advisory
Nobody teaches you the business part.design partner
You learned to row and to run trips. Pricing, capacity, hiring, buying a permit, selling the place one day — those you have been figuring out alone.
The hardest questions in this industry get asked at the bar, once a year
Should I raise rates. Should I buy that permit. Can I afford another boat and another guide. What happens to this place when I am done. These are the decisions that actually determine what your business is worth, and most operators make them with no one to talk to.
We sit across from a lot of operations, and we can see what worked. That should be worth something to you, and it should not require hiring a consultant who has never been in a drift boat.
what we are building
The shape of it
Pricing, with evidence
What you charge against what the trip earns after guide pay. Most operations are underpriced somewhere specific.
Capacity and growth
Whether the next boat, guide, or permit pays for itself, and what it does to the days you personally have to work.
Hiring and keeping guides
What makes good guides stay, which is mostly not money. The rotation, the schedule, and getting paid on time.
Succession and sale
What the business is worth, what makes it worth more, and how to hand it over. The conversation almost nobody starts early enough.
the platform underneath
Operations running on Brindlechute today
The service is new. The operations behind it are not.
Build this with us
This is early and deliberately small. If there is a decision you have been circling for a season, that is the conversation we want to have.