You built a real business. Let's make sure it can run without you.
Join now and your first month is the October AI Employee Sprint: six AI Employees running in four weeks.
This month's sprint
AI Employee Buildout
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Let me describe your life, and tell me if I'm wrong.
From the outside, you’ve made it. Seven, maybe eight figures in revenue. A team. A brand people recognize. The kind of business you would have killed for ten years ago.
From the inside, it feels different. You’re the first one in and the last one out. Every important decision still routes through you. When you take a week off, you don’t actually take a week off. You take your laptop, your phone, and a low hum of anxiety that something will break while you’re gone. And something usually does.
You didn’t build a business. You built a job. A very expensive, very demanding job that happens to have your name on the door.
The more valuable you are to your business, the less valuable your business actually is.
A company that can’t run without you can’t be sold, can’t be stepped away from, and can’t truly pay you what it owes you. You own the risk. It owns your calendar.
And you’ve tried to fix it. You ran EOS. You read Scaling Up. You hired the consultant, bought the course, ran the offsite. For a few weeks it felt like progress. Then the binder went on the shelf, the team drifted back to old habits, and you were right back to being the bottleneck. Not because you’re not smart enough, but because those systems were built for a generic business and then handed to you to force-fit onto yours.
That’s the difference here. We don’t make you fit our system. We build the system around your business, sitting next to you, until it runs without you.
The 5 traps founders fall into
1
Hustle your way out
More hours, more grind. But every time you push harder, the business gets a little more dependent on you. Growth doesn’t solve the problem, it multiplies it.
2
Document your way out
Weeks of SOPs nobody reads and a wiki that’s outdated before it’s finished. Documentation without an operating system to run on is just paper collecting digital dust.
3
Hire your way out
You wait for the magical COO who thinks like you. But good people don’t fix broken systems, broken systems break good people. You get expensive turnover instead.
4
Framework your way out
Traction, EOS, Scaling Up, E-Myth. Good stuff in all of them, but they force your business into their template, then make it your fault when it doesn’t fit.
5
Grow your way out
“Once we hit $5M it’ll smooth out.” It never does, because growth eats cash. Two-thirds of Inc. 5000 companies still fail. Speeding up a duct-taped rocket isn’t the fix.
What works is a custom operating system built around your business. That's what we install.
What's actually possible
Kay
Went from burnt out and overworked to so genuinely free she got bored, sold the business, and started traveling.
Gary
Turned top-line revenue into bottom-line profit in under 18 months while stepping out of the day-to-day.
Josh
Broke his sales records and made the list while on a 2-month surf trip with his wife and kids. His team ran everything.
James
Systemized his software company until it was finally sellable, sold it, paid off his mortgage, and let his wife retire.
Heath
Used the proceeds from selling his IT services company to buy his dad the dream car he’d always wanted.
Whatever “scale and exit” means for you, the path is the same: stop being the bottleneck.
How we get you there
PHASE 1
Systemize & Optimize
We find your single biggest constraint, kill it, deliver a fast win, and lay the foundation your business has been missing. Working 1-on-1 with you and your leadership team, we’ll:
- Map your business into Value Engines so you can finally see exactly how it works, and where it's breaking.
- Build the Scorecards and Dashboards that make your team solve problems before they reach your desk.
- Set 3-year revenue and profit targets broken into 90-Day Sprint Plans your team can actually execute.
- Buy back at least 8 hours a week using the Critical Task Matrix, so this saves time instead of costing it.
All of it in 90 minutes every other week.
PHASE 2
Scale & Exit
Once you’re systemized, we get strategic. We have 40+ plug-and-play tools and deploy the ones your specific constraint calls for:
- Leads On Demand™, the demand-gen system validated with $8.2M in our own marketing tests.
- Expense Ratio Analyzer™, Cashflow Waterfall Canvas™, Waste Reducer Checklist™, so profit and cash stop leaking.
- Founder-First Hiring Framework™ and our AI Employee library, so output grows without payroll growing with it.
- The Scalable Incentive Calculator™, so your people are motivated by the same numbers you are.
