Results · Pre-registered · AUG 2026

Published: AUG 2026

This page is mostly empty. That's deliberate — it was published before the first cohort ran, stating exactly what we'll report and when, so we can't decide after the fact which numbers to show you.

Standard published
AUG 2026
Cohort 1 baselines
[DATE]
Cohort 1 day-90
[DATE]
Results due
[DATE + 30]
Countersigned by
[ACCOUNTANT]
/01Pre-registration — published August 2026, before any client data exists

Borrowed from clinical research, where the reporting standard is fixed before the trial runs so results can't be selected afterwards. There is no equivalent convention in business services, which is precisely why it's worth doing.

Six commitments, made before we know what the answer is:

01Every client, not selected ones.

Every business that records a baseline appears in the results table, including those that refund, defer or drop out. Nobody is quietly omitted for having an inconvenient number.

02Rejected applicants as a comparison group.

People we decline still have a recorded baseline. Their scores are reported alongside, so you can see whether we were accepting businesses that were already better placed.

03The worst result is named.

Alongside any average, the lowest individual delta in the cohort is stated. A set where everything worked isn't a result set — it's a selection.

04No cell smaller than five.

Grouped figures — by industry, revenue band or weakest section — are only published where at least five businesses sit in the group. At a cohort of fifteen, industry plus revenue band plus metric identifies exactly one firm.

05Independent countersign.

A qualified accountant with no financial interest in this business confirms that the per-client table matches source records and that no client with a recorded baseline was omitted. Their name appears on the results.

06Corrections logged, never silently edited.

If we publish something wrong, the correction is dated and appears below the figure. The original stays visible.

/02The results tables

Structure fixed now. Numbers land on the dates shown. If a table is still empty after its due date, that is itself a result and should be read as one.

Currently empty. Cohort one has not run.Nothing on this page has been measured yet. If you are evaluating this programme today, evaluate it on the reasoning and the reporting standard — not on results, because there aren't any.

Table 1 · Per-client deltas · Due [DATE + 30]
ClientBaselineDay 90DeltaWeakest at startWeakest at 90OutcomeOwner gates
01
02
03
15
Median
Lowest delta

Rows are anonymised — no industry or revenue band at the individual line, because those two fields together would identify a business at this cohort size. Industry-level figures appear in Table 2, and only where a group has five or more members. Outcome is one of: completed · refunded at week 3 · deferred · dropped out.

Table 2 · Cohort summary · Due [DATE + 30]
MeasureCohort 1Notes
Baselines recorded
Completed all 90 days
Refunded at week 3
Deferred to next cohort
Dropped out without refund
Median delta
Moved 6+ points
Score guarantee triggered
Owner gate attendance
Delegate session attendance
Had a viable 2IC at start
Delta, with 2IC vs without

The last two rows test something we've asserted but not measured: that having a capable second-in-command changes the outcome, not just the owner's hours. If it turns out not to, that gets published and the offer changes.

Table 3 · Who we turned down · Due [DATE + 30]
Reason declinedCountBy lane
Score already 17+
No 2IC, unwilling to be the delegate
Data lives on paper
Wrong stage — too early or too large
Right fit, wrong quarter
Applications received
Declined

Lanes are how people reached us: crisis (score 8 or under, direct booking), referral, or standard. Rejection rates will differ by lane and the difference is worth knowing publicly. If we declined nobody, this table says so.

Table 4 · Accepted vs declined at baseline · Due [DATE + 30]
Baseline measureAcceptedDeclined
n
Median score
Range
Most common weakest section
Had a viable 2IC

This table exists to answer a question nobody asks out loud: were the results good because the programme worked, or because we selected businesses that were already going to improve? You can't fully answer that without a control group we don't have — but you can see the starting positions of both groups, which is more than most published results give you.

Case study 01Named, with permission — pending cohort 1
Case study 02Named, with permission — pending cohort 1
Case study 03Named, with permission — pending cohort 1
/03What exists today

Three things. Each is labelled with what it does and doesn't tell you.

Category 01Commercial outcomes

One named client, publicly verifiable — from the framework's earlier life

Vivek Iyyani, coached in 2018. He wrote, on his own LinkedIn profile: that the programme was “very well systemized with specific steps and stages throughout the journey,” and that he made a “300% return on my full investment.”

What it tells you: the framework produced a result for at least one person, in his words, publicly attributed, and you can go and read it yourself.

