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Short courses, practical tools, and straight-talking frameworks for business owners who want to scale, step back, or sell on their terms.

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The Business Dependency Score

Answer fifteen questions and get a picture of how dependent your business is on you, and what you can do about it.

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What is Exit Blueprint?

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, but 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 a detailed answer in three minutes, telling you exactly what it means for your ability to grow, step back, or sell.

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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.

June ’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.
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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. 

 

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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.

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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.

More about Karl at karlgjertsen.com

Background

Years acquiring, growing, and working inside businesses

The Platform

Exit Blueprint, where value is delivered before a deeper relationship begins

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Tabora Capital, equity growth partnerships, working 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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