Six weeks after graduating from the first Growth Architecture Cohort, an HVAC operator in Louisville closed the largest commercial maintenance contract in his company's history. A healthcare staffing CEO in Tampa eliminated client churn entirely for her first post-graduation quarter. A commercial construction owner in Oklahoma City compressed his pipeline velocity from 38 days to 19.
These aren't hypothetical projections from a course brochure. They're measured outcomes from the fifteen operators who completed the first cohort in April — outcomes that materialized not months or years after the program, but within the first 90 days. Because the systems that produced those outcomes weren't planned during the program. They were built during the program. Live. Functioning. Processing real leads, automating real workflows, and generating real revenue while the operators were still attending sessions.
The 94% implementation rate from the first cohort — in an industry where executive education typically sees 10–15% of participants implement what they learned — confirmed what we designed the Academy to prove: that the gap between education and execution isn't discipline or motivation. It's methodology. Teach operators frameworks, and they go home with good intentions. Have operators build infrastructure during an eight-week program with expert guidance at every step, and they go home with systems that are already working.
Enrollment for the Q3 2026 Growth Architecture Cohort is now open. The program begins in July. Fifteen seats. Eight weeks. Here's everything you need to know.
What the First Cohort Proved
Before we describe what the Q3 cohort will cover, it's worth understanding what the first cohort demonstrated — because the program's design is based on results, not theory.
The fifteen graduates of the first cohort entered the program at different stages and from different industries. Company revenues ranged from $4.2M to $31M. Industries spanned HVAC, healthcare staffing, commercial construction, IT managed services, professional consulting, commercial cleaning, financial advisory, and industrial distribution. What they shared was a specific growth constraint: their companies had outgrown the infrastructure supporting them, and conventional education hadn't closed the gap.
Within 90 days of graduation, the measurable outcomes across the cohort included: an average close rate improvement of 41% (measured against each participant's pre-program baseline), a median pipeline velocity reduction of 38% (deals moving faster from inquiry to contract), an average of 1,840 automated actions per month deployed per graduate (at $1/action, replacing manual processes that cost 8–15x more in labor), and new revenue directly attributable to systems built during the program averaging over $40,000 per graduate in the first quarter.
Those numbers reflect the compound nature of what participants build. A lead response system that engages prospects in 30 seconds instead of 24 hours doesn't just improve one metric — it improves qualification rates, which improves pipeline quality, which improves close rates, which increases revenue, which funds further infrastructure investment. The systems interact. The results compound.
Samira Patel, our Director of Academy Programs, has spent eight years designing executive education. The first cohort's outcomes confirmed her core thesis about why most programs fail: "The implementation gap in executive education isn't an execution problem. It's a design problem. If you design a program where participants leave with knowledge, you get a 10% implementation rate — because translating knowledge into systems requires time, expertise, and bandwidth that operators don't have when they return to their daily reality. If you design a program where participants leave with working infrastructure, the implementation rate approaches 100% — because there's nothing left to implement. It's already running."
The Q3 Curriculum: Week by Week
The Q3 cohort follows the same eight-week structure as the first cohort, refined based on graduate feedback and instructor observations. Each week combines live instruction with hands-on building, and every session produces a tangible output deployed in the participant's actual business.
Week 1: Growth Audit — Assessing Your Infrastructure Against the 5-Layer Model
You'll assess your company across all five layers of the Growth Infrastructure Model using real data — not estimates, not impressions. You'll measure your actual lead response time, your actual CRM utilization, your actual automation coverage, your actual pipeline metrics, and your actual retention infrastructure.
The audit is designed to be uncomfortable. First-cohort participants consistently reported that the quantified reality of their infrastructure was worse than they'd assumed. That discomfort is productive — it creates the specificity needed to prioritize the remaining seven weeks. You can't build effectively if you don't know exactly where the gaps are.
You'll leave Week 1 with: a scored assessment of your growth infrastructure, a gap analysis identifying your highest-leverage improvement areas, and a personalized build plan for Weeks 2–8.