What it doesn't: it's from 2018, it was one-to-one coaching rather than this programme, and the 300% is his own figure — he calculated it, not us. It is evidence about the framework and how we work. It is not evidence about the Instruments Install.

Public LinkedIn recommendation, 11 January 2018 · used with permission[CONFIRM]
Category 02System clarity

Owner-reported clarity of positioning, rules and ownership after install.

[NO EVIDENCE YET]Source: post-install debriefs, cohort 1
Category 03Founder transformation

Hours reclaimed, decisions no longer routed to the owner, confidence to step away.

[NO EVIDENCE YET]Source: 90-day follow-up, cohort 1
Diagnostic findings across the first businesses to run it
[PENDING — 5–10 diagnostics, due before the first webinar]

What it will tell you: where businesses of this size actually score, and which section is weakest most often. That's a real finding and it's ours.

What it won't: anything about whether the programme changes the score. A baseline is not an outcome.

The research underneath the argument

Published benchmarks on month-end close timing, documented close checklists, owner-dependency valuation multiples and AI adoption rates — each cited with its source and its limitations on the pages where it appears, including where the source is an interested party.

What it tells you: the problem is real and measurable. What it doesn't: that our answer to it works.

/04What we can't prove yet
That the Instruments Install produces the outcome it's designed to produce

No cohort has completed. No before-and-after score exists. Every claim about what 90 days does is currently a hypothesis derived from why other approaches fail — which is a legitimate basis for a design and not a substitute for evidence. The founders cohort is priced lower than the next one precisely because it produces this. That's the trade, stated plainly rather than framed as generosity.

That a score improvement leads to a business improvement

We measure whether the operating system becomes visible and documented. We are not measuring revenue, profit or valuation, and we won't claim a link we haven't tested. It's plausible that visibility leads to better decisions. Plausible is not proven, and this page won't pretend otherwise.

That the results, when they come, will be good

They might not be. The tables above are the same tables whether the numbers are strong or weak, which is the entire point of publishing them before the data exists.

If these tables are still empty after their due date, that is itself a result — and you should read it as one.

/05How to check us

Four things you can verify without taking our word for anything.

01
Score it yourself

The twelve questions and the full scoring rubric are public — 0, 1 or 2 against a written definition per question. Run it on your own business, or on ours. Run the diagnostic

02
Read the 2018 recommendation

It's on Vivek Iyyani's public LinkedIn profile, dated, in his words. We didn't commission it and we can't edit it.

03
Bring your own accountant

If you're a client, you're welcome to have your accountant present at the day-90 scoring. We've never had a reason to say no.

04
Check the dates

This page was published in August 2026. Compare what it promised then against what appears here later. That comparison is the most useful thing on this page.

Reference-call policy
01

References are offered only after a fit call — not before, not on demand.

02

References are cohort clients who opted in, named with permission.

03

On request, we will also connect you with someone who left the program.

/06Publication schedule
August 2026This standard published, before any client data existsDone
[DATE]Diagnostic findings from the first 5–10 businessesDue
[DATE]Cohort 1 baselines recorded and lockedScheduled
[DATE]Cohort 1 day-90 scoringScheduled
[DATE + 30]Tables 1–4 published, countersigned · webinar recording released the same dayScheduled
Every cohort afterSame four tables, same standard, within 30 days of closeOngoing
Corrections log

No corrections issued. Any correction will be dated and appear here with the original figure visible beside it.

/07Seven vendor questions

Ask any vendor these seven questions — us included. Question six is pinned open because it is the one vendors dodge.

The documented operating system — every checklist, map, and file — plus your scoreline export. In writing.

See the tables above. Per-client deltas, a cohort summary, and grouped figures only where the group has five or more members — pre-committed before cohort 1 completes.

Outcome is recorded per client in Table 1: completed, refunded at week 3, deferred, or dropped out. Refund exits are counted separately, never hidden inside "dropped".

They publish. Table 2 counts refunds and deferrals in the open, and Table 3 counts the people we turned down — empty today, committed to fill.

The founder. Capacity is stated as founder-bandwidth fact, not scarcity marketing.

If I stop paying, do I keep the documented operating system?” — Yes.

Yes — on request, after a fit call. Departures are references too.

The fastest way to fill this page: be cohort 1.

Pre-registered before data collection. Every client reported. Minimum cell size 5. Independently countersigned.