Built to Break: Why Your Business Can't Run Without You (And What Do About It)

Your business is doing $1M, $2M, $5M in revenue. From the outside, it looks like success. From the inside, you haven't taken a vacation in three years, your team can't make a decision without you, and you kept $87K on millions. You didn't build a business. You built a job. And it was built to break. Built to Break is a diagnostic manual for founder-dependent businesses between $500K and $10M in revenue. It won't tell you how to fix your business. It'll show you why it's broken across four pillars: Operations and Systems, Revenue and Sales, Financial Structure, and Team and Leadership. Inside you'll find: - Why your business can't function without you (and why that's a design problem, not a work ethic problem)- The patterns that show up in every founder-dependent business, regardless of industry- Dollar-quantified breakdowns of what broken operations, revenue systems, financial structure, and team infrastructure actually cost- Why every hire fails, every tool dies, and every "system" you've tried to implement on a Saturday morning never sticks- A self-diagnostic that scores your business across all four pillars and tells you exactly where the cracks are This isn't a motivational book. This isn't a step-by-step manual. This is the book that shows you what's actually happening inside your business while you're too busy running it to notice. Includes a 10-question self-assessment with scoring guide. For founders doing $500K to $10M who are ready to stop being the business and start building one.