about c2
We were built by a founder who got tired of being the bottleneck.
C2 Consultancy exists because the standard advice (work harder, hire faster, push through) keeps producing the same result: bigger businesses with smaller lives. We help founders build the other thing.
Origin
I used to work 70-hour weeks across four businesses and call it success. I missed school plays. I cancelled social plans. I'd work on family holidays. I told myself it was temporary.It wasn't.
Until I stopped trying to be in everything and started building a business that worked without me.
Today, those four businesses run without my daily involvement. I travel with my family. I work when I choose. Not because I got lucky or hired a brilliant team. Because I rebuilt the structure deliberately, pillar by pillar.
That's what I now do for other founders.
what we believe
The five things we keep coming back to.
I used to work 70-hour weeks across four businesses and call it success. I missed school plays. I cancelled social plans. I'd work on family holidays. I told myself it was temporary.It wasn't.
Until I stopped trying to be in everything and started building a business that worked without me.
Today, those four businesses run without my daily involvement. I travel with my family. I work when I choose. Not because I got lucky or hired a brilliant team. Because I rebuilt the structure deliberately, pillar by pillar.
01
A business that needs you in it every day isn't an asset. It's a job with extra stress.
02
If getting bigger is making your life worse, something has been built wrong.
03
Effort gets you started. Structure is what gets you out.
04
There is no universal answer. What freedom looks like for you is different from everyone else, and the work should reflect that.
05
Bigger isn't better. A business that works for your life, whatever that looks like, is the point.
06
The goal was never to build a business that runs you. It was always supposed to be the other way around.
FAQ's
Questions founders ask before they apply.
Where to next
Two paths in. Pick the one that fits.
Systems & Scale · £250k–£5M
We build it with you.
We come in, assess what's broken, and build it properly. Not a plan you implement yourself. Actual systems, installed and running.
systems and scaleFounder Advisory · £1M–£10M+
Capped at 5. By application.
Private, capped, and ruthlessly focused. This is strategic partnership, not coaching. Application only, and not everyone is accepted.
Founder Advisory