The Million Dollar Hurdle

The Million-Dollar Playbooks

You know what’s wrong.This installs the fix.

Six AI-assisted systems that sit down with your actual business — your people, your prices, your week — and hand you something you can put to work on Monday.

Before

Everything routes through you.

Quotes over $2KWarranty callsOrderingPayrollAfter-hours phoneHiringComplaintsEvery inspection
You

After Playbook D

A new owner for every decision.

Warranty calls
Marcus · Delegate
Ordering
Marcus · Coach
Payroll
Angela · Delegate
After-hours phone
Answering service · Delegate
Complaints
Angela · Coach
Every inspection
Tyler · cert plan
Quotes over $2K
You · for now
Hiring
You · final say

Example · fictional business

Move your first decision off your plate this month.

Emailed in minutes · 100-day refund, keep the files

Hurdle Math · run this first

Find the money before you chase it.

Most owners guess where the next million comes from. Hurdle Math adds it up from your own numbers — the leads you already lost, the customers who quietly left, the prices you never raised. Most of it is already inside the business.

Start with your own number.

Gap to his $1.05M goal

$161,332

Route 1 · More customers✓
Route 2 · What you charge$33,650
Route 3 · Leads you already paid for✓
Route 4 · Customers walking out the back$95,448

Recoverable, already in the business

$338,206

Example · fictional pest-control company, $889K revenue

How it works

You answer. It builds.

Paste one training file into the AI you already use — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini. It asks about your business, one question at a time. What comes back won’t fit the shop down the road, because it was built from your answers.

Your AI assistant · Playbook D
List the decisions that still come to you every week — even the small ones.
Quotes over $2K. Warranty calls. Ordering. Payroll. The after-hours phone. Every termite inspection.
Which of those could Marcus do today if you wrote down how you decide?
Warranty calls and ordering, probably.

Your Delegation Ladder

Built from your answers

DecisionWho owns it nextRung: now → 30 days
Warranty callsMarcusDirect → Delegate
OrderingMarcusDo → Coach
After-hours callsAnswering serviceDo → Delegate
Termite inspectionsTylerDo → Direct (cert plan)

Example · fictional business

Not technical? If you can paste text into a chat box, you can run these.

Your lowest score picks your Playbook.

Six Playbooks, but you only start with one. The free Scorecard finds the section holding the rest back. START HERE tells you which Playbook fixes it.

Your Scorecard

A · Credibility
18
B · Revenue Flow
15
C · Culture & People
16
D · Owner Dependence
8
E · Scale Readiness
14

Example scores

Start here

Playbook D

Owner Dependence

The Delegation Ladder: the recurring decisions that still come to you, where each one sits today, and the three you’ll move up a rung in the next 30 days — each with a new owner.

DoDirectCoachDelegateTrust
Lowest: A
Playbook A · Credibility
Lowest: B
Playbook B · Lead handling
Lowest: C
Playbook C · Culture
Lowest: D
Playbook D · Delegation
Lowest: E
Playbook Zero · Your numbers
Any time
Playbook P · What you charge

Haven’t taken the Scorecard? It’s free, about 5 minutes →

What’s inside

Not explanations. Things you can hand to a person.

Hurdle Math

Where your next million actually comes from. Run this first, always.

Playbook Zero

The numbers everything else depends on.

Playbook A

Credibility. Why you’re not being chosen before anyone talks to you.

Playbook B

Revenue flow and lead handling. Where the leads you already paid for are leaking out.

Playbook C

Culture and management. Turning it into something that runs without you in the room.

Playbook D

Owner dependence. The Delegation Ladder: three decisions up a rung in 30 days, each with a new owner.

Playbook P

What you charge. The only lever that adds revenue without adding customers, capacity, or cost.

Plus

The AI Training Files, four worksheets and trackers in Word and Excel, and a START HERE that tells you which one to run first.

This or the Deep Diagnostic first?

Your call. Both work.

The Deep Diagnostic scores you across 84 questions and tells you exactly where you stand, in writing. If you want to be certain before you start, do that first. But if you’ve taken the free Scorecard and you know which section is lowest, you already have what you need. Start here.

What doesn’t work is running all six at once. One at a time, in order.

Who these are for

An owner or operator working on their own business — your numbers, your people. Consultants, coaches, and agencies using them with clients need a different license: reports@fitzgeraldgrowthpartners.com

On your data. You choose what to type. Use an assistant you already trust, and initials instead of names where it doesn’t change the answer.

Questions

How do I get them?

They’re emailed to you within minutes of checkout. Every document comes as a PDF and an editable Word file.

Which AI assistant do I need?

Whichever you already use — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini. The training files are plain text, so they paste cleanly into any of them.

How long does one take?

About 15 minutes to read, then 25–30 minutes with the AI. Most owners finish one in a single sitting. Putting the output to work happens over the following weeks.

My business is different. Will this work?

That’s the point of the AI interview. It builds from your answers about your business, so a dentist and a roofer get different output from the same Playbook.

$47. Emailed in minutes.A hundred days to decide.

Use them for a hundred days. If they haven’t earned their keep, email me and I’ll refund you in full — and you keep the files. I’m not asking you to trust me. I’m asking you to try it.

Emailed within minutesWorks with any AI assistant100-day refund, keep the files

— Jim Fitzgerald