Is This You?

Every Founder’s Version of “Trapped” Looks Different.

Every founder gets here differently. The architecture is the same.

The Chief Everything Officer

You wake up already behind.

By 10 AM, two problems your team could have handled — they didn’t know they had permission.

You’ve told yourself it’s “just this season.” It’s been three years.

The business you built for freedom became the thing that can’t function without you.

You may have already tried — a VA, an offshore team, a framework someone swore by. The work got done. The dependency stayed. Because the problem isn’t who’s doing the work. It’s how the work gets done.

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Or You’re Starting to Think About What Comes Next

You’ve talked to a broker. The number wasn’t what you expected — because the business carries a key-person discount.

FOUNDER-DEPENDENT OWNER-INDEPENDENT

3–4x 7–8x

EBITDA EBITDA

FOUNDER-DEPENDENT OWNER-INDEPENDENT

3–4x 7–8x

EBITDA EBITDA

FOUNDER-DEPENDENT OWNER-INDEPENDENT

3–4x 7–8x

EBITDA EBITDA

Or you just see the conversation coming. Either way — the path to a business you can sell starts in the same place as the path to one you can step back from.

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Different angle..
Same architecture underneath.

The business runs through one person — and until that changes, nothing else does.

The founder who goes through this doesn’t just run a better business. They get back what the business was supposed to create in the first place: their time, their presence, their life.

Chief Everything Officer

Not sure yet? Start here.

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Thinking About What Comes Next

Know where you want to go? Let’s talk

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Advising a founder who’s become the ceiling of their own business? That’s this work.

Spotting a Corvus Fit