A Private Practice. Limited to 30 Founders and CEOs.

The $10M+ Businesses That Can Run Without You

Jonathan spent 25 years as a CEO, built and packaged that experience into 60+ playbooks and 120+ tools, interviewed 130+ CEOs to pressure-test it, and then embedded AI to accelerate delivery.

This isn’t just coaching. It’s a proven operating system

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Growth Increases Complexity.
Founder Dependence Increases Risk.

Check Your Self-Diagnosis

Frameworks Built from 130+ CEO Conversations

Designed for Founders & CEOs Building for the Long Term.

Remove fragility from your business, scale with clarity.

The Profile

Founders & CEOs

Of Private Companies.

Business Owners

Building companies that can operate, scale, and be transferred without fragility, giving them real options.

Leaders

Accountable for creating real enterprise value, not just short-term results.

Are you the Engine Or the Architect?

Everything still depends on me.

Sales? Me. Delivery? Me. Strategy? Me. I can’t take a real holiday without the wheels falling off.

I’m the bottleneck — and I don’t know how to fix it.

I want to delegate, but no one seems ready. I want systems, but there’s no time to build them.

I don’t know how to scale without losing control.

Every time we grow, I lose margin, team morale dips, or quality drops. Growth feels risky, not rewarding.

I don’t have a clear path to $10M — or an exit.

I know I don’t want to be doing this forever. But right now, the business couldn’t run (or sell) without me.

If any of that sounds familiar,

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was built for exactly this.

Not a Coaching Program. A Proven Operating System.

25 Years

In the CEO Chair

Built and led businesses across Australia, Asia, and the Middle East. This system was forged in practice, not theory.

10 Years

Coaching & Mentoring CEOs

A dedicated coaching practice working with founders navigating the exact same challenges. Pattern recognition at depth.

250+ CEOs

Coached and Interviewed

250+ founders coached directly. 130+ in-depth Stories of Scale interviews. The system is pressure-tested at scale.

60+ Playbooks. 120+ Tools

Proprietary IP, Not Generic Advice

A decade of IP packaged into a system that works with or without you in the room. AI-accelerated delivery keeps progress moving between sessions.

Scale Up OS is a proprietary system by Jonathan Herps

The Scale Up OS Framework

Three pillars. One system. Built to create a business that can run, scale, and sell without you.

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What Founders Say

Moving from founder-bottleneck to scalable asset.

Helder Klemp

CEO & Co-Founder, DNX Solutions

“Your ability to hold space for challenge, focus, and clarity continues to play a key role  in helping us execute the strategy we have built. DNX was recently Certified as a Great  Place to Work.”

Dan Hilson

Founder & CEO, Evenergi

“You helped me set a 3-year plan for the business, build a high performing executive team,  and move from doer to coach. The impact on me as a leader has been significant.”

Mike Morgan

Senior Vice President & Managing Director APAC, Insight

“We set ourselves an ambitious goal. Becoming certified as a great place to work in all 5  countries across APAC - Australia, NZ, China, HK and Singapore - was achieved in less  than half the time we expected.”

From Owner Reliance to Owner Freedom

A systematic approach to building a $10M+ business that can run without you.

Pillar 1

Clarity:Plan

Clear Strategy and Accountable Leadership That Unlocks Owner Freedom.

We replace founder reliance with a clear strategy that runs without daily involvement. A shared three-year vision sets direction and priorities, owned by the leadership team. Execution is enforced through scorecards and accountability, ensuring decisions are driven by data, not the founder.

Pillar 2

Team:Build

A Thriving Leadership Team That Thinks and Acts Like Owners.

We design an organisation built to scale, with a structure that supports future growth rather than constraining it. A-player leaders are placed in every critical seat, ensuring decisions are made at the right level. An ownership culture is enforced so problems are solved by the team, not escalated to the CEO.

Pillar 3

Scale:Profit

Scalable Systems, Growth Engines, and Profit Tools That Power Owner Freedom.

We build repeatable operating systems that scale reliably, replacing manual execution with discipline and consistency. Marketing and sales are engineered to produce predictable revenue, not volatility. Financial rigor is applied to generate real leverage doubling cash, tripling profitability, and increasing valuation to create options.

About Jonathan Herps

5x CEO. 2x founder. Two successful exits.

Jonathan has 35+ years of senior leadership experience across Australia, Asia, and the Middle East. He built Scale Up OS because he lived the problem — and spent a decade packaging the solution.

His practice is deliberately capped at 30 clients to ensure every founder gets his direct focus.

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High-Level Judgment. AI-Powered Speed

We Don’t Just Give you a Playbook; We Give you an Engine.

Scale Up OS embeds proprietary AI tools into the Plan, Build, and Profit pillars to accelerate your progress.

Accelerated
Planning

Use AI to stress-test your 3-year vision and winning moves instantly.

Automated Accountability

AI-driven scorecards that track leadership performance without manual overhead.

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Growth Insights

Rapidly identify profit leaks and scaling bottlenecks using the Scale Up OS AI engine.

A Living Laboratory of Scale

Proprietary insights from the front lines of business

Access our searchable database of 130+ CEO interviews. This library informs the evolution of Scale Up OS, providing you with the collective wisdom of founders who have navigated the $2M to $20M+ journey.

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The Result: Enterprise Value and Real Options.

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The Scale Option

Your operations engine scales reliably without increasing your personal workload. The business grows. You don’t have to.

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The Exit Option

Your business is positioned for a 10X valuation because it is a transferable asset, not a founder-dependent operation.

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The Lifestyle Option

Achieve owner freedom while the business targets 2X cash and 3X profitability. Step back  without the business stepping down.

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