Business Education & Tools Platform
Build a business
worth exiting
Short courses, practical tools, and straight-talking frameworks for business owners who want to scale, step back, or sell on their terms.
Free Tool · 3 Minutes
The Business Dependency Score
Ten questions. A score out of ten. An honest picture of how dependent your business is on you, and what to do about it.
Free· No sales call· Instant results
Takes 3 minutes. Results are immediate.
What Exit Blueprint is
Exit Blueprint is a platform for business owners who are serious about what comes next. Whether that means scaling the business, stepping back from the day to day, or building toward a sale, the work starts in the same place: understanding where your business is now and building a clear plan to get it where you want it to go.
Founded by Karl Gjertsen, a business operator and growth investor who has spent years acquiring, growing, and working inside businesses. Not coaching from the outside. Real experience from the inside.
" The single biggest obstacle to growth, exit value, and personal freedom is almost always the same: the business depends too much on its owner."
Karl Gjertsen
Founder, Exit Blueprint · Tabora Capital
How dependent is your business on you right now?
Most business owners have no idea. The Business Dependency Score gives you an honest answer in three minutes, and tells you exactly what it means for your ability to grow, step back, or sell.
Free · No sales call required
The Courses
Four courses. One complete plan.
Each course stands alone. Together they give you a complete framework for the next five years of your business.
April ’26
Foundations #1
Scale, Step Back or Sell
How to plan the next five years of your business. Includes the full Business Dependency Score exercise, a five year vision framework, and a 90-day action plan. Most people complete it in two to three hours.
Coming Soon
Foundations #2
Build a Business That Runs Without You
The owner dependency framework. How to identify where you are the bottleneck, document your processes, and start removing yourself from operations without the business suffering.
Coming Soon
Foundations #3
Your Lead Generation System From Scratch
How to build a marketing and lead generation system that works without you being personally involved in every sale. Covers the full funnel from awareness to enquiry.
Coming Soon
Foundations #4
How To Prepare Your Business for Sale
What buyers actually look for. How to increase your valuation before going to market. What the next three years should look like if exit is the goal.
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About Karl Gjertsen
Karl Gjertsen, Business Operator & Growth Investor.
Business operator, growth investor, and founder of Exit Blueprint. Karl has spent years acquiring, growing, and working inside businesses. He created Exit Blueprint because the advice he needed most as a business owner did not exist in a form he trusted.
Background
Years acquiring, growing, and working inside businesses
The Platform
Exit Blueprint, where real value is delivered before a deeper relationship begins
also
Tabora Capital, equity growth partnerships with a small number of businesses each year
Not sure where to start?
Start with the Dependency Score
The Business Dependency Score takes three minutes and gives you a clear picture of where your business is right now. Everything else follows from there.
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