Helping Founders Find Their Freedom
Helping established B2B founders prepare their business for growth, investment, or sale — guided by founders who've done it themselves.
Helping established B2B founders prepare their business for growth, investment, or sale — guided by founders who've done it themselves.
Results & Outcomes
After exiting for £13.3 million in 1,000 days, I built The Grafter so no founder has to figure it out alone. Now I teach it, with a team of Exiteers™ by my side.
Rachel Murphy
Founder of The Grafter
You've built something successful. So why does it still feel this hard?
The business works, and that’s exactly why it’s time to change how it runs. By reducing founder dependency and strengthening the right systems and people, you can step back without things falling apart. That’s what turns a good business into one that can scale, evolve, or sell on your terms.
As the stakes rise, so does the value of experience. Big calls around markets, pricing, structure, or acquisition don’t need to be made in isolation. With someone alongside you who’s built and sold before, decisions get clearer, cleaner, and better sequenced: saving time, energy, and regret.
Whether you’re aiming for growth, investment, exit, or simply running the best business you can, the opportunity is the same: maximise enterprise value without creating noise or uncertainty. Quiet, deliberate preparation gives you choices, and keeps those choices yours.
Imagine a future where...
The Engagement Process
Most founders come to us at a very specific point. They’ve built something that works. Revenue is in the £2–30m range, or you’ve raised a Series A and planning how to maximise that investment. The business is stable enough to have options, but not yet shaped for the future they want.
That future usually looks like one of two things:
- scaling the business with intent, not just effort
- preparing for a meaningful exit in the next 3–5 years
The important part isn’t the outcome. It’s the timing. If you’re thinking about what the next 3–5 years should look like, this is when the work starts. The earlier you engage, the more optionality you create, the bigger the impact you can control.
That’s the sweet spot where The Grafter does its best work.
Initial Contact
You reach out via the contact form with a few essentials: your name, company, sector, and current turnover. This is enough to start a sensible conversation, and the more you share, the better prepared we can be for how to help.
Discovery call
A short, focused conversation with us to understand where you are, what’s prompted the conversation, and whether The Grafter is the right fit. This is about alignment, not selling.
Proposal
If there’s a good fit, we’ll outline a clear proposal tailored to your situation: including scope, approach, and what working together would actually look like.
Business Diagnostic
Every engagement starts with The Grafter’s Business Diagnostic. This is where we build a deep, shared understanding of the business, including its maturity, risks, opportunities, and the founder’s longer-term goals.
Exiteer™ led programme
From there, an Exiteer™ is matched to you and works alongside you and your team over the next 12 months. The focus is on closing gaps, building strength, and preparing the business for what comes next, whether that’s growth, investment, or exit. Which is why we call this programme "Grow-Raise-Exit"
We don’t drop in with opinions or generic advice. We build context first, then apply experience where it matters. That’s what allows founders to make better decisions, earlier, and with confidence.
Meet our Exiteers
Founders who've built, scaled, and exited. Now helping you do the same. An Exiteer™ is a founder who’s been through growth, fundraising, or exit themselves, and is trained to guide others through it. Every Exiteer™ is trained in The Grafter’s methodologies and frameworks, and works within a shared approach, but brings their own perspective, judgement, and scar tissue to the table.
"What made the biggest difference was the support; proper, compelling, confident honesty. I knew I was going to get an honest answer whenever I called.""
Ready to find your freedom?
Get in touch and find how an Exiteer can help prepare you for your next chapter
