Business frameworks and AI for seven-figure service providers
Your business looks great from the outside. Inside, you're the bottleneck.
You became a service provider to do work you love, not to run every moving part of the business. We help you run it with ease, using the right frameworks and an AI Crew that handles the busywork, so the business finally works without you in the middle of everything.
Built by two founders who lived it: seven businesses, two exits, one Atlantic crossing.
“I've been saying for years, I'm the bottleneck in all of this. I just removed that whole problem with AI.”Trisha, coaching business
Sound familiar?
Tuesday, 2pm.
You set aside time to work on the business, not in it. CEO time. Then a Slack message pops up. A team member needs something. You dig through Google Drive, send it over, and get back to planning.
Your mind drifts to yesterday. Someone asked you to review client work before it went out. You open the email. You see holes. You make a note: the program needs to change, the curriculum needs updating. Back to the review. The coach could do a few things better, too. You add “more training for coaches” to the list.
The pattern continues. You keep giving yourself more to-dos. The list gets longer. There's no way you can do it all. And you think back to when the business was small, when you did everything yourself, and it was simpler, easier, and somehow more profitable.
On the outside, it looks like you're thriving. Inside, it's one giant to-do list that never ends.
The deeper layer
The ship that won't steer.
You have a vision. You're pointing toward it. But the ship keeps getting pulled in a different direction and you're not sure why.
The marketing isn't quite landing. The team is producing things you wouldn't have produced. You keep redirecting, gently, because they're good people. It works for a minute. Then it drifts again.
After a decade of studying leaders running teams of three to teams of twenty, here's what we've found: it isn't the operations. The operations are where the problem shows up. The cause is upstream. The leadership layer and the operations layer have drifted apart from each other.
We fix both at the same time. Because fixing one without the other is why your last attempt at this didn't hold.
Two minutes. Ten questions. Know which layer drifted.
The True North process
Identify. Align. Remove. Build.
Frameworks first. Strategy second. AI third. In that order, on purpose.
Identify
Name what's actually true: your mission, your identity as a founder, and where the business has drifted from both.
Align
Bring the leadership layer and the operations layer back into one direction. The same direction.
Remove
Strip out the work that should never touch a human. Implementation is the lowest level of human capacity.
Build
Install frameworks and an AI Crew your team runs without you reminding them.
The Bottleneck Quiz
Where is your business actually stuck?
Every growing business hits the same five breakpoints. Ten questions, two minutes, and you'll know which one you're living in and what to install first.
“AI is like sailing. Anyone can buy a boat. Reading the water takes a trained eye. We teach you to read the water.”
Brooke Elder
How it works
The sandwich.
Leadership and vision on top. Operations and frameworks on the bottom. The AI Crew handles the middle. It's the structure we teach, and the structure we run.
The top bun
Leadership
Mission, vision, and values as the operating layer, not a poster on the wall. Your identity as a founder in alignment with the company you actually run.
The middle
AI Crew + the seven frameworks
Implementation is the lowest level of human capacity. The AI Crew takes it, inside frameworks your team runs without you reminding them.
The bottom bun
Operational Foundation
The structural systems that hold the whole business together, built to stay standing as you scale.
This is Simplified OS.
The done-with-you program that installs all three layers for service providers with teams, so the business runs with ease. Enrollment opens inside the bootcamp.
The curriculum
Seven frameworks. One filter.
Every framework runs through your mission, vision, and values. That filter is what keeps the business from drifting as it scales.
- Marketing
- Sales
- Finance
- Operations
- People
- Client Success
- Fulfillment
Who's behind this
Two founders. The same wall. Two halves of one answer.
Operations · AI · Systems
Brooke Elder
Seven businesses, two exits. Her coaching company peaked at 27 employees with over a million dollars in payroll while the profit disappeared. Then her husband asked one question: “Why are you automating with people instead of systems?”
She cut the team from 27 to 6, kept the revenue, and the profit came back. Then she sold the house, bought a sailboat, and crossed the Atlantic with her family while the business kept running.
Leadership · Identity · Neurocoaching
Tricia Peterson
Organizational psychologist and neurocoach. She burned out collecting certifications and saying yes to everything. So she reset: she moved her family of seven into a 300-square-foot travel trailer for three years and 38 states.
She came back with the Identity Triangle and a deeper kind of impact. Not from doing more. From being more aligned.
“We don't just teach what worked. We teach what it cost us to learn.”
What changes
The bottleneck, gone.
I completely wiped reviewing timesheets off my time card. I don't do it anymore. Claude does it.
I was doing three times the amount of work in that little space. It opened my eyes to everything that can happen.
Your business is working for you instead of you always running your business. That is what gives you the freedom.
Start where every good crossing starts: with a chart.
The Scale With AI Bootcamp is four days, built for owners with teams. You'll leave knowing exactly which layer of your business has drifted and what to install first.
Four days. Bring your team.