For the owner who is still the only one who can win the work, and has paid to prove it
You have tried renting your way out of it. It died the day you stopped paying, and you owned nothing. So I do the opposite. I build a complete revenue engine inside your business, train your team to run every part, and hand you the keys. You see the exact plan, mapped to your real numbers, before you commit a pound. Your first working part is live within four weeks, or that month is on me. You own it all from day one. The system, the playbooks, the accounts, the data. Yours, for good.
Everything we build is yours from day one, and it keeps working long after I have gone. I do not get to walk away until your team is running it without me. The only thing you cannot keep is your dependence on me.
Book your Revenue Strategy Session→Start with a free Revenue Strategy Session and the one number no agency will give you straight: the share of your firm's growth that still runs through you personally. Most owners guess half. The real figure is usually worse, and it is the ceiling on everything you have built. I only take a few builds at a time.
Five founders, different stages and sectors — the same operator behind every result, on camera and on the record.
“The speed they operate at, the accuracy, the depth of knowledge — just second to none.”
“It’s a little like watching Formula 1 — the precision, the speed. Well done. Thank you.”
Stéphane West — Managing Director, GoDemand
“Josh is an absolute killer.”
I ran the revenue engine for TNT Growth. Twelve months later: revenue and profit both up 80%, the team doubled, and 442nd on America’s fastest-growing private companies.
Adam Treboutat — Founder & CEO, TNT Growth
“The advice, guidance and ongoing communication Josh gives me is next to none.”
“So reassuring to know you’ve got a friendly, supportive person at the end of the line whenever you have a question.”
Laura Paget — Founder, Novature Solutions
“Josh got right inside my business — and now it works a dream.”
I had all the expertise but no real pipeline — my leads were patchy and inconsistent. Now I’m winning new clients with the offer and systems Josh built me.
Jonathan Dennis — Managing Partner, JLD Accountancy
“I gained so much clarity, focus — and real confidence in what I do.”
Referred to Josh for LinkedIn, I stayed for strategic positioning. He adapted to me and my needs — and made it easy to keep running it myself.
Véronique Vallières — Founder, COPE.Consulting
“Strategy and implementation in the same person.”
In just a few hours, we refined the high-level positioning for my business AND got practical with tools I could implement the same day. Leads started flowing within weeks.
Veronique Vallieres
Founder · Consulting
“Learned so much, content wise and mindset wise.”
Josh didn’t just show me what to do, he rewired how I think about sales and marketing. The shift in approach changed everything about how we attract clients.
Richard Wood
Founder · Creative Agency
“Helped me realise the full potential of my company.”
I was struggling to gain traction. Josh mapped out exactly where the revenue was hiding and built the systems to go get it.
Laura Paget
Director · Novature Solutions
“Didn’t just give me a plan and disappear.”
I didn’t have a strong offer and leads were patchy. Josh helped me build an offer people actually want and set up a simple system to get leads coming in. It changed everything.
Leslie Coelho
Founder · Luminustra · Software Agency
“Just as invested in our success as we were.”
The guidance and time invested went far beyond what we paid. 3x profitability within a month, we’re now on a path we’re proud of.
Leslie Dennis
Business Owner · Construction
“I see a completely different future for the business now.”
Josh helped me shape a clear, compelling offer, take it to market, and set me up with leads. Without his support, I wouldn’t have won the client I did.
Jonathan Dennis
Managing Partner · Accountancy Firm
Your senior team delivers beautifully. But they cannot make the phone ring. And they cannot close a new client without you in the room.
So seven pounds in every ten of new business still trace back to you. The firm grows at one speed. The speed of your diary.
You already know what renting the fix costs, because you have paid it. Two agencies. Maybe three. Every one looked like it was working right up until the invoices stopped and so did the results.
They left you a folder of reports you never really understood, and nothing inside your own business to show for the money. As one owner put it, a hundred-page export full of green and red boxes is not a report. It is a coping mechanism.
And the marketing you do have, you cannot read. There is always a post, always a campaign.
If it stopped for thirty days, would the firm even feel it.
You cannot say. And you cannot tell anyone what to do differently, because marketing was never your craft.
Then there is the hire that is meant to rescue you. Ninety to a hundred and twenty thousand pounds all in. Four to six months before they produce a thing. No honest way to judge them until the money is gone. A six-figure bet you have no way to win.
So you stay the rainmaker. And the question arrives at the end of another long day.
Is this as big as it gets.
Right now it is. Because it is as big as your diary gets.
And underneath all of it: rent a person or rent an agency, the capability lives in someone else's head and walks out the door when they do. Years of money spent on marketing. And you own nothing.
