Gearhart Partners helps owner-led businesses run like companies twice their size. Operating leadership and financial operations from someone who has built, fixed, sold, and run businesses like yours for 30 years.
Who this is for
You own the business. Maybe you are the face of it, the one customers ask for by name. Maybe you run it from behind the scenes. Either way, you are the final word on every hire, the person the bank calls, and the desk where every decision lands. Revenue is real, somewhere between $250K and $20M, and growth has stopped feeling like progress and started feeling like weight.
You do not need another consultant with a slide deck. You need someone who has sat in your chair.
What I do
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AI-enabled bookkeeping and a cash management system that makes profit deliberate instead of leftover. Clean books, cash you can see, and money set aside for taxes and profit before it gets spent. This is the front door for businesses in the $250K to $5M range that want their numbers working for them instead of against them.
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For owner-operators in the $2M to $20M range with repeat customers and a sales team. I look inside the operation, find where value is created and where it leaks, and build the systems that let you step back from the day to day without the wheels coming off.
Both start the same way: a short conversation about your business. No pitch, no retainer required to talk.
How it works
A 30 minute conversation about your business. If I cannot help, I will say so and point you somewhere useful.
A focused look at where your operation creates value and where it drags.
I fix what matters in an order that pays for itself. You get systems you own and can run without me.
I work with you, the owner, directly and remotely, on a rhythm we set together. Between sessions, I am available by email or Slack. I do not embed in your business or manage your team.
Why me
I have been on both sides of the table.
I am Chris Dunkin. In 30 years as an operator I have co-founded an event rental company, built it, and sold it. Served as COO of a wood products manufacturer and led its turnaround. Ran a specialty rental business through its acquisition, then stayed on with the acquiring company as a general manager and regional manager.
I have been the seller across the table, and afterward I worked inside the company that did the buying. I have seen how owners build value and how acquirers judge it. That is the lens I bring to your business.