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 reduce dependency, lift leadership capability, and build enterprise value.
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 put pressure on the owner's freedom and the value of the business.
A discount on your multiple when you sell
When the business runs on your relationships, your judgement and your hours, a buyer cannot trust it to perform without you, so they 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. The true worth of what you built follows.
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 the gains outlast any one person and compound as 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, then Design and Build on one platform. Each phase 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. No cost, no pressure. You leave with clarity, whether or not we ever work together.
Book a confidential reviewPick 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 a fully designed vision and a roadmap to independence.
from $15,000
Learn more about DesignExecute the roadmap. Move real decisions to your people.
Twelve months of coaching that turns the plan into capability your leaders carry without you. Leadership, culture and systems embed so the business runs independently and grows in value.
from $4,500 a month
Learn more about BuildThe operating system that holds your roles, vision, strategy, rhythm, teams, culture and systems in one place. Captured across Design and Build, then kept current by your team. The capability stays in the business, runs without you, and compounds in value from day one.
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See where your business still depends on you, or talk it through in confidence. No pressure either way.
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.
Each year the business still runs on you, the owner-dependency discount stays priced into its value.
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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