DomRose · Dripping Springs, Texas
For the owner who built something real and is tired of being the whole engine.
I'm Derek Kissos. I spend two weeks inside an owner-run business, find where it actually makes money, and hand you one growth bet and a 90-day plan you can run yourself. Fixed fee, $4,500.
The ceiling
You run a profitable business. You also answer the phone, close the big jobs, chase the quotes, and know in your gut that you should be bigger by now.
The business is capped at the hours you have. That is the ceiling, and it does not move on its own.
You might recognize one of these
- I'm the bottleneck.
- We're busy, but I don't know if we're making money on half of it.
- I turn down work because I can't find people.
- My phone rings and nobody picks up.
- I want to add a new service, and I don't know if it will pay.
- I know we should be bigger by now.
If one of those is yours, the Growth Diagnostic was built for it.
Advice first, then the machinery
Most help for an owner stops at advice or starts with software. I do both, in that order. Two weeks to decide where the growth is. Then, if it helps, the systems that keep it moving while you are out on a job: the phone answered, the quote sent the same day, the follow-up that does not depend on anyone remembering. Advice comes first, so the software is never the point.
The Growth Diagnostic
Two weeks. $4,500. Fixed.
Two weeks with an operator who finds where your business actually makes money, what is in the way, and the one growth bet worth making next, delivered as a 90-day plan you can run yourself.
You get four documents at the end:
- Know Your Real Costs. Where your hours and your team's hours go, and what each line of work really earns.
- Market and Competitor Packet. Who else serves your customers in your trade area, how they price, and the gap nobody local is filling.
- The One Bet. One growth move, such as a new service, a new kind of customer, a price change or a second crew, argued, with what has to be true for it to work and what would make me tell you to stop.
- The 90-Day Plan. Week by week, who does what, what it costs, and how you know it is working.
What comes after, if you want it
Every Diagnostic ends with a plan you can run alone. Some owners do, and that is a good outcome. For the ones who want more, there are two next steps, and you can only buy them after we have worked together.
The Growth Office. I work as your fractional growth partner for six months: two working sessions a month, a pipeline and content system that runs every week whether or not you touch it, and a Friday scorecard so you always know where growth stands. $2,500 a month.
The Applied Intelligence Install. The machinery a growing business needs and cannot afford to staff: a front desk that answers every call, text and web inquiry; a bid builder that turns a site visit into a quote the same day; follow-up that never forgets; and a content engine in your voice. $8,000 setup and $750 a month.
Who this fits
Founder-run businesses in the Hill Country and the Austin area doing $1M to $15M, with 5 to 75 people, profitable but stuck. Trades, services, local B2B, specialty retail, restaurants and venues.
Who it does not fit
Businesses losing money, businesses about to be sold, and owners who want leads and nothing else. I will tell you in the first conversation.
Who you would be working with
I enlisted in the Army in 2005, served fifteen months in Iraq, and went on to strategy work at the Pentagon. Since then I have spent my career growing businesses and selling for a living. I live in Dripping Springs. DomRose is veteran-owned, and it is me. There is no junior team behind the curtain.
Read along before you call
I am writing down what it takes to start a one-person firm and run it with software instead of staff, including the parts that broke. No form, no call required.
Bring us the outcome that matters — and the part that is stuck.
One conversation, 45 minutes, no charge, at your shop, over coffee or by video. If it fits, you get a one-page proposal within a day. If it does not, you get a straight answer and, where I can, the name of someone who can help.