The program · 2027

A plan for the year.
A room that holds you to it.

FOUND runs all year, not for a weekend. A two-hour call every other week where you report on what you said you'd do and work the next ninety days. Four live events a year, in person, where the room builds the business plan and the Life Built on Purpose plan side by side. A network of owners who've read your plan properly, and the three of us in your corner. Business and life, on the same plan, in front of people who will remember what you said.

Every other week
A two-hour call, on video
Four times a year
A live event, in person
All year
A network, and the founders
The point of it

Plans don't fail in November. They fail quietly in February, when nobody's asking.

Most owners have been to the weekend that changes everything, for about three weeks. The plan goes in a drawer, the quarter gets busy, and by spring it's running on memory. FOUND is built around the part that actually works: showing up every other week and answering for what you said.

One plan, two halves. The strategic plan is the business: the numbers, the big bets, what stops, what starts, the next ninety days. The Life Built on Purpose plan is everything the business is for: your health and self-care, your relationships and family, the thinking and emotions that get in your way, what you're grateful for, and the life you want to be living ten years from now. Every call and every live event, both get looked at. Neither gets to hide behind the other.

The cedar sauna at North Shore Haven with Lake Cowichan behind itLake Cowichan
The shape of the year

Enough structure to do real work. Enough space to live the life it's for.

Every other week
01

The call

Two hours, on video, cameras on

Same shape every time, so the time goes to the work. A quick round on wins. Then the commitment report: did you do what you said, with one number against the plan. Then hot seats: one owner brings a real issue, the room asks questions, then shares what it looked like from where they sat. Experience, not advice. The owner decides, sets a timeline, and the room follows up next call.

  • Your working group has read your plan, so nobody starts from zero
  • You leave with your next commitments: for the business, and for the life
  • Missed one? Say so plainly and say what's next. No rescuing
Four times a year
02

The live events

Three full planning days and a three-day retreat

The planning days run the same way. The morning is business planning: the quarter against the plan, with the numbers on the table, what you forecast, what happened, and what the gap is telling you. Then the next ninety days, the two or three bets that actually move it, and what stops. The afternoon is personal planning: the Life Built on Purpose plan, worked with the room and the same honesty. Dinner after, for anyone who stays.

The retreat is the long one. A few days away from the business to look at the whole year honestly, build next year's plan for the business and the life, and say your commitments out loud in front of the room. Where we go changes year to year. The work doesn't.

  • Friday, April 2Brentwood Bay Resort
  • Friday, June 18Location to come
  • Friday, September 10Location to come
  • November 26 to 28The retreat. Location to come
The fireplace at North Shore HavenA long table, a full day
All year
03

The room

A working group, the network, and the three of us

You're placed in a working group of owners in a similar lane. They read your plan before the year starts and give structured feedback on it, and they're the ones in the breakouts and the hot seats with you all year. Around that, the wider network of FOUND owners, one-on-one time with Matt, Mike and Shane when you need it, and the members' Ledger, where your plan, your commitments and your numbers live in one place.

  • Your plan read properly by people who run businesses too
  • One-on-one with the founders through the year
  • Everything in the Ledger, so nothing lives in a drawer
The sauna heater at North Shore HavenSaturday, 7:15 a.m.
Practical

What's included, and what's expected.

Included

  • A two-hour call every other week, all year, on a set template
  • Four live events a year, in person: three full planning days and a three-day retreat
  • A working group of owners in a similar lane who have read your plan, and structured peer feedback on it
  • One-on-one time with Matt, Mike and Shane through the year
  • The strategic planning template for the business, and the Life Built on Purpose plan
  • Your plan, your commitments and your numbers in the members' Ledger, in one place
  • A network of business owners who will support you and, more importantly, challenge you

Expected

  • The calls, every other week. All four live events. All of it
  • Cameras on, phones away. Experience, not advice. No rescuing
  • Your real numbers. Last year's financials, this year's forecast, and the gap, whatever state they're in
  • Commitments made out loud, and a straight answer when you miss one
  • What's said in the room stays in the room. We say it out loud and we mean it
  • Honesty about the parts of life that aren't a business, in front of peers
  • Fun. This isn't a planning conference or a therapy group
Membership
By application

The 2027 fee is being set with the founding members, and whoever invited you can tell you where it's landed. It covers the calls and all four live events. The year starts in January. Membership is capped so the room stays small enough that everyone gets worked on.

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The next intake

A small room.
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Tell us who you are and one of us will reach out for a conversation. Not a pitch. A conversation about whether this is the right room for you, and whether you're right for it.

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