Build a consultancy worth owning.
For founders of solo and boutique consultancies who can win and deliver great work, and now want a business designed around their brilliance, built on recurring revenue, and more rewarding to own.
Hard work can grow a consultancy. Design makes it worth owning.
Running and growing a consultancy is tough.
When client work takes over, your own sales and marketing fall to the bottom of the list. Then a project ends, and it’s all hands on deck to find the next one. The feast-and-famine cycle begins again.
Most of your revenue comes from projects, so every month starts close to zero.
You create huge value for your clients, yet end up with a business that doesn't give you the time, income or freedom you expected. And the sensible advice (hire, delegate, systemise) can still take you towards a consultancy you don't actually want to own: more management, and less of the work you're best at.
The good news? It’s solvable. By design.
A different destination: the Performance-Lifestyle Consultancy
Work that brings out your best. Impact that matters. Freedom that grows.
A Performance-Lifestyle Consultancy is designed around your brilliance (the experience, judgement and perspective clients come to you for) rather than designed to remove you from it.
It runs on the Consultancy Value Loop:
Fit: work and clients that suit how you operate at your best
Impact: more of your best thinking reaching clients
Freedom: over your time, your clients and where you focus next
Better fit creates more impact. More impact creates more freedom. Used well, freedom protects your brilliance and improves the fit again.
There's no single right version. Some consultancies stay deliberately small. Others build teams or IP. What matters is that every step takes you closer to the consultancy you actually want to own.
How it works: Design → Build → Own
01
Design (your first 90 days)
Four one-pagers that become your working plan, and a design for your consultancy that you're confident to take to market.
02
Build (months 4 to 12)
The build cycle: validate your design in the market, optimise it from the evidence, repeat. You find out what works, what doesn't and what needs to change well before you reach the next stage.
03
Own (year 2 onwards)
A proven business worth owning. Protect what you've built (your freedom, your IP and your recurring revenue), then design the next jump.
Your consultancy is designed in three stages: £10k, £30k and £100k of monthly recurring revenue, with project work on top rather than instead.
Your first 90 days
Four one-pagers, held in your Value MAP:
1. Founder's Energy Map. How you work at your best. Two leading energy profiles brought together into one picture, so your growth plan fits you, not someone else's playbook.
2. 10/30/100 Blueprint. What your consultancy looks like at £10k, £30k and £100k of monthly recurring revenue, and the life you want alongside it.
3. Unique Positioning Strategy. Who you're for, the problem you solve better than anyone, the impact you create, and why the right clients choose you.
4. Ideal Customer Journey Map. How your ideal clients move from not knowing you to ready to buy, and what you do at each stage.
How it runs. Your 90 days start from your Energies call, once you've completed your two profiles. The remaining three calls follow every two to three weeks. Once your design is complete, you'll live with it for a few weeks before your Day 90 review.
Each call starts from work you've prepared beforehand, so the time goes on sharpening, not filling in blanks. You join the peer community from day one.
A rhythm that keeps business development going when you're busy
Weekly
Peer group call (Fridays, 9:30-11:00)
Founders on your journey sharing what's working, what's stuck and what they're committing to next. Honest, practical, no selling.
Monthly
Design check-in
A five-minute check on each part of your design: what the evidence shows, and how confident you feel about it. You see exactly what's working and what isn't.
Quarterly
Breakthrough Day (a full day, in person)
Review the quarter that's closing and set your priorities for the next, with the perspective of spending the day out of your business, running through specially designed exercises and discussing them with peers.
Daily
MyGrowthPilot (launching to members in November 2026)
Your design, one-pagers and pipeline in one place, working through Claude or ChatGPT as a strategic partner. Four roles keep your rhythm going while you deliver: Chief of Staff, Sales Director, Marketing Director and Sales Development Rep.
I design with you. You build it.
I'm Stephen Bavister, a Consultancy Value Architect.
What I do: see what you can't see from inside your business; challenge the parts of your design that are comfortable rather than right; make sure it fits how you work and the market you serve, and help you believe in it. A better future often takes some getting used to.
What you do: the design work, using our tools and method; choose and sign off your design decisions; take it to market, keep your business development going and update your design from the evidence.
What I don't do: write your one-pagers for you, do your business development or selling, or promise you clients or revenue. If you need specialist help, I can refer you to people I trust.
