Solv:Able
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For mid-market B2B leadership
Sara Oberst · Columbus, Ohio
Innovation Enablement
The readiness gap
You know your business better than anyone. What you do not have is a practice of innovation: a way to sort the real opportunities from the noise, prove which ones deserve money, and make the winners stick. That gap is where most mid-market innovation spending dies. It is also where I start.
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A growth goal, no path
A number to hit, the clock running, and no activated route to get there.
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An investment that stalled
You spent on innovation already. It quietly never delivered.
03
Competitors moving on AI
The opportunity feels just out of reach. The hype clouds what is real.
04
No team to own it
Your people already run the business. This cannot be one more thing.
Who I help
Manufacturing, industrial, distribution, professional services, and construction. The companies that run the real economy, and rarely have an innovation team on the org chart.
The pragmatic CEO
Growth is the mandate. You need a path you can defend to your board and to your own gut.
The frustrated COO
You have watched a promising initiative die in the handoff. Maybe twice.
The ambitious CRO
Your competitors are selling with tools your team does not have yet.
The skeptical CFO
You are not against innovation. You are against innovation that cannot show its math.
The overwhelmed VP of marketing
Every week brings a new tool you are supposed to have an opinion on by Friday.
Pragmatic innovation
Each engagement stands on its own. Together they take you from “where do we even start” to innovation that is running, measured, and paying for itself.
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The Innovation Audit
A prioritized opportunity roadmap for your business. Surfaces what is real, kills the noise, and tells you where to start.
4 to 6 weeks · fixed fee
02
The Investment Framework
A business case for every top-priority initiative: time to value, return on invested capital, total cost of ownership, competitive context.
6 to 8 weeks · fixed fee
03
Technology & Vendor Evaluation
Vendor-agnostic selection of platforms and partners: requirements, landscape map, structured evaluation, negotiation brief.
Per engagement · fixed fee
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Governance, Adoption & Measurement
Change management, a KPI dashboard, and executive reporting. The framework that makes the investment actually deliver.
Ongoing retainer
Partner, not vendor
The usual options
Solv:Able
Vendor-agnostic. No platform to sell you. I am on your side of the table.
Embedded. Plugged in, sleeves rolled up, inside your business, learning it fast.
Accountable. I stay until the innovation earns its keep. No vanity innovation, ever.
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Sara Oberst · Founder, Solv:Able
About Sara
I studied literature and anthropology and started my career in journalism. That training is why I learn a business fast: ask the right questions, listen harder than anyone else in the room, and write the findings so plainly that no one can hide behind them.
I spent years inside IBM and Unity leading large-scale innovation programs for Fortune 500 companies: shaping the roadmaps, building the business cases, and staying through adoption.
Solv:Able exists because mid-market companies deserve that same discipline without the overhead of a big firm or the agenda of a vendor.
Founder
Sara Oberst
Based in
Columbus, Ohio
Start here
The first meeting is about your business, not my pitch. Tell me where it feels stuck and we will find the real opportunity together.
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Email
sara@solvablenow.com
Phone
614-256-2174
Based in
Columbus, Ohio