Revenue leadership through to exit · Northeast
First we build it. Then we make you an offer.
Rob Spalding comes into founder-led home services companies and builds the revenue side, so the business stops depending on you. That's the same work that makes a company worth buying. When it's ready, and only if you want it, he's the buyer.
or call 603.531.0053
Rob Spalding
Founder & Principal
Revenue leadership through to exit · Northeast
First we build it. Then we make you
an offer.
Rob Spalding comes into founder-led home services companies and builds the revenue side, so the business stops depending on you. That's the same work that makes a company worth buying. When it's ready, and only if you want it, he's the buyer.
or call 603.531.0053
Rob Spalding
Founder & Principal
$0 to $9.2M
Revenue built from zero
Cyclyx
380%
Revenue growth in 30 months
Agilyx
$135M
Capital raised
Cyclyx
25 years
Inside companies
Not advising from outside
The ninety day test
Walk out for ninety days. What breaks first?
01
The quotes sitting with you go cold. Nobody else knows where they stood or what you'd already agreed to.
02
New work stops, because the relationships are yours. The crews finish what's booked and then wait.
03
Your people keep the trucks running and hope you come back soon. Which you will, because they're good people. That's not a plan.
Nobody sets out to become the Chief Bottleneck Officer. It happens to almost every owner who's good at the work, because being good at it is exactly what makes everyone route around the system and come straight to you.
The ninety day test
Walk out for ninety days. What breaks first?
01
The quotes sitting with you go cold. Nobody else knows where they stood or what you'd already agreed to.
02
New work stops, because the relationships are yours. The crews finish what's booked and then wait.
03
Your people keep the trucks running and hope you come back soon. Which you will, because they're good people. That's not a plan.
Nobody sets out to become the Chief Bottleneck Officer. It happens to almost every owner who's good at the work, because being good at it is exactly what makes everyone route around the system and come straight to you.
We hear the same four things in every first call
Not because owners are short on ideas. Because nobody ever built the thing
underneath the ideas.
"I'm the sales team of one"
You've got people who do the work beautifully. You don't have anybody who can sit across from a customer and close it the way you do. So it stays with you, and your calendar decides how big the company gets.
"I hired someone and they were gone
in nine months"
It usually wasn't the person. They walked into a business with no process written down, no CRM worth using, no training, and a pipeline that lived in your head. Nobody succeeds in that. The next hire won't either, until it's fixed.
"Half of what matters is buried in my
inbox"
Quotes, promises, the thing you told a customer back in March. If it isn't written down somewhere your team can reach, it isn't a system. It's memory, and memory doesn't scale and doesn't transfer.
"I'm making the calls on gut feel"
Which has worked, or you wouldn't be here. But you can't say which jobs actually make money, which lead sources are worth anything, or what next year looks like. So every investment feels like a bet.
We hear the same four things in every first call
Not because owners are short on ideas. Because nobody ever built the thing underneath the ideas.
"I'm the sales team of one"
You've got people who do the work beautifully. You don't have anybody who can sit across from a customer and close it the way you do. So it stays with you, and your calendar decides how big the company gets.
"I hired someone and they were gone in nine months"
It usually wasn't the person. They walked into a business with no process written down, no CRM worth using, no training, and a pipeline that lived in your head. Nobody succeeds in that. The next hire won't either, until it's fixed.
"Half of what matters is buried in my inbox"
Quotes, promises, the thing you told a customer back in March. If it isn't written down somewhere your team can reach, it isn't a system. It's memory, and memory doesn't scale and doesn't transfer.
"I'm making the calls on gut feel"
Which has worked, or you wouldn't be here. But you can't say which jobs actually make money, which lead sources are worth anything, or what next year looks like. So every investment feels like a bet.
There are two
versions of your
company
They can do identical revenue and identical profit. A buyer will not value them
the same, and the difference is not small.
They can do identical revenue and identical profit. A buyer will not value them
the same, and the difference is not small.
What most owners have
A job that employs people
The owner closes the work
A buyer is purchasing a customer list and some trucks
Nothing keeps running if he leaves
The process lives in one head
The relationships are personal
What gets bought
A business
A team closes the work
The relationships belong to the company
The process is written down and trained
Revenue keeps arriving without the owner in it
A buyer is purchasing something that runs
You spent years building
the first one. We build you
the second one.
