The Scaling Experts | Small Business Growth O/S

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Grow Your Company at 50%+ Annually Long-term
AirTight Management is the World’s Best Leadership Operating System for Growth Companies

We Provide Everything Needed to Scale. Saving You Years.
Running a Business is Easy. Growing a Business is Hard!

 
We Have Decades of Experience Helping Companies Scale
AirTight is Installed at Over 200 companies

When you need the experience to scale, we are the answer. We become partners and can invest our time in your company at highly discounted rates for equity. This means your ROI is very high. We define scaling as over 25% compound annual growth rate (CAGR).

No one else anywhere has the tools we have accumulated and developed since 2011 to help companies grow faster and more smoothly. With predictable results and less stress. These are curated from over 1,000 books and hundreds of experts.

Statistically, only 1 in 400 companies will ever reach $10M in sales. And 1 in 6,300 will reach $100 million in sales.

Great companies are built by excellent strategy, with thoughtful and disciplined execution. This is accomplished through structured leadership and management systems. Systemization of our Business.

Every company is different, and we must have a call to understand where you are today and recommend a program.

OUR PROMISE TO CLIENTS WHO ELECT OUR GOLD PROGRAM:

We can double your sales, double your growth rate and/or double your P/E ratio (2 X 2 X 2 = 8) to increase your valuation by six times or more in 2-3 years. 

A company that grows at 100% for five years becomes worth 32X more!  Add a higher P/E and this can be 64X or more.

 


The result of this program over 6 months can often mean tens of millions higher valuations within two years and:

   a) Less dilution for owners plus much higer stock price
   b) Raising capital is easier, opening many more sources
   c) More market share faster to establish indistry dominace
   d) Attracting and keeping top people becomes easier

Together these create a self-fullfilling prophecy of s

*Not all companies are eligible. AirTight Management is for the top 10% of companies that have high differentiation and protectability. 


Past clients include companies where we have helped create many billions in value like:

OUR GOLD PROGRAM

This is best for companies with 7 to 25 employees that have an established product-market fit with sales of $500K to $2M per year. See the Platinum program here if your company is larger.

As a growth partner, we will find and eliminate growth limiters and align your management team, language, culture, and models while also expanding your vision and adding many tools, systems, and rare experience. 

The AirTight Management Gold program includes: 

  1.  Analysis to determine key growth limiters. Normally completed in 7-10 days.
  2. Development of an enhanced growth plan to at least triple, and ideally 8X, the company’s value in two to three years. This includes enhancing your current strategic plan that may add markets, products, or more.
  3. Implementation of this plan and installation of the proper infrastructure and processes to scale that include:

         a) Training for all managers to create a higher performance culture and teams

         b) One-on-one coaching to help managers implement proven best practices

         c) Licensed intellectual property without any royalties or additional fees

        d) Project management 

        e) Group coaching calls for team and/or participation in staff meetings as appropriate

        f) Fill other holes in the team’s expertise as needed to improve operations, financial results and growth of all staff and inject more innovation and creativity

4. Implementation of System #2 Performance Accountability and Merit System (PAMS) to improve culture, morale, performance, and perfect team communications to improve team dynamics, trust, and mutual support. Typically done during weeks 2 to 8, with ongoing practice and coaching after.

5. Implementation of a corporate dashboard and individual department dashboards as appropriate for marketing, sales, and operations. Typically done during weeks 8 to 16, with ongoing coaching and tuning to perfection. 

The Gold Program includes a comprehensive management team training program (Learning & Development), which is always required to scale so you can promote from within. And is also requested by 75% of employees and a frequent reason for leaving their job when training is not available. 

To scale at 25%+ CAGR, you need to constantly uplevel your team, processes, and systems to prevent dilution of knowledge and constant firefighting. This is working “on” the business, “ahead of the curve,” and “right seats on the bus.”. 

Every company is different, but every company also needs the same things to enable growth.

Our CEO & Founder, Bob Norton, is a World-class Expert in Scaling & Growth and a Serial Entrepreneur with 4 Exits over $1 billion. And oversees every engagement.

CEO since 1989, Professional Management Consultant Coach and Adviser since 2002. Author, Speaker, and Thought Leader in scaling, entrepreneurship, management science, leadership, and innovation. Board member since 1986. As an ex-CTO and VP of Engineering, he can also lead digital transformation and AI initiatives to create a more sustainable competitive advantage (SCA).

Mr. Norton has trained and coached thousands of CEOs & entrepreneurs from over 40 countries to launch and scale businesses. And to grow fast, as he did his ventures, generating over $1 billion in exits for his investors at an average 25X ROI. He is the creator of AirTight Management, The CEO Boot Camp, and Entrepreneurship University, which provides six certifications for managers and CEOs. 

LinkedIn: https://dev.linkedin.com/in/robertjnorton/

As a CEO for over 25 years, Mr. Norton has the “Been There, Done That” experience to guide any CEO, executive, or business to successful growth and to scale at 25% to 100%+ CAGR. He has “engineered entrepreneurial success” by creating AirTight Management by combining his engineering and leadership skills into repeatable systems that can be dropped into any company with training to execute with excellence. 

We can turn your company into a market leader.
AirTight Management's implementation process
All are integrated with shared language, philosophy and principles. We repeat this cycle every 6-8 weeks to add each system without disrupting the existing business. No one else has our framework, systems, IP and video training library.

We provide everything needed to scale. And to make needed cultural changes stick that create a high-performance, market-leading company and culture.

Video Testimonials From Clients

These testimonials show the depth and breath of our experience helping companies of all sizes get to their next level of development, no matter what they need. We take 7-figure companies to 8-figures, and 8-figure companies to 9-figures.

Are you ready for the big time? To scale at 25%, 50% or 100%+ CAGR? CEOs Get a Free Assessment.

Growth and Scaling

Running a business is easy!
Growing a business is not!

Call to get industry-specific case studies.

Or Call (619) SCALE06, (619) 722-5306 from 9am to 6pm CT.

This is not a sales call but an assessment of your company’s ability to scale and eligibility for our $10 million guarantee. In any event, we will guide you towards greater success. We will study your website and other materials in advance.

Bob Norton, CEO and Creator of AirTight Management and The CEO Boot Camp
Bob Norton, Our Founder and CEO oversees all engagements. Mr. Norton founded and sold four companies for over $1 billion total, returning a 25X ROI to investors. He has helped hundreds of companies as a trusted adviser, fractional CEO/COO and Board of Director member. He also created The CEO Boot Camp and has trained thousands of CEOs from over 45 countries.
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