Week 2: ICP and Market Architecture — Defining Your Customer with Precision
Most mid-market companies describe their ideal customer in terms too broad to be actionable. "Mid-size businesses" or "companies that need our services" isn't an ICP — it's a category. Week 2 builds a precise Ideal Customer Profile using firmographic data, behavioral signals, and historical win/loss analysis from your own pipeline.
You'll analyze your existing client base to identify which segments produce the highest margins, the longest retention, and the strongest referrals. That analysis becomes the foundation for every marketing campaign, sales qualification, and strategic decision that follows.
You'll leave Week 2 with: a documented ICP with specific, measurable criteria; a competitive positioning statement tested against peer feedback; and the initial configuration of your CRM pipeline stages designed around how your ICP buys.
Week 3: Sales System Design — Building Infrastructure That Doesn't Depend on Any Individual
Week 3 translates your ICP into sales infrastructure. You'll configure your CRM with pipeline stages that match your actual buyer's journey, define qualification criteria for each stage, design the lead routing logic that ensures every inquiry reaches the right person, and build the framework for consistent sales execution that doesn't live in any individual's head.
Tomás Reyes, our Head of Sales Operations, leads the sales design sessions. His perspective — forged across $30M+ in personally closed B2B revenue — focuses relentlessly on the distinction between sales talent and sales infrastructure. Talent wins individual deals. Infrastructure wins markets.
You'll leave Week 3 with: a fully configured CRM with working pipeline stages, lead routing rules, qualification criteria, and the skeleton of your revenue engine.
Week 4: Marketing Engine Blueprint — Connected Campaigns and Attribution
Week 4 connects marketing to the sales infrastructure you built in Week 3. You'll design the data flow from first marketing touch through qualification through pipeline — so that for the first time, you can trace a closed deal back to the campaign that generated it.
The focus isn't marketing creativity. It's marketing infrastructure: lead capture mechanisms, qualification scoring aligned to your ICP, campaign-to-pipeline attribution, and nurture sequences for leads not yet ready for sales conversation.
You'll leave Week 4 with: a marketing engine blueprint showing the complete prospect journey from first touch to qualified pipeline, with every handoff mapped and every data connection specified.
Week 5: AI Automation Workshop — Building Your First Live Workflows
This is the week that changes everything. You'll build and deploy your first AI automation workflows — not in a demo environment, but in your actual business systems, connected to your actual data, running on real prospects and real clients.
First-cohort participants consistently identified Week 5 as the turning point. The HVAC operator from Louisville deployed his AI lead response on Tuesday, and by Friday it had processed 23 real leads. The psychological shift from "someone who's thinking about automation" to "someone who runs automated systems" happened in a single week.
You'll build at least one — and typically two or three — live automation workflows during the week: lead response, follow-up sequences, CRM data synchronization, appointment reminders, review requests, or client reporting automation. All running on the $1/action pricing model, so the cost of entry is measured in dollars, not thousands.
You'll leave Week 5 with: functioning AI automation deployed in your business, running on real data, producing measurable time savings from day one.
Week 6: Retention and LTV Engineering — Designing the Systems That Keep Revenue
With acquisition infrastructure in place, Week 6 shifts to the most under-invested lever in mid-market growth: retention. You'll design the retention engine for your business — systematic lifecycle touchpoints, expansion detection, churn risk indicators, and reactivation sequences.
Most participants discover during Week 6 that their retention "strategy" consists of hoping clients are happy and waiting for contract renewals. The retention engine replaces hope with infrastructure: automated check-ins at critical lifecycle moments, early warning systems for at-risk accounts, and systematic identification of expansion opportunities within your existing client base.
You'll leave Week 6 with: a functioning retention engine design with at least one automated retention workflow deployed — typically the 30-day post-sale check-in that, across our client base, reduces first-year churn by 10–15% on its own.
Week 7: Integration and Dashboard — One Data Story for Your Business
Week 7 connects everything from Weeks 2–6 into a single, coherent data story. You'll design your unified dashboard: the leadership view that shows your business from lead generation through qualification through pipeline through close through retention, with leading indicators layered on top.
This is the week where the compound effect becomes visible. For the first time, you'll see how marketing data connects to sales data connects to operational data connects to retention data — in your business, with your numbers, in real time.
