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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. You built the business. Now the business owns you.Every owner-led company eventually hits the same wall. Revenue depends on the founder showing up. Vacations become laptop check-ins. The exit you promised yourself five years ago keeps sliding into next year. And the largest wealth transfer in human history - the $84 trillion Great Boomer Transfer - is moving without you.It doesn't have to.The Retirement Operating SystemIn Automate, Launch, Retire, seven-time author and parking-company owner Ross D. Blankenship gives you the exact operating system he and his portfolio operators use to convert owner-dependent businesses into self-running, sellable, transferable assets - using the AI tools available right now in 2026.Built around three repeatable phases, the AOS framework gives you: Automate - Build an operating system before you buy another tool. Document the business before the business documents you.Launch - Use AI to start new revenue, not just cut admin. The Jevons effect for owners: when work gets cheaper, expectations rise - and so does your top line.Retire - Reduce owner dependence, raise freedom, improve enterprise value. The five chains that compound into The Retirement Multiple.Inside, you'll learn: How to eliminate The Owner Dependence Tax - the silent killer of business valuationThe five owner-dependent chains (lead conversion, follow-up, exit valuation, due-diligence readiness, second-act income) and the AI workflows that break eachThe 30-Day Absence Drill - the exact test that proves your business can survive without youHow to make yourself strategically valuable, not operationally necessaryThe Properties & Service Routes playbook - why physical-world businesses are the most fertile ground for AI-augmented operators in this decadeThe composite cases - the second-generation contractor, the portfolio owner - showing the AOS framework end-to-endWho this book is forOwner-operators doing $250K-$25M in revenue. Founders eyeing a 3-7 year exit. Boomer-era owners ready to transition. Service-business owners drowning in execution. Real estate investors, contractors, and route-based operators tired of trading hours for dollars in a business that should be running itself.What you'll walk away withA 90-day implementation plan, the exact AI prompts and SOP templates Ross uses with his own portfolio, and a clear, numbers-backed path to the most undervalued exit strategy in modern business: building something that doesn't need you.Buy Automate, Launch, Retire today - and start the 90-day plan that turns owner-operator into free agent.Book 1 of The Intelligent Ownership Trilogy. Continue with Dirt, Data and Decisions (operate smarter) and The Intelligent Property (acquire better). This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Your business shouldn't forget what it learned yesterday - and you shouldn't be the only one who remembers.Most companies do not break in one dramatic moment. They leak value in missed follow-ups, forgotten promises, stale estimates, delayed approvals, and decisions trapped in the owner's head. AI has finally made that solvable - but only for owners who install it the right way.The Business That Thinks is the owner's guide to the biggest operating shift in a generation: software moving from passive storage to active participation. Ross D. Blankenship shows you how to turn practical, affordable AI into four working loops - memory, sensing, action, and learning - wrapped in guardrails you design, so the business gets smarter every week without slipping out of your control.Inside, you will learn how to: Build a business memory that outlasts any one person - so onboarding shrinks from months to weeksDetect missed leads, stalled deals, vendor price creep, and hidden leaks before they cost youDeploy AI agents with human review, clear permissions, and guardrails that protect your judgmentRun sales, marketing, service, operations, people, and finance with the owner's AI playbookWrite a one-page AI strategy and execute the step-by-step 90-day buildIncrease what buyers will pay by making the company run without youYou will also get the Ten Laws of a Business That Thinks, the Owner Dependence Tax assessment, the 22 Owner Moves toolkit, ready-to-use templates, and composite operating examples across trucking, med spas, restaurants, accounting firms, and more.This is not a book about hype - and it is not a technical manual. No code. No jargon. It is a practical playbook for the owner who wants a company that remembers what matters, senses change early, acts with permission, and learns before the same mistake costs twice.If you have ever felt like the business cannot run a week without you, this book is your way out - not by working harder, but by building a business that thinks. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…