Operator, builder, leader.

I'm Chris Blaser. I embed with operating teams and build the systems that let a business run without its founder in every seat: sales, marketing, operations, and the automation and AI that support them.

What I know comes from doing the work. I co-founded a multimillion-dollar e-commerce company, grew it to a hybrid team of more than 20 people, and exited in 2019. I founded an agency and ran growth and development for clients. I spent about four years on the platform team of a private-equity-backed restoration roll-up, leading sales and marketing, working on acquisitions and diligence, executive development, and the systems that tied the brands together as it grew into the largest non-franchise restoration company in the country.

I've also failed at plenty, across a wide range of things. I do not count any of it as wasted. Most of what I know about hiring, pricing, selling and building came from getting it wrong at least once, and that is a large part of what a client gets from me: I have usually seen the mistake before.

In 2018 my family sold nearly everything, bought one-way tickets and spent most of the year moving through Europe and Asia. We came back, bought an RV and spent the better part of two years exploring North America, then put down roots in Alaska for a few years before coming home to Gilbert, Arizona, where we live now.

Today I work with owner-run businesses doing roughly $1M to $10M a year, and I publish what I build as free playbooks for anyone who would rather run it themselves.