Worth knowing which one you're holding before you
find out at the closing table.
How this actually
goes
One engagement, three stages, and a defined end. Every stage stands on its
own, and you decide whether the next one happens.
01
Build
First 120 days
We install the revenue function the
business never had, and get you out
of the middle of it.
A revenue plan built around how you
actually sell
A CRM your team will use
Outbound and marketing running every
week
Process written down, people trained on
it
02
Prove
The following months
The systems run without you and the
numbers say so. This is the part a buyer
pays for, and it can't be faked in a data
room.
A team that performs when you're not
there
Clean numbers, tracked the way a buyer reads them
A team that performs when you're not
there
Books and records that stand up to
diligence
03
Offer
When you say so
Rob makes an offer on the business he
helped build. You take it, or you keep a
company now worth considerably more
than the one you started with.
A direct offer from the buyer, no broker in between
No fee to you at any point in this stage
Confidential from start to finish
Walking away is a completely
acceptable outcome
How this actually
goes
One engagement, three stages, and a defined end. Every stage stands on its
own, and you decide whether the next one happens.
01
Build
First 120 days
We install the revenue function the
business never had, and get you out
of the middle of it.
A revenue plan built around how you actually sell
A CRM your team will use
Outbound and marketing running every week
Process written down, people trained on it
02
Prove
The following months
The systems run without you and the
numbers say so. This is the part a buyer
pays for, and it can't be faked in a data
room.
A team that performs when you're not there
Clean numbers, tracked the way a buyer reads them
A team that performs when you're not there
Books and records that stand up to diligence
03
Offer
When you say so
Rob makes an offer on the business he
helped build. You take it, or you keep a
company now worth considerably more
than the one you started with.
A direct offer from the buyer, no broker in between
No fee to you at any point in this stage
Confidential from start to finish
Walking away is a completely
acceptable outcome
Why this works better than a consultant
Every other advisor
gets paid whether
it worked. Rob might
have to buy the
result.
That's the whole difference. A consultant delivers a report and moves on. An
agency bills monthly regardless. Rob is building something he may end up
owning, which means there is no version of this where he benefits from work
that only looks good on paper. If the business isn't genuinely better, he isn't
buying it, and he knows that on day one.
Why this works better than a consultant
Every other advisor gets paid whether
it worked. Rob might
have to buy the result.
That's the whole difference. A consultant delivers a report and moves on. An
agency bills monthly regardless. Rob is building something he may end up
owning, which means there is no version of this where he benefits from work
that only looks good on paper. If the business isn't genuinely better, he isn't
buying it, and he knows that on day one.
Stage one
The build
You get senior revenue leadership and the team to execute it, for roughly half what one VP costs you. We build it, we run it alongside your people, and you own every piece of it whether or not you ever sell.
A revenue plan built around how you actually sell
Not a template. We start by watching how work really comes in and where it dies.
A CRM your team will use
Set up properly, with follow up that happens whether or not you remember.
Your process written down and your people trained on it
Not a burst in month one and silence after.
Outbound and marketing running every week
The part that means it survives us leaving, and the part a buyer reads
first.
One number reviewed every week
Qualified conversations booked. Everything else is noise.
The guarantee
Your pipeline doubles in 120
days, or we keep working until
it does.
At no extra cost. You've carried enough risk building this
thing.
Stage one
The build
You get senior revenue leadership and the team to execute it, for roughly half what one VP costs you. We build it, we run it alongside your people, and you own every piece of it whether or not you ever sell.
A revenue plan built around how you actually sell
Not a template. We start by watching how work really comes in and where it dies.
A CRM your team will use
Set up properly, with follow up that happens whether or not you remember.
Your process written down and your people trained on it
Not a burst in month one and silence after.
Outbound and marketing running every week
The part that means it survives us leaving, and the part a buyer reads
first.
One number reviewed every week
Qualified conversations booked. Everything else is noise.
The guarantee
Your pipeline doubles in 120
days, or we keep working until
it does.
At no extra cost. You've carried enough risk building this
thing.
