TANDM COMMUNITY
FOUNDERS MAKE BETTER DECISIONS WHEN THEY'RE TALKING WITH OTHER FOUNDERS DOING THE SAME WORK
TANDM is not only a consulting firm. It is also a community of founders working through the operational preparation of building beyond founder dependency, navigating the considerations of transaction or transition, and doing the structural work that converts founder-led service businesses into transferable assets. The community work is structural to how TANDM operates not an afterthought to the consulting practice but a deliberate component of the firm's design.
SIX-MONTH STRUCTURED PROGRAMS
Eight to twelve founders moving through the methodology together Bi-weekly sessions. Monthly hot seats. Sustained peer accountability.
The Jumpmaster Cohort is TANDM's structured group program eight to twelve founders engaging in a six-month cohort that moves through the Exit-Ready Method™ together. Bi-weekly group sessions facilitated by Hamid, covering the operational work, the case discussions, and the peer challenge work. Monthly one-to-one hot seats where each cohort member presents their current operational challenge to the group for structured feedback and accountability. Templates and frameworks shared across the cohort. Sustained peer connections that often continue beyond the formal six-month engagement.
The cohort works for founders who want the structure and accountability of a TANDM engagement at a lower price point than the private advisory tiers, and who specifically value the peer community work. Most cohort members come from Digital Agencies and Professional Businesses in the $2M–$10M revenue range. Cohort composition is curated to mix categories deliberately founders of Digital Agencies and Professional Businesses working alongside accounting firm founders working alongside medical practice founders because the cross-category exposure produces insights that single-category cohorts don't.
Cohort pricing is $3K–$5K monthly across the six-month engagement. Next cohort dates are announced through the TANDM newsletter and direct outreach to qualified founders. To express interest in an upcoming cohort, schedule a conversation through the contact page.
REGIONAL EVENTS
Jumpmaster meetups in major founder markets Where founders meet other founders doing the work
TANDM hosts local Jumpmaster meetups in cities with concentrations of founder-led service businesses. Format varies sometimes facilitated discussions around specific operational topics, sometimes informal founder dinners, sometimes day-long workshops led by one of the Jumpmasters. The meetups are typically free or low-cost and open to founders considering TANDM engagement, current TANDM clients, and alumni.
Meetup schedule is announced through the TANDM newsletter. To be notified of meetups in your region, subscribe through the contact page or schedule a conversation directly.
ONGOING CONNECTIONS
TANDM clients and alumni stay connected through the operational journey and beyond
Many TANDM relationships continue long after the formal engagement ends. Alumni connect with current clients facing situations the alumni navigated previously. Cohort members maintain peer-accountability relationships years after their cohort ended. The Jumpmasters maintain advisor relationships with alumni operating their businesses post-engagement.
The founder network is informal not a paid membership, not a structured program, just the ongoing community that emerges from clients and alumni who have done the operational work together. TANDM facilitates introductions, hosts gatherings, and maintains the connections, but the network operates as a founder community rather than as a TANDM product.
OUR CONVICTION
The operational work is hard, and most founders are doing it alone
The reason TANDM emphasizes community is structural to the work. The operational preparation of building beyond founder dependency is uncomfortable. Distributing client relationships from a founder who has held them for decades is uncomfortable. Restructuring senior team authority is uncomfortable. Restating financials and confronting normalized EBITDA is uncomfortable. Running the two-week absence test and watching things break is uncomfortable.
Founders make better decisions on this work when they're talking with other founders going through the same discomfort. The peer connection produces honesty that consultant-client relationships alone cannot founders tell each other things they wouldn't tell consultants. The peer accountability produces follow-through that consultant accountability alone cannot. The peer learning compounds across cohorts in ways that single-engagement learning cannot.
TANDM invests in community because the operational work is better with it.
GETTING INVOLVED
Three paths into the TANDM community.
Join the founder community
Join the community.