Service — The Assessment
The assessment: a month-by-month breakdown
Month one is yours as much as ours: the Assessment needs revenue by source, last quarter’s spend, and the goal you actually care about before it can start, and gathering that is usually the longest pole.
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This breakdown is about effort and who supplies it, not about when results appear. Owners are consistently surprised by how much of month one is theirs.
Total elapsed time to the artifact is short. Total elapsed time including your side is what actually determines the calendar.
Step by step
Month one, your side
Assemble revenue by source, last quarter’s spend, and the goal you actually care about. Businesses with tidy reporting finish this in a day; most take two to three weeks and discover a gap while doing it.
Month one, our side
Reading what you sent, listing what is missing, and writing the questions that need answering in the session.
Month two, the work
A paid two-hour working session with both partners that ends with one named constraint. This is the concentrated part and it moves quickly once the inputs exist.
Month two, the challenge
Somebody argues with the conclusion. Budget an hour for it, because a conclusion nobody tested is a preference.
Month three, circulation
The artifact reaches whoever acts on it, and the first operational change is scheduled. Nothing here is optional.
Common mistakes
Assuming month one is passive
It is the month with the most client-side effort in the entire engagement.
Scheduling it during your busiest quarter
The work is not heavy, but it needs the owner’s attention twice. Pick a month where that exists.
Frequently Asked Questions
The assessment: a month-by-month breakdown?
This breakdown is about effort and who supplies it, not about when results appear. Owners are consistently surprised by how much of month one is theirs.
What should a business owner do with this before booking an Assessment?
It sits under The Assessment. The work is fast. Assembling the inputs is what sets the date. The $1,500 Assessment is where that gets read against your own numbers.
What does working with Growth-Scaling cost?
Four thousand five hundred dollars for the Foundation, split evenly across three deliverables. Recurring work is quoted afterward and never starts below five thousand a month.
Who will we actually be talking to?
Both partners, on every engagement. That is the structural reason the firm stays small and the reason the engagement list is short.
References
- www.ftc.gov — primary source
- www.dol.gov — primary source
- www.irs.gov — primary source
Plan the calendar honestly
The work is fast. Assembling the inputs is what sets the date.
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