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01 BUILD THE PRODUCT

Scott Palmer · The Playeconomist

Turn growth into a business built to last.

I help fast-growing consumer brands simplify operations, strengthen margins, build scalable systems, and execute the strategy their next stage demands.

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Built in the real world

Operator experience.
Not borrowed theory.

$500K→~$50MThe growth journey behind the operating lessons
70+Countries reached through global expansion
10+ yrsProducts, factories, supply chain, teams, and community
$2M–$100MThe revenue range where Playconomix creates the most leverage

Scott Palmer is Spikeball’s former COO and first employee. The lessons include hypergrowth, international expansion, operational strain, difficult decisions, and a return toward profitability.

01SIMPLIFY.
02STABILIZE.
03SYSTEMIZE.
04SCALE.

Growth should make your company stronger—not more fragile.

The messy middle

Momentum on the outside.
Pressure everywhere else.

01

Revenue climbs while cash gets tighter.

02

Inventory and forecasting become unreliable.

03

The founder becomes the operating system.

04

Margins disappear inside sourcing and fulfillment.

05

Teams work hard without clear ownership.

06

Strategy exists, but execution keeps slipping.

02 BUILD THE MACHINE

The business behind the brand

Your company isn’t broken.
It has outgrown how it operates.

When demand outruns systems, growth turns into cash pressure, margin leakage, founder drag, and execution risk. We build the operating machine that catches up.

The Playconomix operating model

Strategy that survives contact with the real business.

01

Diagnose

Find the constraint, hidden risk, margin leak, and leadership gap before prescribing the answer.

02

Stabilize

Restore visibility, accountability, cash discipline, and control without freezing momentum.

03

Systemize

Install practical processes, dashboards, playbooks, and ownership that do not depend on heroics.

04

Accelerate

Improve sourcing, product, margin, distribution, leadership, and execution around the right priorities.

05

Strengthen

Build community, repeat demand, defensibility, enterprise value, and strategic optionality.

Private operating intelligence

Be the person who knows what to do next.

Start with the playbooks and tools. Upgrade when the problem needs a second set of eyes. Join the Backchannel when the decision deserves private operating guidance.

Self-service

Playconomix Black Book

$199 / month

Operating playbooks, diagnostics, templates, scorecards, and new resources for consumer-product leaders.

  • Complete member portal
  • ERP, inventory, sourcing, margin, and fulfillment resources
  • Monthly operating briefing
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Operator Lab

$499 / month

Apply Playconomix thinking to one meaningful operating case each month.

  • Everything in the Black Book
  • One private async case per month
  • Written or Loom guidance
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The Operator’s Backchannel

$999 / month

Pressure-test important decisions and prepare the answer you will lead inside the company.

  • Two private async cases per month
  • Two private 30-minute calls per month
  • Priority guidance and Private Briefs
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Additional ways I help

Specialized support when the work needs more.

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Coaching

Sharper decisions, accountability, and an executable growth plan for founders and leadership teams.

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Private operator advisory

Behind-the-scenes operating guidance that helps CEOs, COOs, and rising leaders solve the problem and lead the answer themselves.

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Turnaround support

Stabilize cash, inventory, margin, leadership, and execution when the business is under pressure.

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PE, bank & investor support

Assess risk, reinforce leadership, protect value, and accelerate portfolio-company performance.

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Product, sourcing & supply chain

Move from idea to market with stronger design, Asian suppliers, negotiations, quality, unit economics, inventory, logistics, and fulfillment.

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Community-powered growth

Turn participation into advocacy, organic demand, customer insight, and a moat competitors cannot copy.

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Playconomix Ventures

Investment and operator support for selected companies building the future of play.

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Ways to work together

Choose the support your next stage demands.

Coaching

Focused Intensive

$3,000

One month to diagnose the constraint and move the highest-leverage priority.

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Growth Accelerator

3 Ă— $2,800

Three months to install clearer systems, ownership, and execution cadence.

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Operator’s Backchannel

$999 / month

Private operating guidance, two async cases, and two focused calls each month.

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Turnaround & Value Creation

Approved scope

Stabilization and performance acceleration for owners, boards, banks, and PE firms.

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Two ways into the work

The operator founders trust.
The partner capital needs.

02

PE firms, banks & boards

For stakeholders who need experienced operational leadership to assess risk, protect value, stabilize performance, or add fuel to the fire.

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03 BUILD THE MOAT

Community-powered enterprise value

Customers buy products.
Communities build categories.

Participation creates advocacy, feedback, repeat engagement, retail demand, and a competitive moat that compounds long after a campaign ends.

Operator story · Spikeball

PRODUCT → BRAND → SPORT → COMMUNITY

The growth story—and the part success stories leave out.

Scott helped take Spikeball from an emerging backyard game to a global sport: expanding products, building an international supply chain, developing a distributed team, and supporting a community across more than 70 countries.

Rapid growth also exposed vulnerabilities in planning, operations, and organizational design. Navigating that pressure—and helping engineer the turnaround—shaped the Playconomix approach to durable growth.

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Scott Palmer, founder of Playconomix

Scott Palmer · The Playeconomist

“I’ve lived the growth curve—including the parts people leave out.”

Scott works with brands, factories, suppliers, teams, investors, and business leaders around the world. He brings clarity to complexity, turns strategy into ownership, and stays close enough to the work to help it get executed.

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Every Monday

The Playmaker’s Pulse

A concise field note on global distribution, supply chain, product development, sport, games, and the moves behind durable growth.

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Playconomix Playbook

Real operating lessons, in your ears.

Actionable conversations about products, sourcing, community, leadership, and scaling companies in the business of play.

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15 minutes · zero obligation

Put the bottleneck
on the table.

Choose a time directly from the live calendar. Bring the growth opportunity, the operating constraint, or the decision you need to make. Leave with a clearer next move.

Free fit check15 focused minutesWith Scott Palmer
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The next stage starts here

Build a company that can handle where it’s going.

If growth is exposing the limits of your systems, team, margin, or execution, let’s diagnose what is getting in the way.

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15-Minute Discovery Call

15 min
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Free

A focused 15-minute conversation to clarify the real operating constraint, pressure-test the next move, and see whether Playconomix can help. Bring one business challenge or decision. No pitch, no obligation—just practical operator perspective.