7 in 10
pounds of new business still routed through you personally
£0 owned
what years of agency retainers leave you holding
2 speeds
feast when you sell, famine when you cannot, the whole firm on your diary
Every year you rent it is another year you own nothing, and the firm stays exactly as big as your diary allows. The expensive choice is the one with no invoice: the growth you never captured because it all had to come through you. That is the bill that never arrives in the post.
“A business that only grows when you personally bring in the work is not a business yet. It is a job with a team, and you are the one thing holding it up.”
Picture an ordinary Tuesday a year from now.
Your marketing person walks in and does the thing you have wanted for years. Here is the campaign we ran. Here are the four meetings with decision-makers it booked this month. Here is what we do next.
You wrote none of it. You chased none of it. The engine did the work, and your team ran the engine. Straight from a documented system that lives in your business now, not in anyone's head.
You still close the deals worth closing, because you are brilliant at it and you enjoy it. What has changed is that you are no longer the only one who can fill the diary.
The senior team fields and progresses real conversations without you on every call. The pressure that sat on one set of shoulders, yours, is now carried by a system your people run. Not you. The system.
And it holds when you step away. You take a fortnight, and the pipeline does not go quiet behind you. A slow week of yours no longer means a slow quarter for the firm.
That is the difference between a business and a job. A business grows while the owner is thinking. A job stops the moment the owner stops.
The marketing person you worried might leave now has a bigger system to grow into, right here. They stop posting into the void and start owning a number. So they stay.
And the firm is worth more, not because you work harder, but because it finally runs on something other than you. You could sell it one day for what it is genuinely worth, whether you ever choose to or not. That part is yours to keep in your back pocket.
Your first working part of the engine is live inside four weeks. And the first time your team brings you a qualified meeting you had nothing to do with, you will feel the whole thing land. Not a forecast. Proof the capability has moved out of your head and into your business, where it stays.
You did not build a firm this size by being naive. You have been burned, and every doubt below has crossed your mind. Good. A doubt you can name is a doubt I can answer. If even one still stands after my answer, this is not for you, and I would rather you knew now.
I have been burned by two agencies already. They delivered while I paid and it died the day I stopped. Why is this not just the third version of the same mistake?
Because you own this one. It is built inside your business and it stays when I leave, so it cannot die when the invoices stop.
You are right to start here. It is the scar under everything else.
Every agency you rented kept the work in their building on purpose. So the capability never moved into yours, and you could never stop paying. That is not a flaw in their model. It is their model.
I am the inverse on the one axis that matters. I do not rent you marketing. I build the engine inside your firm, train your team to run it, then I hand you the keys and leave.
When it is done, the bills stop and the asset stays. The system, the playbooks, the accounts, the data. All yours.
Stop working with me tomorrow and nothing disappears. There was never a meter running in someone else's office.
Done-for-you is exactly the trap I am trying to escape. I do not want to hand this to another outsider and be dependent all over again.
Then we agree, because this is the opposite of done-for-you. I build it with your team and hand it over. You own it and you run it.
Most help on offer is some version of give-it-to-me-and-keep-paying. You have learned to hear that as a trap. Correctly.
I am not that. The whole engagement is designed to make you independent of me.
I build the engine alongside your people. I document every part so it does not live in one head. I train your team to operate it. Then I get out of the way.
The measure of whether I did my job is one thing: whether your firm runs the engine without me.
How do I know your guarantee is not the same guaranteed-results, double-your-money lie I have heard from every chancer who came before you?
Because I guarantee the three things a chancer never can: you see the plan first, you own everything regardless, and I do not leave until your team runs it.
This is the fear that should decide the whole thing. So I will answer it straight.
You have learned that anyone promising specific results is usually lying. And that a too-good-to-be-true cash bonus is the tell of someone planning to disappear.
I agree with you completely. Which is why my guarantee has none of it. No promised number to swallow on faith. No inflated cash kicker.
It is built on three things a chancer can never offer. You see the exact plan before you commit a pound. You own everything we build, whatever happens between us. And I do not get to leave until your team is running it without me.
The full terms are below, in plain English. Read them and decide for yourself whether they sound like someone planning to vanish.
My team cannot run marketing. My marketing person posts and posts and nothing comes of it. Training them is not going to fix that.
I do not need your marketing person to become a brilliant marketer. I build a system that does the thinking, and I train your team to operate it.
Your marketing person is not failing because they are not clever or not willing.
They are failing because they have tactics and no methodology. So they reinvent the wheel every week, and you cannot tell whether any of it works. That is a missing system, not a missing person.
I build the system. The documented engine that decides what to do, in what order, and how it is measured. Then I train your team to run it day to day.
The judgement is built into the engine. So your people operate a working machine instead of guessing.
You do not need to become a marketer to direct one. Neither does your team. They walk away owning a playbook that turns activity into a number you can see.
What actually happens when you leave? Does it fall over the way the agencies did the moment the relationship ended?
