Are you a business owner asking yourself
what’s holding my company back from faster growth?
We Can Help.Here’s Where Entrepreneurs Get Stalled.
“I need to clone myself.”
Every account, every problem, every decision runs through you. Longer hours isn't the answer — an organization that easily and naturally operates the way you do is.
“We're busy as hell but getting nowhere fast.”
You've been adding more products, but it feels like you're just splitting the same business into smaller and smaller pieces while the size of the pie just stays the same.
“We've run out of customers and we can't seem to find more.”
You know new channels could open up new opportunities, but you just don't know how to break into them.
From Startup to Strategic Sale
We've helped entrepreneurs achieve breakthrough success across many kinds of businesses.
Cascadian Farm
Pioneered organic mainstream adoption
Annie Chun's
Made Asian food as easy as spaghetti
Cybele's Free-to-Eat
Brought allergen-free to mainstream shelves
Sweet Spring Salmon
Sustainable protein innovation
Continuus Materials
Upcycling product innovation
Our Scorecard
We define success as products that stay in market longer than five years with healthy bottom lines.
Three ways we work.
What changes is how deep we go and how we're paid. How we see the problem doesn't change.
We advise.
One company, one founder, one ceiling. You keep running the business. We bring a way of thinking about it that you haven't had access to before — priced as a monthly engagement a company your size can actually use.
We embed.
When it needs more than a point of view, we join the team for a defined stretch — negotiating the partnerships, recruiting the suppliers, running the trials, doing the work alongside you until the thing is moving.
We assemble.
Sometimes the pieces of a business sit inside different companies, and no one of them can reach the opportunity alone. We bring those parties together, build the business none of them could build by themselves, and take a position in it alongside them.
Who you'd be working with.
Bill Shepard
Has led entrepreneurial teams to create, grow, and sell businesses that solve major social and environmental problems. Directed development of products and brands with leading retailers and CPG companies nationally.
Eric Singular
Industry expert coordinating farmers, processors, regulators, researchers, and businesses on the large-scale adoption of sustainable materials.
Marc Lower
Has built and sold businesses from all four sides of the table — retailer, supplier, private equity, and operator. Commercialized 850+ products generating over $400M in new annual revenue.
