Builder · Fixer · Strategist
Your business is worth more when it runs without you.
I'm Jake Griffin. I help founders and operators make complex businesses work: the plan, the systems, and the structure that let a company run, grow, and sell without depending on one person.
The 60-second check
Could your business run 30 days without you?
Four honest questions. It's the same thing a buyer, a lender, or a new CEO is trying to figure out.
Your score
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Tap Yes or Not yet on each question to see where you stand.
If you took a month off, would sales keep coming in?
Are your key processes written down somewhere besides your head?
Could someone else close the books every month, accurately?
Do your customers trust your team, not just you?
Insights
Learn from the people who already did it.
Mentor Mindset · Weekly
The accountant who built McKinsey wrote his playbook first
One builder from business history every week, and the lesson for anyone running a company today.
Read it →Series · The Stabilization Playbook
Go-live isn't the finish line
What it takes to get a business running, reporting, and deciding reliably after an ERP migration.
Start the series →The work
I make complex businesses work together.
Speaking
Bring it to your room
For conferences, chambers, associations, universities and leadership groups.
Worth more without you
What buyers actually pay for, and how to build it years before you sell.
The Stabilization Playbook
From ERP go-live to a business that runs, reports, and decides reliably.
Survival wasn't the finish line
Two leukemia battles, a transplant, Kilimanjaro, and what it taught me about time and risk.
About
The builder. The fixer. The one putting it together.
I grew up on a farm in North Alabama's Tennessee Valley and have spent my career walking into messes other people couldn't sort out, from tangled books to a $300 million backlog on a government contract. I've beaten leukemia twice, founded the Griffin Leukemia Foundation, and stood on top of Kilimanjaro.
Impact
Griffin Leukemia Foundation. Practical help for patients and families when they need it most.
Mentor Mindset · Free, every week
Build it like you'll sell it. Even if you never do.
Contact
The conversation starts here.
Working through something complicated, planning an event, or building something worth talking about? Send a note. I read every one.