The opposite, and it is the entire point. It does not fall over when I leave, because it never lived with me.
When an agency left, it collapsed because the work, the accounts and the know-how were all in their building. They took it home.
When I leave, there is nothing to take home. I built it inside your firm from the start.
Every workflow is documented in plain SOPs any capable operator can run. So the engine survives a hire changing jobs. And it survives me walking out the door, which I will, on purpose.
Light operate-phase support is there later if you ever want a hand. It is never required.
That is the whole difference between owning a system and renting a person. The person leaves. The system stays.
I cannot do another six-figure bet. The senior hire scares me precisely because I cannot afford to get it wrong again.
So do not bet six figures on one person you cannot evaluate. This is less than half a senior hire, staged so you pay per delivered stage, and you keep the asset.
A senior marketing hire is ninety to a hundred and twenty thousand pounds all in. Months before they produce anything. No honest way to judge them until the money is gone.
This lands at less than half the cost of one senior hire. A fixed build fee, staged by gate, so you pay per stage once it is delivered and signed off. Never ahead of the work.
No salary. No recruiter fee. No year-long ramp. No severance if it is wrong.
And unlike any hire, when it is done you keep the entire system. You are not betting on a person. You are buying an asset, in instalments, that you watch work before you pay for the next part.
Is this even worth it if I am not planning to sell? I am not at the exit. I just want the firm to work better.
You do not have to sell for this to pay. It pays the day your growth stops depending on you. The higher value is a bonus you can take or leave.
This is not an exit play. I am not going to talk to you about multiples and diligence rooms, because that is not where you are.
The return is immediate and it is operational. A firm that wins work without you in every conversation. A pipeline that does not go quiet when you take a fortnight off. The end of being the single point of failure.
That a firm which runs without its owner is also worth more, and gives you the option to sell one day even if you never take it, is real. It is yours to keep in your back pocket.
But you are buying the working business now. Not the eventual transaction.
A free session. Thirty minutes, no obligation.
The entire engine, the playbooks and the SOPs are yours to keep forever. The work moves into your business permanently, so you can never be held hostage to a meter running in someone else's office.
I document every part and train your team to operate it, so it does not live in one head, including mine. Your marketing person stops posting into the void and starts owning a number they grow into, so they stay.
The engine is built to your firm and the one stage capping your growth, then handed over with every account in your name. The measure of the job is whether you run it without me.
“Dependence is the product everyone else is quietly selling you. Independence is the one I build.”
Four phases carry the five stages of the engine: how you get found, chosen, win the meeting, close, and keep and grow. It is gated, so you sign off each part before the next begins, and you own everything as it is built. It is done when your team runs the engine without me.
We find the one stage capping your growth, and agree the number before anything else.
I get inside your numbers and find the one stage of the five actually holding the firm back, so we build the part that unlocks the most growth first. We set the baseline the engine is measured against, and you see the full plan, mapped to your real numbers, before you commit a pound.
The engine is built stage by stage, signed off as it goes, and yours from day one.
The engine is built inside your business with sign-off gates, so you pay per stage as it is delivered, never ahead of the work. Everything is documented as it is built, and every account and asset is in your name from the moment it exists. Your first working part is live within four weeks, or that month is on me.
Your people learn to operate every part, so the capability lives in your firm.
Your team is trained to run the playbooks, the dashboards and the workflows. Your marketing person stops guessing and starts operating a documented system that produces a number they can show you. This is where the capability stops living in my head and starts living in your business.
I do not walk away until your team is running it without me.
I hand you the keys and step out. Not on a date, on a condition: your team is provably running the engine without me. You own the system, the playbooks, the accounts and the data forever. You are never dependent on me to keep it alive, and that is the entire point.
Get the Engine builds the whole revenue engine. We start with the stage that's bleeding the most, then stack the rest. Each one has its own deep page.
When enquiries are patchy
When every decision routes to you
When growth means saying no
When one product caps the business
When growth makes you poorer
TNT Growth is a marketing agency whose founder, Adam, was the firm. Every account, every relationship, the whole number ran through him.
I built the operating system the business was missing. I appointed and trained a four-strong exec team to run it, and set the strategy across every growth vertical.
Then I handed Adam a business that runs without him in every decision.
Inside twelve months the firm grew from around $277k to $500k a month, with revenue and profit both up about 80% and the margin held. Adam went from 11 direct reports to one, with a four-director exec team running the day-to-day, the team roughly doubled from about 25 to 50, and TNT landed at #442 on the Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies.
This is what proves the model, not the man. He stopped holding every thread, and the number kept climbing, because the engine lived in the business and the team ran it. I did not make him work harder. I built him the capability and trained his people to own it. It is the exact change you are trying to make, already done.
