The Clean Sweep Stage 02 · Paid Diagnostic

You're leaking six figures somewhere in the business. In 48 hours, I'll show you where.

A paid diagnostic for service founders doing $1M to $8M. You send your numbers, I spend ninety minutes finding the leak before we ever talk, and you show up to a 45-minute readout and an eight-page assessment that ranks what to fix first. No discovery call, no pitch, no deck.

$2,500 · 45-min call · 8-page PDF in 48 hours · 12 slots/month
§ 01 · The Premise

Where the money actually goes.

Service businesses doing $1M to $8M lose 8 to 15 percent of revenue to operational waste, and almost none of it shows up where you'd think to look. It's the software seats nobody logs into, the tools you're paying for twice, the work your team delivers past what got invoiced, the hire you keep deciding to make next quarter. At your size that's somewhere between $80K and $1.2M a year, sitting in the business, doing nothing.

$80K to $1.2M.

The typical range of waste at $1M to $8M

Most of it never shows up on a report, which is exactly why it's still there. It takes someone going in after it, and that's the part I do. The figure I come back with is your Ghostbuster Number, the money that's been haunting the business from a place you'd never have thought to look. It's run against your real books and ranked by what's costing you most, so you leave with the number, not a hunch about it.

§ 02 · What You Get

Four things for $2,500.

01

The Ghostbuster Number

The dollar figure of operational money sitting idle in your business, run against your real numbers and ranked by what to kill first.

02

The bottleneck verdict

Where decisions stall, where work piles up, and the one that keeps routing back to you when it never should.

03

A written 8-page assessment

In your inbox within 48 hours. Your bottleneck, your two org charts, your hiring, your delegation, and how close you are to a real week off.

04

The path forward

One of three honest answers. Do a Sprint, bring in an operator, or not yet. No upsell script, the recommendation is whatever your numbers say.

§ 03 · How It Works

You send the numbers. I find the leak before we talk.

The work happens before the call, not during it. You answer five intake questions after you book, I spend ninety minutes running your numbers against the operator framework, and the 45 minutes we spend together is me walking you through what I already found.

01
Step 01 · After Payment

Five-minute intake.

Revenue, team size, where the money goes, where you delegate, where you're stuck. Five questions, one Typeform.

02
Step 02 · Before the Call

I run the diagnostic.

Ninety minutes with your numbers and the operator framework. Your Ghostbuster Number gets calculated here.

03
Step 03 · The Verdict

45-minute call, then the PDF.

We open on your number and walk the five surfaces. The written assessment lands within 48 hours.

Twelve slots a month. The cap is real, and the calendar fills three to four weeks out.

§ 04 · The Assessment

Five surfaces. One operator picture.

The eight pages walk the five places founder-dependent businesses break down, and by the end you can see the whole machine instead of just the part that hurts this week.

01
Bottleneck
Where decisions route, and which ones were never supposed to be yours. Your Ghostbuster Number lives here, on Page 2.
02
Org Chart
Where escalation actually flows versus the chart on the wall. Most businesses your size run two org charts, and I map both.
03
Hiring
The role the business needs next, scoped a year out. Not the role you keep wishing you needed, the one that unsticks the bottleneck.
04
Delegation
What to give away, who holds it, and what authority comes with it. Most founders hand off the tasks and keep the decisions, which is exactly how the work boomerangs back to them.
05
Walk-Away Readiness
How close you are to leaving for a week with your phone off. Scored honestly, because this is the test the whole business is being built to pass.
§ 05 · The Path Forward

You leave with one of three answers.

The PDF closes with a recommendation built on what shows up in your numbers, not on what I'd like to sell you. Sometimes the answer is "not yet," and that's the whole reason it's worth charging for.

Pattern A

Do the Diagnostic Sprint.

You can run with the diagnosis, you just need the full operator map and a 90-day plan you'll actually follow. Three to four weeks, $15,000 fixed.

Sprint · $15K · 3-4 wks
Pattern B

Get a Fractional COO.

The problem isn't knowing what to do. It's needing someone inside the business doing it with you. Embedded, ten to twelve hours a week, six-month minimum. $12,000 a month.

Fractional COO · $12K/mo · 6-mo min
Pattern C

Not yet.

There's a move that comes before the Sprint, and the assessment names it. The Sprint becomes the right call once that one's done.

Standalone · Door stays open
§ 06 · Fit

Real businesses only.

This is for you if

  • You run a service business doing $1M to $8M
  • The business runs because you run it
  • You can't remember your last real two-week break
  • You can feel money leaking and can't point to where
  • You're past the scrappy stage and ready to operate

This isn't for you if

  • You're under $1M (the math doesn't carry yet)
  • You sell product, e-commerce, or SaaS (wrong operator for you)
  • You want a coach, a course, or a deck to file away
  • You're sure you'll crack it solo
  • You'd rather spend $497 on something that fits in an email

If you're not sure where you land, take the Founder Dependency Audit first. Ten questions, two minutes, an honest score.

§ 07 · Where This Leads

The Clean Sweep is the first read, not the whole road. Here's a founder who took the whole thing.

Over the past 5 years, I am able to travel and work remotely 200 days per year while my home service business runs smoothly without my physical presence. It was all part of the vision and plan that Carter and I dreamt up and it's pretty epic to be living it in real life.
April Prothero · Founder & CEO, Going Greenhouse
§ 08 · The Operator

I'm Carter. The operator your business needed six months ago.

I run the Clean Sweep myself, every time. The diagnostic isn't outsourced, the assessment isn't ghostwritten, the 45 minutes is me.

I've operated inside more than 30 founder-led companies since 2019, up to a $21M operation, and almost every time the same thing is true. The founder is the bottleneck, and the business can't run a week without them. After enough founders asked me the same question, where is my money actually going, I built the diagnostic that answers it in an afternoon.

I take twelve of these a month. That's not scarcity for show, it's the math of running each one properly and writing the assessment myself.

Carter Natale · Founder + Operator, CLN Agency
§ 09 · Start Here

Find your
Ghostbuster Number.

Forty-five minutes, eight pages, and the real dollar figure of the money sitting still in your business. Twelve slots a month, and they fill three to four weeks out, so if you want this month's read, now's the time to grab it.