Three ways to join
For founders of solo and boutique consultancies, typically 1 to 10 people, already averaging £5k-£10k+ a month, often with feast and famine, and wanting the next jump designed rather than ground out.
Same method on every route. Choose your level of support. All prices plus VAT.
Growth Community: 3-month initial commitment, then rolling monthly. First 6 months £2,450.
Growth Community + 1:1: 6-month initial commitment, then rolling monthly. First 6 months £3,000.
Team: 6-month initial commitment, then rolling monthly. First 6 months £15,000.
Prefer to spread the onboarding? On Growth Community, pay £350/month on a 12-month commitment, dropping to £250/month from month 13. First 12 months £4,200, against £3,950 on the standard route.
Have a team but want to start on your own? Founders of larger firms are welcome on Growth Community.
All prices plus VAT.
Our 90-day guarantee
By Day 90 from your Energies call, you'll have a design for your Performance-Lifestyle Consultancy that you're confident to start testing in the market.
If you've done your part and you're not confident, we'll work through up to two more rounds over the following three months, at no extra cost beyond your membership. That means refining your design, or taking it into real conversations to see how it lands. It's the advice you'd give a client: don't keep polishing in private. Put it in front of the people it's for, and listen to what they say.
If you're still not confident after that, you choose: carry on with the community, move to monthly 1:1 with Stephen, or decide this approach isn't right for you.
Your part:
1. Complete both profiles before your Energies call
2. Complete your preparation at least two working days before each call
3. Attend all four calls (each can move once, with 48 hours' notice)
4. Complete the actions we agree within 7 days
5. Complete your Day 90 check-in before your review
Where it's unclear whether you've done your part, Stephen decides. For Team, the guarantee is judged on the founder's confidence.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this for?
Founders of solo and boutique consultancies, typically 1 to 10 people, already averaging £5k–£10k+ a month and wanting to build on recurring revenue rather than feast and famine. Team is for firms of 4 or more at or near £30k a month, focused on the jump to £100k.
Why is this different to other online business courses and communities?
Most growth advice tries to make you less necessary to your own business. We design your consultancy around your brilliance instead, built on recurring revenue, and test it in the market so you know what works before you need it to. And it's not a course: you design your consultancy with me, one to one, then build it with founders at your stage.
Who are you and why should I listen to you?
I'm Stephen Bavister. I've spent 20+ years in consultancy marketing and running a consultancy, and my client work has generated £200m+ in growth.
How long will it take?
Your design takes 90 days from your Energies call: four calls, with preparation before each, then a Day 90 review. Plan for around 2-3 hours a week during that time. After that, it's a weekly peer call, a monthly check-in and a quarterly Breakthrough Day.
My consultancy is highly specialist, will this help me?
Yes. Your design is built from your own energies, your market and your clients, not a template, so it works however niche you are.
What will I have at 90 days, and at 12 months?
At 90 days: four one-pagers and a design you're confident to test in the market, backed by our guarantee.
By 12 months: a design tested in your market, with clear evidence of what works, what doesn't and what needs to change for your next jump, plus a business development rhythm that kept going through your busy periods. We don't promise revenue or clients (that's your build), but you'll know far earlier what will get you there.
What if it isn't right for me?
That's what our 90-day guarantee is for. If you've done your part and still aren't confident after the extra rounds, you can decide this approach isn't for you. If you chose to spread your onboarding, the remaining onboarding balance is still due.
Does this come with email or phone support?
During your onboarding you will have four 1:1 video calls and a Day 90 review. If you opt for the Growth Community + 1:1 you will get an additional 1:1 call every month.
Design questions go to the members' community, where I and other members respond. Help with MyGrowthPilot goes to our support team by email, answered within 2 working days (you'll get the address when you join). There's no phone support.
What is MyGrowthPilot?
Our platform for keeping your design, one-pagers and pipeline in one place, working through Claude or ChatGPT. It launches to members in November 2026.
I have a team. Can I still join Growth Community?
Yes. Choose Team if you want your team's energies mapped, your team involved in the design, and monthly team sessions. Or start with Growth Community on your own and move to Team later.
What happens after I book a call?
We talk about where your consultancy is and where you want it to go, and I'll recommend the right route. If it's a fit, we send your profiles and book your Energies call the same week.
