From a founder with two seven-figure exits — I build the systems, automate the busywork, and stay until it works.
Most consultants hand you a binder of recommendations and disappear. I show up, build the systems, and stay until they work.
You know what's broken. A 30-minute call uncovers the rest. No pitch — just a conversation.
A free diagnostic first, then the real work: SOPs, systems, team training. Built around how you work.
It's yours. Your team runs it. But I stay responsible for the results.
You have ChatGPT. Keep it. But ChatGPT is a place you go, and it sits there until you open the tab. This is an employee who never stops working and already knows your business. It answers your email, books your appointments, writes your proposals, builds your web pages, and handles the odd errand you didn't plan for.
I run both of my own businesses on this today, and I install the same thing inside yours. Nothing switches over at once. It goes in one rung at a time, and you own every piece of it.
Documented processes, shared scoreboards, and the six-stage playbook that takes a business from founder-dependent to hand-offable. This is the core of the practice.
Training systems strong enough that average new hires produce above-average results — the E-Myth principle, installed in your business.
Modern automation built into how your business already runs. Ten specific categories I build for local service businesses — from lead capture to reporting. Pick these one at a time, or get the full version above: the AI Operating System install.
Six months to a sellable business. Everything under one roof, framed around what a buyer actually pays more for.
Service businesses, professional firms, founder-led companies — any industry where the owner is the bottleneck.
If your business has 8 to 50 employees and you're the bottleneck — regardless of industry — we should talk.
I walk your operation and show you where the money, time, and revenue are leaking. If your business is genuinely running clean, I'll tell you straight instead of inventing problems to sell you on. That's not a sales gimmick. It's how I work.
My first business started in my friend's bedroom with a $1,500 slide scanner I put on a credit card I couldn't really afford. Over the next seven years, DVD Your Memories grew into one of the largest and highest-rated media transfer companies in the country, with four locations and a team of 27 people who genuinely cared about the work.
After that, I built the Electric Scooter Guide from nothing into the top media company in the electric scooter industry. At one point, we accounted for more than half of some manufacturers' US sales. I learned how to be on camera (not a natural talent), and sold it.
As COO of Happy Moose Juice, I built their first ERP system and delivery infrastructure from scratch, and later helped triple their revenue through a personal connection in the industry.
Along the way, I wrote a book about everything I learned about business — the whole story of DVD Your Memories from startup to sold. Inc. Magazine published it in 2023. I taught business at UC Berkeley Extension for both master's students and undergrads. I got my MBA from UC Davis, where I also won the Big Bang Business Competition.
Running a small business is one of the hardest things in the world. The hiring, the systems, the scaling, the days where nothing goes right. I know what that feels like because I lived it for years, across completely different industries. Every business has a next challenge. Finding it, understanding it, and pushing through it — that's the work I love doing.
Noah founded Noah's Bagels in Berkeley in 1989 and sold it six and a half years later for $100 million. Before that he built Bread & Circus into the Northeast's largest natural foods chain, now part of Whole Foods.
He advised me at DVD Your Memories and Happy Moose Juice, and on the right engagement I can bring him in directly.
Meet the team →"Whenever I ran into a challenge running Road to 4.0, Chuck found a solution. No-shows, credits and refunds, getting players to the right court at the right time. I'd explain the problem and he'd build the feature to solve it, usually within days. He's a huge part of why it runs so smoothly, even as it's grown."
"I gave Chuck a proposal I'd been developing and he came back fast with deeply researched, fully sourced analysis that immediately changed how I thought about the project. He showed me which version was actually feasible, where my timeline was wrong, and exactly who to call next. It was the kind of work that usually takes a consulting firm weeks, and it told me how to proceed."
"From starting, running, and selling a successful business, to SEO, to consulting — Chuck is the right man for almost any type of job when it comes to making your company better."
"He greatly excelled in his abilities to design, develop, and implement efficient processes company wide. He has an unparalleled ability to manage and motivate people."
"Chuck Temple and his team will work their ass off for you. Every end product is quality you will NOT find anywhere in competing business."
Let's talk. Tell me what's broken and we'll figure out if I can help. No pitch, no pressure — just a conversation.
I take on three clients at a time. If this sounds like what you need, let's talk before the next slot opens up.