The 30-Day Scaling Roadmap

Can your business run without you for two weeks?

If not, would you like it to?

In 30 days, with six hours of your time, I’ll build the operating model for your business that fixes that. Same one that scaled a financial services business from 9 to 50 team, freed the founder for a 3-month holiday, and the same one that grew a development fund to $25M.

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Client wins
9 → 50team scaledrevenue in 4 years1.2Mclient tasks automated in 20253-monthholiday for a founder in 2024$350K/moupsells from one lead magnet9 → 50team scaledrevenue in 4 years1.2Mclient tasks automated in 20253-monthholiday for a founder in 2024$350K/moupsells from one lead magnet
The problem

What’s keeping you stuck.

The gap between $3 to $5M and $10M usually isn’t effort. Founders stuck here work harder than almost everyone they know. It’s the operating model. The business still leans on you to work it all out, and while it lives in your head, the business survives. Thriving is a different game.

01

The bad hire

The role looked obvious in the moment. It almost always does. Is it the right move though?

Hiring the wrong person can cost you 1.5x their annual salary. For a $100K role, that’s $150K of downside if you get it wrong. You will get it wrong at some point and that’s why firing fast is so important. What’s more important than hiring the right person is knowing which role to hire for.

The Scalable Unit Method shows you which seat to fill next, when, and whether it improves the profit over the next 18 months.

02

The cashflow tightening

At your size, cashflow pressures can feel like death from a thousand cuts.

You do the work but aren’t getting paid for 30 days, or 60 days. You’ve hired more people but didn’t realise they’ll cost you a cumulative $6K before they start making you money. A software renewal you forgot about just went through; $5K out of the bank. By the time your account feels it, the decisions that caused it were made months ago.

Your Money Printer Model shows you the cash 18 months out. You can make calls knowing what the bank account will look like. Imagine that.

03

The plateau ahead

You’re at $2M or $4M, growth’s flatter than last year, the wheels are spinning.

You’ve been in business long enough to know that what got you here is not the thing that gets you past this point. The operating model that gets a services business to $5M tends not to get it to $10M. The next wall usually hits between $7M and $12M.

The 3-Year Cracking Game Plan helps you plan ahead. What you’re trying to achieve, and what has to change for you to win sustainably at that level.

04

Killing your retirement fund

A services business that runs through the founder sells at 3x to 5x EBITDA. The same business running without the founder gets the highest multiple on offer.

On $1M EBITDA, that’s the difference between a $2M payday and a $5M payday. Same business, different operating model.

The Scalable Unit Method lets you scalably grow whilst removing the dependency on you at each step.

Who this is for

Is this right for your business?

Under $2M? Don’t do this yet. The Scaling Roadmap is built for a business that already has product-market fit and a team of more than 12. If you’ve got both, let’s talk.

A fit if
  • You’re between $2M-$5M and want to get to $10M.
  • The business still runs through you. The big calls ‘wait’ for you, and a real holiday means a phone that doesn’t stop.
  • You’re growing, but the extra revenue keeps turning into more work and more stress instead of more profit in your pocket.
  • You’d back yourself to act on a straight answer once you had one.
Not a fit if
  • You want me to run the business for you. I build the model. You and your team run it.
  • Six hours across 30 days isn’t a fit for your diary right now.
  • You’re after a quick hack rather than the operating model underneath the business.
Results from some epic businesses
Pivot Wealth

Scaling the team without sacrificing the quality of their advice.

9 → 50
team scaled
1.2M
tasks automated in 2025
The Wise Group
I have never seen my business this clearly.
— Vitaldi Cooray, CEO, The Wise Group
< 3 days
entire client journey mapped
10
hires planned using your Money Printer Model
SMA

A money education app for those not ready for financial advice.

5,000+
members
$2M+
upsells driven
Rev IQ

From idea to product in 90 days.

< 30 days
to first paid users
1M+
social impressions pre-launch
What you walk out with

By day 30, three things change.

01

You can see the next 18 months.

What cash you’ve got left each month, how much you can invest in AI and tech, which hires you’ll be making and when.

02

You know where the opportunities are and which to focus on.

Leads, sales, delivery, or tech. You’ll know which projects have the greatest return on your time and which can wait.

03

You can start planning the holiday.

Thirty days of changing how the business runs. You’re getting more from what you’ve got. A date for time off becomes possible.

How it works

Couldn’t be easier.

About six hours over 30 days. I’m in every meeting and build everything myself.

  1. Start
    01
    Book your spot
  2. Day 1
    02
    Clarify
  3. Week 2
    03
    Strategy
  4. Day 30
    04
    Book Your Holiday
Who you’ll work with

Who you’re working with

Tim Lea
Tim Lea
Founder & partner · vlv·
  • 6 boards across financial services, e-commerce, digital marketing.
  • Scaled Pivot Wealth from 9 staff to 50+. Australia’s most-awarded financial advice business.
  • AFR Fast 100. Five-times revenue multiple inside two years. Founder took a three-month holiday on the way through.
  • Built proprietary Automations & AI Tools. 1.5M+ tasks automated, $22M+ in client revenue serviced.
  • Co-founded and exited Smart Money Accelerator in 36 Months
What you get

Everything you keep on day 30.

