For B2B CEOs Scaling Past Founder Heroics
Your Business Isn’t Broken.
You’re Just Still the Bottleneck.
ProvenChaos helps CEOs of fast-growing B2B companies move from $3M–$9M toward $25M–$50M by building the leadership, systems, and operating discipline that let the company scale beyond the founder.
Growth didn’t break your company. It exposed what the founder was still holding together.
Every important decision eventually gets back to you.
Your leadership team has titles, but you’re still leading their functions.
You agree on things in meetings and then nothing moves.
Delegating something often creates more work for you.
People wait instead of deciding.
Your strategic plan loses to Monday morning.
Recognize one? Each has its own page, in your language, with the real causes: start with the problem.
What got you here
Founder judgment. Personal oversight. Tribal knowledge. Heroic problem-solving. Speed through personal involvement.
It worked. It’s frequently the reason the company survived.
What gets you there
Leadership judgment. Explicit ownership. Systems. Repeatable decision-making. Accountability. Operating rhythms.
Your strengths built the company. The next stage requires the company to develop strengths of its own.
Operator Proof
I’ve run the companies. Then I started helping CEOs run theirs.
Companies Jerry led
Soccer Post: $5.9MM to $15MM in 18 months
On to $25MM+. Franchise 500, three times.
NFFS: $7MM to $30MM in three years
Inc. 5000 twice. Best Places to Work.
Five companies led across B2B and B2C
Senior leadership at 23.
Best Places to Work
NFFS, while growing the fastest in Jacksonville.
One exit
TotallySoccer, sold.
Ultimate CEO
Jacksonville Business Journal.
ProvenChaos client results
100+ B2B companies advised, from under $1MM to just shy of $1B. Named client case studies are in production and will live at Results.
“I’ve worked with lots of consultants that offer their time or strategic memos, but Jerry delivers results.”
Nathan Fabrick · Owner, NLR Commercial
Earned. Not claimed.
The awards aren’t decoration. They’re receipts.
These weren’t earned in a classroom. They came from running real companies: making payroll, opening stores, leading crews, and fixing what broke along the way. Battle tested, teeth bashed in, real world results the outside world happened to notice.
The Flagship
A thinking partner for complexity your organization hasn’t met yet
Executive coaching for the CEO whose company is growing faster than the way it’s being run. The agenda belongs to your current constraint: decisions, executives, accountability, strategy, people, you.
$3,000/month · weekly 1-hour sessions · virtual · month to month
Other ways to work together
The New Mastermind
A room of ten CEOs solving the same stage of growth from different experiences. Invitation only.
$997/month · 12-month commitment
Strategic Planning
Two days onsite that end with decided trade-offs, owned objectives, and a plan that survives Monday.
$7,500 + travel
Also: cohort courses for leaders building the same muscles.
Your company may be growing faster than its ability to scale.
The Scale Readiness Diagnostic shows you where the gap is: a short, serious assessment of how your company actually runs, and what breaks next if nothing changes.
The ProvenChaos Point of View
What we believe
Founder heroics are rational early and dangerous later.
Every organization has an operating system, whether it designed one or not.
High standards and kindness are not opposing ideas.
And underneath all of it: we’re on a mission to positively impact five million people through better business.
Named patterns. Not borrowed theory.
Five companies led, one hundred-plus advised, hundreds of CEO sessions: distilled into frameworks with names, because you can’t fix a pattern you can’t name.
The Invisible Operating System
Your company already runs on one. It’s you. The question is whether you designed it or just became it.
The line between accountability and policing. One grows your team. The other waits for them to fail.
The killer of business momentum that disguises itself as preparation. At planning time, the disguise is agreement.
The conflicts that emerge when people carry mismatched expectations nobody has spoken aloud.
Is it them, or is it me? The five factors that answer it honestly.
The invisible gap between responsibility and authority.
This works best when the business is growing faster than the way it’s being run
Great fit
B2B, established, fast-growing. Usually $3M–$9M with ambition toward $25M–$50M.
CEOs who are curious, self-aware, willing to be challenged, and care about their people.
Not a fit
Leaders looking for validation instead of perspective. CEOs who blame everyone else. People who want growth without building the organization required to sustain it.
High standards and human decency are compatible here. If you believe otherwise, we’ll frustrate each other.
What we’re learning
InPossible · free, weekly
Stop being the only one thinking about the business.
One idea every Saturday that attacks the problem you are actually carrying that week. Five minutes over coffee, and Monday looks different. No pitch, no filler, unsubscribe anytime.
The company got here because you were willing to carry it.
Getting to the next stage means teaching the company to carry more.