A One-Day Intensive for Visionary Founders
One Day to (re)Design the Business To Finally Run Without You at the Center of Everything
If you're here, I am going to guess that you've tried to extract yourself from daily operations before.
You've probably followed a lot of the common advice founders hear. Things like...
"Learn to delegate better", "hire more managers", "document your SOPs", "automate!", "install AI agents", "install this shiny new skill or tool"...
But if you've tried that, you probably realized the expensive and time consuming way that they don't work as advertised.
Valuable? Sure (somewhat).
But THE thing you need to fully elevate into the genius work you love and the Visionary Leadership your business needs to get where it's going next? Nope!
Not on their own.
Have you ever had this happen?
You hire someone new who has all the right experience, a great track record, a bold promise to deliver results for the business and freedom for you...
And a hefty salary or monthly retainer to go along with it.
You feel uneasy about the financial commitment, but know something has to change because you can't take another day of death by a thousand paper cuts.
A 'quick-question' here, a 'can-you-take-a-look-at-this' slack message there, a fire you need to put out because someone handled a situation in a way that upset the client, a deep breath when you see the post your team put out that sounds nothing like you and uses the damn word 'quietly' again!
So you make the investment in the new person, and initially things are great!
You start to envision actual freedom in your business to do the work that fuels you. You start to dream again about that big bold vision you never seem to have time for.
But then the honeymoon period wears off and you realize you're just as stuck in the middle of everything as before.
Sure, some things moved off your plate... but new ones took their place.
The person you hired is doing good work, but something is just "off".
So you go back to fighting the fires, fixing the things, and feeling buried under all the little things that you know shouldn't be yours to do...
But that no one else can seem to "get" no matter how much you invest in training, mentoring, and documenting. And it's often even worse when you try to use AI.
There is a version of your business where the people around you know how to move things forward the way you would move them forward, the AI you have invested significant time and energy into sounds like you and holds your standards, and the questions and decisions that keep finding their way back to you finally stop landing on your plate.
That version of your business is not as far away as it might feel right now.
Because underneath every onboarding training, every brand guide, every piece of documentation that exists in your business, there is a deeper layer that has never been captured in the way that is needed to fully free you from the day to day.
- The way you think when a situation is new
- The standard you apply instinctively when something lands on your desk, and you know within seconds whether it is right or not
- The discernment you have developed over years of running your business that tells you what this business would and would not do in any given moment
Your team is doing their best without that insight.
And no matter how carefully you have prompted or trained your AI tools, none of them have ever had full access to it either.
When that invisible layer finally exists somewhere outside your head, everything changes.
Your team stops guessing and starts operating the way you would operate.
Your AI stops producing output that almost sounds like you and starts producing output you can trust.
That is what we do together in Extraction.
Build the Key Piece Your Business Has Been Missing
Extraction is a one-day virtual intensive where you build your Visionary Operating System (Visionary OS), which is what gives your team and your AI access to how you think, what you stand for, and how this business operates at its very best.
When your Visionary OS exists, your team does not need to ask you how you would handle something. They know.
Your AI does not produce output that sounds like a polished approximation of your voice. It sounds like you.
The people and systems around you operate from the same intelligence you have been carrying alone, and the hours you have been spending reviewing, correcting, redirecting, and re-explaining start going somewhere else.
Most founders start recovering a minimum of eight to ten hours each week. Hours that go back into the work that is genuinely theirs to do.
Your Visionary OS is built across three pillars.
Together they capture everything that makes your leadership, your brand, and your business unmistakably yours.
PILLAR ONE
YOUR UNIVERSE
Who your BUSINESS is
Your purpose, your promise, the people you exist to serve, the path that takes clients from where they are to where they want to go, and the signature that makes your approach unmistakably yours.
PILLAR TWO
YOUR GENIUS
Who YOU are
Your essence, your expertise, how you express yourself in the world at your highest level, the conditions that bring out your best work, and the magic that makes you genuinely irreplaceable to the right people.
PILLAR THREE
YOUR CODE
WHY you 'do' and 'don't'
Your philosophy, the principles that guide every significant decision, the absolutes that define how this business always and never shows up, and the discernment filters that have been the invisible engine of your leadership for years.
What Changes When Your Visionary OS Exists?
For Your Team
Your team finally has what they have always needed, genuine access to how you think and what you stand for.
Onboarding someone new goes from weeks of hoping things land correctly to giving them a complete picture of exactly how this business operates from day one.
Content gets created against a clear standard rather than an approximated one.
Client communications reflect the voice and values of the business without requiring your eyes on everything before it goes out.
Decisions get made with the full context of what this business would and would not do, because that context is finally somewhere your team can access it.
