Stage
Established solo
3+ years trading, mostly services, one main offer carrying the year.
Fictional business for demo purposes · 1 Nov 2025 to 31 Oct 2026
You're good at winning work once it lands in front of you. The challenge is making sure the next project is already coming.
Stage
Established solo
3+ years trading, mostly services, one main offer carrying the year.
Revenue band
$120k – $250k
Middle of pack for your stage. Not where the leak is.
Hours / week
40 to 50
Most of it client-facing. Little time on pipeline or thinking.
Three patterns we see in businesses at your stage, that the answers suggest you're hitting too.
You win work when it comes in. You rarely create it.
Most of your revenue this year came from clients who found you, not clients you went after. That's great until the inbound slows.
Your time goes to delivery. Nothing is reserved for the next sale.
40–50 hours a week and almost none of it on pipeline. Future-you pays for that.
Repeat clients are propping up the year.
If one leaves, next year gets interesting. A healthy business doesn't rely on two to three retained clients to hit the number.
Benchmark against the ~400 established solos we've looked at. Not a ranking — a mirror, so you can see what's actually behind the feeling.
Pipeline health
Bottom third
Most at your stage carry 5–8 live conversations. You're carrying 2.
Time on sales
Bottom third
Peers in your band spend 4–7 hrs/week on pipeline. You're near zero.
Client concentration
Concentrated
Your top 3 clients = 55% of revenue. Healthy range is 25–40%.
Below is what the Full Quarterly Reset unlocks
The single move that would compound hardest this quarter. It needs to be built around your actual numbers, not a pattern.
Block two hours a week, same slot, same day, for pipeline. Every week. Non-negotiable.
Not "when I have time". A recurring calendar block. Reach out to one past client, warm up one cold lead, publish one piece of thinking. That's it. Compound this for 12 weeks and the pipeline problem goes away.
The one move built around your real numbers, not a template
String reads your actual money, calendar and client mix, then writes the single move worth doing first. Specific to you, with the context your free mini can't see.
Unlock with the Full ResetIn the Full Reset, we put your real numbers side by side so you can see which months carried the year and which were quiet.
March and September carried the year. June was quiet. February costs were unusually high.
See your real months, side by side, with the two best and two quietest called out
So you can finally answer "what actually happened this year" with a number, not a feeling.
Unlock with the Full ResetWhich clients are keeping the business afloat, and which offers are doing the heavy lifting.
| Client | Invoiced | % of total |
|---|---|---|
| Client A | $58,400 | 24% |
| Client B | $42,100 | 18% |
| Client C | $31,900 | 13% |
| Client D | $22,500 | 9% |
| Client E | $18,200 | 8% |
Your top clients, offers, and concentration risk — mapped
If 55% of your revenue comes from 3 clients, you need to know. The Reset makes that obvious.
Unlock with the Full ResetFour weeks of your real calendar, categorised, so we can see the mismatch between what you say you want and what you actually spend time on.
Client delivery
68%
Admin
18%
Sales / pipeline
4%
Thinking / strategy
2%
Your last 4 weeks of calendar, read by String
The receipts of where your time really went. Usually a surprise. Often the biggest unlock in the whole snapshot.
Unlock with the Full ResetDated steps, not a vague "work on pipeline". The Reset turns the one-fix into a quarter of small, concrete moves.
Your 90 days, shaped in the December strategy session
Small-group session with the other Resetters. String walks through everyone's snapshots and shapes each person's Q1 move. So when you close this tab, you know what Monday morning looks like.
Unlock with the Full ResetStart with the free Biz Check-up Tool and you'll get the first three sections (Stage, Gaps, Benchmark) in your inbox within 48 hours. If you want the full picture — your one fix built around real numbers, your real calendar, the December group strategy session, and three months inside the TTV Collective — book the Quarterly Reset. Want a 2-hour 1:1 with String on top? That's the VIP Session.
All prices AUD. One-time payment, not a subscription.