Build the blueprint. Set your team up to run it.
Cadence Growth installs a comprehensive, rigorous growth system that enables ambitious founders and operators to work with their team to create real value.
Teams take part in a rigorous planning process together, and the structure that follows it makes the plan real.
The structure becomes a rhythm your team lives that shapes culture, strategy, and operations. It runs on a cadence: annual and quarterly planning, monthly learning, weekly solving, daily syncing. The plan stays alive in the work, instead of sitting in a binder in a drawer.
Used well, this system makes a business more profitable, worth more, and able to run on its team. It holds up when it's time to hand it over, to an investor or the next generation. That is what an investor underwrites.
Growing, or just getting busier?
Revenue can climb while the business gets stuck. Value is a choice: to build something that lasts and gets stronger, instead of just getting bigger.
Same earnings. Very different value.
The business that can't run without you is the one that sells at a discount, or doesn't sell at all.
Most of your wealth is locked in this one asset. This is the work that protects it and grows it.
Valuation isn't only about what a business earns. It's about what a buyer can rely on: the brand, the customers, the capabilities, and a team that runs it without the founder.
You don't set the range; the market does, through cycle, sector, and comparables. Where you land inside it is yours to earn. The intangibles you build get underwritten, and they lift the valuation.
The valuation multiple
The economic cycle, the business sector, the comparables, and the mood of the room all set the range. Run well, you earn the premium end of the range, and this can be significant.
What earns the valuation
Durable earnings, and the intangibles that carry the rest: brand, customers, unique abilities, a team that runs it without you. These become the assets and capabilities your financials never show, and they are what lifts the valuation multiple, or carries the value beyond a multiple entirely.
To begin, there are three steps to take.
The first two set the direction. The third extends it, quarter after quarter, until the goal is accomplished. The ongoing rhythm, the cadence of growth, is the path.
ValueX
What the business is worth today, in the context of your goals or an investor's thesis. 45 days to collect the picture, then a workshop that sets what matters most and what comes next.
›Design12
Turn direction into work your leadership team runs and reviews every month.
›Build90
Ninety-day cycles that turn the plan into progress, so the team carries the work and you can build the next thing.
The first step tells you where you stand. The next two build what it shows, and the rhythm keeps it compounding. See the work ›
Two doors. Start with yours.
The founder who owns the company and the partner who backs it come to this work from different sides. Take the one that's yours.
Grow the company past your own ceiling.
The team executes without you. The economics are open. And the business is ready to stand on its own, ready for the next level and to grow without you as the constraint.
De-risk the hold.
The value-creation plan stops being slideware and becomes work the portfolio team owns and runs. The bridge lands without heroics, and without an operating partner living in the company. The capability stays put, priced into the exit and provable to your LPs.
An owner who sells to a capital partner we work with carries their momentum straight through the transition, with continuity on both sides of the table.
What owners say about the work.
“We built, for the first time, a foundation for the company.”
“You can't have a $50 million business and not have some structure. It's a necessity.”
“We went from six-week fire drills to forecasting eight or nine months out. That easily saved us $500,000 to $1 million a year.”
Start with a conversation.
We'll take a straight read on where your business stands and what's in the way.
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