Replicate the Engine
Should we reproduce what we have built?
Question 03 of 08. Choose: where does the next growth come from? 0 to 2 years.
The second-unit decision. We restate the existing unit at market conditions: market rent, market wages, no founder premium, full overhead. We establish the utilisation at which a new one stops consuming cash. We model group cash from the first rupee of capex to the month it turns.
And we test whether there is a system to replicate, or just a person.
Same question, two businesses
Funded scale-up
Series A or B, equity, a clock
If there is a unit to copy
Relevant wherever a physical or operational unit can be copied: a city, a warehouse, a clinic, a kitchen. The usual error is opening the next before the last proved its economics.
Promoter-led business
Debt, retained earnings and cash flow
The default instinct
The default growth instinct, and the one most likely to be acted on before it is modelled.
The work behind this question
- Growth StructuringStructuring a business so growth is survivable: what it takes to double without breaking.
- Process Standardisation and OptimisationMaking the way work happens repeatable, so it survives the people who invented it.
- Execution OSThe structure, the numbers and the operating rhythm that turn a strategy into weekly work, with one owner per outcome.
Facing this question now?
Most companies need two or three of the eight, in the right order. Tell us where you are and we will tell you which ones bind.