Stage three
The offer
Rob buys home services companies as a principal. Not a broker taking a listing, not a middleman shopping you around. By the time this conversation happens he's already spent a year inside your business, which means no diligence circus and no strangers
walking your shop floor.
He already knows what he's buying
Which is why this moves in weeks rather than the better part of a year.
Your timeline, not ours
Which is why this moves in weeks rather than the better part of a year.
Completely confidential
Which is why this moves in weeks rather than the better part of a year.
What your people would be walking into
For most owners this matters more than price. It's a fair question and you should ask it on day one, not at the end.
No obligation, ever
Say no and you keep a better company than the one you had. That was the point either way.
This part happens by phone
Ask for Rob. If you'd rather not put anything in writing yet, that's understandable, and it's how most of these start.
Stage three
The offer
Rob buys home services companies as a principal. Not a broker taking a listing, not a middleman shopping you around. By the time this conversation happens he's already spent a year inside your business, which means no diligence circus and no strangers
walking your shop floor.
He already knows what he's buying
Which is why this moves in weeks rather than the better part of a year.
Your timeline, not ours
Which is why this moves in weeks rather than the better part of a year.
Completely confidential
Which is why this moves in weeks rather than the better part of a year.
What your people would be walking into
For most owners this matters more than price. It's a fair question and you should ask it on day one, not at the end.
No obligation, ever
Say no and you keep a better company than the one you had. That was the point either way.
This part happens by phone
Ask for Rob. If you'd rather not put anything in writing yet, that's understandable, and it's how most of these start.
Who you'd be dealing
with
Owners don't need
another person with
opinions about their
business. They need
somebody who'll get
in it with them.
Rob Spalding
Rob spent more than twenty five years building the revenue side of companies from the inside, not advising from a chair outside the room. At Cyclyx in New Hampshire he built the commercial function from nothing to $9.2 million, at a company that went on to raise $135 million. Before that, Agilyx.
He works with a small number of owners at a time and does the work himself. When you talk to Rob you're talking to the person who'd be in your business. And if it goes that way, the person buying it.
Growth House Partners is based in New Hampshire and works across the Northeast, on site and remote.
Who you'd be dealing
with
Owners don't need
another person with
opinions about their
business. They need
somebody who'll get
in it with them.
Rob Spalding
Rob spent more than twenty five years building the revenue side of companies from the inside, not advising from a chair outside the room. At Cyclyx in New Hampshire he built the commercial function from nothing to $9.2 million, at a company that went on to raise $135 million. Before that, Agilyx.
He works with a small number of owners at a time and does the work himself. When you talk to Rob you're talking to the person who'd be in your business. And if it goes that way, the person buying it.
Growth House Partners is based in New Hampshire and works across the Northeast, on site and remote.
The things owners
say next
"Hold on. You fix it and then you buy it?"
Yes, and you should ask that. Here's how it's kept clean. The build is priced on its own and paid
for on its own, so it stands as a fair deal whether or not anything else ever happens. You're never
obligated to sell, and Rob is never obligated to buy.
The reason it's a better arrangement than a consultant is the reason it sounds strange at first.
Rob has to live with the result. Nobody who might own a business later has any interest in
propping it up on paper today.
"Won't he just talk my valuation down?"
Yes, and you should ask that. Here's how it's kept clean. The build is priced on its own and paid
for on its own, so it stands as a fair deal whether or not anything else ever happens. You're never
obligated to sell, and Rob is never obligated to buy.
The reason it's a better arrangement than a consultant is the reason it sounds strange at first.
Rob has to live with the result. Nobody who might own a business later has any interest in
propping it up on paper today.
"I've been burned by an agency before"
Most owners we talk to have been. Usually it was somebody running ads or posting for you, with
no idea how your business actually makes money and no accountability to a number that
mattered. We work inside the business, on your systems, and we report one number every week.
If it isn't moving, you'll know before we tell you.
"I'm not selling and I'm not going to"
Fine, and plenty of owners here never do. The work that makes a company sellable is the same
work that makes it run without you. Even if you never sell a share, you'd probably like to take a
real vacation. Build it so it could be sold and you get that either way.
