FounderProof Advisory · UK & Ireland

Find the revenue leaking out of your customer journey.

The Revenue Leakage Assessment maps your customer journey from first enquiry to long-term customer, finds where revenue is falling between the cracks — and where the business depends on a single point of failure: a person, a customer that is half your revenue, one source of new business — and puts a number on it. Then we use process, HubSpot and AI to stop the leak and make the journey run without depending on any one of them.

For founder- and leader-led businesses at £5–20m revenue · Free self-assessment, then the Assessment at £4,500 fixed · A written view either way
Revenue Leakage AssessmentA £10–15m UK manufacturer · anonymised
LEAK
Attract
First response
Win
 
Deliver
 
LEAK
Grow
Expansion
Annualised leakage found
£2.2m
about a sixth of annual revenue
Attract: new enquiries landing in a joint inbox nobody owned, and falling between the cracks
Grow: an account management team that did not know what drives partners to buy
Who we work with

Four kinds of business, one underlying problem

Doing well, but at an inflection point — and somewhere between first enquiry and long-term customer, revenue is leaking and too much still depends on one person.

The founder everything still runs through

Every escalation, pricing call and key relationship comes back to you. The business is profitable; your holidays are theoretical.

The business getting ready to sell

A buyer pays for the numbers, and pays more for a business that runs and sustains without its founder. A business that only runs when you are in it shows up as a lower multiple, an earn-out or a clawback. You want the other price.

The leadership team in transition

A new MD, a new leadership team, or the founder stepping back. What lived in one person’s head has to become the way the business works.

HubSpot that hasn’t paid for itself yet

You bought the platform. The team half-uses it and nobody trusts the reports. That is a customer-journey problem, not a software problem.

Also familiar: the sales team that lives on one rainmaker · the shared inbox nobody owns · the marketing spend nobody can attribute · the CRM three people update and no one reads.
Single points of failure

A single point of failure is anything the revenue cannot survive losing

It is usually a person. It is often a customer. Sometimes it is one channel, one inbox or one spreadsheet. Every one of them is a leak waiting for a bad month.

A person

The founder every decision waits for. The one salesperson who brings in the work. The person who is the only one who knows how the system works — and what happens the week they are away.

A customer

One account that makes up 40–50% or more of revenue. Every buyer sees it, every lender prices it, and every renewal conversation is a negotiation you cannot afford to lose.

A source of business

One channel, one referrer, one platform or one partner that generates most of the new enquiries. When it changes its rules, your pipeline changes with it.

A system nobody else can run

The joint inbox nobody owns. The spreadsheet only one person understands. The CRM three people update and no one reads. The process that lives in someone’s head.

The Assessment names each one, measures how much revenue sits behind it — revenue concentration, owner-dependence, missed versus answered demand, knowledge written down versus in heads — and ranks them with the other leaks. One number goes on the weekly page from week one: the share of revenue that still originates with the founder, and how fast it is falling.
A recent engagement, anonymised

What a Revenue Leakage Assessment found

A £10–15m UK manufacturer selling through a partner network — leaking £2.2m a year, about a sixth of its revenue, for two reasons nobody had put a number on.

Annualised lost revenue, found in the Assessment
£2.2m
Leaking for two reasons — neither of them a talent problem. Both were process problems.
01
New enquiries fell between the cracks

Every new enquiry landed in a joint inbox that nobody owned. Enquiries were picked up late, or not at all, and fell between the cracks.

02
Account management did not know what drives partners to buy

The account management team did not understand what drives partners to purchase. Without that, growth in existing accounts was left to chance.

What was fixed first
Every enquiry routed to a named owner in the CRM, with a response-time standard; a definition for every pipeline stage published company-wide.
What went live next
The real pipeline — about £900,000 that had lived in a spreadsheet — loaded into the CRM with agreed stage probabilities, so the forecast was one number the whole business could read.
How it is measured
Missed and slow-answered enquiries, and revenue per key partner, against the baseline set in the Assessment. Re-measured at day 90.
Told without the client’s name, with their knowledge. Both leaks were process problems — an inbox with no owner, and a journey nobody had mapped — and both are the kind of thing the Assessment is built to find.
The three lenses

We make the revenue you already have durable, transferable and worth more.

Three questions a buyer asks. Most founders only answer the first.

How the three lenses work
01
Performance
How it has done
Revenue, margin, cash. Easy to measure; where most founders stop.
02
Running
How it is going
Can it run without you? Missed demand, revenue concentration, knowledge in heads.
03
Worth
What it is worth to someone else
Performance discounted by transfer risk. Fix Running and Worth follows.
The Method

Revenue leaks where the journey depends on one person

We are process engineers. We treat the customer journey the way a plant engineer treats a production line: every hand-off, every queue, every place a decision waits for one person. Each leak is costed from your own data and ranked by revenue impact. Then the engagement fixes them in that order.

We examine six areas: Purpose & Story and the Business Model at the hub, and four operational areas around them — Sales, the Customer Journey, Technology and Governance. Each is scored 1–10 at the start and re-scored at the end. The movement is the evidence.

