Private strategic engagementFounding engagements · £2,500
Your business has grown.
The way you run it hasn’t caught up.
The Founder Bottleneck Intensive is for successful founders whose businesses are growing faster than their current operating model can support.
See what changes01 / THE INFLECTION POINT
You are not short of demand.
You are short of capacity that doesn’t depend on you.
You know what you sell. It works. Your clients value it, your reputation is established, and the opportunity is real.
But too much of the company still lives in your head. Decisions return to you. Quality depends on your involvement. The team is busy, yet you remain the person who catches, corrects and carries everything.
Hiring feels like the obvious answer—but the wrong hire adds cost without removing the bottleneck. Growth is available. Your current form simply cannot hold it.
THE QUESTIONS WE RESOLVE
Do I need another hire, or a different operating model?
How do we grow without sacrificing quality or margin?
How do I get the company out of my head?
02 / THE ENGAGEMENT
The Founder
Bottleneck
Intensive
A confidential, one-to-one strategic engagement. No cohort. No generic playbook. No performance of scale for scale’s sake.
Diagnose
We identify where growth is truly breaking down: founder capacity, delivery, decisions, team capability, margin, systems or management.
Decide
We determine the company you are actually building—and whether the next move is an employee, specialist contractor, operator, leadership role or no hire at all.
Design
We redesign ownership, decision-making and delivery so the company can operate intelligently without routing everything through you.
Sequence
You leave with a practical 90-day plan: what moves first, who owns it, what it costs and which decisions can wait.
03 / WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH
A clear route from
founder-dependent
to intelligently led.
- 01A precise founder-dependency diagnosis
- 02Clarity on what you retain, delegate or stop
- 03A recommended structure for the next stage
- 04Your next hire—or the reason not to make one
- 05The decisions and standards to systemise first
- 06A prioritised 90-day transition plan
04 / FORMAT & INVESTMENT
Focused enough to create momentum.
Substantial enough to change the company.
This is a diagnostic and strategic design engagement—not outsourced implementation or an indefinite advisory retainer.
- Before we begin
- Founder questionnaire and review of your team, responsibilities and key business information
- Working together
- Two 90-minute private strategy sessions
- Your blueprint
- A bespoke Founder Bottleneck Blueprint and 90-day action plan
- Follow-through
- One 45-minute follow-up session after 30 days
- Founding investment
- £2,500
05 / WHO IT IS FOR
This is for you if the business is working—but working because you are.
You have proven demand, an established reputation and a team or network already around you. You are not looking for help inventing an offer.
You are deciding how to meet the next stage of growth without building an expensive, unwieldy organisation—or remaining permanently trapped at its centre.
It is not for pre-revenue businesses, generic startup ideation or founders seeking a templated online course.
PRIVATE ENQUIRIES
Let’s find out what your business needs from you next.
I am currently accepting a small number of private founding engagements. Tell me briefly where the business is getting stuck, and I will respond personally.