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Revenue architecture, fractional CMO/CRO, and advisory engagements. Best fit: companies with PMF seeking to scale revenue.
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Find the right door.
Three ways to work with me, depending on where you are. The first two are productized and designed to route you to the right place. The third — the Exit-Ready Install — is direct engagement with me.
The two routes
Pick the one that fits.
The Exit-Ready Install
Exit-readiness scorecard + hands-on install for owner-operators who want real help modernizing the systems their business relies on. The free Exit-Ready Score covers Growth, Operations, Finance, & Continuity — the full program is below.
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The Exit-Ready Install.
Direct engagement with me. I install the four systems that make a business worth buying, and worth owning: Growth, Operations, Finance, and Continuity. We run them one phase at a time. You approve each phase before it starts, and you pay for it one phase at a time.
What it is
Most consultants study your business for two months before they do anything. I don't. I come in as a working partner, not a researcher. I dig in, design the system that should exist, build it into your stack (or a new one), train your team, and document it so it keeps running. You walk away with a business that runs on architecture, not on whoever's been holding it together.
Who it's for
- $1M–$20M in revenue, ten-plus years in, outgrown the "everyone does everything" stage
- Owner-operators thinking about selling in the next one to five years — or who just want the business to run without them
- Sales still come from word of mouth and relationships only you hold
- Operations live on paper, memory, or software old enough to drive
- No single view of the numbers without logging into three different systems
- Burned by an agency retainer or two? Good. This ends.
How it works
Four phases, run in the order your plan calls for:
Growth. A marketing and sales system that brings customers without you chasing them.
Operations. Systems and SOPs your team — or a new owner — could run without you in the room.
Finance. Clean books and 24/7 visibility into the numbers, from your phone.
Continuity. Getting the business out of your head so it runs when you don't.
Every phase runs the same way: I assess where you stand, propose a written plan for that phase that you put in priority order, and build only after you approve it. When it's done, we move to the next one.
What you pay, and what you risk
The full four-phase program starts at $12,000, split evenly: 25% per phase, paid one phase at a time.
- You approve each phase before any work starts. No approval, no work, no invoice.
- You can stop after any phase, owing nothing further.
- You never have more than a quarter of the program at risk at any moment.
Compare that to a marketing agency still billing $5,000 a month in month ten for a handful of emails. Four phases here is $12,000 total, and at the end you own systems that run without me — or anyone. No retainer. The engagement ends.
What's guaranteed: the process and my full attention inside each phase — not a fixed checklist, because you'll make choices along the way that change what's worth doing. Ask me to chase down whether the software you already own can do the job, and that's real time that won't go toward building something new. You'll see that trade at the fork, in writing, and make the call. Want both? Point more hours at the phase. Ready to move on? We start the next one.
Start with the score. Then book the hour.
The free Exit-Ready Score shows you where you stand. The $199 consultation turns it into a written plan for your business — about ten pages, yours to keep whether or not we go further.
Or email: tim@timnaughton.co