AGF works with owner-led, family-run and small-to-mid-market US firms that need real operating discipline installed, weekly cadence, financial visibility, function-level tightening. No junior army. No canned frameworks. Senior consultants, plain language, and habits that outlast the engagement.
Pick the piece you need or sequence them through a 60-day engagement. Every piece is built to outlive the consultant who installed it.
We install the weekly 1:1 + monthly review cadence on our partner platform HeyRamp - it keeps owners and managers running structured check-ins without adding to anyone's workload. Agendas, action capture, accountability, and a paper trail that does not require chasing.
Two-to-three week diagnostic across the operating functions, sales, ops, finance, people. Plain-English report covering what is actually broken, what is not, and what should be fixed first. No fluff, no upsell at the end.
Monthly retained coaching for the owner or owner-operator. A senior outside voice on the calls you cannot make alone, hiring, firing, partner disputes, succession, growth choices. Confidential, direct, no notes published.
Set up the monthly P&L, cash flow and KPI dashboard a small-to-mid-market business actually uses. Not an accounting overhaul, just the one-page view of the numbers that drive decisions, refreshed every month without drama.
Operational and governance support for family-run businesses going through a generational transition, a buyout, or a key-person exit. Discretion is the default and the work is paced to fit the family conversation, not the consulting calendar.
Most clients start with a diagnostic. From there it is either a 60-90 day install or a monthly retainer, whichever matches what you actually need.
Fixed-fee diagnostic across the operating functions. Ends with a plain-English report and a recommendation, which may be that you do not need a long engagement at all.
Install the cadence, the financial visibility, and tighten one or two functions. By day 90 the operating habit is running on its own and we step out.
Monthly retainer for owners and owner-operators who want a senior outside voice on call, no minimum term, cancel any month.
Each step has a clear purpose. By the end your team owns the cadence and the numbers, with AGF on call when you actually need us.
Two-to-three weeks across the operating functions. We talk to the owner, the leadership team, and the people who actually run the work. Numbers, not opinions.
Plain-English report. What is broken, what is fine, what to fix first. A clear scope, fee and timeline for the install, or an honest "you don't need us right now."
60-90 days installing the cadence, the financial view, and tightening one or two functions. Weekly check-ins. Visible progress. No off-site theatre.
Capability handed back. The operating habit runs without us. You keep the platform, the templates and the cadence, we are on call when something genuinely needs senior eyes.
Our work is calibrated to businesses where the owner still calls the shots and decisions are made fast. Three client shapes show up most often.
Founders and owner-operators running $2M-$30M businesses. Past the start-up scramble, now needing operating discipline before the next growth step. Trades, services firms, distributors, light manufacturing.
Second-, third- and fourth-generation family businesses navigating succession, governance, generational transition or a partner buyout. Discretion is the default; the family conversation comes first.
$30M-$150M services and operating businesses where the owner wants senior outside thinking without the overhead of a Big Four engagement. Healthcare practices, professional services, multi-site operators.
The questions we get on the first call. Direct answers. If something is not covered, the contact form is the fastest route to a real reply.
Owner-led, family-run and small-to-mid-market US businesses, typically $2M to $150M in revenue. Most clients are services firms, trades and contractors, distributors, light manufacturing, healthcare practices and family-run operating companies. We work with the owner, the operating leader, or both.
AGF is service-area only, we cover the United States nationwide and do not run a physical office. Most work is remote: video calls, shared docs, weekly cadence on our partner platform. We travel on-site for the diagnostic days and for specific moments in the engagement where being in the room matters.
Three things. We are senior-only, the consultant who scopes the work delivers the work, no junior army behind us. We refuse to sell canned frameworks, we diagnose first and recommend what your business actually needs, which is sometimes less than you asked for. And we leave operating habits behind, not slide decks, your team should be able to run the cadence after we step out.
Most engagements start with a two-to-three-week diagnostic at a fixed fee, after which we scope the work. A typical operating-discipline install runs 60 to 90 days. Owner-operator coaching and retained advisory are monthly. We quote on the brief, no hourly billing, no surprise invoices.
Yes. Confidentiality is the default, we do not publish case studies that name clients, we do not list logos, and we do not share commercial detail without explicit written permission. Family-business situations are handled with the discretion they require. If you want to speak to a previous client we will arrange it directly.