Assessments, focused projects and ongoing advisory for owners of established small businesses.
The services fall into three groups: Assess where the business stands, Improve a defined problem, and Advise on decisions over time. Every engagement is designed to start with a free conversation to see whether there is a fit.
A fit conversation about where the business stands and what you want next. It is not free consulting.
Find out where the business stands before deciding what to change.
A broad diagnostic of the company's financial, operational, staffing, owner, risk and strategic health.
What you get: A prioritized picture of what is working, what is not, what needs immediate attention, and what deserves a closer look.
Starting price$1,995
A deeper review with document analysis, owner interviews and operational review.
What you get: Prioritized findings and a practical 90-day action plan.
Starting price$4,495
The signature structured assessment across six areas: Financial Performance, Operations & Systems, People & Organization, Owner Role & Sustainability, Risk & Resilience, and Transferability & Exit Readiness.
What you get: A scorecard and a Fix Now / Improve Next / Build Toward list. More about the Humble Services Vantage Point Review.
The Review is delivered at two depths, the Business Health Assessment or the Comprehensive Business Diagnostic above. It has no separate price of its own. See a sample Review on an invented business.
A structured assessment and multi-year roadmap for a sale, family transition, management buyout or other succession path, with optional advisory support while you work through the roadmap.
What you get: A prioritized plan for the things that reduce transferability. More about exit readiness.
Starting priceAssessment and roadmap $6,495; implementation advisory $2,495 per month
Focused work on a defined problem, with clear deliverables.
Focused work on a defined problem: profitability, labor, pricing, service mix, client mix, staffing, delegation or systems.
What you get: A scoped project with clear deliverables.
Starting price$2,995
In-person observation, interviews, process review or strategy sessions, when being there materially improves the work.
What you get: In-person observation and working sessions at your business.
Starting price$2,295 per day plus travel
Practical work on where, and whether, AI belongs in a business: reviewing the tasks an owner and team actually do, adding existing AI tools where they fit, and building purpose-made tools where an off-the-shelf one does not.
It also covers a company dashboard: a private portal where an owner would see their own business health through the same category lenses we use in an assessment. That dashboard has not been built. Nothing on this website provides it today, but the sample Review shows the kind of view an owner would get, on an invented business.
What you get: A scoped project with clear deliverables. More about AI Implementation.
Ongoing support with decisions over time. Exit & Succession Readiness also offers implementation advisory; it is listed under Assess, with its assessment.
Both advisory services follow the same shape. What differs between them is how active the work is and how often we meet.
Ongoing, confidential strategy conversations about decisions, priorities, conflict, workload, delegation, employees, customers and the future you want. This is business advisory, not psychotherapy.
What you get: A sounding board for the decisions that come with owning a business.
Starting price$895 per month
A more active recurring relationship with analysis, implementation support, accountability and a monthly operating review.
What you get: A steady outside advisor who knows the business.
Starting price$1,995 per month
We do not give legal, tax, securities or investment advice, do not prepare formal valuations, and do not provide psychotherapy or mental-health treatment. No engagement promises a sale price, a valuation or a financial result. When you need a CPA, attorney, valuation professional or broker, we will tell you and help you prepare.
A free Business Transition Conversation is a chance to talk through where the business stands and whether working together makes sense. It is a fit conversation, not free consulting.
