Freehold gives you your evenings back — by building a business that runs, and pays you, without you in the room. Start with your number: how free you actually are, and what being the bottleneck costs you a year.
28 questions · about ten minutes · your score appears on screen — no email needed to see it
You've probably weighed the usual routes out
Every one of them is dear, generic, or homework. Freehold is the method itself — proven across dozens of UK manufacturers — that you install on your own, starting at £97. Start by finding your number, free.
Nobody does. But if a week away means running the place from a caravan awning with a laptop propped on a cool-box — you already know the shape of it. See how many of these you recognise.
"Everything comes through me."
Run a Decision Log for one week and count them. Most of what reaches your desk is a repeat you've already answered a hundred times.
"I haven't had a proper holiday in years."
And when you do go, you take the business with you. The signal, the quotes, the "just in case" file.
"It's quicker if I just do it myself."
The most expensive sentence in your business. It's why the work keeps coming back to you.
"My team don't take ownership."
Usually it isn't the people. It's that the rules live in your head — so everything has to come back to you.
"We're busy, but the margin's slipping."
Turnbacks creeping up, quotes coming in under true cost, and no clear line of sight on either.
"What's it even worth without me?"
A buyer's honest answer is: less than you think. When the business is you, they're buying a job, not an asset.
You can't escape a trap you don't understand. The first step is seeing it clearly — and putting a number on it.
Twenty-eight straight questions about how your business really runs — who decides, who's covered, where the money leaks. Ten minutes gets you your score out of 100, the one thing to fix first, and — if you want it — what the leak is costing you in pounds, per year.
On top of it, but only because the owner never stops. Weakest driver: Owner Independence, so the first three moves start there.
An illustrative example, not a real business. Yours also shows your flags, your first three moves and, if you add a few numbers, an indicative £ figure for what the trap costs you a year.
Every business lands in one of four bands. Which one are you?
The business owns you. The work is to make the plan and the numbers visible.
On top of it — but only because you never stop. Plug the leaks, share the load.
Foundations hold. Hand over cleanly so it runs without you in the room.
It runs, profits and grows without you. Protect the value and keep it transferable.
Your score appears on screen straight away. The emailed report is optional.
Measured, not guessed. That's the whole difference.
Find out how free you are, what's holding you back, and what the trap costs you every year — in cash, and in your own time stuck in the wrong jobs.
A complete DIY kit for one problem: short lessons, the working tools, the wall charts, and a 30-day plan. Nothing withheld. Start with Kit 1.
Guided or private coaching that puts the work in the right order for your business, tracks your live score, and makes sure the fixes stay fixed.
The most acute pain first: everything coming through you, and no way to put the business down for a week. This kit gets your repeated decisions off your desk and proves it with a test — your first fully unreachable day in years.
Inside Kit 1: every lesson opens with a 60-second card. Printables for the wall come with it.
Every penny of the £97 counts towards all eight kits (£600) if you carry on. Take the Score first: it'll show you whether Kit 1 is the right place to start.
Take the free Score →The Score does the selling. No hard sell here.
Consultants charge four figures a day for this work — I know, because I've been that consultant. Freehold puts the same method in your hands for less than a round of materials. Everything is in the kits; the Academy adds live scoring, the right order for your business, and accountability — not withheld secrets. You start free, and climb only as far as you need to.
It all starts with your number. Ten minutes, no cost.
Twenty-five years inside manufacturing businesses. I started in aerospace and defence — where getting it wrong isn't an option — as a divisional lean leader at a global electronics manufacturer, and as an operational-excellence manager rebuilding assembly cells supplying fuel systems for the Airbus A320.
For the past decade I've worked as a senior lean consultant with dozens of British SME manufacturers: moulders, fabricators, joiners, modular builders. The results are below.
But the thing I'm proudest of is simpler: owners who got their evenings back. That's what Freehold is for.
Check me out first — sensible. I'm on LinkedIn →
The same method that's in the kits, from my years as a lean consultant. Clients aren't named: that's confidentiality, not modesty.
A site taken from the bottom of every performance league table to the top three in a single year, at a global electronics manufacturer.
Saved at a moulding firm.
A modular-build company's daily output.
At a Midlands plant, with no extra people. And a joinery's window line lifted by half, with no more space or staff.
Why no client names, logos or testimonials?
Client confidentiality. The results above are real, but I can't name the firms, and I won't invent quotes. Freehold is new, so real reviews will come from the owners who use it. Until then, what you can check is me, by name, and the Score itself: it costs nothing and shows you your own number.
Is the free Score just a funnel?
It's the front door, yes. But your score, your band and your first moves appear on screen without giving an email — the emailed report is optional. If you never spend a penny, you still walk away knowing your number and what to fix first.
What if the kit doesn't work for my business?
The 30-day promise: run the Decision Log week, install your first handover rules, and take a full day unreachable inside 30 days — or tell me it didn't work and I'll make it right.
Ten minutes. No cost. No sales call. You'll walk away with your Freehold Score, the thing holding you back, and the real cost of staying trapped — whether or not you ever buy a thing.
Take the free Score →