"What does it cost?"
The build depends on the size of the business and what you actually need, so we won't put a
number on a website and pretend it's real. It's meaningfully less than a senior sales hire, and Rob
gives you a straight figure on the first or second conversation, not after six meetings. Stage three
carries no fee to you at all.
The things owners
say next
"Hold on. You fix it and then you buy it?"
Yes, and you should ask that. Here's how it's kept clean. The build is priced on its own and paid
for on its own, so it stands as a fair deal whether or not anything else ever happens. You're never
obligated to sell, and Rob is never obligated to buy.
The reason it's a better arrangement than a consultant is the reason it sounds strange at first.
Rob has to live with the result. Nobody who might own a business later has any interest in
propping it up on paper today.
"Won't he just talk my valuation down?"
Yes, and you should ask that. Here's how it's kept clean. The build is priced on its own and paid
for on its own, so it stands as a fair deal whether or not anything else ever happens. You're never
obligated to sell, and Rob is never obligated to buy.
The reason it's a better arrangement than a consultant is the reason it sounds strange at first.
Rob has to live with the result. Nobody who might own a business later has any interest in
propping it up on paper today.
"I've been burned by an agency before"
Most owners we talk to have been. Usually it was somebody running ads or posting for you, with
no idea how your business actually makes money and no accountability to a number that
mattered. We work inside the business, on your systems, and we report one number every week.
If it isn't moving, you'll know before we tell you.
"I'm not selling and I'm not going to"
Fine, and plenty of owners here never do. The work that makes a company sellable is the same
work that makes it run without you. Even if you never sell a share, you'd probably like to take a
real vacation. Build it so it could be sold and you get that either way.
"What does it cost?"
The build depends on the size of the business and what you actually need, so we won't put a
number on a website and pretend it's real. It's meaningfully less than a senior sales hire, and Rob
gives you a straight figure on the first or second conversation, not after six meetings. Stage three
carries no fee to you at all.
Who this is for, and
who it isn't
We'd rather tell you now than take a meeting we both regret.
This fits
This doesn't
Home services, trades, and commercial services
Pre-revenue companies chasing a first customer
Roughly $2M to $10M in revenue
Software, agencies, and other consultants
The founder or owner still runs the day to day
Owners winding down with nothing left to build
Profitable, with a real crew behind the work
Anyone who wants a report handed over and no involvement
Somewhere between two and twenty five years old
Businesses where the owner is the product
Northeast and Mid-Atlantic
Companies already owned by private equity
Who this is for, and
who it isn't
We'd rather tell you now than take a meeting we both regret.
This fits
This doesn't
Home services, trades, and commercial services
Pre-revenue companies chasing a first customer
Roughly $2M to $10M in revenue
Software, agencies, and other consultants
The founder or owner still runs the day to day
Owners winding down with nothing left to build
Profitable, with a real crew behind the work
Anyone who wants a report handed over and no involvement
Somewhere between two and twenty five years old
Businesses where the owner is the product
Northeast and Mid-Atlantic
Companies already owned by private equity
Start a
conversation
Four questions, then somebody on our team calls you back, usually the same
day. Fifteen minutes to work out together whether there's anything here. If there
isn't, we'll tell you on that call.
RATHER JUST CALL
Most owners would rather talk than type, and
that's fine. Call and ask for Rob.
If you're closer to selling than building and
don't want anything in writing yet, this is the
better way to start.
Start a
conversation
Four questions, then somebody on our team calls you back, usually the same
day. Fifteen minutes to work out together whether there's anything here. If there
isn't, we'll tell you on that call.
RATHER JUST CALL
Most owners would rather talk than type, and
that's fine. Call and ask for Rob.
If you're closer to selling than building and
don't want anything in writing yet, this is the
better way to start.
Growth House
Partners
We build the revenue side of founder-led home
services companies. And when an owner is ready,
we're the buyer.
service area
Northeastern United States
Remote and on site
© 2026 Growth House Partners. All rights reserved.
Growth House
Partners
We build the revenue side of founder-led home
services companies. And when an owner is ready,
we're the buyer.
service area
Northeastern United States
Remote and on site
© 2026 Growth House Partners. All rights reserved.