# Fifteen years of being the first ops hire.

Source: https://revductive.com/about
Summary: Fifteen years of being the first ops hire. Kevin Stout runs Revductive: fractional ops and growth for teams not ready for a full-time hire.
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About Kevin Stout

Based near Atlanta. Works with companies across the US, Canada, and the UK.

![Kevin Stout, founder of Revductive](https://revductive.com/_astro/kevin-stout.B6E7jw9T_Z2ltUwQ.webp)

## The short version

15+

**Years of Experience**

100+

**Brands The Team Has Worked With**

Every stage

**First Customer To Serious Scale, More Than Once**

3

**Countries Clients Operate In**

Kevin has 15 years of experience in B2B SaaS operations and growth, including co-founding a healthcare SaaS product & has been the first ops or growth hire many times.

Now he runs Revductive: fractional ops and growth for teams that need infrastructure but aren’t ready for a full-time hire.

Based [near Atlanta](https://revductive.com/revops-consultant-atlanta). Works with companies across the US, Canada, and the UK. Execution is supported by a growing team of subject matter experts. The full track record is on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinbstout/).

## Fifteen years of scaling B2B companies

Kevin has been part of the scaling story at several companies, from the first handful of customers through to serious revenue. Most recently as the first operations hire at Pearl, a dental AI company, where five years took it from early days to a couple of hundred people. First ops hire means supporting sales, marketing, and customer success at the same time, usually before any of them have a process. **It also meant implementing AI tools inside an AI company, before most people had heard of any of this.**

## How Revductive operates

Strategy and planning come from Kevin, working from context gathered deep inside your business. AI does 100% of the implementation against that plan. A team of subject matter experts then builds on that output and improves it. **AI alone gives you volume without judgment, people alone give you judgment at a crawl, and the two together beat either one on its own.**

Nobody has ten years of AI expertise. The tools have changed too many times. What helps is using this daily on real client work, and having spent 15 years doing the unglamorous version of the same job before the acronym showed up.

## How we work

### Deliver results, not slide decks

Every engagement ends with something running, documented, and owned by your team.

### Subtract before you add

The first recommendation is usually to cancel or consolidate something, not to buy something new.

### Plan for the handover

When you’re ready for a full-time hire, they should be able to pick it up in a week.

## Thirty minutes is enough to know if this fits.

[Book a 30-min call →](https://revductive.com/contact)