structure, and honest AI implementation.

I'm a certified Director of Operations, AI strategist, and OBM. For the last decade I've sat behind the scenes of service businesses that look successful on the outside and feel chaotic on the inside.
My clients aren't beginners. They've already done the hard part — built the offer, won the clients, hired the team. What's missing isn't more strategy. It's the operational layer that turns the business into something that runs without their constant presence.
That's the work. Document the way the business actually operates. Build the workflows, the AI, the decision frameworks. Hand the founder back their time without losing the standard that made clients choose them in the first place.
What I believe
- — AI is leverage, not magic. It only works on top of clear process.
- — Most "team problems" are really structure problems.
- — A business that requires the founder for everything isn't a business — it's a job with extra steps.
- — Documentation is a love letter to your future self and your team.
