Optiva Labs helps market research and insights firms improve delivery, margin, and operating performance through fractional COO support and practical advisory. The work is focused, structured, and designed to make execution predictable.
Operator led. Built for measurable outcomes and repeatable execution.
Deep in the realities of research delivery. Programming, data workflows, and client services.
Designed for PE and founder contexts. Fast priorities, clear tradeoffs, value creation tracking.
Founder experience
Optiva Labs is led by Mark Martins, a former Chief Operating Officer and Chief Services Officer with 28 years in market research operations and delivery.
Mark Martins, Founder
Market research and insights companies scale fast, complexity shows up faster, more clients, more teams, more handoffs, more tools, more locations, more decisions. When ownership is unclear and cadence is inconsistent, leaders become the bottleneck and delivery becomes unpredictable. Optiva Labs installs the operating system that makes performance repeatable.
How we work
We bring an operator’s approach, practical, structured, and execution focused.
Step 1, clarify ownership and decision rights
Define what each leader and team owns, remove overlap, map decision rights, and set escalation paths so decisions move at the right level.
Step 2, design the operating model
Map handoffs and workflows, define service levels, confirm onshore and offshore mix, and build the capacity and cost model behind delivery
Step 3, install simple metrics and cadence
Build a KPI pack, set a weekly operating rhythm, create performance reviews, and define decision forums that keep execution moving
Step 4, drive adoption
Create a change plan, enable leaders, hand off ownership, and install routines so improvements stick
If you are dealing with delivery inconsistency, margin pressure, integration work, or offshore scaling, we can recommend a clear starting point in one call.