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Understand how business works. Build better systems.
Clear, practical lessons on the operations behind a business: how work gets done, how clients are served and how a business keeps running well. The flagship series, Business Behind the Business, runs across six seasons.
The series
Business Behind the Business
Every business has a second business underneath it: the systems, processes and decisions that make the visible work possible. This series teaches that business, one lesson at a time, in a fixed six-season order from building a business that works to building the business of tomorrow.
Each lesson is published as a long-form video on YouTube and as a video podcast episode on Spotify, with its own page here: the summary, key concepts, references and a free tool to put it into practice.
Latest episode
Season 1, episode 4 S1E04
Phase 1 Recap: How Your Business Really Works
Spot constraints and recognize when the owner has become the bottleneck.
Read the episode notes: Phase 1 Recap: How Your Business Really Works
The Customer Journey as an Operating System
Understand, through a simplified five-stage teaching framework, the operational work behind each stage of a customer's experience.
How Work Actually Gets Done: Tasks, Processes and Systems
Use input → process → output to break any piece of work into understandable steps.
What a Business Actually Is: People, Processes, Resources and Systems
Every product depends on people, processes, resources and systems working together. This first lesson builds a simple way of seeing your business: four connected elements and three core flows (winning work, delivering work and getting paid), with a fictional home bakery and a five-person agency as worked examples. Exercise: map your business on one page and circle the connection that causes the most trouble.
Six seasons, one complete picture
Each season moves through three phases. Seasons open here as their lessons are published.
Season 1
Build a Business That Works
Understand how a business works, build the systems it runs on, and improve them.
Season outcome A Business Operating Blueprint
- Understand
- Build
- Improve
Season 2
Run a Business That Performs
Take control of daily operations, manage the work well, and perform consistently.
Planned outcome A Performance Management System
- Control
- Manage
- Perform
Curriculum in review Episodes not yet published
Season 3
Build a Business That Lasts
Protect what you have built, strengthen its foundations, and sustain it over time.
Planned outcome A Resilience and Continuity Plan
- Protect
- Strengthen
- Sustain
Planned Episodes not yet published
Season 4
Grow a Business That Scales
Validate what works, expand it with care, and scale without breaking the business.
Planned outcome A Scalable Growth Plan
- Validate
- Expand
- Scale
Planned Episodes not yet published
Season 5
Lead a Business That Thrives
Lead the business, empower the people in it, and transform how it operates.
Planned outcome A Leadership Development Blueprint
- Lead
- Empower
- Transform
Planned Episodes not yet published
Season 6
Build the Business of Tomorrow
Anticipate change, innovate deliberately, and adapt the business for what comes next.
Planned outcome A Future-Ready Business Blueprint
- Anticipate
- Innovate
- Adapt
Planned Episodes not yet published
Put it into practice
Free resources from the AvariHQ Operations Library, useful with or without the series.
- Free tools for each stage of the client journeyChecklists, worksheets and templates, delivered by email.
- The Client Operations AssessmentFind where your client operations need attention first.
- The client lifecycle frameworkThe seven stages every client relationship moves through.
The Client Operations Brief
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The Client Operations Brief arrives every two weeks with practical notes on running client operations. Subscribing is free and optional.
When you are ready to build
The lessons stand on their own. If you want help applying them, AvariHQ offers three paths.
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Software-independent operating systems for each stage of the client lifecycle. Use them with the tools you already have.
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One connected platform for the work surrounding your clients, built around the complete client lifecycle.
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Separately scoped professional help with implementation, configuration, optimization and migration.
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