Why we
publish.
We are the publishing arm of Exceptional Companies — where our frameworks go once they have survived contact with a real business.
Everything here was used before it was written down.
We are an Innovation Ecosystem in Colorado Springs, and we buy, build and operate businesses across advisory, energy, insurance, wealth and media. Every framework we publish was installed in one of our own companies first, and most of them broke at least once before they worked.
That is our whole editorial standard. We publish what we run on. When a number is uncertain we date it and say so, and when we cannot source a statistic we leave it out rather than repeat it.
We write for the owner who built something real with their hands, their talent and their years — and who intends to hand it off well rather than run out of time holding it.
A stranger should be able to see the piece with the logo cropped off and still tell it came from an Exceptional company. Family Brand Standards
Who writes here.
Chris guides Main Street owners through the biggest transaction of their lives. He has been the seller, the buyer and the advisor on both sides of the table. He runs a family office of operating businesses, wrote Selling Main Street and Buying Main Street, co-wrote Exceptional by Design with his wife Tara, and in 2015 he and Tara bought the town of Hillside, Colorado.
chrisseegers.com ›Marcus is co-author of Exceptional Systems and co-leader of the ecosystem. He is a Co-Founder of Exceptional Business Advisors, where he owns operations and systems — which is to say he runs, in a real company with real people in it, the operating system that book documents.
Tara co-wrote Exceptional by Design and is co-writing Exceptional Stewardship, the Wealth OS — she is a Certified Financial Planner™ named to Forbes’ Top Women Wealth Advisors Best-In-State list. She co-leads the ecosystem. She had the vision for Hillside and ran it — within three years the town was immaculate, profitable and growing, with people driving in from all over for events, milestones and the stargazing.
Everything, in one place
The Life, Business and Wealth OS trilogy, and the two Main Street books on selling and buying a company.
The library ›Conversations with owners who have built, run, or let go of a company — including the parts that did not work.
Every listening link ›“Create Your Life Vision” from Exceptional by Design — getting quiet, and the ten-year exercise.
Read the chapter ›Where the material comes from
Sell-side and buy-side transition work. The Main Street books came straight out of it.
Visit ›What happens to the family, the plan and the legacy after the wire hits — utilizing your resources to live the life you design.
Visit ›Protection for all of it — home, auto, umbrella. Plus the life, estate, key person and buy-sell coverage that can turn an exit into opportunity.
Visit ›An Innovation Ecosystem: the operating portfolio where the systems get stress-tested across industries and our own resources are deployed to live the life we designed.
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