— Denver, Colorado —

The Standard Workshop™ — Live

Two days in a small room with your own Score on the table and your number two beside you. Your business read against the published Standard, domain by domain. Your verdict. Your three most expensive gaps, and what closing them takes. Written down before you leave.

Dates
December 8–9, 2026
Location
Denver
The room
Small. Founder + number two.
Get Your Seat — $495 Your number two comes free. Venue and hotel block sent on booking.
✓ Your Score, read live against the gates ✓ Your verdict, in writing ✓ Your three gaps and their price
Sixteen founder seats. Every seat includes a free Standard Session before Denver.
Why this room exists

You’ve read the books.
Nothing changed.

Not because you didn’t understand them. Because no book hands you a standard — a written definition of what “built right” means, with a gate on each part that you either pass or you don’t. We published ours. These two days are your business read against it, out loud, with the person who runs things when you’re not there hearing the same verdict you do.

You leave knowing what’s actually wrong, what it’s costing, and what to fix first — whether or not you ever work with us.

What you leave with

Nothing to write up afterward.
It’s done in the room.

Your verdict

Which of the eleven domains your business is at standard on and which it isn’t, by your own answers, read against the published gates. On paper, with the date.

Your four root causes, ranked

Which of the four are open in your business and which one is generating most of what you’re living with.

Your three most expensive gaps

Not the three lowest scores — the three that cost the most to leave open, weighted by what the failure record says kills businesses like yours.

Your Cash Floor number

Not “three to six months.” Your number, sized to your volatility, fixed costs and season.

What closing each gap takes

The order, the owner, and the first move on each of the three — written with your number two, so it survives the drive home.

The Standard, in your hands

The published elements and gates, printed, with your marks on them. The instrument you re-run yourself each quarter.

The two days

Day one you get the verdict.
Day two you price the gaps.

Day One · December 8
The verdict
  • The four root causes — and why none of them is you
  • Your Score, read live against the published gates
  • Which domains are at standard, and which aren’t — on paper
  • The Cash Floor exercise — your number, not a benchmark
  • Small tables, founder and number two, an architect at each
Day Two · December 9
The gaps
  • Your three most expensive gaps — and what each one is costing now
  • Order of operations: why sequence decides outcome
  • Founder dependency: what the gaps add up to
  • What closing each gap takes — written, owned, dated
  • Where this goes: sell it, scale it, step back, keep it

What this workshop is not: it isn’t installation. Two days can’t install a standard into a business, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you a weekend. This is the verdict and the price of the gaps, done properly — so that whatever you do next, you do it knowing.

Who’s in the room

A small room.
Founders and their number twos.

You’re not watching a keynote. Most of the two days is spent on your own business, at a table with the person who runs it when you’re not there, with an architect working the room. The instrument is the same for everyone. What comes out of it is yours alone — and this time two of you heard it.

The Standard journey map — the eleven domains and twelve elements laid out from Stabilize through Standardize to Strategize, with the Freedom Point and the Legacy Point marked.
The map on the table. Every founder leaves with this, marked up against their own Score — which of the twelve they meet, which they don’t, and where the next move is.

You’ve probably been burned before. We know what you’d say about the last one — he told me what I already knew, we spent six months on mindset, nothing actually changed.

Nobody delivers The Standard who hasn’t owned a business.

Not as a credential — as a requirement. Someone who has never made payroll out of their own account, never watched a quarter go sideways, never had to let go of something they built by hand, cannot understand what they’re asking you to do. That credibility can’t be trained. It has to be lived.

Is this you

This room is for you if…

1
You have a real business — revenue, a team, clients — and it still can’t run without you.
2
The problems you fixed last year came back this year wearing different clothes.
3
You’ve read the books and hired the help, and the needle hasn’t moved.
4
You don’t need more ideas. You need to know which one to do first.
5
There is someone in the business you’d bring — and you’d want them to hear the verdict with you.

It’s not for you if you’re looking for someone to install it for you over two days. That isn’t what two days can do, and we won’t pretend otherwise.

Your seat

One price.
Your number two comes with you.

Founder + number two
The Standard Workshop — Live
$495
Two seats. One business. One verdict.
  • A free Standard Session before Denver — your Score read, your verdict drafted
  • Two full days, December 8–9, at a table with an architect
  • Your verdict against the published gates, in writing
  • Your three most expensive gaps and what closing each takes
  • Your Cash Floor number
  • The Standard, printed, with your marks on it
  • Breakfast, lunch and coffee both days
Get Your Seat — $495

Sixteen founder seats. The room stays small because the verdict is delivered at the table, not from the stage — and because two people from one business hearing it together is the point.

The guarantee: if you leave day one without a clear verdict on your business in writing, tell us before day two starts and we’ll refund your seat in full.

Two days.
Then you’ll both know.

December 8–9 in Denver. Sixteen founders and their number twos. You leave with your verdict, your three gaps and their price, and what closing them takes — written down.

Get Your Seat — $495

Not sure the room is right? Book the free Standard Session first — it’s included in the seat anyway.