You'll leave Week 7 with: a unified dashboard design connected to your live systems, showing the data story of your business end to end.
Week 8: Sprint Planning and Launch — Your First 90-Day Growth Sprint
The final week is about sustainability. You'll design your first 90-day sprint: 3–5 OKRs based on the infrastructure you've built, weekly milestones for each objective, measurement cadence, and adaptation triggers.
The sprint plan ensures that the momentum from eight weeks of building continues after the program ends. You're not going home with a to-do list. You're going home with a governing framework that keeps the infrastructure you've built evolving, expanding, and compounding.
You'll leave Week 8 with: a complete 90-day sprint plan, a clear set of OKRs, and the measurement infrastructure to track progress weekly.
Who This Program Is For
The Growth Architecture Cohort is designed for a specific operator at a specific moment.
You're right for this program if:
You're a founder, CEO, or C-suite executive at a company doing $3M–$50M in annual revenue. You have direct authority to implement changes in your company's systems, processes, and tools. You're experiencing the specific growth constraints that infrastructure solves: plateauing revenue despite strong demand, operational complexity consuming leadership bandwidth, dependence on individual salespeople rather than sales systems, tool sprawl creating data confusion, and a sense that competitors with inferior offerings are growing faster because they operate more efficiently.
You're willing to commit eight weeks of focused effort. The program isn't passive. You'll build during every session. You'll deploy real systems in your real business. The results justify the time investment — first-cohort graduates universally reported that the eight weeks produced more operational progress than the previous two years of incremental improvement.
You're ready to build, not just learn. If you want another binder of frameworks, this isn't the right program. If you want functioning infrastructure that's producing results before the final session, it is.
This program is not for you if:
You're looking for passive education. There are excellent conferences and online courses for operators who want to learn at their own pace. The Academy is for operators who want to build at an accelerated pace with expert guidance.
You don't have implementation authority. If deploying a new CRM configuration or launching an automation workflow requires approval from someone not in the room, the build-during-the-program methodology won't work. The operator in the seat needs to be the operator who can say "yes, launch it."
Your company isn't yet at the infrastructure inflection point. Companies below $2M–$3M in revenue typically benefit more from the foundational growth that comes before infrastructure becomes the constraint. The Academy is designed for companies that have product-market fit and revenue traction but are limited by operational infrastructure.
What Graduates Walk Away With
This is the critical distinction between the Academy and every other professional development investment you've made.
You don't walk away with knowledge. You walk away with systems.
Specifically: a configured CRM with working pipeline stages and qualification criteria. AI lead response engaging your prospects in under 30 seconds. At least two automation workflows running in production. A retention engine with systematic lifecycle touchpoints. A unified dashboard showing your business data in one connected view. And a 90-day sprint plan governing the next phase of growth.
These are not plans. They are not blueprints. They are not things you intend to build when you get back to the office. They are live, functioning, deployed systems that are processing real data and producing real results before you leave the final session.
That's why the implementation rate is 94%. There's nothing left to implement. It's already running.
Program Details
Dates: Q3 2026 cohort begins July 2026. Eight consecutive weeks, one primary session per week plus asynchronous building time.
Location: In-person sessions in Nashville, with remote participation available for building workshops.
Cohort size: Fifteen seats maximum. No exceptions. The cohort dynamic and individual attention require a small group.
Investment: $7,500 per seat.
Application process: A brief application followed by a 20-minute conversation with the Academy team. The conversation ensures mutual fit — that your company is at the right stage, that you have the authority to implement, and that the program addresses your specific growth constraints.
What's included: All instruction and building sessions, direct access to Boost's sales operations, automation, and strategy teams during the program, CRM configuration support, automation deployment assistance, and the 90-day sprint planning framework. The $1/action automation pricing applies to all workflows built during the program — there's no separate fee for the automation infrastructure itself.
The first cohort filled its fifteen seats within three weeks of opening enrollment. If the Q3 cohort is right for you, apply early.
Fifteen operators built growth infrastructure that changed their companies' trajectories. The second cohort will do the same. The only variable is whether one of those fifteen seats has your name on it.
About Boost
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