Find Your Starting Point
Every founder is in a different place. Some need direct attention and accountability. Some need someone building systems alongside them. Some need an exit quarterback. Here's how to figure out where you fit.
Start where you are. Upgrade when you're ready.
Most founders start here
One-On-One Intensive
$2,500/month · 120 days
For founders ready for rapid and irreversible progress. Direct attention, direct access, and a crystal clear transformation plan tailored to you. It's the most direct way to work with me one-on-one outside of full Value Acceleration.
You get:
- Direct attention from me, 3 times a month, in 45-minute sessions
- Direct access to me on Slack for voice notes and accountability
- Focused sprints on your specific immediate blockers
- As-needed emergency and urgent decision support
- A crystal clear transformation plan tailored to you
- My brand of personal, unconditional tough love
- Accountability that doesn't let you fail
- 100% money-back guarantee if the first month isn't right
- I only take four founders at a time
After state:
- You make moves you've avoided for years. Expenses, team, offers, pricing, and systems get handled.
- You and your business get better in real time.
- Progress measured every month.
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Services at a Glance
One-On-One Intensive
$2,500/mo
- Frameworks & Templates
- Accountability & Check-ins
- 1:1 Strategic Sessions · 3x/month
- Direct Slack / Async Access
Value Acceleration
$100K+
- Frameworks & Templates
- Accountability & Check-ins
- 1:1 Strategic Sessions · Ongoing
- Done-With-You Implementation
- Exit Team Coordination (DealSherpa)
Advisory + Investing
Custom + Equity
- Frameworks & Templates
- Accountability & Check-ins
- 1:1 Strategic Sessions · Ongoing
- Direct Slack / Async Access
- Done-With-You Implementation
- Exit Team Coordination (DealSherpa)
- Equity Partnership
Value Acceleration + DealSherpa
$100,000+ · Monthly installments available
Value Acceleration is done-with-you implementation. My team and I come into your business and build the actual systems that increase value. Recurring revenue models, documented operations, leadership development, financial cleanup, customer concentration reduction, whatever we identify as the critical gaps.
DealSherpa is the exit quarterback service. When you're 6 to 12 months from intended exit, I assemble and manage your complete exit team. Business broker, M&A attorney, CPA, wealth advisor, whoever you need. I coordinate due diligence, manage buyer communications, keep the process moving, and make sure you don't leave money on the table because something fell through the cracks.
Most clients do Value Acceleration first (12 to 18 months), then transition to DealSherpa for the actual exit process (6 to 12 months). Total engagement is typically 18 to 30 months from "business isn't sellable" to "closed transaction and money in the bank."
I cap this at 4 to 8 active clients because the work is intensive. If I'm at capacity, I'll put you on the waitlist.
Monthly installments available. ROI target is 10x to 100x the fee in created enterprise value.
Schedule Value Acceleration consultAdvisory + Investing
Custom + Equity
For founders who want me in their corner long-term with skin in the game. This is where the relationship becomes permanent. I take a board advisory seat, give you access to my implementation team, and invest my own money alongside my time.
Available by invitation after a successful engagement, or for founders building something I believe in enough to bet on. Terms are custom per engagement.
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I speak on exit planning, owner dependency, and building transferable value. Available for conferences, CEO groups, and private events.
InquireCan I switch between tiers?
Yes. Most people start with the One-On-One Intensive, then move up when they're ready for more structure. If you're in the Intensive and realize you need done-with-you implementation, I'll move you to Value Acceleration. The goal is matching you to what actually helps, not locking you into something that's wrong fit.
What if I'm not ready to exit for 5+ years?
Then you probably don't need DealSherpa yet, but you likely need the foundation work. Most founders who are 5+ years from exit start with the One-On-One Intensive to build transferable operations now. That makes the business more valuable to keep AND more valuable to sell when you're ready. The work is the same either way.
How do payment plans work for Value Acceleration?
Monthly installments are available. I structure payment terms based on your engagement scope and business cash flow.
What's your refund policy?
The One-On-One Intensive carries a 100% money-back guarantee if the first month isn't right. Value Acceleration has milestone-based payments tied to deliverables. If I don't hit the milestones, you don't pay that installment. Advisory/Investing terms are custom per engagement.
Do you work outside Kansas City?
Yes. Most of the people I work with are remote. Value Acceleration works anywhere as long as I can access your business systems and meet with leadership virtually or in-person as needed. DealSherpa is location-agnostic.
Stop Thinking About It. Start.
Most founders waste years thinking about exit planning without actually doing anything about it. They know the business depends on them. They know that's a problem. They keep meaning to fix it next quarter.
Next quarter never comes.
The difference between founders who successfully exit and founders who are stuck is simple: the ones who exit started building transferable value 24 to 36 months before they needed it. The stuck ones waited until they were ready to leave and discovered the business wasn't ready to be left.
Start where you are. The One-On-One Intensive if you need direct attention. Value Acceleration if you need someone building systems with you.
But start. Don't be the founder who runs an excellent business for 20 years and walks away with nothing because you never built anything transferable.
Schedule a call. Figure out where to start