About this Event
Most business owners want two things that feel like they compete: more time, and a more valuable company. They don't compete. The disciplines that get you home by six are the same ones that make your business worth more.
Join three Cincinnati-area practitioners for an evening at New Riff Distilling built around one question: How do I get home by 6 and increase the value of my business?
What you'll get in three short sessions:
Financial Clarity — Dan Keck, FocusCFO. Leverage your numbers into data-driven decisions: which five numbers actually tell you whether you're winning, why profitable companies still run out of cash, and the levers you can pull this quarter.
AI Leverage — Zach Salyers, Salyers AI. Real examples of local companies that took hours of weekly manual work down to seconds — and a ten-second test for spotting the processes in your business that are ready for the same treatment. Not a chatbot demo.
Goals & Execution — John Zurborg, FocalPoint Business Coaching. How to set goals, turn goals into KPIs, have owners of KPIs, measure progress through a weekly rhythm so problems get solved without you — and why that's exactly what a buyer pays for.
What you'll leave with
A Home-by-Six Scorecard to find your biggest gap, an AI Opportunity Checklist with your first automation project circled, and a clear picture of what good financials look like.
Agenda
🕑: 04:00 PM - 04:30 AM
Drinks, Appetizers, and Networking
🕑: 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Presentations
🕑: 05:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Q&A Discussion
Financial Clarity
🕑: 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Home by 6. Worth more by December - The numbers behind both
Host: Dan Keck
Info: • Backlog-Revenue-Cash Balance.
• Growth is good. Unmanaged growth isn't free.
• If the forecast only lives in your head, that a dependency,
• Pick Your Destination- The work is the same.
• The sequence behind all four.
• Two numbers to know before December
AI Leverage
🕑: 05:00 PM - 05:30 AM
AI Leverage: Get the numbers to your desk
Info: ● The two hours vs. the twenty minutes: why most owners pay to build the report and never get to read it
● Two local case studies: a payroll journal entry that went from two hours to fifteen seconds, and a childcare operator that recovered state funding by going from 72% to 94% compliance — no data science team required
● The four-question filter: a ten-second test for which process to automate first, and which to leave alone
● Why "AI leverage" isn't a chatbot: fix the process, automate the moving, keep the deciding
● Leave with an AI Opportunity Checklist and your first project circled
Goals & Execution
🕑: 05:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Goal Setting & Execution
Info: • What's Your Number?
• Your number drives KPIs that measure success
• Your numbers create a dashboard, are we winning or losing?
• Owners make decision based on KPIs focused toward success
• Owners Measure Deadlines that get results
Event venue & nearby stays
New Riff Distilling, 24 Distillery Way, Newport, United States
Concerts, fests, parties, meetups — all the happenings, one place.