Limited engagements. Now booking for this quarter Now booking Austin × San Miguel de Allende Austin × San Miguel
Insights · Field notes

Growth

Referral systems, retention, and pull for founder-led service businesses. Written from real engagements, not growth-hacking blogs.

← All insights

Growth 4 min

Raise the price

The fastest growth lever in the business is the one you already control.

Jul 15, 2026 Read
Growth 4 min

Subtraction is a growth strategy

The wrong clients are the reason you have no room for the right ones.

Jul 15, 2026 Read
Growth 5 min

Kill the feast and famine cycle

Selling only when you're hungry is the reason you're always hungry.

Jul 15, 2026 Read
Growth 5 min

Growth is a capacity problem

The founder-led business grows until the founder runs out of hours.

Jul 15, 2026 Read
Growth 5 min

The plateau at a million

What carried you to your first million is exactly what stalls you at it.

Jul 15, 2026 Read
Growth 5 min

Productize the promise

A service you reinvent every time is a service that will never scale.

Jul 15, 2026 Read
Growth 4 min

The second engagement

The next project is worth more than the next lead and costs almost nothing to win.

Jul 15, 2026 Read
Growth 4 min

Recurring revenue is a design choice

Project income resets to zero every month. You can design it so it doesn't.

Jul 15, 2026 Read
Growth 4 min

Count revenue per client, not clients

More clients is the wrong number to chase, and it's chasing you toward burnout.

Jul 15, 2026 Read
Growth 6 min

The referral engine

Your best growth channel is already running. Most founders just leave it to luck.

Mar 30, 2026 Read
Growth 5 min

Build a pull system

Stop chasing clients. Build the conditions that make them come to you.

Mar 30, 2026 Read
Growth 5 min

Retention is revenue

The most expensive client is the one you already lost.

Mar 30, 2026 Read
Put it to work

From reading to a decision.

If the thinking here fits your situation, the fastest next step is a written diagnostic of where your brand is leaking revenue. Every inquiry is read personally by our founder and answered within two business days.