$277k → $500k
monthly revenue, in twelve months (+80%)
11 → 1
founder's direct reports, after handover
+80%
profit growth, with margin held
#442
Inc. 5000 fastest-growing firms
The guarantee
I will not promise the market behaves, and I will not bribe you with a cash kicker, because you have learned that anyone guaranteeing specific results is usually lying. Here is what I will promise instead. It reverses the only thing that has ever actually gone wrong for you: being left dependent, with nothing to show for the money.
You will feel it long before any twelve-month figure is totted up. The first time your marketing person walks in with a qualified meeting your team sourced and booked, running the play straight from the engine, and you had nothing to do with it. That is the moment you finally own the thing that brings in your work.
You are not renting another agency that disappears when you stop paying. You are not betting six figures on a hire you cannot judge. You are building an asset inside your own business, on instalments, that you watch work before you pay for the next part, and that you keep for good. The only thing you give up is your dependence on anyone else to grow.
Yes, on a condition, not a date. I do not walk away until your team is provably running the engine without me. I build it inside your business, document every part, and train your people to operate it, then I hand you the keys. You own the system, the playbooks, the accounts and the data forever. Optional light support is there if you ever want a hand, but it is never required.
It is a missing system, not a missing person. They have tactics and no methodology, so they reinvent the wheel every week and nobody can tell whether it works. I build the documented engine that decides what to do, in what order, and how it is measured, and train your team to run it. They stop guessing and start operating a machine that produces a number you can see. You do not need to become a marketer to direct one, and neither do they.
The engine does not walk out with them. It is documented in plain SOPs any capable operator can run, so it never lives in one person's head. It survives a hire changing jobs, and it survived me leaving, which is the whole design. That is the difference between owning a system and renting a person: the person can leave, the system stays.
Get the Engine is build-and-own. I build the engine inside your business, train your team to run it, hand you the keys, and leave, and you own it forever. The Revenue Partnership is the opposite: I become your entire outsourced revenue function and run the whole engine for you, ongoing, on a base plus a share of new profit. Get the Engine is for owners who have a team to run it and want to own the capability. The Partnership is for founders who want it run for them.
A fixed build fee, staged by gate, less than half the cost of one senior marketing hire. You pay for each stage as it is delivered and signed off, never ahead of the work, with no forever-retainer, and you keep the entire system. The guarantee is built around ownership, not a cash kicker: you see the plan before you pay, you own everything regardless, and I do not leave until your team runs it. Behind that sits a quiet floor: if the build has not returned three times what you invested within twelve months, audited by your own finance lead, I refund the build fee. Exact figures are scoped on the call.
For a one-to-three-million-pound firm, the real question is rent versus own. An agency rents you results that stop the day you stop paying. A senior hire is a six-figure bet you have no reliable way to evaluate. A fractional leader rents you a brain that walks out when the engagement ends. Get the Engine is the fourth path nobody else offers: I build the capability inside your business, train your team to run it, and leave you owning it for good.
Over three years, renting almost always costs more and leaves you owning nothing. A full-service UK retainer runs roughly three to seventeen thousand pounds a month, every month, with the work living in someone else's office, so it stops the day you stop paying. Building the engine once lands at less than half the cost of one senior hire, staged so you pay per signed-off stage, and at the end you own the system, the playbooks and the data outright. You either rent forever, or you build once and keep it.
You need a documented engine, not a department. Get found, get chosen, get the meeting, close, keep and grow, built around your firm and your buyers, with one or two of your existing people trained to run it. I build that engine inside your business across a gated build, train your team to operate it, and hand you the keys, so the capability lives in your firm rather than in an agency you rent or a hire you gamble on.
The one that is your biggest constraint right now. The engine is built in five named stages, get found, get chosen, win the meeting, close, and keep and grow, and on the call we pin the one that unlocks the most growth first, then build out from there.
Book a free Revenue Strategy Session. In thirty minutes we work out that one honest number: how much of your firm's growth still runs through you personally, and what it would take to build the engine your team could run instead.
You leave with the number and the plan whether you ever work with me or not. It is usually the most useful hour an owner spends all quarter, because you cannot scale past a ceiling you cannot see.
If it is a fit, I scope exactly what building the engine inside your business would look like, how it is staged, and how it is priced, on the call, not on a web page. If it is not, I will tell you straight. And if it helps you decide, I can put you in touch with a founder I have already done this for.
I only take a few builds at a time. Every quarter you stay the only one who can win the work is a quarter of growth capped at your diary that you never get back. Once the places are taken, the doors stay shut until one frees up.
P.S. You have rented marketing and watched it die. You have priced the six-figure hire and known you cannot risk getting it wrong again. This is the third option nobody offers: build the engine inside your own business, train your team to run it, own it for good. You see the plan before you pay a pound. You own every part from day one. I do not leave until your people run it without me. The only thing you give up is being the one thing the whole firm depends on.