Build a business that runs without you.
Most small companies depend on their owner for almost everything. The decisions and the customer relationships live in one person's head, and so does the knowledge that keeps the work moving. RVRBN finds that work, builds AI systems that do it without you, and trains your team to run them.
A business that runs through its owner is hard to sell.
of U.S. businesses with employees are owned by someone 55 or older
of those owners plan to sell or transfer the business when they step away
of business buyers expect to use SBA financing to close
Sources: Census Bureau data cited by Gallup, BizBuySell Insight Report, Q2 2026.
Under SBA rules for loans numbered on or after October 1, 2026, a buyer's lender finances only what the tax returns and past earnings support, and the seller can't stay on to run the place. If the business only works because you're there, that shows up in the price. Read what the new rules require.
Three things, in this order.
Find what the business depends on you for.
I look at how the work moves through your company and come back with a ranked list of what runs through you and what each item costs.
You get a ranked list, priced in hours.
Build systems that do it without you.
Each build targets a specific job that a specific person is doing by hand, and each one is measured in the hours it gives back.
You get one job doing itself.
Train your team to run them.
On your own work and your own data. When I leave, the systems stay.
You get a team that runs it without you.
See the full range of AI automation services and how AI implementation works.
Getting ready to sell.
Succession Readiness is month-to-month work that takes what only you know and puts it where a buyer, a family member, or a manager can use it. It also gets the records in shape for a buyer's lender.
RVRBN is also entering seller-financed acquisitions of small companies in Northeast Florida, where the owner gets paid over time. If that's the exit you want, we can talk about it directly.
Small and mid-size companies in Northeast Florida.
Trades and field services. Manufacturing and machining. Distribution. Multi-location practices. Specialty contracting.
Typically $2M to $20M in revenue, ten to a hundred people, and an owner who is still the operating system.
If you are looking for the cheapest option, I am not it. If you are looking for someone who will tell you what is wrong before selling you anything, keep reading.
Judge the work.
I don't have client logos to show you yet, and I'm not going to borrow anyone else's. Here is what I can put in front of you instead.
A sample deliverable.
The real thing, at the standard you would receive. Download it and decide for yourself.
Download the sample (PDF)The operator.
Six years as a Marine Corps intelligence analyst, then a decade running programs and delivery teams, where a plan carried a budget line and somebody's name on it.
Meet the founderStart with a conversation.
Tell me about the business. I'll tell you whether there is anything here worth doing.