A casual, low-cost "tune-up" and mentoring service for local business owners. You’re the expert at your craft, you know your product better than anyone. I focus on the other half of a successful business, finding opportunities, reducing risks, improving process and marketing and let you do what you do best.
Real Support for Central Valley Businesses
What We Offer
Check out below the services I offer and book a call now. Packages are all month to month. Cancel anytime. No Risk
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The 2-hour Deep Dive. We sit down (over coffee or at your business) and look at your business workflows, systems, social media, operations and more.
The Action Blueprint: I go away and build a simple, 1 or 2 page checklist of immediate "quick wins" to boost your revenue and save you time.
The Handover: We meet and walk through the findings. You keep the checklist whether you work with me next or do it yourself.
The Package: only $199 for August - usually $399
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4 hours a month. Split the time how you like.
Best for: Entrepreneurs or small teams who need a consistent fresh pair of eyes and focus on those niggling issues or automations you may need
What it is: Walk the business, review last month’s action items, identify one or two new improvement opportunities. Leave with agreed actions.
The Package. $599
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8 Hours a Month.
Best For: Businesses looking to grow. Focus on marketing, scaling, hiring, AI, process improvements.
What it is: Walk the business, review last month’s action items, identify one or two new improvement opportunities., deep-dive on key issues. assess process improvements, support hiring and marketing. Leave with agreed actions.
Package : $1199pm
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Flexible, expert advice when you need it. We sit down and choose what you need and how often. Can be charged by the hour or as a package..
A Fresh Set of Eyes That Actually Helps - Totty Remodel
“I really appreciated how much time Richard took to understand what we’re actually trying to build before giving advice.
He helped us see what we’re doing well, where we can tighten things up, and gave us practical ideas we can actually use. We’re continuing to work with him as we grow the company, and I really value having someone outside the day-to-day look at things with a different perspective.”
Who will you be working with?
Richard Adams has spent over 20 years building, scaling, and leading companies — from engineering leadership roles at organizations like Apple/Beats and numerous start-ups, to founding and growing ventures of his own. Twice, that's ended in an acquisition: most recently, a company acquired outright by S.C. Johnson. Earlier, in the UK, Richard co-founded a company he pitched and secured an offer for on the BBC's Dragons' Den (UK’s Shark Tank) and then, fielded competing offers from two industry players and chose the stronger deal, ultimately selling to Brulines. Along the way he learned the same lesson at every scale: complexity is the enemy of progress, and the businesses that win are the ones that clear it out early.
Now based in Visalia, Richard brings that experience home to the Central Valley through Sound Futures, offering hands-on, friendly business mentoring and consulting to local independent business owners. To contractors, professional practices, health and wellness, restaurants, specialty stores and more.
Whether it's a one-time Business Tune-Up or ongoing monthly support, Richard works alongside owners to spot the operational leaks, workflow friction, and administrative drag that's quietly costing them time and money — and fixes it.
