Free help, before we ever speak.
Three ways to work on your own business, on your own: the interactive tools below, the two-minute scorecards, and the questions owners actually ask – answered on video. No email, no sign-up, nothing you answer saved.
The Anatomy of a Well-Run Business
The whole business, one honest look. Eleven areas, the specifics under each – rate what's true and how much it matters, and the area scores compute from your answers, with where to focus ranked for you.
Run the Anatomy →The Five-Stage Deal Guide
Walk a live deal through the five stages and find the first gate it can’t clear. That’s where it’s stuck.
Open the guide → Discipline · pairs with “Why can’t I make the change?”The Commitment Card
Name the sentence you tell yourself in the moment, and this builds the promise so it holds – witness, consequence, and a check at the right interval.
Build the card → Capacity · pairs with “Should I just hire someone?”The Before-You-Hire Ladder
Run the jobs eating your week down one ladder – stop it, automate it, hand it off, keep it – and see whether it’s really a hire.
Open the ladder → Clients · pairs with “Why do good clients leave?”Holding the Client’s Aim
Take your top clients, find what’s actually holding each one, and see how much revenue is sitting on the ones nothing holds.
Place your clients → Aim · pairs with “Am I chasing the right goal?”The Real-Aim Test
Four quick tests on the number you’re chasing. Where they agree is the real aim underneath it, and the shorter road there.
Run the test →The sales scorecard
Seven quick questions on owner-led selling. It places where you sit and points to the two areas worth starting with.
Take the scorecard → The numbers · two minutesThe financial scorecard
Seven reads on the numbers – instinct-led, insight-driven or outcome-led – and where the clarity is thinnest.
Take the scorecard →Original analysis of federal business data on owner-led services firms – five studies, plus the hub that ties them together, each sourced to a named dataset and year with the method stated in full. Not a tool to run; a body of work to read.
The research hub
Five federal datasets, read for what they actually show about owner-led services firms as they get larger and older – and stated plainly where the data runs out.
Read the hub → Size · revenue against payrollThe leverage gap
Revenue per dollar of payroll falls about 16% between the 5-to-9 and 50-to-99-employee bands in professional services; construction holds close to flat over the same range.
Read the study → Age · firm size against firm ageFirm size and firm age
Among professional services firms with five or more employees, mean firm size rises about 30% from age 5 to age 26 or more – a real rise, and a modest one.
Read the study → Ownership · owner age by subsectorWho owns these firms
Owners aged 55 or over run from 39.4% in computer systems design to 62.8% in accounting and bookkeeping – a 23-point spread inside a single industry code.
Read the study → Your county · professional-services payWhat the local market pays
Professional-services pay per employee sits below the Florida and national figures in Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties alike, each county checked on its own.
Read the study → Florida · owner age against the nationFlorida owner-led firms
Florida's owner-age gaps against the national picture sit inside sampling error in all five sectors checked – a difference not detected, not one shown to be absent.
Read the study →The questions owners actually ask
Short, honest video answers to what keeps owners up – why growth flattened, where to stand, whether to hire. Full transcripts, no email.
When you'd rather have someone in it with you.
Every tool here is yours to use whenever you like, on your own – no email, no strings. A fractional seat is a different thing altogether: a senior operator holding the seat with you – setting the strategy, making the judgment calls that move the business, and building the engine so growth stops running through you. Not a tool, and not a one-off; senior leadership held to a standing rhythm. The first conversation is free – come with whichever tool you've run.