Everything important passes through your head... ... and you know it.
Youbuiltittobefree.Rightnow,you'reitshostage.
one single link.
Here's the deal: right now, you are the bottleneck. That's what we fix. Prometheus is the decision engine that finds the one thing choking your growth and puts it on screen in the first call. Then we install the system that solves it.
You're not the only one.
We see this every week.
The team waits for your signal before moving a decision.
Revenue is growing, your calendar too, your margin is not.
You hired the director; you're still doing their job.
You sleep with the company inside. Weekends too.
You know what needs to change. You don't know where to start.
Working harder won't fix this.
A system will.
The same business.
A year from now.
Your team moves decisions without you. Every week.
Revenue's up. Margin too. Not because you worked harder, but because you stopped being the single point everything runs through.
This isn't motivation. It's the mechanics of your business, rewired.
You already know where it hurts. Now hear it against your own case.
The decisions that matter live inside one head.
Yours.
The first mistake isn't strategy. It's architecture.
Prometheus draws it on screen, in the first call. Your business seen from above, with the constraint flagged in red.
Don't take my word for it. Watch it happen on screen.
Every meaningful deal only closes when you show up.
Five phases.
One deliverable: Your Atlas 360.
This is what you experience first, live on screen. It's the door into Prometheus: a protocol that closes the diagnosis in a single week and hands you the written plan for the next ninety days.
ORIGIN
- ◆Origin X-ray
- ◆Map of historical decisions
- ◆Milestones and patterns detected
ORIGIN
Where you're coming from: real context, real history, the actual starting line. Not a dossier. An X-ray. We listen before we scan.
SCAN
The map of the business: players, flows, incentives, who's pulling on what. Not an org chart. The actual anatomy of how money, decisions and energy move.
SIGNAL
Where the dominant constraint lives: the real bottleneck. The one thing that, once moved, moves everything else. Not what hurts most: what limits most.
COMPASS
The priority: what gets touched first, inside 90 days. Nothing else. The decision that ships now and unlocks the next three.
GAME PROFILER
Your play: a 30-day execution plan you can hand to the team. Not an idea, a written move.
The constraint is not managed.
It is eliminated.
Something's got you stuck.
It's almost always one of these six.
Decision-making
It all still runs through you. The team executes when you say go and stops the second you look away.
Team
You've got good people who aren't performing. Or you've got the wrong people for the level you're at right now.
New models & markets
The current engine is capped. There's a second revenue line waiting, you just haven't designed it yet.
Marketing & Sales
It leans on your personal presence. Or on channels that don't scale without torching your margin.
Operations
The sales promise doesn't hold up in delivery. There are leaks between what you sell and what actually runs.
Finance
Growth is eating more cash than it generates. The structure can't support the scale.
We only touch the one that's actually costing you sleep.
What the bottleneck actually costs. In numbers. In 3 minutes.
The pattern, in numbers. This is not your exception.
What we observe in 80% of the companies we work with, between $1M and $20M. No statistical coincidence. A structural pattern.
"It's faster if I just do it."
- 01The CEO's calendar is the real map of the company.
- 02The exec team keeps saying: 'we're waiting on his ok'.
- 03Projects freeze on Friday afternoons.
- 04Vacation = business on pause.
The company doesn't grow because the system around you doesn't grow with you.
You're not where you were three years ago.
Three altitudes of mandate. Same head, different architecture. Each row names the real bottleneck and the system installed to break it.
You're still operating. The bottleneck is your calendar.
Decision / execution split. Weekly cockpit. One trained lieutenant absorbing 40% of operating calls.
You've got a team, no architecture. Every decision still ladders up to you.
Second operating layer. 70% delegation with command rituals. Reporting architecture and governance cockpit.
Scale demands a different model. A second line in play without breaking the first.
Second business unit. Executive committee. Operating succession and capital architecture.
You don't pick your level. The first conversation reveals it.
From live diagnosis to installed system.
We take a limited number of mandates per year. All work is under retainer, four-month minimum. PROMETHEUS carries the weight; the calls are held by a head that's seen a thousand of these.
