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Are you still the person every important decision comes back to? Are you solving problems your leadership team should now be owning? Do you feel proud of the growth so far — but also sense that the next stage cannot run on the same founder energy that got you here? And does part of you wonder whether the business has outgrown your current way of leading it? This is a difficult moment for many founders. You built the business through instinct, ownership, speed, and personal involvement. You knew the details. You carried the decisions. You stepped in when things were unclear. You held the standard when the team was still forming. That is often what early growth requires. But scale asks for something different. At the next stage, the same habits that protected the business can start to constrain it. Decisions remain too concentrated. Leaders wait for your view before moving. Delegation happens in theory, but not fully in practice. The operating rhythm depends too heavily on your presence, memory, judgment, or intervention. The real question is not, “Am I the problem?” The better question is: What does the business now need from me as founder — and what must no longer depend on me? The Founder Growth Readiness Sprint is designed for founders moving from early growth to scale who suspect they may have become part of the constraint. Across the five sessions, we examine your current role, leadership bottlenecks, decision concentration, delegation gaps, team capability, strategic focus, and the operating model needed for the next stage of growth. We look at where decisions are still gathering around you. Where the team needs more ownership. Where your identity as founder may be tied too closely to being involved in everything. Where leadership structure needs to mature. And where the business needs clearer cadence, accountability, and strategic focus to scale beyond founder-driven execution. You will walk away with a founder bottleneck diagnosis, a founder-role reset, a delegation and decision bottleneck map, leadership structure and accountability rhythm recommendations, and a focused 60-day founder transition plan. This is not about stepping away from the business. It is not about becoming less committed. It is about changing the way your commitment shows up. Because the next stage of growth may not require you to carry more. It may require you to design a business that can carry more without everything coming back to you.