Not a powerpoint slide deck. A written plan, a working model, all built inside your business, all yours to keep forever.

01
The Paint-By-Numbers Scaling Guide
Stuck guessing the next 18 months?
$15,000
02
Your Money Printer Model
Hiring on instinct alone, hoping the cash works?
$10,000
03
The 3-Year Cracking Game Plan
No clear view of what you are aiming for?
$12,000
Plus three bonuses
B1
The Draft Day Vault
Want to reduce the risks of a mis-hire?
$24,500
B2
The Six-Figure Tech Stack Perks*
Paying retail on the same stack everyone else gets at 10c on the dollar?
$50,000
B3
The 24-Month Advisory Credit
Six months in, something changes and you want a sanity check?
$11,000
Total value
$122,500

* These perks are subject to application and will not be available to all businesses.

Your investment

$122,500 of value. Your Investment;

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The 30-day guarantee

If on Day 30 you can’t look at the Money Printer Model and tell me exactly who your next hire is, what your bank balance is projected to do in three months, and how much it really costs to increase your capacity, you can keep the $122,500 of tools, resources and value-add, plus I’ll give you your entire investment back. Everything I built for you is yours to keep.

Conditions: Complete onboarding within 48 hours of kick-off, show up to all three scheduled meetings, and answer data requests within 48 hours. Hold up those three and the 30 days is on me.

Capacity
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Last updated: 30 May 2026

Why I cap it at five a month.

I run no more than five Scaling Roadmaps per month. I’m the one in every meeting and the one building everything. That’s the constraint that keeps the work good. If the calendar’s full, you wait until next month.

FAQ

Questions:

Consulting work is typically a diagnosis with a spreadsheet. You pay for the slides. The slides describe the problem, maybe sketch a solution, and you're left to build it yourself.

What comes out of this engagement is three working tools built on your numbers: a cashflow model you can run simulations in, a hiring sequence mapped to when the cash supports it, and a 3-year gameplan. If the thing I build doesn't do what the guarantee says by day 30, your money comes back.

The Money Printer Model alone tends to pay for itself the first time you use it to make a hiring decision — or to avoid a bad one. From what I've seen, a mis-hire at the $100K salary range costs roughly 1.5 times the salary to fix. One avoidance is $150K saved. The model costs $10K on its own. The Scaling Roadmap costs $6K.

Beyond that: clear cashflow means your next 18 months of investment decisions can be made KNOWING what your cashflow is really looking like.

Four meetings across 30 days: the Kick-Off (15 minutes) to lock in the other meetings and I'll tell you what I need, the Clarify session (60 minutes) to confirm my understanding of all the stuff you sent me, the Strategy Session (90 minutes) we walk through the model together + complete the remaining pieces, and the final handover meeting.

The document upload at the start takes an afternoon and if you have a capable 2IC, they can do this for you. Outside those meetings, the work is mine. If six hours genuinely won't fit the next 30 days, it makes sense to wait. There's no pressure to start now.

The model is industry-agnostic at its core. The underlying unit economics are the same whether you're running a financial advice business, an accounting practice, a law business, an MSP, or a marketing agency. The inputs change. The logic doesn't.

I've built versions of this across all of those and a handful of others. If you're a $2M to $5M founder-led services business, the model fits. If you're not sure, the application takes ten minutes and I'll tell you within 48 hours whether it's a go.

Because these aren't reports. The Money Printer Model is a spreadsheet you update as the business changes. The Scaling Unit is something that helps you and your team understand how to scale operations and delivery. The 3-Year Game Plan is what everything else is based on - we can't do anything else unless we know what the goal is.

From what I've seen, the tools that get used from this are the ones that give you answers to questions about money, team, timing and vision.

There are two. The 30-Day Clarity Promise: by day 30, you'll know exactly how many people you can hire and when, where your cashflow gets tight across the next 18 months, and which constraint is holding you back. If any one of those isn't clear by day 30, your full investment comes back and everything I built for you is yours to keep.

The second guarantee covers the Money Printer Model specifically. If it isn't giving you month-by-month projections for your next hire by day 30, I keep working at no additional cost until it does. Conditions: you must have completed your onboarding within 48 hours of the kick-off, shown up to all three meetings, and respond to data requests within 48 hours.

I grew a financial services business from 9 team to 50. Revenue went 5x. AFR Fast 100. The founder took a three-month holiday. I've sat on six boards. I've built tonnes of AI and automations which automated 1.2 million client tasks in 2025 alone. I co-founded and exited Smart Money Accelerator to Pivot Wealth in 2026.

The operating model I'm building for you is the one I've built inside businesses I've lived in over the last 5 years.

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