Growth Engine
AI scales whatever motion it’s pointed at. If yours isn’t repeatable, AI multiplies the unrepeatable parts faster than the data can flag them.
For $5–30M businesses
See your dominant failure pattern. Build a growth system AI can scale.
16 questions. 4 minutes. A personalized AI-Era Growth System Report — the 12-month cascade if you ignore that pattern, and the moves that fix it.
No login. No discovery call. Reply with your email at the end and the report lands in your inbox in under a minute.
The thesis
AI amplifies whatever system you have.
The four levers of growth — Engine, Signal, Governance, Cadence — compound or break in every business. AI is the new multiplier. Teams with the levers working scale growth. Teams with the levers broken scale the gaps. Same pattern, faster.
Signal
AI decisions are only as good as the signal feeding them. Attribution gaps don’t shrink with AI — they get harder to spot under the model’s confidence.
Governance
AI compresses execution. Decision time is the new bottleneck. Reviewing the wrong metrics weekly is worse than the right ones monthly.
Cadence
AI lets the team run 10× more experiments. Without a learning agenda, that’s 10× noise, not 10× learning.
The diagnostic names which lever is your dominant gap — and what AI is doing to it right now.
The pattern
Growth Debt is the gap between how fast you grow and how fast your system can support it.
At every stage, it shows up in three places.
Infrastructure debt (the data, the tools, the reporting). Governance debt (the decisions, the cadence). Culture debt (the loop from data to next-week’s call).
AI doesn’t fix this.
AI accelerates whatever debt is already there. Teams with the levers working compound growth. Teams with the levers broken compound the gap.
Inside your report
Six sections. All personalized to your pattern.
Not a score and a sales call. A working blueprint of where your growth system is built for the AI era — and where it’ll accumulate debt as you scale.
Your verdict
Tier (Severe / Material / Manageable / Minimal), dominant failure mode, and a 4-component breakdown that shows which questions drove each score.
Where it shows up
How your pattern surfaces across the 5 areas of your business — People, Alignment, Product, Data, Brand. Tied to your revenue stage.
The 12-month cascade
What breaks at 6, 12, and 24 months if the pattern runs. The cost to fix at each stage, from Light to Structural.
The 5 moves
Two priority + three pre-emptive moves specific to your failure mode and stage. Effort, ownership, sequencing.
a self-qualifying filter (“when the conversation makes sense, when to wait”) and a forward-this template if you want to share with your co-founder, Head of Growth, or board.
4 minutes, start to finish
Three steps. No discovery-call theater.
1
Answer 16 questions
About your team, your data, your decision cadence, and your unit economics. Multiple choice. No essays.
2
We compute your tier + failure mode
Instantly. No SDR follow-up. No “we’ll be in touch.”
3
You get a personalized report
In the browser and in your inbox. Open it now or forward it to your co-founder.
Why us
The same framework. Inside the teams scaling growth.
Exactius Growth squads run this framework inside consumer, DTC, B2B SaaS, and mission-driven businesses between $5M and $100M — accountable to contribution margin, not vanity metrics.
Common questions.
How long does it really take?
4 minutes if you don’t second-guess yourself. The questions are multiple choice and most readers answer instinctively.
Is the report actually personalized?
Yes. Your tier, dominant failure mode, the 5-area matrix breakdown, the 12-month cascade, and the 5 priority + pre-emptive moves are all computed from your answers. The same diagnostic produces 16 different combinations of tier × failure mode, with stage-specific content for $0–30M, $30–100M, and $100M+.
What if my company isn’t a perfect fit?
The diagnostic was built for $5–30M consumer and B2B businesses. Outside that range, the framework still works but the stage-specific examples won’t match your reality as precisely. Take it anyway — the failure-mode lens is useful at any stage.
Will I get spammed?
No. You get one email with the report, then 4 follow-up emails over 14 days that go deeper on what your report surfaced. After that, you’re in the weekly system-design brief only if you opt in.
Your move
Build a growth system AI can scale.
16 questions. 4 minutes. A personalized blueprint of where your growth system is built for the AI era — and where it’ll accumulate debt as you scale.