For Your AI
Your AI stops falling short of what you actually need from it because it is finally running on the right input that you weren't able to extract out of yourself trying anything else.
It is running on what makes your business specifically yours, which produces an entirely different result.
Every agent, every automation, every decision, every action, every interaction reflects how you think and what you stand for.
Every AI capability you build from this point forward runs on your Visionary OS as its foundation, which means everything you build from here operates the way you need it to operate.
For YOU!
The hours that have been going to reviewing, correcting, re-explaining, and answering questions that should not have needed you start going somewhere else entirely.
And perhaps more than the hours, what changes is the trust.
Trusting that when you step into the work that speaks to you, the people and systems around you can hold what you have built without you needing to be present for everything.
That trust is what makes the work you actually built this business to do finally feel available to you again.
THE EXTRACTION EXPERIENCE
Three connected experiences designed to take you from extraction to installation to a fully refined and running Visionary OS in your business.
Extraction Kickstart Call:
June 1st, 2pm - 3pm ET / 11am - 12pm PT
We walk through exactly what to expect so you can show up to the intensive fully prepared and ready to build.
You will know what to have gathered in advance, how the day is structured, and what you will walk away with so that there are no surprises and no wasted time on the day itself.
Extraction 1-Day Intensive:
June 4th, 10am - 6pm ET / 7am - 3pm PT
First, we extract.
You move through a guided set of questions across each pillar of your Visionary Operating System (OS), using a specific technique we have found to be incredibly effective at quickly surfacing things you have always known but never found a way to articulate clearly.
We have spent decades refining this process so you are answering exactly the right question in exactly the right way to get the answers needed to create true freedom.
Then, we create.
Once you have your answers extracted and refined, we build 2 things:
- Your knowledge base
- Your AI engine
This is where we create what your human team and your AI team will leverage to run and scale your business without everything coming back to you for direction, decisions, feedback, and fixing.
You end the day with your Visionary OS live and running.
Before we close, we test it together against situations from your business so you can see how well it works in action!
Ask Me Anything Integration Session:
June 11th, 2pm - 3pm ET / 11am - 12pm PT
After your Visionary OS has been running for a week in your business, we come back together for an Ask Me Anything session.
We work through any questions and scenarios you want feedback on so you can refine your Visionary OS.
We also discuss how to continuously evolve it as you and your business grow so it remains the most valuable asset you have in extracting yourself from daily operations.
Extraction is NOT a passive learning experience.
You will spend the majority of the day DOING so you leave with your Visionary OS built, installed, tested, and fully running in a single day.
You'll be doing a lot of talking to yourself (as most Visionaries do :D), blended with some chatting with AI to pull everything together into one comprehensive and crystal clear solution for your team and / or AI to leverage going forward.
And you'll be guided every step of the way, with plenty of space for questions and support!
"I own a design business and we were stuck. We knew that there was a lot of growth ahead of us but we were having trouble getting there. One of the things I liked the most about Crista’s program is that in order to scale I knew I needed something, but I didn’t know what it was.
If you want to save time, grow your team, build systems that work, and continue to work at a bigger level, that’s what you are going to get from her program and I can not recommend it enough.
Crista’s program is phenomenal and amazing for that. It has already saved us more than 10 hours a week, which is huge. That’s a day's worth of work so that I can focus on the things that I need to as the CEO of my company."
Make This the Year You Fully Elevate Yourself Out of the Day to Day and Into Visionary Leadership
Reserve Your Spot at only $997 (first 20 founders)
Standard Investment: $1,500
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need technical experience or AI expertise to get the most out of this day?
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WHO EXTRACTION IS FOR
Extraction is for you if you run an established service-based or expert-based business and you still feel trapped in the daily operations even if you have a team, established systems and processes, and have implemented or experimented with AI.
If you are ready to create the key piece that has been missing so your team or AI can run and scale your business without everything running through you, this day was designed for you.
Extraction is not the right starting point if you are in the early stages of business or if you want to operate solo without a human or AI team to support you.
Hi, I'm Crista Grasso.
A scaling strategist, operations alchemist, and Founder of the Lean Scaling Co & Strategic Ops Institute.
For 30+ years, I've helped businesses scale simply and sustainably, from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses like yours.
I specialize in implementing simple solutions for scaling success that let you elevate your focus to thought leadership and legacy work instead of daily firefighting.
I created the Lean Scaling System to fill the gap for businesses scaling through the messy middle - so you can streamline operations, scale profit and impact, and get out of the day-to-day.
Because you didn't build this business to become trapped working IN it.
AI provides the ability to accelerate elevating yourself into Visionary Leadership when leveraged strategically, which I am on a mission to help businesses do.
