Outcomes.business — Bottleneck Calculator

For service businesses $1M–$25M with 5 or more staff

Your business runs on outcomes.
Your team is managed on hours.

That gap is sitting in your payroll — we install the system that captures it.

6 weeks working directly with David Guest. 20 minutes per week. The calculator shows you what's leaking. JETPACK installs the system that stops it.

Not coaching. Not consulting. An installed operating system.

Annual revenue $3,000,000 / year
$250k$500k$1m$2m$3m$5m$7.5m$10m$15m$25m
Hours/week in operations
10 hrs
Decisions back to you
Step-away time
1 week
Payroll you're not capturing — next 90 days
$56,300
That's the gain sitting inside your existing payroll. Move the sliders to see your number.
Annual uncaptured payroll
$225,200
If nothing changes
StabilityModerate
LowModerateHigh
4 questions to identify exactly where your payroll isn't producing — and what to fix first
For 25 years, David has sat down with 5 founder-led businesses every week — 5,000+ diagnostic conversations and the pattern that built JETPACK
87% have payroll that isn't fully producing

Sound familiar?

The signs your payroll isn't fully producing.

I haven't taken a real break in years — something always needs me
Every decision routes back to me, even the small ones
More hours, same result — the ceiling isn't moving
Revenue has flatlined and I can't see what's blocking it
Good team, but I'm still running everything myself
We spend all our time putting out fires, not building
We discount to close because the team can't hold the price without me in the room
Nothing happens the same way twice
I built this to have more control over my life. It's done the opposite.

Why the gain is hiding in plain sight

You're already paying for the fix. You just haven't installed it yet.

The gain is already in your business. This explains where it's hiding.

What LeverageOS is

Not consulting. Not coaching. Not a course.

Consulting Coaching Course An installed operating system

LeverageOS installs the repeatable processes and team rhythms that turn idle payroll into productive output. We don't add complexity. We capture what's already there.

What you're comparing Others LeverageOS
Delivery modelAdvice, content, frameworksInstalled operating system
Primary outputKnowledge transferRepeatable processes that run without you
Team changeTraining onlyTeam runs and improves without being managed
Time horizonProject-basedCompounding across quarters
What we removeConfusion or skill gapsFounder dependency
Ongoing mechanismCoaching callsA weekly team rhythm — the Leverage Loop

Why this happens

The gain is already in your business. Here's why it stays hidden.

Most founders know something is being lost. They try harder, manage tighter, hire better. The gain stays hidden. Here's why — and how the system surfaces it.

Pillar 1
Effort hides the gain
Working harder doesn't capture the gain — it just means you receive the same problems faster. You've added people but the output hasn't scaled with them. The gain is in that gap.
Pillar 2
Systems, not supervision
Your team isn't the problem. The absence of a process for them to run is. LeverageOS installs a weekly team rhythm — a repeating process your team runs to track progress, fix problems and improve — without needing to be managed. We call this the Leverage Loop.
Pillar 3
Focus drives everything
Most businesses chase too many priorities. LeverageOS installs a focus-first approach — one objective, one bottleneck, one sprint — so the business improves where it matters most, every 90 days.
Pillar 4
Leverage compounds
Each cycle captures more of what was sitting idle. Each sprint removes a bottleneck. Over time the business produces more from the same payroll — without scaling you. That's the Freedom state.

What it looks like

Here's what capturing the gain looks like in practice.

These are the outcomes our clients describe after the system is installed.

Took 3 weeks off. Team hit target. Zero calls from me.
Professional services — $3.2M revenue — 14 staff
Was spending 35 hrs/week in operations. Now 6.
I used to make every decision. Now the team runs their own weekly process and I see the numbers on Friday.
Trades business — $5.8M revenue — 22 staff
Decisions coming back to him dropped 80% in 6 weeks.
We tried to systemise twice before. It never stuck. This time the team owns it.
Agency — $2.1M revenue — 11 staff
First holiday in 4 years without a single call.

How it works

You've found the gain. Now we install the process that captures it.

The calculator shows you what's sitting uncaptured in your payroll. The next step is installing the process that captures it — and keeps capturing it as the business grows.

Step 1
JETPACK — 6 Weeks Working with David Guest
Install the focus layer with 20-minute weekly check-ins from the methodology creator. We identify your single biggest bottleneck, build a repeatable weekly process to target it, and install the team rhythm your people run independently — with live dashboards and clear ownership. David runs the install personally.
Outcome — A team that runs its own weekly process and improves without being told to
Step 2
LeverageOS
Your permanent operating rhythm. Quarterly targets lock direction. Weekly team reviews drive execution. Mid-cycle check-ins adjust the focus. Each cycle builds on the last — without you in the middle of it.
Outcome — A business that moves in one direction, without you coordinating it
Focus
Direction locked
→
Fuel
Demand systemised
→
Flow
Team self-managed
→
Freedom
Founder released

The numbers

87%
of founders show decisions and problems still routing back to them
6 wks
working with David — 20 minutes per week
25 yrs
David Guest inside founder-led operations. Not theory.

The right fit

This is for founders who want more from the business they've already built — without adding more of themselves to it.

Service businesses doing $1M–$25M with 5 or more staff. You have the revenue. You have the team. What you don't have is a way to know whether it's all actually working — or just consuming your payroll.

In 90 days you'll be capturing payroll that was sitting idle. The progression continues — Focus → Fuel → Flow → Freedom.

This is for you if
✓Problems and decisions land on you that your team should be handling
✓Things stop moving the moment you're not available
✓You've tried to hand things off before — it didn't last
✓You're working more hours than you were two years ago, not fewer
✓You want to step back or grow but the business isn't built for it yet
This is not for you if
✕You're pre-revenue with no team to systemise
✕You want to remain the operator with no desire to build independence
✕Your business is in acute crisis — stabilise first