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John Tighe

Hi, I'm John.

Build your business to give you the life you want. Don't live your life to build your business.

I help self-employed business owners see their businesses clearly, find what's stuck, and build a system that serves their life. Not the other way around.

I don't just teach you the framework. I show you how to use it on your business.

You don't need another course. You don't need more theory. You need someone to sit across the table from you, figuratively or literally, and help you read your own numbers. Where is your pipeline stuck? What's the real constraint? Is the boundary holding?

That's what this is. Not a coaching call or a mastermind group. A guided diagnostic with your real data, so you learn to see the system clearly and run it yourself.

The Process

Five steps. Every engagement follows the same sequence.

The framework is the same whether you're a contractor or a consultant. The application is yours.

1

Map the pipeline

We walk through your five stages with real numbers. Not estimates. Not goals. What's actually happening right now. Your version of Attention → Interest → Offer → Fulfillment → Revenue, in your language, with your data.

2

Build your control panel

The one-page instrument that tells you, in five minutes, where your business stands. Custom to your pipeline, your metrics, your language. Five bands and a boundary footer. Not a sixty-metric dashboard. The minimum set that gives you control.

3

Find the limiter

One constraint is slowing everything else down. We identify it (demand, conversion, or capacity) using your control panel, not a template. The constraint you feel is often not the constraint the numbers reveal.

4

Set the boundary

The hours the business operates inside. Not a goal. Not a suggestion. A structural limit. Everything else adapts to fit. We define the number and build the system around it.

5

Work the loop

Identify the constraint. Improve it. Stabilize. Measure. Repeat. One cycle at a time. This is where the system becomes self-sustaining. You learn to read the instruments and adjust without needing anyone to tell you what to fix.

What Changes

Four shifts. Each one measurable.

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Visibility

You stop guessing whether the business is healthy. You know where it stands, in five minutes, every week.

🎯

Direction

Instead of reacting to whatever feels urgent, you focus on the one constraint that's actually slowing everything down.

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Rhythm

Five minutes a day, twenty minutes a week. Monday morning stops being something you dread.

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Margin

You learn the difference between revenue and profit. Then you build the business around what actually reaches your life.

Engagement Options

Two ways to work together.

Both follow the same framework. The difference is whether you need a map or a guide.

Focused

Single Engagement

You're stuck and you need to see the path.

We map your pipeline, build the control panel, identify the constraint, and create a thirty-day action plan. You leave with a system and a next step.

This is for the business owner who needs clarity, not hand-holding. One engagement. One system. One direction.

You walk away with

Pipeline map with your real numbers

Working control panel, custom-built

Diagnosed constraint with evidence

Thirty-day action plan

Weekly review script

Ongoing

Ongoing Partnership

The constraint moves. The system evolves. You want a thinking partner.

Monthly calls. Accountability. Someone who knows your numbers, challenges your assumptions, and helps you hold the boundary when the business pushes back.

This is for the business owner who has the system and wants someone in their corner. Not to tell them what to do, but to keep the instruments honest.

Each month includes

Review of your control panel numbers

Constraint re-diagnosis as it shifts

Updated thirty-day plan

Boundary accountability

Async support between calls

Go Deeper

When you want the system built, not just designed.

Some clients want to move from paper and spreadsheets to live instruments. Others need custom systems for operations that have outgrown their current tools.

Build the Back Office

Custom Systems

Operations, workflow, member management, reporting. Built around how your organization actually works. Twenty-five years of systems building, from industrial process control to nonprofit platforms. The person who designs the system is the person who builds it.

Learn about custom systems →
Who This Is For

Self-employed business owners and small teams.

Contractors, consultants, designers, therapists, coaches, planners, and every skilled professional who runs a real business and wants to run it better.

You don't need the book or the MasterClass first. You need a business that's working hard and a life that's not working the way you planned.

Limited availability.

I take a limited number of consulting clients at a time. Not as a marketing tactic. The work requires real attention and I won't do it at scale.

Let's talk.

A conversation. No pitch. Just enough to understand where your business is, what feels stuck, and whether this is the right fit.