For owners running a $5M to $50M company

You want to be gone for a month and not worry about anything.

A business that runs without you. People who are not scared to take a step, who know their numbers and deliver on them, and your own thinking checked before you act on it.

Max Kozlovsky has been where you are, in a startup, a small business and a scale-up, and worked strategy inside Procter and Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and Clorox. For seventeen years he has sat with owners at exactly this point.

Text Max (210) 880-5690 or book fifteen minutes on his calendar

Text Max what is going on. He reads it himself and texts back, typically the same day, or early the next. If it is worth a call, fifteen minutes, nothing to prepare, and he asks the questions. If it is not a fit, he says so and that is the end of it, no follow-up.

“Very patient, very thorough, quite demanding, but realistic.”Dr. Bryan Stuckey, Perrin 410Seven figures of debt and a sixty-hour week going in. An eight-figure sale and a fifteen-hour week coming out.

Max Kozlovsky, a ninety-second video on why owners call

If this sounds familiar

Everything still runs through you.

“The whole load is on my shoulders.”

“I can't hand off anything.”

“Where I can't ever connect the dots is getting them to do it.”

“We don't know what number keeps us open every month.”

The company is in decent shape. Capable team, real margins, work that comes in. Nothing is broken.

And every call that matters still lands on your desk. The estimates. The hires. The number nobody else knows. Your people bring you the question instead of the answer, because that is how it has always worked. So the business only moves as fast as you can get to it.

The volume is not the hard part. The hard part is that nobody near you can check the thinking. A company this far along should not need you in the room for every call. Everyone qualified to push back reports to you. Anyone who does not report to you does not know your numbers, your people, or what you decided last quarter. You are not short of ideas. You are short of one person with the whole picture who will say what he actually thinks.

That is what the fifteen minutes is for.

Text Max (210) 880-5690

One owner

Dr. Bryan Stuckey and Perrin 410.

He came in with a veterinary practice, seven figures of debt and a sixty-hour week. “I was kind of dubious. I have had management consultants, I have been to seminars and all of this, but I was very pleasantly surprised.”

He went from sixty hours a week to fifteen. Perrin 410 was named a Best Place to Work by the San Antonio Business Journal, the first veterinary practice to win it. He sold the practice for an eight-figure number.

“I can be gone now, and I have the comfort level that things will be carried out as they should be.”

Where this ends up

A plan your team can say back to you.

When it works, you know three things. Where the business is. Where you want it to be. What it will take to get there. You can say all three to your team in plain words, and they can say them back.

The vision is written down. A three-year story of where this company is going, specific enough that people give it their best.

Everybody can name the few numbers that decide the year, and where you stand against them. Everybody knows what they own this quarter and what winning looks like on it. Getting them to do it stops being the hard part. The priorities are theirs, and the progress is visible.

“Now I understand what being in control means.”

Max sees it in owners who get this far. They like their team, they want to be at work, and they know where the business stands without going looking. The weekend stays a weekend, and a week away stays a week away. They are optimistic and proud of themselves, and the vision keeps growing.

That is a business that runs without you, with you still setting where it goes.

The person you would be sitting with

He will tell you the truth.

Some owners come here after an advisor or a peer group told them what they wanted to hear.

“When they think they are growing and everybody's happy, I can see where they're going to stall, what's not scalable, and how they are going to plateau, so I tell them that.” Or a company is certain it is differentiated, and it is not. He tells them that too. The plan comes with it.

Max Kozlovsky in a working session with a client's leadership team — Working on the plan.

“I have always looked at things from a few angles. I notice the details people skip, and I see how the pieces fit together. Years with owners taught me to listen to what a person says, what they leave out, and what that means for the business. That is how I find where a company is stuck, and the next move that gets it going again.”

He has run companies himself.

“You don't want advice from someone that's never started a company.” One owner's test. Max Kozlovsky started Pakta, a machine-learning pricing company. He sold its technology to Compaq, later part of Hewlett-Packard. He started Quantum Golf, which merged into a multinational instruction academy. In between, he ran marketing and strategy inside Procter and Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and Clorox.

He does not install a system whole.

“Figuring out what's the most important thing to be working on right now.” A client. Max is certified in Scaling Up, Metronomics and Exponential Organizations. He works with the Great Game of Business, and the principles behind EOS and High Output Management. Two or three things this company needs this quarter. Not a binder.

He reads the people first.

“You're the one person who gives me the space.” Harmony Brownwood, Greenworks Inspections.

Quest runs on an AI system Max built.

Quest runs on an AI operating system he built, with AI directors for marketing, new product development, sales and IT doing real work every day. He uses the same tools with clients, so the work comes out faster and sharper. When AI comes up in your business, what you get is what has worked in his.

What owners tell him they want: “I want automations built around me to where I have agents performing tasks, and I'm just getting fed and organized.” Ben Hubbard, Champion AC and Wright Air Conditioning.

Where this leads.

Three times the size in eighteen months. Six times the size in three years.

Peter and Lisa Moon, Paper Moon Painting

Flat for seven years. Three times the size two years later.

A Servpro franchise

“I have never had this much time in my life.”

Ben Hubbard, Champion AC and Wright Air Conditioning

He will tell you the truth because he has been where you are, and he is not afraid to say it.

Text Max (210) 880-5690

If you are looking at an implementer, a peer group, a fractional executive or a firm: Who to hire between $5M and $50M.

What actually happens

You know how both meetings go before you agree to either one.

Fifteen minutes

Nothing to prepare. You say what is going on, in your own words. Max asks the questions. He tells you either way whether this is his kind of problem and whether the timing is right. At the end you both know if it is worth sitting down for longer.

Ninety minutes

Max asks the questions until the real problems are named, the root causes under them, and the steps that come next. You leave with all of it, whether or not you hire him. He talks about how he works only after that part is done. It happens out of your office, away from interruptions. Only the people who decide are in the room, you and any co-owners. Zoom if you are not local.

Whether this is you

You do not have to become someone else.

You care about your people. That is not the problem. The problem is that things only go right when you are in the room. Give the team a plan they can run, and things go right when you are not. You stay who you are.

This is for

Owners who want to grow, and want a straight read.

Owners who want enough structure to run on, and no more.

Owners who want the team running the plan instead of running it all themselves.

This is not for

Owners who want it done for them.

Owners who have all the answers.

Owners who are in it only for the money.

If you want the same system installed in every company, EOS does that well, and Max will say so.

If you are on the first list, fifteen minutes is the next step.