Business Therapy Blueprint
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What is Business Therapy Blueprint?
Two days of strategy and operations work for a founder-led business. Steph Hamill leads the strategy, Jane de Vos leads the operations, and both of us are in the room for both days. You leave with a strategic blueprint, an operational blueprint and a 90-day roadmap.
Do you both really come for the full two days?
Yes. Both of us, both days. That's the whole point: you get strategy and operations worked out together in real time, not in separate meetings that lose context. We're in the room with you until the blueprint is complete.
What kind of businesses do you work with?
Founder-led, 2 to 25 people, turning over £250k or more. Past product-market fit and hitting the pain of scaling. The kind of business where the founder knows something's broken but can't see exactly what. The industry doesn't matter.
What if we're not ready for this?
We'll tell you. The first call is there to work out whether this is the right fit. If you're pre-revenue or need something different, we'll say so. We don't take money for work that won't help.
We've had consultants before and nothing changed. Why would this?
Usually because someone handed you a plan you didn't build, with nobody's name on the actions. This one is built with you in the room, and every action leaves with an owner and a date. We can't make you do it. We can make it very hard to ignore.
Why two days, and not a few months?
Because the thing stopping you is time and distance, and a long project gives you neither. Two days out of the business, with nothing else in the room, is the clear, uninterrupted time the problem has been taking from you.
What if what you find is worse than I think?
Then you'll know, which beats suspecting. And you'll have a plan for it before we leave.
Why voice notes?
Because talking is closer to thinking. You'll tell us things in a voice note that would never survive being typed into a form, and those are usually the things that matter.
What do we need to prepare?
The intake: voice notes answering our questions, your financials, your team structure and an audit of your systems. The more honest and complete you are, the better your blueprint will be.
What do we leave with?
A strategic blueprint, an operational blueprint and a 90-day roadmap, all built with you in the room. Everything that's in it.
How is this different from hiring a consultant?
Consultants usually give you a report and leave. We build it with you: a strategic blueprint, an operational blueprint and a 90-day roadmap, made in the room. Nothing gets lost in translation, because we build it together.
What happens after we get our blueprint?
You choose. Take it and run it yourselves, or ask us to help you deliver it, which we scope as its own project. No pressure either way. We check in at 30 days regardless.
Can you come to us?
Yes. On site, we both come to you and travel is added. By video, it's the same depth and the same blueprint, across two days.
What if I only need strategy, or only operations?
Tell us on the call. Most businesses have problems on both sides, which is why we do this together. If you really do only need one of us, we'll say so.
What does it cost?
We don't publish prices. It's a fixed price for a written scope, agreed before any work starts.
Do you promise results?
No. Nobody honestly can. You get a plan you can run, and the two people who built it with you.
Is it a course?
No. Nobody's teaching you anything. We do the work with you, on your business.
Is it therapy?
No. It's a figure of speech, for the honest conversation most founders never get to have about their business. It's planning, not counselling.
Who's behind it?
Steph Hamill and Jane de Vos. Business Therapy Blueprint is part of HAM Agency (Ham Agency Ltd, company number 11265213), which has traded since 2018. Who we are.