Service Business Turnarounds & Growth  /  South Florida

Your business, back on track in 90 days.

I'm not a consultant with a binder. I built the largest chimney restoration company in East Tennessee from one truck to thirty-four trucks and sold it. I bought five broken auto repair shops and made every one profitable. I've run the trucks, made payroll on a bad month, and fixed the broken systems. Now I do for other service businesses what I did for my own.

Free Business Assessment
Josh Cate
21×
Grew My Own Company — Built & Sold
5 of 5
Acquired Shops Made Profitable
33%
Typical Annual Client Growth
90
Days To Get Back On Track

From $171K to $3.7M in six years.

Revenue at TN Fireplace & Chimney. Built it, ran it, sold it.

$172K
2017
$730K
2018
$1.8M
2019
$2.5M
2020
$3.2M
2021
$3.7M
2022

"Your work is your handshake. · We stay until the job is done. · We are forged, not formed."

The values I build every crew around

People · Purpose · Profits · Protection

PProtection

We start at the foundation: entity formation, tax status, and liability exposure. Most owners are one bad day from losing what they built — we fix that first.

PProfits

Sales process, pricing, costs, and owner pay. I install functional accounting so your managers finally understand margins — and defend them.

PPeople

Right people, right seats. We remove who's holding you back, build up who's ready, and create a culture of excellence your techs are proud of.

PPurpose

Where is this company going — growth, succession, sale, legacy? Every system we build points the business at where you actually want it to end up.

Five distressed auto repair shops acquired — broken systems, failing teams, falling revenue. One year later:

$645K
TN — At Acquisition
$912K  (+41%)
TN — One Year Later
$234K
AR — At Acquisition
$800K  (+242%)
AR — One Year Later

Auto shops — Tennessee & Arkansas. Revenue at acquisition vs. one year later.

Josh Cate

Growing company?

We streamline processes with lean principles, remove redundancies with technology, and typically drive 33% growth per year.

Bloated and bleeding?

We shrink the company to the size it should be and drive profitability back up the same year — typically to 15–18% margins.

In crisis?

Failing teams, broken systems, collapsing revenue — I've rebuilt all of it. Ninety days to stabilized and profitable — with my own money on the line, not just a client's.

Josh Cate

Free Business Assessment.

I'll look at your structure, numbers, and team — and tell you exactly where the leaks are. No charge, no obligation.

josh@jcatelife.com

No charge. No obligation. Just answers.