Find your stage
Where is your company?
Count your people, then read the work. Each stage has one thing that tends to break first, and one piece of ground to lay before the next. A couple of minutes, and the guide is yours whatever you do next.
Thank you. I will send your guide from my own email within two business days.
The free guides
Already know where you are? One guide for each stage: what breaks, what to put in place, and how you know it holds.
1 to 15 people
Your first team. Is the work written down anywhere yet, or does it live in your head?
The owner, with part-time help
Doing it all
The work rises and falls with the owner's week.
The guide, PDF
1 to 4 people
Getting help
New hires learn by watching, so they learn half of it.
The guide, PDF
5 to 9 people
Choosing what matters
Every job is a custom job, and every question lands on the owner.
The guide, PDF
10 to 19 people
First managers
The best doers were made managers with no training.
The guide, PDF
16 to 75 people
The fundamentals should be in place. Are they? And who keeps them alive when the week gets busy?
Up to 200 people
Does the structure still fit the company you have now?
The stage bands follow Alex and Leila Hormozi's $100M Scaling Roadmap (acquisition.com). The stage names and the words are mine.
Want to talk through what you found?
Twenty minutes, free. You tell me what is going on and I ask questions. If I am not the right help, I will say so.