Calibration
One call. Your business on screen. The dominant constraint, flagged. No cost. No pitch. No commitment.
Atlas 360
Five phases. A written deliverable with your 90-day game profile and the system we're about to install.
Retainer
Four-month minimum engagement. Prometheus runs underneath. You decide less and you decide better.
You already know where it hurts. Now hear it against your own case.
Not a service. Judgment. And the system that sustains it when you are not there.
30 years. The same pattern, over and over.
Wilhelm Michael
Founder · Managing PartnerThree decades in the rooms where decisions actually get made. More than 1,000 projects accompanied.
Prometheus is the IBGS decision system. In 90 days it locates your dominant constraint and removes it, so you scale without becoming the bottleneck of your own company.

Why you can trust this diagnosis. It's not theory.
We moved the constraint off the CEO's desk and onto a two-person committee. Velocity went up 10×. Judgment didn't drop.
The bottleneck wasn't sales. It was an unwritten pricing rule nobody had touched in a decade. Rewritten in Atlas Phase III.
Signed by the operator, not a marketing team.
- 01+30 years inside boardrooms
- 021,000+ engagements seen from within
- 03Founder of IBGS
The questions you don't ask on the call.
What the bottleneck actually costs. In numbers. In 3 minutes.
This isn't for everyone. By design.
- · You're doing $1M–$20M and the important calls keep bouncing back to your desk.
- · If you're at $500K–$1M with a team, product in market, and a decision that keeps getting stuck, you fit too.
- · You want a system not a pep talk.
- · You're willing to see the real constraint, even if it stings.
- · You're shopping for a consultant to validate what you already decided.
- · You're under $500k and don't have a team yet.
- · You need day-to-day operational execution.
- · You're not willing to commit to a four-month minimum.
The cost of leaving the bottleneck unresolved.
The bottleneck stays right where it is. You hire another VP, try another tool, sign up for another program. Each one moves a piece and leaves the main link untouched.
Twelve months later, same conversation. Just with less energy to have it.
Breakdown · Where it hurts
The bottleneck isn't one metric. It's four.
When the architecture stays unresolved, the impact splits across four planes. Each with its own number. Each with its own annual invoice.
01 · Focus
14 hrs/week on ops you shouldn't be touching.
It isn't a discipline problem. The system wasn't designed to run without you. That's exactly why it can't.
- per year · 16 working weeks630 h
- of focus pulled from strategy and capital22%
- hours to think about the next cycle0
Observations · +30 years · 1,000+ projects · ±10% confidence band
Four steps. One thread.
How your company travels from the map on the wall to the click an operator makes in 3 seconds without you.
Architecture
We draw the real structure of how decisions get made today: who decides, with what data, on what clock.
Everything runs through you. Nothing ships without your ok.
A living blueprint of every node where the business bottlenecks on you.
Put Prometheus on your company.
One short note. Reply within 24 business hours.
- 24h laborables · lectura corta y honesta.
- NDA por defecto. Cero forwards internos.
- Si no encaja, te lo decimos en la primera línea.
What it costs you to leave the bottleneck in place.
In 9 minutes you receive your Executive Dossier: the annual leak in euros, the margin you win back in 12 months and the 36-month projection with the Prometheus System. Signed and reviewed personally by Wilhelm Michael within 72h.
- Annual leak in euros
- Recoverable in 12 months
- 36-month projection
- Reviewed by Wilhelm · 72h
Estimated annual leak
€480K – €720K
Recoverable in 12 months · ±10% confidence band
See exactly where your company is stuck and what to move for the next 12 weeks.
60 seconds to tell us where you are. Under 2 minutes to receive a signed, confidential 4-page dossier with your diagnosis, the priority bottleneck, and the concrete plan to unlock it.
- Diagnosis calibrated across 200+ companies at €500K–€20M.
- The real bottleneck costing you revenue and founder hours.
- A 12-week plan: what to move, in what order, which signal to track.
- A serious starting point for a calibration call. No sales pitch.
One call tells you what's stopping you.
You move or you don't.
30 minutes. Your business on screen. The dominant constraint, flagged. No cost. We reply within the next 24 business hours.
Limited seats · by invitation after review