For owner-led businesses

Build a business that runs without you.

Build a more profitable business that runs without you - so you can scale it, sell it or simply remove yourself from day-to-day operations.

Start your 90-day sprint Does your business run without you?
Built for owner-led businesses
Established companies where too much still depends on the founder, owner or key people.
Hands-on, not slide decks
We prioritise, plan and deliver the changes with your team, then stay to execute the plan.
One plan, 90 days to a group exit
Start with a sprint. Continue as strategic partners: growth, acquisitions, group, exit.
Operators who've built, bought and sold
Investors, board advisors and dealmakers, not theorists.
The problem

You built a job,
not an asset.

Be honest. If any of this sounds familiar, the business is built around you. It's fixable, and it's where every plan we build starts.

  • 01The business slows down when you step away.
  • 02Every real decision comes back to you.
  • 03Sales still depends on your relationships.
  • 04Growth adds pressure instead of options.
  • 05Profit is fine, but you couldn't tell a buyer why it's repeatable.
  • 06You've thought about buying a competitor, or selling, and done nothing about either.
The Owner Trap Quiz™ · Free · 4 minutes

Does your business run without you — or because of you?

Answer 12 questions and get your Owner Independence Score, the No. 1 hidden way your business still depends on you — and your 90-day starting moves to remove yourself as the bottleneck.

12 questions · Instant results · Straight answers
Two levers of value

The value equation.

Value=Profit×Multiple
Profit up

Organic growth, cross-selling, cost synergies, acquired profit from complementary businesses.

Multiple up

A business that runs without you: systems, reporting, a team that owns outcomes, diversified revenue, a group buyers pay more for.

Two ways to work with us

Start with 90 days, then partner with us for the long term.

01 · Where it starts90 days
The 90-Day Sprint
We get inside the business, deal with the constraints and bottlenecks holding back your next level of growth, and build the plan for what the business could become, with you. By day 90 you know exactly where it's going and you've already started.
02 · Where it leads3–5 years
Growth Partnership &
Exit Pathways
We execute the plan alongside you as strategic partners, incentivised by the value we create together. Organic growth, building a group by acquisition, joining a group, or preparing the exit: trade sale, private equity, group exit or direct listing.
The fastest path

Building a group is the fastest path to shareholder value.

Grow one company by 20% a year and value creeps up. Bring two or three complementary businesses together and something different happens: shared customers to cross-sell into, duplicated costs to remove, each company's strengths taught to the others, and a bigger profit number that buyers pay a higher multiple for.

Profit doubles; value can grow four or five times over. It only works on a foundation that runs without you, which is why we start there.

How group building works
Illustrative, conservative: 10% cross-sell, 10% cost synergies, multiple moving with size and quality. Your numbers will differ; the shape won't.
Core Team

Built by operators, not theorists.

01
Gavin Gibbons, founder of Exitable
Gavin Gibbons
GROWTH, ACQUISITIONS & VALUE CREATION
20 years in tech and AI. Investor and board advisor to owners of established companies. Founder of Exitable and Next Level Ventures. More about Gavin →
02
Rob Richmond
Rob Richmond
GROUP BUILDING, LISTINGS & EXIT PATHWAYS
Board advisory roles across UK SMEs. Acquisitions Dealmaker and Company Group builder.
03
Ronnell Repil
Ronnell Repil
SYSTEMS & DELIVERY
8 years building the systems, reporting and routines that let businesses run without their owners.
From owners we've worked with

In their own words.

“Gavin’s support has gone significantly beyond what we expected when he said he’d ‘hold our hand’ through this process, in a very positive way.”
OWNER · £9M WATER TREATMENT COMPANY
“Your approach aligns perfectly with what we’re trying to achieve: building a properly run, scalable business that’s attractive to investors while still something we’re proud to keep running.”
OWNER · £26M ECOMMERCE COMPANY
“You helped us turn a very busy, firefighting operation into a business with clear priorities and a structured plan, rather than just ‘mucking in’ every day.”
OWNER · £17M TELCO GROUP
“Week by week, you're allowing us to learn, refine and get better - the pace and quality of our progress has clearly improved.”
OWNER · £5M EDUCATION COMPANY
“What we value most is showing us the one thing to do next out of a thousand possibilities. That external sanity check is a real weight off our shoulders.”
OWNER · £8M IT MSP COMPANY
“It’s definitely been worthwhile - we’ve already been straight on to the accountant off the back of what you delivered.”
OWNER · £12M FIRE & SECURITY COMPANY
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