The Growth Install, built with your team
The Growth Install is a 90-day engagement for founder-led UK businesses turning over £1m to £50m. We work with your team to install three growth workflows, with tracking and a live dashboard, so you know what produces enquiries and whether you still need the hire.
“Our team went from AI‑curious to builders in 30 days.”
The tools were there. The team wanted to use them. They needed help turning that into work that made a difference.
We got alongside them. They started building, testing and solving problems in their own business.
OLIVER ROBINSON
CO-FOUNDER AT MAISON SPORT
54%
of UK SMEs now use AI. Two years ago it was 25%. A third still have no plans at all.
BRITISH CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE AND ATOS, MARCH 2026
70%
give their staff AI tools. Only 48% give them the time to learn them.
SLALOM, 2024
54%
say the workforce skills gap is the single biggest barrier to AI returns.
SLALOM, 2024
Some businesses are already doing this. Here is what that looks like outside Founder Engine.
BCG puts Gamma at roughly ten times the revenue per employee of its growth-tech benchmark.
A comparison between companies, not a measured improvement at Gamma. Directional 2025 estimates versus a FY2024 benchmark. BCG, April 2026 ↗
CommerceIQ reports higher ROAS from early deployments of its agentic retail advertising system.
Provider-reported composite across five categories. Rounded from 39.98%. This is not an industry average. CommerceIQ, July 2025 ↗
BCG reports these outcomes in client engagements involving agentic marketing.
Reported client results, not a market-wide average or a promise of your outcome. Marketing ROI and ROAS measure different things. BCG, June 2026 ↗
“This is as big as the disruptions caused by search and e-commerce”Travel industry CMO, Asia-Pacific. Interviewed by BCG, June 2026.
of CMOs say AI is transforming their marketing function.
run autonomous campaigns with multiple AI agents.
BCG survey of 300 global CMOs, June 2026. The 8% describes autonomous multi-agent campaigns, not all agentic workflows. Read the research ↗
Seeing the opportunity is one thing. Getting your business to work differently is another.
Policy, process, habit and legacy tech. Each harmless alone, together they block anything new. That is why the AI you already pay for sits idle.
Our whole job is turning that immune system into fuel for the engine.
We get inside the business, find what is holding growth back, and build with the people doing the work.
01 · Audit + map
We plug into your existing systems. Voice agents talk your team through their day-to-day work, documenting workflows, repeated jobs and missed opportunities. Together, we decide where to start.
02 · Build together
We start installing growth systems alongside your team, inside the tools you already use. Your people help build them, use them and learn how to keep improving them.
03 · Experiment quickly
New channels. New campaigns. Ideas that have been sitting on the list for months. We teach your team to test them in days, see what works and put more behind the winners.
Maison Sport is a ski instruction marketplace. Their team had AI licences and wanted to use them, but nobody knew how to turn that into real work, so the tools sat idle.
In thirty days of mapping, building and coaching, the team went from willing to capable. The people who started furthest behind improved the most, so the whole team levelled up together rather than a few people racing ahead.
WILLINGNESS, DAY ONE
91%
LOWEST STARTERS' IMPROVEMENT
~4×
BASIC PROMPTING, DAY 0 TO 30
82→95%
I'm Ruari Fairbairns. I co-founded One Year No Beer and took it past 100,000 members and seven figures.
And I have been exactly where you are: certain the business could run more efficiently, higher revenue at lower cost, and unable to reach it. Not because the technology was missing, but because the company's own immune system, the fearful people, the policy, the process, the legacy tech, quietly voted no every time.
Founder Engine exists to turn that immune system into fuel. Not more hires, not another tool. The team you already have, running better systems, so revenue per head goes up.
RUARI FAIRBAIRNS, FOUNDER. You get me on the call, and me on the work.
