Who you'd be working with
You'll talk to me. There is nobody else here.
I'm Chris Taylor. I run Danny's Automotive here in Midland. I built it the same way I'll work on yours. Measure everything, then argue with the numbers until they say something useful.
I'm not a broker, an accountant, a lawyer or a financial advisor. I don't want to be any of them. What I do is take a business apart on paper. I find where the money goes and where your time goes. Then we put it back together so it runs without you standing in the middle of it.
I take eight clients. That's a hard cap, not a marketing number — it's what one person does properly while running another company. When the seats are full there's a list, and I'll tell you where you are on it.
Why I don't take a commission
Every broker and most advisors here get paid when a deal closes. That's not evil. But it means an owner who isn't ready to sell is worth nothing to them. That's most owners. It's also most of the ones who need the work.
I charge a flat fee and I never take a commission, a success fee, or a finder's fee on anything. Not from you, and not from anybody I send you to. Whether you sell is your call. I get paid the same either way, which is the only reason you should believe a word I say about it.
What I'm actually good at
Analysis. Hand me a business and I want every number that matters. Then I want to know what each one should be. That's the part I'm unusually good at. It's also the part almost nobody does, because it's slow, it's dull, and it doesn't sell as well as confidence.
The rest of it is judgment. What to fix first. When to tell you the second-in-command you're proud of isn't ready yet. That part comes from making most of these mistakes in my own shop first.
Questions about who you're hiring
Who is Chris Taylor?
One person, running a business analytics practice out of Midland, Texas, for Texas service businesses under $5M. There is no firm behind this and no associates. You talk to me, and there is nobody else here.
Will I be handed off to somebody else?
No. Every call, every Read, every Readout and every Work Order is mine. That's also the reason for the hard cap of eight clients at a time — the cap is arithmetic, not marketing. Beyond eight, the hours don't exist to do the work properly.
How many clients do you take?
Eight on monthly work, hard cap, with staggered intake. Reality Checks and first cycles run alongside that. When the eight seats are full, new owners go on a waitlist with a reason and a date to talk again, and seats get refilled from that list rather than from a cold start.
Do you travel, or is this remote?
Both, and it doesn't change the analysis. The standard method is a scheduled video job walk with you and your lead man plus documents and photographs. Within about 200 miles of Midland — Odessa, Big Spring, Andrews, Lubbock, San Angelo, Abilene, Sweetwater, Fort Stockton, Monahans, Pecos — I drive out and back the same day at no charge. Anywhere else in Texas is available as an add-on and most owners don't take it.
Thirty minutes, no charge, and I'll tell you on the call if I don't think I can help.
Talk to me