Build a business that runs better today and is worth more tomorrow.
We help female founders build lean, profitable companies that can grow, run, and eventually sell without depending on them.
We work inside the business with you and your team to reduce owner dependency, improve how the company operates, and build more value into the business itself.
A successful business can still depend way too much on its founder.
You can have millions in revenue, a great team, happy clients, and strong demand, and still be far too important to the day-to-day operation of the company.
- ?Maybe too many decisions still come back to you.
- ?Maybe you have people, but you're not getting the capacity you expected from the team.
- ?Maybe you've documented the processes, but you're still the person who knows how everything really works.
- ?Maybe revenue keeps growing, but so does the team's headcount, complexity, and your workload.
- ?Or maybe the business is incredibly profitable, but you know that if you stopped showing up, a meaningful amount of its value would disappear with you.
That's the problem we help you solve.
We look at the whole business to figure out what needs to change.
We're not coming in with a predetermined system to install.
We look at how your business actually operates: how work moves, where decisions get stuck, how your team spends its time, what your founder still owns, where margins are being lost, what only you know, and what keeps finding its way back to you.
Then we identify the changes that will have the biggest impact on the company's profitability, capacity, and ability to operate without you.
The goal isn't to add more process. It's to build a company that works better and is worth more because of it.
We become your ongoing operational
improvement partner.
We work inside your business alongside you and your team to make the company more efficient, more profitable, and less dependent on you. We figure out where the business is losing value, work with you to improve it, monitor whether those changes are actually working, and keep adjusting as the company evolves.
We start by getting a clear picture of how the business actually works today.
Our work begins with an approximately 4-6 week deep dive into the business. We review your team, tools, workflows, meetings, processes, decision-making, founder involvement, and the way work actually moves through the company.
We also look closely at where your time and expertise are still required, because what a founder thinks they're needed for and what the business actually needs from them aren't always the same thing.
At the end of the Intensive, you'll have your Level 11 Score, our baseline measurement of how independently and efficiently the company operates, along with a prioritized roadmap for what we believe will create the most value next.
01Your Level 11 Score
We establish your baseline Level 11 Score across the areas that most influence how independently and efficiently the business can operate. This gives us something concrete to measure against as we make changes.
02Founder Time Audit
We look at where your time is actually going, not where you think it's going, and identify the work, decisions, and responsibilities that should no longer require you.
03Team Interviews
We meet individually with your team to understand how work really gets done, where ownership is unclear, what slows people down, and where the business is relying on knowledge that hasn't been transferred.
04Operations Review
We review the tools, workflows, meetings, communication patterns, and processes your team uses every day, looking for unnecessary complexity, duplicated work, bottlenecks, wasted capacity, and places where the operation has outgrown the way it was originally built.
05Roles + Capacity
We look at what people are actually doing, not just what their job descriptions say, and whether you have the right work in the right roles. This helps us see where you have unused capacity, unclear ownership, unnecessary headcount, or work that should move.
06Workflow Mapping
We map the critical workflows that keep the company running and identify where work gets stuck, loops back, requires unnecessary approvals, or still depends on the founder.
07Your Roadmap
At the end of the Intensive, we bring everything together into a prioritized roadmap. Not a giant list of everything that could possibly be improved. The few changes we believe will create the most value first.
Then we help you actually make the changes.
Knowing what needs to change is useful, but creating value comes from changing how a company operates. We stay involved with you and your team to implement the roadmap, solve problems as they surface, transfer ownership, simplify the operation, and make sure the changes work in the real business, not just on paper.
Every quarter, we re-score the company so we can measure what's improving, see where dependency still exists, and decide exactly what we need to tackle next.
01Ongoing Operational Improvement
We continuously monitor the parts of the business we're actively working to improve, watching the relevant metrics, tracking progress, and adjusting as we learn what works. When something needs to be mapped, redesigned, decided, or solved together, we schedule a working session with the right people in the room.
02Founder Advisory
Once a month, you'll have dedicated time with Adrienne to focus on your evolving role as founder: where you're still too involved, what keeps finding its way back to you, and the decisions around people, structure, capacity, growth, and leadership that still require you. You'll also have access to Adrienne between sessions when a founder-level decision can't wait.
03Direct Team Partnership
We work directly with your team as they implement changes, take on greater ownership, and run into real-world roadblocks. They don't have to funnel everything through you, and you don't become the project manager for your own operational improvement.
04Quarterly Benchmarking + Whiteboarding
Every 90 days, we step back and look at the business as a whole. We re-run your Level 11 Score, review the operating metrics we've been tracking, and bring you and your key leaders together for a dedicated whiteboarding session to decide what deserves our attention next. You leave with an updated roadmap and clear priorities for the next 90 days.
This is different from traditional business coaching.
We don't just work with the founder. A lot of advisory work happens through conversations with the CEO. Ours doesn't.
We need to understand how the company actually works, which means working directly with the people doing the work. We talk to your team, look inside your tools, observe your workflows, review your meetings, and pay attention to what happens between the boxes on the org chart.
We don't want your interpretation of the operation to be our only source of truth.
What we work on depends on what your business needs most.
We don't hand you a plan and leave you to implement it.
Most founders we work with don't need another person telling them what they should do. They need help figuring out what will actually work inside their company, and then making it happen.
That's why our work continues beyond the initial diagnosis. We stay close enough to see what's working, what's not, and what needs to change as the business changes.
We're not trying to get you out of everything. The goal isn't to make you irrelevant to your own company. There will always be work that is uniquely valuable for you to do. We want to get very clear about what that work is, and build a company capable of owning everything else.
The goal is to build more value into the company itself.
- When fewer decisions depend on you.
- When your team can solve more problems without you.
- When your expertise has been transferred instead of trapped in your head.
- When delivery doesn't require heroics.
- When revenue can grow without adding unnecessary people or complexity.
- When the company can produce results whether you're there or not.
You haven't just created a source of income. You've built a more transferable, more profitable, more valuable asset.
We do our best work with founders who have
already built something that works.
You have revenue. You have customers. You have a team. You're not trying to figure out whether your business model works. You're trying to figure out how the company grows from here without simply requiring more people, more complexity, and more of you.
You don't need to know your eventual exit to start building a business that gives you more options.
We want more women building businesses that become real assets.
There's nothing wrong with building a business around your own talent, time, or expertise. There's nothing wrong with keeping a company small. And there's certainly nothing wrong with loving the work you do inside your business.
We care whether it's a choice.
Because when a company can generate profit beyond the founder's individual labor, it can create something much bigger than income. It can create wealth. It can create equity. It can create jobs. It can be passed down. It can be sold.
And most importantly, it can create options for you.
Let's build more value into your business.
If you've built a successful company and you're ready for it to depend less on you, we'd love to hear what you're working through.