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Exit readiness, growth that moves the numbers a buyer checks, and the operating systems that keep a business running without its founder. For owners of consumer brands, creator businesses and service companies, whether the sale is next year or five years out.
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Experience
Brands and creators our teams have worked with, from Factor and ButcherBox to Marisa Peer and Bedros Keuilian.
+ 50 more brands and creatorsThree doors
Same operators, same playbook. This site is the umbrella. Each door is run as its own practice with its own home.
For owners one to five years from a sale. We find the levers a buyer will price, fix them early, and open the door to the right buyers, bankers and advisors when it is time.
Operated as Isleworth & Co. Prepare for an exit 02AgencyOffers, positioning, ads, email, funnels, retention, SEO and AI search, and the AI systems that keep it running. Every service maps to a line in a buyer's diligence checklist.
Operated as THE LABL See the services 03VenturesWe run the playbook on our own money before we run it on yours. StackEasy.ai, Zon Spark and the companies we founded or co‑built.
StackEasy.ai, Zon Spark and eight more Meet the portfolioHow we work
A buyer prices five things. Every service we run is organized around one of them, so growth work and exit work are the same work. Which lever carries the discount changes with the business. The diagnosis scores yours on this ledger in two weeks.
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Founders
Eight exits, four years advising on acquisitions, and twenty years of building and scaling businesses between us.
Insights
Short and useful, written by the founders.
And the twelve-month plan that removes the discount.
ReadWhat it measures, what it ignores, and why.
ReadThree decisions we would make differently, with the numbers.
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