For businesses with 5 or more employees

Is Your Business Trapped in Your Head?

Pinpoint the exact bottlenecks keeping you chained to daily firefighting, and discover what it takes to pass the Two-Week Vacation Test.

90-Second Intake • No Sales Pitch • Your 3-Step Action Plan

You Built a $1M+ Business... So Why Does It Feel Like a 60-Hour Job?

You’ve scaled revenue, hired crew leads, and bought the equipment. But right now:

  • Every decision stops at your desk. Your phone rings off the hook on job sites for basic calls your team should handle.

  • SOPs live in your head. Process exists, but it’s trapped in your mind or a couple of veteran employees' habits.

  • Taking 14 days off sounds impossible. You know if you completely disconnected for two weeks, projects would stall, cash flow would choke, and clients would complain.

The Hard Truth: You don't have a sales problem. You have a system and bottleneck problem. When the owner is the operating system, growth hits a hard ceiling.

What Is The Business Flow Audit?

The Business Flow Audit is a targeted 45-minute diagnostic session designed specifically for small business owners with at least 5 employees.

We look under the hood of your operations using the Focus→ Flow →Flourish framework to identify the exact friction points stopping your business from scaling cleanly.

Focus is where you decide. Flow is the systems that carry out those decisions without you. Flourish is the result you can see and feel.

Image of the three-step focus, flow, flourish business process used by Cordes

45 Minutes. Total Operational Clarity.

By the end of your audit, you will walk away with:

  • Your Vacation Readiness Score: An honest assessment of what breaks if you step away for 14 days.

  • Primary Bottleneck Identification: Pinpoint which Flow system is leaking: Filter (your weekly rhythm), Love (your clients and your people), Operations (how the work gets done) or Well-being (cash and quarterly reviews).

  • A 3-Step Action Plan: Direct operational steps to start removing yourself as the daily bottleneck immediately.

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How It Works

Step 1: Pick a Time & Answer 7 Quick Questions

Fill out our 90-second questionnaire so we can review your revenue, crew size, and core bottlenecks before we jump on the call.

Step 2: The 45-Minute Diagnostic

We dive straight into your responses. No fluff and no generic coaching advice. Just actionable operational analysis

Step 3: Clear Next Steps

Leave with a clear action plan to fix it yourself, or discuss how we can partner to build your systems through CEO Flow Coaching, a Built to Run Workshop, or Fractional COO.

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"Cordes helped us outline the process where none existed."

S. Skinner
Albuquerque Cabinets
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Before working with Cordes, the entire operational system of my business was trapped between my two ears. I was going a thousand miles an hour on my days off and was terrified to step away because I didn't have a system I could pass on. Cordes changed all of that. She made the process of mapping out my business incredibly easy and helped me build 'dummy-proof' systems. In just 90 days, I reclaimed 10 hours a week by delegating my heavy lifting, automated my inventory forecasting with AI, and hit record-breaking revenue of over $20,000 a week. Best of all, I was finally able to take a real vacation while my business ran as usual. Highly recommend!

Kyle Harper
Clover Farms
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Cordes has helped our business immensely, guiding us in email marketing, creating a membership group, and developing an outstanding website. We couldn't have done it without her!!

Kassie Weatherly
New Point Marine

Ready to Pass the Two-Week Vacation Test?

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