About Gavin Gibbons
Founder of Exitable, McGideon.com and WhatWePay
I help owners of established businesses build companies that run without them.
That gives them three options. They can scale, because their time goes on strategy instead of operations. They can sell, because the business no longer depends on them day to day. Or they can step back and become a shareholder and investor in their own company, taking the rewards without having to run it.
I've spent more than 20 years in tech and AI, building businesses from scratch and living and working around the world. I'm still building. I also work as a board advisor and investor, helping other businesses scale, mostly in construction and building services, such as fire protection & security, M&E, facilities management and HVAC.
Most of the owners I talk to have a business that works. Revenue is solid, the team shows up, customers pay. And yet every meaningful decision still routes through one person, the operating knowledge lives in a handful of heads, and growth adds pressure rather than freedom. Most owners read that as a people problem. It is almost always a structural one.
Growth doesn't always fix it. Things break as a business gets bigger, and they're not always the same things: a problem at one size can turn into a different one at the next. The owners who do well deal with what's holding the business back at each stage, instead of hoping more revenue will carry them past it.
Removing owner dependency is the first step, not the whole job. It is the foundation for a business that is worth more: one that can scale organically, or grow through acquisition as part of a larger group, and that gives its owner real exit routes in future, on their own terms and timetable.
I do this through Exitable. We start with a 90-day sprint to find and remove the constraints in the business, working alongside the owner's team. Then we stay on as long-term partners for what follows: growth, acquisitions, building a group and exit.
I also built McGideon, which delivers business development solutions for construction and building services contractors. We find the work and help them win it. They deliver it.