Service Business Turnarounds & Growth / South Florida
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.
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I Don't Sell Theory. Here's My Own Company.
Revenue at TN Fireplace & Chimney. Built it, ran it, sold it.
"Your work is your handshake. · We stay until the job is done. · We are forged, not formed."
The values I build every crew aroundThe Framework
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.
Sales process, pricing, costs, and owner pay. I install functional accounting so your managers finally understand margins — and defend them.
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.
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.
The Same Playbook, Bought With My Own Money
Five distressed auto repair shops acquired — broken systems, failing teams, falling revenue. One year later:
Auto shops — Tennessee & Arkansas. Revenue at acquisition vs. one year later.
What Results Look Like
We streamline processes with lean principles, remove redundancies with technology, and typically drive 33% growth per year.
We shrink the company to the size it should be and drive profitability back up the same year — typically to 15–18% margins.
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.
I'll look at your structure, numbers, and team — and tell you exactly where the leaks are. No charge, no obligation.
josh@jcatelife.comNo charge. No obligation. Just answers.