Move your business from owner-run to owner-independent, and widen your options to hold, sell or hand over.
18 questions, 5 minutes, no email required.
Adapt helps owner-led businesses run without the owner, and be worth more because of it.
Trusted by established Australian businesses, their leaders and advisers.
For privately held businesses with 20 to 200+ people.
The same three dependencies turn up across the established businesses we work with. They keep the owner on call and hold the value of the business down.
Still on call, even when away
When the business runs on your relationships, your judgement and your hours, you can't switch off, and a buyer would price that risk into your multiple.
Decisions returning to your desk
Your leaders are capable, but accountability for the decision still lands on you, so strategy stalls between meetings.
A business that can't run without you
How the business runs lives in your head and a few people's habits, so no one else has the clarity to step in.
Adapt makes the business worth more, because it no longer needs you.
Design out the owner dependency, lift your leaders, and document how it runs. Build a business you could leave, even if you never do.
Why Adapt
The proprietary framework by Bill Withers and Adapt, proven across 500+ business owners.
The ownership operating system that captures how the business runs, so it outlasts any one person and keeps working after you step back.
Made for established Australian owners, and the way you actually run and sell a business here.
The same business, better. It pays you more to hold, sells for more if you choose to, and hands over cleanly when the next leader is ready.
Begin with a free review. From there, run Explore month to month or take the full program through Design and Build. Every step builds value that stays when you don’t.
A clear read of where the business leans on you, and the first move to make.
A 60-minute confidential conversation with an experienced operator. It costs nothing. You leave with clarity, whether or not we ever work together.
Book a confidential reviewTake the pressure off the thing hurting most right now.
Targeted coaching on the one constraint costing you most, four hours a month. It works through the same material the program covers, at a lighter pace, so you get the headspace back while the business keeps moving.
from $1,500 a month
Learn more about ExplorePick your destination and map what it takes to reach it.
A focused workshop series that finds where the business leans on you, and designs the dependency out. You finish with the vision on paper and a step-by-step plan to independence.
from $15,000
Learn more about DesignExecute the roadmap. Move real decisions to your people.
Twelve months of business coaching and mentoring that turns the plan into how your leaders run the business without you. They build the habits and systems in, so it runs independently and grows in value.
from $4,500 a month
You’ll know the full number before you commit. Larger and more complex operations run Build Embedded, with an Adapt team inside the business.
Learn more about BuildThe operating system that holds your roles, vision, strategy, rhythm, teams, culture, systems and progress in one place. Captured across Explore, Design and Build, then kept current by your team. What your team captures stays in the business, runs without you, and compounds in value from the first month.
Explore the platform
See where your business still depends on you, or talk it through in confidence.
5 minutes, no email. Your result is instant and private.
Design is hands-on, so we only ever run a handful of engagements at a time.
Every year the business runs on you is another year the discount stays priced in.
I have never seen another business operating system that is focused on owners being on the business, not in the business.
Laura GriersonDirector, Acacia Executive Way beyond anything I've read or seen. A whole philosophy for SMEs towards succession planning and building a resilient business.
Thomas McClungFounder, Dorado Property Our teams are more productive and accountable, Adapt ensures visibility of knowledge, structure, teamwork, and role clarity.
Nicola WardLeader of Culture and Finance, SMS Group Services When demand for our services skyrocketed, Adapt's infrastructure and cultural framework were pivotal to our success.
Julie AdamsFounder, Chemo At Home 18 questions, 5 minutes, no email. See your highest-risk area and the first move to make.
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