Not a methodology set.
Documented thinking tools.
CEOPRENEUR rests on two documented core systems and one decision logic that runs across both. Tools for operating those systems live on Labs, not here.
From the objective to the decision.
Two levels, not two offers. One defines what a mandate is aiming at. The other sets who decides in day-to-day operations when the owner is not asked.
- 01defines the objective
Core system
Build to Leave™ creates operational freedom. ExitReady™ makes the resulting independence transferable.
- 02supports delivery
Decision logic
The CEOPRENEUR Principles and the Decision Matrix™ set who decides what — the same logic in both core systems.
Two systems. One goal.
Build to Leave™ and ExitReady™ are the commercial paths and the only two systems CEOPRENEUR delivers. ExitReady™ presupposes Build to Leave™.
Build to Leave™
Structural decoupling of the business from the founder. Roles, decision architecture, process logic, delegation.
View system →ExitReady™
Governance, documentation and handover structures for a transparent due diligence process.
View system →Why one point and not everywhere.
A system runs as fast as its narrowest point. Improve elsewhere and you have spent money without moving throughput. That logic decides where both core systems intervene — and produces the uncomfortable rule that systematisation stops where it no longer reduces dependency.
See the constraint logic →The decision logic.
It belongs to neither system alone and is applied in both. Six principles answer the question of direction, five decision areas the question of action — through defined thresholds instead of your presence.
- 01Principled pragmatism
- 02Holistic view
- 03Cosmopolitan openness
- 04Minimalist focus
- 05High performance and self-direction
- 06The company as a tool
- Capital allocation
- Only buy what returns money or saves time.
- Productivity
- Delegate everything below your hourly value.
- Focus and clarity
- Big decisions get time, small ones get rules.
- Systemisation
- Only invest in reusable assets.
- Cash flow
- No large spend without assessment, no investment below the reserve.
What the method rests on.
Four questions carry the architecture. Three have solid data behind them, the fourth does not — and that is exactly what it says there.
Bandiera, Hansen, Prat & Sadun · Journal of Political Economy 2020
1,114 CEOs across six countries, time capture instead of self-assessment: 17 % work in a behaviour profile that does not match their firm.
Bloom, Eifert, Mahajan, McKenzie & Roberts · Quarterly Journal of Economics 2013
Randomised field experiment: structured management practices raised productivity by roughly 17 % within a year — and produced measurable delegation.
SECO / kmu.admin.ch
Of 603,602 Swiss SMEs, more than 90,000 have an owner over 60 and no resolved succession.
Damodaran · NYU Stern 2023
Pratt’s 10 to 25 % concerns private companies and appraisal discretion — not an empirical transaction rate.
What we forbid ourselves.
Not the scope of an offer — that is on its own page. These are the rules that hold regardless of the mandate, and they can be checked against this website.
No figure without a source.
Every percentage on this site traces back to an entry on the evidence page. Where the evidence carries nothing, that is what it says — not a figure that sounds plausible.
Self-assessment is called self-assessment.
The quick check and BTL OS are self-reported and are never presented as measurement. Counting happens only in the Diagnostic, from enumerated positions inside the business.
No default is an answer.
In the intake, nothing unanswered counts — not even as zero. Prefilled rows are a starting point, not a result.
Contradictions are rejected, not smoothed.
Revenue shares summing above 100 % are an error in the intake. We do not cap them to something plausible, we report them.
No mandate manufactured by the instrument.
“No structural work needed” is a valid outcome of the Diagnostic and is listed there first. A diagnosis that always leads to the next offer is not one.
No transaction advisory, no ongoing support.
We broker no buyers, run no due diligence and negotiate no transaction. And we sell no hours: what a mandate produces is architecture, not presence.
How much runs through you today?
Four questions organise your self-assessment across four areas of owner dependency. Free, with no email address required — initial orientation, not a measurement or a recommendation for a particular system.
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