The founders below brought me in when the climb got hard.
I've built and sold five companies. I co-founded Pragmatic Works, sold it into 3Cloud in 2020, then ran the data and AI business as revenue grew more than 12x past $300M through eight acquisitions and the January 2026 sale to Cognizant. These are the numbers we moved together.
As co-founder of the data & AI platform company, and a P&L owner inside it, I built an Azure data and AI business through the growth and the exit.
The platform grew revenue more than 12x across the hold, north of 20% a year organic, through eight integrated acquisitions.
Great talent and real vision. The playbook was the gap.
Tecknoworks has deep engineering talent and a founder with a clear vision. The gap was the system to grow: pipeline, partnerships, delivery, and the pricing underneath them.
Tecknoworks shipped strong work and kept clients loyal. Growth still stalled, because three pieces were missing. Sales ran through referrals and the founder, so pipeline never compounded. The partner channel sat idle, so co-sell and alliance deals never showed up. And delivery, sharp as it was, hadn't matured into a model that protects margin as the firm scales.
We built these in parallel in our first phase together. A pipeline engine and a sales motion the team runs without the founder. A partner and alliance play that turns idle relationships into deal flow. A delivery model matured to hold margin as volume climbs. Underneath all of it sat the piece they'd been missing: a real playbook, documented and owned by the team, so the growth keeps going after I leave.
Now the team builds its own pipeline, the partner channel produces deals, and delivery scales without giving back margin. Win rate more than doubled. They charge what the work is worth.
I learned more from working with Adam in 30 days than all the other coaches I've worked with combined. Having someone who has done our exact journey successfully so many times is invaluable. The change we've seen in our business is incredible.
What we achieved together.
These founders came in stuck in different places: pipeline, delivery, leadership, a deal that had to close. Here's what they say about the work we did together.
Adam and the Everest Team brought new levels of leadership and strategy to growing our AI business. The results have profoundly accelerated our growth and capability.
Adam came alongside me as a peer and a partner, coaching me through the process and guiding me past the points of doubt and indecision as we went through a complicated transaction. I won't do this again without him.
Full disclosure: the transaction Chris describes was Polaris's sale to 3Cloud, where I helped lead the deal from the 3Cloud side. We've worked side by side since.
Role-plays and practice until we were ready. Twelve months later we have new products in the market, amazing new partnerships, and our product engineering function is transformed. Our future is exciting and bright!
More references on request. Founders I've worked with will take a short call and tell you what the work was actually like.
I keep the portfolio small on purpose.
A handful of firms at a time is the only way I stay in the room each week, on the deals and the hard calls. It also means the founders I work with join something bigger than one engagement.
Why the list stays short
I take on four firms at most, so I stay on your real work week after week. You get an operator who knows your business cold and shows up for the calls that matter, the deal you're about to lose, the hire who stopped scaling, the board meeting you're dreading.
The circle you join
Every founder I work with plugs into the network I've built over the years: the founders I've coached up the same mountain, the operators I've run alongside, and the AI experts I bring into the work. They take each other's calls. The introduction you need, or the person who solved last quarter what you're facing now, is usually one message away.
You've seen their numbers. Tell me where you want yours to land.
Thirty minutes. You've read what they say. Bring me your numbers and I'll tell you straight whether I can move them the same way.
Talk to Adam