Every 90 days we reset: new game plan, fresh accountability, and a well-placed kick in the pants when you need it.
Between sessions, you and your team get:
- Monthly workshops rolling out new tools and what's working across our portfolio companies.
- Live AMAs and Skill Sessions with industry leaders.
- Daily Mentor Drop-In Calls, where your team connects directly with Ryan's executive team.
- You can add up to 7 members of your leadership team to the community and client portal.
Who this is for (and who it isn't)
This is for you if…
- You're on pace to do at least $1M in the next 12 months (most clients are $2M–$50M).
- You have customers who'd happily buy again. The business has a real reason to exis
- You're a humble high-performer, you know what you're great at and what you don't know.
- You want to scale without selling your soul to do it.
- You've tried EOS, Scaling Up, or E-Myth and nothing stuck.
This is not for you if…
- You're still in startup mode, searching for product/market fit.
- You're not willing to take advice, even when you've paid for it.
- Your entire identity is 100-hour work weeks and you're not interested in changing that.
- You're content with a small lifestyle business that revolves around you.
The Investment
If it sounds like you’re a fit, we make it easy to get started.
The investment is $2,500 a month for 12 months.
Just for context, that’s about half of what you’d pay an intern to fetch you coffee or a VA to book your travel, but this investment will actually make you money. (Plus, we never call in sick or ask for a raise.)
After 12 months, we go month-to-month, but our hope is that we work together for at least 36 months, or until we transform your top-line revenue into your bottom-line profit. That’s the stretch goal we set for every client.
You’ll save $5,000 versus paying monthly and we’ll also include a complimentary ticket to an upcoming Founders Board mastermind meeting.
Sit in the room with founders who are 2–3 years ahead of where you are right now. One session with this group will change how you think about your business. A $10,000 value, included.
You risk less than you think
In week one we hand you a copy-and-paste email for your leadership team that has saved our clients an average of $30,000 to $50,000 a year on its own. That’s not the win, that’s the warm-up.
Our goal: The engagement effectively pays for itself inside the first 60 days.
The real goal we set for every client: turn your top-line revenue into your take-home profit within 36 months. You’ve already spent more than this staying stuck, you just paid it in late nights, missed dinners, and a business you can’t step away from. This is the cheaper option.
Common questions
What does the investment look like?
$25,000 paid in full, or $2,500/month for 12 months ($30,000). For most clients that’s less than half of what you’d pay an entry-level hire who needs constant supervision. The goal we set for ourselves is to earn your investment back within the first 60 days, and we have a single email template that on average saves clients $30K–$50K per year, which alone typically covers the cost.
How is this different from EOS or Scaling Up?
Those frameworks try to force your business into their system. We build a custom operating system around your business, your team, your model, your constraints. We also work 1-on-1 with you and your leadership team, not in a group coaching format.
What size companies do you work with?
Most of our clients are between $2M and $50M in revenue, but we’ve worked with companies a little smaller and significantly larger across virtually every industry. The key requirement is a real product or service delivering real value, something worth scaling.
Can my team be involved?
Yes. You can add up to 7 members of your leadership team to the portal and community. Your marketing lead can work with our head of marketing, your sales lead with our director of sales, and your ops person with the operators running our own companies.
What does the application process look like?
The application takes about 2 minutes and our team reviews every one personally. If it looks like a good fit, we schedule a call to talk through where you are, where you want to be, and whether it makes sense to work together. No pressure, no hard pitch.
How quickly will I see results?
Phase 1 (Systemize & Optimize) runs 12–16 weeks. Within that time we typically buy back at least 8 productive hours per week using the Critical Task Matrix, and most clients find something in the first 30–60 days that pays for the entire engagement.
How to apply
1
Apply in about 5 minutes
Tell us about your business, your numbers, and the one constraint you most want gone.
2
We review it
If it’s a fit, we invite you to a Scale & Exit Kickoff Call with our team.
3
Book your Kickoff Call
If we both agree it’s a fit, you choose your enrollment option and Phase 1 begins that week.