01
Finding your fit
Which industries suit what you already know. Buying versus building, from someone who has done both, and how to score an industry honestly instead of romantically.
The Business Buyer's Blueprint
You bring a real target. We work it all the way through.
Six courses, taught live to twelve people. Not a video library you will never finish. You show up with a business you are actually considering, and we take it apart together across all ten steps of the transaction.
Twelve seats. Applications are read personally, not automated.
Why live
Self-paced courses do not get finished
Most people who buy a recorded course never complete it. That is not a character flaw, it is what happens without a deadline, a room, and someone expecting you. Live cohorts finish at a dramatically higher rate for exactly those reasons.
There is a second reason. Your deal is not the deal in the recording. When you bring a real listing with real numbers, the teaching adapts to it. That cannot happen in a pre-recorded video.
Weekly, live
Taught on video, recorded so you can go back. Six courses across the cohort.
Twelve seats
Small enough that everyone's deal gets looked at, not just the loudest person's.
Real materials
The checklists, templates, and scripts I use, not summaries of them.
The curriculum
Six courses
Ordered the way a real purchase happens, not the way a syllabus is organized.
02
Sourcing deals
Where listings come from, how to work brokers, and how to find off-market opportunities before they are priced for a crowd.
03
Evaluating businesses
Reading a CIM line by line. What is missing, what is inflated, and what it means when the numbers do not reconcile. SDE, add-backs, and why the asking price is rarely the value.
04
Negotiating
Where your leverage actually comes from. Using furniture and equipment condition as a price lever. What a lease commitment does to a seller's position, and how to structure an offer.
05
Due diligence
The ten days that decide it. What to demand, what a refusal tells you, and how to verify what you were told on the tour. This is where deals should die, and where most buyers get lazy.
06
Financing and closing
Cash, SBA, and seller financing compared by someone who has closed with two of the three. What the bank really asks for, how long it takes, and what seller financing tells you about the seller's confidence.
Before you apply
I would rather turn you away than take your money for the wrong thing.
- This is the first cohort. You are getting me at my most involved and the curriculum at its least polished. That trade is the reason for the price.
- You should be able to buy something in the next twelve months. Not necessarily funded today, but not five years out either.
- Bring a target, or be ready to find one in the first two weeks. The cohort works on real deals.
- The right outcome may be walking away from every deal you look at. That is a successful year, and I will tell you when I think you should walk.
- I cannot promise you a business, a return, or financing approval. Anyone who does is selling you something.
Twelve seats, first cohort
The Business Buyer's Blueprint
Six courses taught live, the full template and checklist library, and your own deal worked through from first broker call to close.
$3,500
paid in full
3 × $1,250
monthly, total $3,750
An application, not a checkout. I read them and I do turn people away when the timing is wrong.
Questions
Why is there an application instead of a buy button?+
Twelve seats, and the cohort works better when everyone in it is roughly ready. If you are three years from buying anything, you will get more from the community at thirty-nine dollars a month, and I will tell you so.
How is this different from the Skool community?+
The community teaches you how to think about deals, in frameworks and concepts. The Blueprint hands you the actual tools and works your specific deal. If the community is the map, this is the drive with someone in the passenger seat.
What if I do not find a business during the cohort?+
Common, and not a failure. You will finish knowing how to evaluate one, which is the part that takes months to learn and minutes to apply. Sourcing continues after the cohort ends and you keep the materials.
Do I keep access after it ends?+
Yes. Recordings and materials stay in your account. The live teaching is the part that is time-bound.
Has anyone actually bought something working with you?+
Yes. Zoe O'Neal bought a beauty supply store after we went through her listings and numbers together. Rashad Evans and Tre' Jester founded businesses rather than buying them. This is the first formal cohort, so I am not going to claim a track record of hundreds. I am going to point at what exists.
Why should I trust you on financing specifically?+
Because I have closed one purchase with cash and another with an SBA loan, and started a third business from nothing. I can tell you what the bank asked me for and how long it took, rather than describing a process I read about.