You’ve outgrown doing everything yourself.

ScaleReady helps established small business owners put the plans, people and processes in place to grow sustainably. Through hands-on learning and one-on-one coaching, you’ll improve profitability, create repeatable processes, delegate effectively, develop your team and set clear goals to track progress and support long-term growth.

You’ll build a customized set of business tools, including a strategic growth plan, a scorecard to track key results, tools for assigning responsibilities and delegating work and practical systems to help your business run more efficiently and grow with confidence. Participants also receive a $5,000 professional services stipend to put a priority growth project into action.

Through hands-on sessions, plug-and-play tools, expert coaching, and a $5,000 services stipend, participants will achieve the following outcomes:

  • Audit and strengthen core business functions

  • Create systems for repeatability and delegation

  • Audit and plan for improved profitability

  • Plan for hiring, onboarding, team, and leadership development

  • Complete investor readiness exercises to develop a funding plan and create a Capital Ask deliverable—gaining real proximity to growth capital by program’s end

  • Build an actionable dashboard that tracks KPIs, outlines next steps, and integrates systems for future scalability

ScaleReady is ideal for Ohio small business owners generating more than $100,000 in annual revenue and dedicated to learning, growing, and scaling their businesses beyond our region.

Spots are limited; applicants will be contacted via email.

ScaleReady Application

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