Sargasso · Business Architecture

Want a business that runs without you?

We find what still needs you in the business, then build the systems that take it off your shoulders. We've 3x'd revenue in a quarter. Turned $120K in losses into profit. Handed founders back 2,000+ hours a year.

Most founders start in the Scale Room. Bring what's stuck and get a straight answer, live, on your real business. Every week. $39/mo, cancel anytime.

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Take 60 seconds. Tell us what's broken. We'll tell you where to start.

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Proof

The numbers, before the words.

Revenue growth. One engagement, one quarter.

$120K+

In losses, turned to profit.

Hours handed back to a founder in a single year.

More clients. First seven days.

The Method

Five places every stuck business breaks. And a sixth nobody checks.

Yours is stuck in one of them. Maybe more. Click any one and watch how the break spreads.

Marketing

The right people aren't finding you. This is where the chain starts.

Sales

They find you and they don't buy. The attention was paid for and wasted.

Product & Offer

You're selling the wrong thing, or selling it the wrong way. Good product, bad offer, no sale.

Operations

The whole thing runs through you and stops when you stop. The business has a ceiling, and the ceiling is you.

Finance

Money comes in and you can't say where it goes.

Founder

The one most firms won't touch. The bottleneck might be you.

We check all six before we say a word about fixing anything. A 500-point diagnosis, run live, in front of you. Then we build what we find, in order, so the structure actually holds. You don't need to understand any of it walking in. That's the point.

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Case studies

The same problem, three different businesses.

Food & Beverage · Bakery · Growing team

"Sales are fine but the money doesn't stick."

She was making good money and watching it vanish. The business was throwing product in the bin every morning. Fresh goods baked daily, and whatever didn't sell got tossed. That was money walking out the back door in a trash bag, every single day.

So we asked her customers. 43% said they ate it cold anyway. We took the leftovers, turned them into a frozen product, sampled it, launched it, and it sold out on the very first sale. Wastage went to zero. Then we rebuilt operations to hold the growth.

"I used to make money and wonder where it went. Now I make more and keep more."

3× revenue Product & Offer · Operations Abuja, Nigeria

Influencer Marketing · Founder-operated

"I hired people to help. Now I just have an audience watching me do everything myself."

He hired a team and ended up with more on his plate, not less. No structure. Nobody could make a decision without him. Nothing was written down. He was the whole operating system. Campaigns ran for months before a dollar came in, and he was borrowing to fund work he'd already sold.

So we gave the team the right to act without asking him first. We wrote the business down. We built a cash flow structure that ended the borrowing. And we turned his influencer relationships into a system that brought leads to him instead of him chasing them.

"For the first time, I can focus on growing the business instead of managing chaos."

2,160 hours back / year Operations · Finance · Marketing Bangalore, India

Food & Beverage · Early stage · Small team

"We're not making money. Something is wrong."

She was down $10,000 a month and covering it from her own pocket and credit cards. The food was good. The location was good. Nobody outside the block knew the place existed.

So we built her a content system. What to post, how often, how to say it so the right people walked in. Then we handed it to her team so it ran without her behind every post.

"For the first time in a long while, I believed my business had a future."

$120K in losses, turned around Marketing Orlando, Florida

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The guarantee

We don't hand you a plan and walk away. We stay until it passes the test.

Every Build carries one defined, observable test, scheduled with you inside 60 days of handoff. Your operations run for two weeks without you. Your pipeline gets audited. Your numbers get checked in sixty seconds. If the system fails the test, we come back and rebuild it, at no extra cost. Most firms guarantee the documents. We guarantee the system works, and we show up to be measured against it.

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The Work

Three ways in. Start where you are.

Start here · Membership

The Scale Room

$39/month

A room full of founders who stopped doing it alone. You bring what you're stuck on. You get a straight answer, live, on your real business. Every week. Frameworks, templates, and every course we build live in there too. Most founders start here. Lock $39 before June 15, or pay more after.

Weekly live Q&A on your actual business
Every framework, template, and course included
Lock $39 before June 15. It's $49 after.

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One problem, fast

The Clarity Call

$500 · one-time

One decision. One hour. You leave knowing what to do. For the founder who doesn't want a room and doesn't need a build. You've got one problem you can't crack, and you want someone outside the business to look at it and name the move. This is also where we scope a bigger build.

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When you want more

Diagnostic & Builds

from $1,997

For when the business needs real work, not a room or a call. We run the full diagnosis across all six pillars, find what's actually breaking, then build the operating systems to fix it alongside you. Every build starts with the Diagnostic.

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The Architect

Don't work with him because he's won. Work with him because he's lost.

Omar Faruc didn't learn this in an MBA or a consulting job. He learned it building, trading, and running businesses, and losing more of them than he'll pretend he didn't.

What the losing taught him: the businesses that win run on clean structure. The ones that die run on the founder's willpower. He's watched it break the same few ways, every time, in his own businesses and everyone else's. He knows where the landmines are because he stepped on them.

So no, he won't sell you a story about a yacht he doesn't own. He'll tell you the truth, because he paid for it.

In their words.

I was losing money every single month and putting it on credit cards to keep the doors open. Omar came in, built the systems, and three months later I hit break-even. The month I was going to close was the month everything turned around.

Founder · Food & Beverage · Diagnostic + Operations BuildOrlando, Florida

I hired staff to free up my time and ended up putting out more fires than before. The systems we installed made the team actually work. Operations run on their own now. I finally have my time back.

Founder · Media Production · Diagnostic + Operations BuildBangalore, India

I was making money and watching it disappear. Every month. Omar restructured how we charge, how we spend, how we track. Now there's money left at the end of the month. Sounds basic. It changed my life.

Founder · Food & Beverage · Finance BuildLagos, Nigeria

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The Scale Room

$39/mo

Where most founders start. Weekly live sessions, a Monthly Deep-Dive, every framework and course we build, in a room of people actually doing the work. Cancel anytime.

Founding rate, $39/mo locked, if you join before June 15.

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Founders, worldwide

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The first step takes 60 seconds

You don't have to know what's wrong yet.

That's the job. Tell us what's going on in the business and we'll show you where it's actually breaking. 60 seconds to start. No call, no pitch.

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