The Prometheus System

Youbuiltittobefree.Rightnow,you'reitshostage.

Prometheus · v.7live
>scanning context…
>8 nodes analyzed
>47 signals cross-checked
dominant constraint
Decision-making →
one single link.
load index
87%
compass
◆90 days · game profile ready
◇Fintech · Series A · velocity ×10◇Family · +$220k · one quarter◇SaaS · +38% margin · Phase III◇Retail · decision 3w→48h◇Health · protocol installed◇Firm · CEO out of the bottleneck◇Fintech · Series A · velocity ×10◇Family · +$220k · one quarter◇SaaS · +38% margin · Phase III◇Retail · decision 3w→48h◇Health · protocol installed◇Firm · CEO out of the bottleneck

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.

The stuff nobody says out loud

You're not the only one.
We see this every week.

01

Everything important passes through your head... ... and you know it.

02

The team waits for your signal  before moving a decision.

03

Revenue is growing,  your calendar too, your margin is not.

04

You hired the director;  you're still doing their job.

05

You sleep with the company inside.  Weekends too.

06

You know what needs to change.  You don't know where to start.

Working harder won't fix this.
A system will.

Twelve months from today

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.

One step. No commitment.

You already know where it hurts. Now hear it against your own case.

The diagnosis. Live.

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.

Constraint map · live
Hover · click to pin
salesteamproductclientsfinanceopsmarketingpartnersDominant · bottleneck
sales

Every meaningful deal only closes when you show up.

Atlas · Calibration Protocol

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.

active phase
I
Session 1 · 90 min

ORIGIN

deliverables
  • ◆Origin X-ray
  • ◆Map of historical decisions
  • ◆Milestones and patterns detected
depth24m
Fase 01Session 1 · 90 min

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.

input signals
›business history›key decisions last 24m›milestones & scars
Fase 02Days 2-3

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.

input signals
›stakeholders›cash flows›decision circuits›hidden incentives
Fase 03Day 4

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.

input signals
›dependency crosses›active bottlenecks›weak signals
Fase 04Day 5

COMPASS

The priority: what gets touched first, inside 90 days. Nothing else.  The decision that ships now and unlocks the next three.

input signals
›validated constraint›real capacity›time window
Fase 05Day 6

GAME PROFILER

Your play: a 30-day execution plan you can hand to the team. Not an idea, a written move.

input signals
›Compass priority›available resources›success criteria
A principle, not a slogan
The constraint is not managed.
It is eliminated.
What's actually holding you back

Something's got you stuck.
It's almost always one of these six.

01

Decision-making

It all still runs through you. The team executes when you say go and stops the second you look away.

02

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.

03

New models & markets

The current engine is capped. There's a second revenue line waiting, you just haven't designed it yet.

04

Marketing & Sales

It leans on your personal presence. Or on channels that don't scale without torching your margin.

05

Operations

The sales promise doesn't hold up in delivery. There are leaks between what you sell and what actually runs.

06

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.

One step. No commitment.

What the bottleneck actually costs. In numbers. In 3 minutes.

Data atlas · The terrain

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.

01
1
single node where every meaningful decision converges
02
72h
average between internal question → signed decision
03
3:1
internal meetings per actual hour of execution
04 · Average week of a founder
Reactive
42%
Meetings
28%
Execution
18%
Think
8%
Off
4%
05
8 · 10
companies stall here, not in the market
06 · Decision density
62%
passes through youdelegable
each dot = a meaningful decision from the last month
07
"It's faster if I just do it."
phrase heard a thousand times · always from the founder
08
0
written protocols where there should be some
09 · Typical symptoms
  • 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.

Observations across +30 Years 1,000+ projects
Altitudes · Every level has its bottleneck

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.

I
II
III
Mandate Brief · Nº 001 / 003
I
CORE
$1M–$3M
Symptom

You're still operating. The bottleneck is your calendar.

Install

Decision / execution split. Weekly cockpit. One trained lieutenant absorbing 40% of operating calls.

Command cockpit
40%
Delegation installed
3 wks
To first deliverable
1
Operating head
Cadence
Weekly session
Retainer · 4 months
Mandate code
IBGS·PRM·I·07
Mandate Brief · Nº 003 / 003
III
EXECUTIVE
$10M+
Symptom

Scale demands a different model. A second line in play without breaking the first.

Install

Second business unit. Executive committee. Operating succession and capital architecture.

Command cockpit
85%
Delegation installed
6 wks
To first deliverable
5–7
Executive committee
Cadence
Bi-weekly cockpit
Retainer · 9 months
Mandate code
IBGS·PRM·III·03

You don't pick your level. The first conversation reveals it.

Request Calibration →
How it works

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.

01

Calibration

One call. Your business on screen. The dominant constraint, flagged. No cost. No pitch. No commitment.

02

Atlas 360

Five phases. A written deliverable with your 90-day game profile and the system we're about to install.

03

Retainer

Four-month minimum engagement. Prometheus runs underneath. You decide less and you decide better.

One step. No commitment.

You already know where it hurts. Now hear it against your own case.

What you buy
Not a service. Judgment. And the system that sustains it when you are not there.
Wilhelm Michael · Founder
Who's behind this

30 years. The same pattern, over and over.

Signature · Founder

Wilhelm Michael

Founder · Managing Partner

Three 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.

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Years
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Projects
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Presence
Portrait of Wilhelm Michael, founder of IBGS
Studio · IBGS GlobalMMXXVI
Evidence

Why you can trust this diagnosis. It's not theory.

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Years in decision rooms
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Projects seen from inside
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Atlas calibrations
4.8/5
NPS · retainer clients
Representative cases
Fintech · Series A
Decisions
Shift
3 weeks per decision48 hours
Outcome · 6 weeks

We moved the constraint off the CEO's desk and onto a two-person committee. Velocity went up 10×. Judgment didn't drop.

Industrial · Family-owned
Pricing rule
Shift
Margin flat for 2 years+$220k / year
Outcome · 1 quarter

The bottleneck wasn't sales. It was an unwritten pricing rule nobody had touched in a decade. Rewritten in Atlas Phase III.

Who we work with
01FOUNDER $500K–$3M, SINGLE MARKET
02CEO $3M–$20M, PE-BACKED
03Chair of a family group, LATAM
04Operator post spin-off
Authorship

Signed by the operator, not a marketing team.

Wilhelm Michael
Madrid · Lima · Miami
  • 01+30 years inside boardrooms
  • 021,000+ engagements seen from within
  • 03Founder of IBGS
IBGS seal · MMXXVI
What you're actually wondering

The questions you don't ask on the call.

One step. No commitment.

What the bottleneck actually costs. In numbers. In 3 minutes.

Who this is for

This isn't for everyone. By design.

This is for you if
  • · 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.
This is not for you if
  • · 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.

14 hweekly CEO hours on operating decisions

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

FROM ARCHITECTURE TO DECISION

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.

MAP

Architecture

We draw the real structure of how decisions get made today: who decides, with what data, on what clock.

Signal on the ground

Everything runs through you. Nothing ships without your ok.

Expected outcome

A living blueprint of every node where the business bottlenecks on you.

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Confidential dossier · Under NDA

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
Preview · DossierNDA

Estimated annual leak

€480K – €720K

Recoverable in 12 months · ±10% confidence band

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Projection · 36 monthsIBGS · Prometheus
EXECUTIVE DOSSIER · CONFIDENTIAL

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.

What you get
  • 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.

By submitting you agree that we process your data to prepare this dossier.

Signed PDF. Confidential. No mailing lists.
The calibration

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.

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