Runs Without You · Consulting

A business that keeps going while you are not in it.

The whole operating system, and somebody in your corner running it with you. For founders who want a genuine strategic partner embedded in the business, week to week. Four calls a month, the operating system of the business and the life built with you, a proper review every quarter, and time in the room.

Month to month, cancel whenever. Foundations carry over if you are stepping up.

The guaranteeCome to the first session. If you do not leave it with at least one thing worth more than the month costs, do not pay for the month.

The real problem


When you want a partner, not a consultant

Past a certain point, a second opinion, even a good one, is not enough.

You want someone genuinely inside the business: thinking with you every week, building the systems, and holding the long horizon. Not a salaried executive, a strategic partner embedded in how the business runs.

Honest fit


Is it right for you?

It is for you if

  • You want a strategic partner embedded in the business, week to week.
  • You want the systems built, not just advised, so it all runs in the background.
  • You are ready to work at the level of a genuine board relationship.
  • You want the whole picture, business and life, held together.

It is not for you if

  • You want occasional input rather than a weekly partner.
  • You are not ready to build and embed real systems.
  • You want advice without doing the work alongside it.

Every month


What you get

Four weekly callsStrategic, working, build, and review, each with a job.
Same-day repliesPriority access, genuine executive cover.
The operating system, builtWith you, across the business and the life.
Quarterly business reviewThe last 90 days against the numbers, and the next.
In personStrategic days in the room near Knutsford.
Free ElliottOS accessThe life operating system, set up with you and coached step by step.

The marquee


The operating system, built with you

Not advised. Built, a stage at a time, so by the end it runs quietly and you have your attention back.

One home, one job per toolEverything in one place, the silt cleared, each tool with a single clear job.
The second brain & AIA trusted system for thinking, with AI handling the measurable and the repeatable.
The life layerThe same systems run the life around the business, quietly in the background.

How it works


A guided year, not open-ended chats

Twelve months, twelve frameworks, so the work compounds instead of starting over. We start with you, then work through the business.

FoundationsLife First, values, culture, the whole picture. Months 1 to 4.
The businessDirection, attention, position, readiness, structure. Months 5 to 9.
SystemsCalm systems that run in the background. Month 10.
Sustain & reviewCapacity, then review the year and set the next. Months 11 to 12.

Your month


Your weekly rhythm

  • Week one, strategic. Board-level on the month's theme and the big calls.
  • Week two, working. The live decisions in front of you now.
  • Week three, build. We set up a piece of the operating system together.
  • Week four, review. Pulse the whole business, review actions, set the next month.
  • Every quarter. A full business review, and a strategic day in the room where it helps.

The cost


A fraction of an executive at this level

A full-time executive at this calibre is sixty thousand a year and up. Runs Without You gives you that level of partner, embedded weekly, with the systems built, for a fraction of it.

Straight answers


Questions founders ask

How is Runs Without You different from Get It Built?

Get It Built works the business with you twice a month. Runs Without You is in the business every week, on a four-call rhythm, builds the operating system with you rather than advising it, answers the same day, and adds a quarterly business review and in-person days. It is a genuine strategic partnership.

What does 'the operating system, built' mean?

Across the year we set up one calm system for the business and the life around it: one home for everything, one job per tool, a second brain, and AI handling the measurable. By the end it runs quietly, and you could be off for two weeks without the business noticing.

Can I start small and move up later?

Yes, and most people do. Start where you are, and step up when the moment is right. Your foundations carry over, so you never start again.

What is the commitment?

None. It is month to month from the first month, and you cancel any time before your next billing date with no notice and no penalties. Come to the first session: if you do not leave it with one thing worth more than the month costs, do not pay for the month. You decide that, not me.

Runs Without You · £1,500 a month

A weekly strategic partner, the operating system built with you, and a board cadence every quarter. Start now, or take the free audit first.

Month to month, cancel whenever. Prefer to talk first? Book a fit call.

The rest of the ladder

Where this one sits.


Get It BuiltThe step below, at £1,000 a monthEverything, and what it costsAll nine, priced, on one page