The Business Growth Alliance

Insights

Field notes from four companies working the same problem from different angles — the health, value and durability of privately held businesses.

Interview

Scaling to Sell: How Alan Wozniak's New Guidebooks Prepare Businesses for Growth and a High-Value Exit

A four-time Inc. 5000 CEO honoree on removing the owner as the bottleneck, treating exit planning as business planning, and selling like a business architect.

David Miller · August 30, 2026 · 12 min read

The owner becoming indispensable is the most common ceiling on growth and enterprise value.
Diagnose before you prescribe — the presenting symptom is rarely the underlying problem.
Exit planning is business planning; the practices that attract buyers also improve the company you keep.
Founder health is a leadership issue, not a lifestyle topic — test the 90-day absence question.
Sell like a business architect: understand the problem, design the solution, create measurable value.

Business Health

What Business Health Actually Means

Revenue is a vital sign, not a diagnosis. A working definition of business health — and the five systems that determine whether a company is durable or merely busy.

Alan Wozniak · August 24, 2026 · 7 min

Demand Generation

AI Search Is Rewriting How Buyers Find You

Ranking on page one no longer guarantees you get seen. What changes when an AI assistant answers the question instead of listing ten links.

MarketWell Solutions · August 17, 2026 · 6 min

Leadership

The Owner Bottleneck: When You Are the Business

If every meaningful decision routes through you, you do not own a company — you own a demanding job. Here is how to unwind it without losing control.

10XCoach.ai · August 10, 2026 · 6 min

Exit Planning

Exit Readiness Starts Five Years Early

Most owners begin preparing to sell about eighteen months too late. What buyers actually price, and the work that has to happen long before a letter of intent.

Alan Wozniak · August 3, 2026 · 8 min