SalesCustomer JourneyTechnologyGovernancePurpose & StoryBusiness Model
01
The Architecture
Leadership workshop · scored baseline
02
Data & Foundations
Read from your systems, not our slides
03
Implementation
Highest-impact fix first · fortnightly cadence
04
Training, Testing & Roll-out
The standard becomes the way the business works
05
The Blueprint — delivered in month three, for the next 12 months
Re-scored · one page · yours
The Diagnostic— the five steps above, with the biggest leak stopped in month one
£20,000 fixed · three months
Before FounderProof

Businesses Calvin worked with on CRM and revenue operations at HubSpot and Centralise, by industry

140+ engagements over seven years, from 10 people to 10,000 — building, fixing and reporting on the revenue journey inside the CRM. FounderProof is the same work, done as process engineering, for a narrower kind of business. Find your industry to see who you are in company with.

Software & technology
AmplienceKeelvarCalypsoAIParentPayPayPropMove.aiIndeemoFlexigrantGreyparrotAxelera AIMeshh
Managed IT, cloud & cybersecurity
EkcoBlacknightBluecubeCyberOwlFiremind
Professional & business services
KefronBabel PRBB7Ledger BennettICS-digitalGlobal Business CultureCMG TrainingHuman Focus
Manufacturing, distribution & engineering
Duplo InternationalGallery DirectCambrian PackagingCharles Faram & CoPackmePlumisEakin HealthcareHunters Contracts
Financial services & insurance
Howden InsuranceCredit GloriousKaris CapitalOmega Financial ManagementLumiant
Healthcare, education & not-for-profit
MovemberGAAGaelic Players AssociationCarebaseEcctisHistologiXDogpatch Labs
Media, events, consumer & hospitality
Mark Allen GroupConnect Global GroupCraft Irish WhiskeyCamp KeralaEthica DiamondsDriveSimple
A selection, named because the work was real; none is yet a FounderProof client, and results are quoted only where a company has approved them.
Start here

Two steps before you spend a pound

A free self-assessment, then — if it points to a leak worth finding — a fixed-price Assessment. Both end in a written view you keep, whether or not you go further with us.

1 · Free
The self-assessment

Score your business across the six areas we use with every client. You get one named weakest area — not a list — and a written view from Calvin within two working days: where we would start, or plainly why we are not the right fit.

Take the free self-assessment
Nothing is published, nothing is shared, no sales call unless you ask for one.
2 · £4,500 fixed
The Revenue Leakage Assessment

Fourteen days in your systems and with your team — about five days of Calvin’s time. The journey mapped, every leak costed from your own data and ranked, and a read-out in person of what we would fix first.

Book the Assessment
Yours to keep. If it finds nothing worth fixing, you will be told so in writing.
Who you will be dealing with
Calvin O’Callaghan — process engineer, 3x founder, five years at HubSpot

On the first call, in the workshop, in your systems and on every read-out. No account manager, no hand-off to a junior. References from businesses he has worked in are available once we have met.

Four clients at a time
A hard cap, with a waitlist
Ask on the first call whether a place is open and when the next Diagnostic can start. Assessments usually start within two weeks.
How starting works

Four steps, and you are free to stop at any of them

1
The free self-assessment

A short scored self-assessment across the six areas. You receive a written view either way — where the revenue is most likely leaking and where the business depends on you, or plainly why we are not the right fit.

Free · a written view either way
2
A first call

Twenty minutes on your self-assessment and how the journey runs today. We say plainly whether a Revenue Leakage Assessment is worth your money — and if it is not, why, and who might be.

Free · no pitch
3
The Revenue Leakage Assessment

Fourteen days in your systems and with your team. The journey mapped, every leak costed and ranked by revenue impact, and what we would fix first — yours to keep.

£4,500 fixed · 14 days
4
Terms in writing, then the Diagnostic

A written scope, a fixed price and a defined deliverable before anything begins. Then the Diagnostic: £20,000 fixed, three months, five steps, the biggest leak stopped in month one, with a 30-Day Value Checkpoint.

£20,000 fixed · 30-Day Value Checkpoint
What you risk
Fixed prices
No day rates. If it takes longer, that is our problem.
Day 30
Cannot see the value? Stop. You have paid £10,000, you keep the Architecture map, and the remaining £10,000 is waived.
Month 3
Mutual-fit checkpoint with a clean exit either way.
The 9× rule
Every 90 days we audit the work against 9× the fee. If it is not there: re-scope, change the owner, or exit on 30 days’ notice.
Yours to keep
Everything is documented in your systems. Nothing depends on us.
FounderProof

We show you where revenue is being lost and help you fix it. A process-engineering practice for founder- and leader-led businesses in the UK and Ireland at £5–20m revenue: the customer journey mapped from first enquiry to long-term customer, then process, HubSpot and AI to make it run without relying on any single point of failure.

calvin@founderproof.comCork & Dublin, Ireland · London, UK
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