The Founder Hand-Off Blueprint™: Get Your Business Running Without You in 12 Weeks
THE FOUNDER HAND-OFF BLUEPRINT™

Get your business running without you in 12 weeks.

A 1:1 advisory program for SaaS, Fintech, and service-business founders at $2M to $20M who have a leadership team but still have every decision running through them.

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What keeps you stuck

Three problems. Most stuck founders have all three.

Decisions

Every decision still runs through you.

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THE FIX · ENGINE 1

Clear Decisions. Map every decision that lands on you, give each one a single owner, and set the guardrails.

Milestone: decisions off your desk

Ownership

Your team executes, but does not own outcomes.

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THE FIX · ENGINE 2

Real Ownership. Hand over outcomes instead of tasks, raise the bar to recommendations, and coach instead of rescuing.

Milestone: the team owns outcomes

Rhythm

Nothing runs when you step out of the room.

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THE FIX · ENGINE 3

Operating Rhythm. A weekly cadence that ends in decisions and owners, protected founder time, and a proven absence test.

Milestone: the week runs without you

Everything routes through one exhausted person. That is what we fix, with three engines.

Be honest with yourself

You didn't build this company to become its prisoner.

You answer questions at 11pm that someone on your payroll should have answered at 2pm.

Your last "vacation" was a remote-work week: hotel wifi, one eye on your phone the whole time.

You sit at dinner with your family while your head is still in the office.

Every meeting ends the same way: with the next step back on your plate.

You hired smart people, and the way things run has turned them into expensive messengers waiting for your answer.

Growth has stalled at the edge of your calendar, because you are the capacity ceiling.

And it is not just you. Harvard Business School's CEO time study found leaders average 62.5-hour weeks and work on 70% of their vacation days. None of this is a work-ethic problem. You already work more than anyone you know. It is a design problem: the company is designed around you. And every quarter it stays this way, it costs you growth, it costs you your best people, and it quietly costs you the reason you started in the first place.

Now picture the other side of 12 weeks:

  • You step away for two weeks and come back to momentum, not a mess.
  • Your team brings you decisions and owns the outcomes. The 11pm questions stop.
  • Growth is no longer capped at your personal capacity.
  • You work on the business again, the part you actually loved.
The cost in numbers

Founder dependency has a price tag.

This is not just about your evenings. Buyers, investors, and valuators put a hard number on a business that cannot run without its founder.

10–40%

The discount buyers and valuators apply to owner-dependent businesses. In severe cases it reaches 50% of enterprise value.

4.49x vs 2.93x

The profit multiple offered for businesses that run without their owner, versus those that depend on one. Over 50% more, for the same profit.

70–80%

Of businesses that go to market never sell. Owner dependency is one of the most common reasons buyers walk away.

Run your own numbers

Say your business produces $1M in pre-tax profit. At the owner-dependent multiple of 2.93x, it is worth about $2.9M. At the independent multiple of 4.49x, about $4.5M. Same company, same profit. A $1.5M gap that exists only because everything still runs through you.

The Blueprint is a $15,000 program. If reducing your dependency closes even a tenth of that gap, it returns ten times what it costs. And that is before counting what your reclaimed hours are worth over the next twelve months.

Figures from published industry data: owner-dependency valuation discounts (Sofer Advisors), profit-multiple comparison for owner-independent businesses (The Value Builder System), and market data on unsold business listings (IBBA and business brokerage reports). Ranges vary by industry, size, and deal terms. Illustrative, not a guarantee of outcomes.

The blueprint

Three engines. Nine projects. One map.

This is the whole program on one page: each engine breaks one of the three problems, and each engine is built from three concrete projects we run together.

The Founder Hand-Off Blueprint map: the goal, three problems, three engines and nine projects
How the 12 weeks run

Three phases, each ending in a milestone you can see.

1–4WEEKS

Clear Decisions · decisions off your desk

We map every decision that lands on you, give each one a single owner, and set the guardrails: what they decide alone, what they check first, and what stays off-limits.

You leave with: your Founder Dependence baseline and a 30-day ownership plan.
5–8WEEKS

Weekly Ownership · the team owns outcomes

We rebuild your leadership meetings so they end in decisions and clear owners, not status updates. Your team starts bringing recommendations instead of problems.

You leave with: a leadership rhythm that produces decisions without you chairing everything.
9–12WEEKS

Proven Independence · the week runs without you

Your team executes real projects while I coach from the side. Then the real test: you step away for two weeks and we see if it holds. What works gets locked into the playbook.

You leave with: a passed two-week absence test and your documented ownership playbook.
What's included

Built as 1:1 advisory, not a course.

Weekly 1:1 advisory calls with Vahab Hasiri
Async access between sessions, so your questions never wait a week
Founder Dependence Diagnostic in week 1 and week 12
The Decision Mapper GPT tool
Post-program ownership documentation
The two-week founder absence test, run and reviewed together
The investment

One program. A founding rate while the first case studies are built.

Standard Rate
$15,000
Paid in full, or 3 monthly payments of $5,500
  • The same complete 12-week program
  • No case-study participation required
  • Two-week money-back guarantee

Why the founding rate exists: these frameworks are not new. I have run them for years inside real companies, as a COO, a co-founder, and an operations adviser. What is new is the packaging: this is the first time I am offering them as a structured 12-week program. The first five founders get it at $9,000 in exchange for documenting their before-and-after results as case studies. When those seats are gone, this rate retires permanently.

The terms

Low risk for you. High commitment from me.

Two-week guarantee

If you don't have your Founder Dependence baseline, clear decision list, and 30-day plan after two weeks, you get a full refund. No conditions.

Five founders per quarter

This is 1:1 work, so I take a maximum of five new founders each quarter. When the quarter is full, the next intake opens the following quarter.

The right fit

This works for a specific kind of founder.

This is for you if

  • You run a SaaS, Fintech, or service business at $2M to $20M
  • You already have a leadership team in place
  • Too many decisions still run through you
  • You want to work on the business, not buried inside it

This is not for you if

  • You're pre-revenue or don't yet have a team to hand off to
  • You're looking for done-for-you operations outsourcing
  • You want a course or templates without doing the work
Why listen to me

As COO of Aron Groups, I helped grow the company from five million to nineteen point two million in annual revenue, with around 250 people worldwide. Since then I have co-founded and run operations for startups, most recently as co-founder and COO of X Securities, and advised brands such as Epic Pips on their operations. Different companies, same frameworks. The ones inside this program.

I also know exactly how this feels from the inside. For years, I was the person everything ran through, until I redesigned how decisions, ownership, and rhythm worked around me. This program is that system.

$5M $19.2M
Revenue growth at Aron Groups during my years as COO
"Vahab brought discipline and structure to how we operated. Responsibilities and processes became clear, the disarray disappeared, and the company ran with real professionalism and efficiency."
Mo Radmehr Head of Operations, Aron Groups
Where I've operated

Companies I've built, run, and advised.

The frameworks in this program aren't theory. They're what I ran as a COO, co-founder, and advisor across fintech and prop-trading operating rooms between 2022 and 2026.

Aron Groups
COO, then Advisor
X Securities
Co-Founder & COO
Propification
Co-Founder · Acquired
Epic Pips
Co-Founder · Merged
X Finance
Advised

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Five founders per quarter. The founding rate ends when the 5 seats are filled.