AcceleratingBiz® Services
Growth Strategies That Leadership Teams Execute to Build AI-Powered Businesses
AcceleratingBiz® is a growth advisory and research practice led by senior operating advisor Randall Hancock and supported by a dedicated team. We provide business consultancy and strategic research that help growth company CEOs and leadership teams develop, align around, and execute winning growth strategies, and build AI-powered businesses.
Advisory Services · Business Consultancy
Growth Strategy and Planning
We collaborate with CEOs and leadership teams to develop actionable growth plans for the next twelve to eighteen months, align their teams around them, and build the execution plans to deliver them.
Leadership Team Working Sessions and Offsites
Design and facilitate the sessions in which the leadership team makes the choices, names the trade-offs, and commits to the plan.
AI Integrated Into the Plan
Build AI into the growth priorities, the operating plan, and the financial model, so that it is part of the strategy and not a separate track.
Plans That Stay Current
Refresh the plan quarterly or twice a year, not once a year, as markets and technology move.
Advisory Services · Business Consultancy
AI Business Transformation
We help CEOs and leadership teams build AI-powered businesses: rethinking how each function operates and where value is created, and converting AI adoption into measurable performance gains. The work is people change management as much as technology.
Set the Strategy
A CEO-led AI manifesto, an AI strategy and roadmap linked to growth, and an AI readiness assessment across enablement, adoption, and governance.
Activate and Enable Teams
Leadership briefings, AI hackathons for non-technical teams, and capability building through training and internal champion programs.
Evolve Value and Monetization
Products, packaging, and pricing as AI changes what customers pay for, with model costs aligned to revenue to protect margins.
Build the Operating Model
Centers of excellence, governance and guardrails, and the adoption, impact, and ROI metrics that prove value and guide reinvestment.
Where it applies: strategy and leadership, go-to-market, product and technology, talent and organization, and finance and operations.
Four Stages of Becoming an AI-Powered Business
- EnableEstablish the foundation: tools, ownership, policies, and baseline AI literacy.
- UtilizeBuild daily proficiency through broad use, experimentation, and shared learning.
- EmbedReshape core workflows by scaling the proven, high-impact use cases.
- TransformReinvent roles, offerings, and the operating model around people and AI agents.
Advisory Services · Business Consultancy
Ongoing Advisory
We serve as a senior thinking partner to CEOs and individual leadership team members on growth strategy, AI business transformation, and other opportunities and issues as they arise.
Regular Working Sessions
Meet on a regular, ongoing basis to frame opportunities, test options, and decide next steps.
Three Perspectives in One Advisor
Experience as an operating executive, an operating advisor, and a board member, applied to the decision in front of you.
Research When a Question Needs It
Bring targeted research and current AI developments into the conversation, so that decisions rest on evidence.
Research Services · Market Research, Business Analyses, and Technology Research
Strategic Research
We conduct market research and business analyses, and research in the field of science and technology and the disruptive impact of technologies on business and society, so that leadership teams make growth and AI decisions on evidence.
Targeted Research for Decisions
Market research and business analyses on the specific questions a leadership team needs answered to move a conversation or a decision forward.
Research on Becoming an AI-Powered Business
Ongoing industrial research on the intelligence explosion (smarter, cheaper, and increasingly autonomous AI) and its disruptive impact on product value, pricing and packaging, operations, financial performance, and the future of work.
The Growth CEO's AI Briefing
A briefing produced each business day on the AI developments, perspectives, and resources that matter most to growth company leaders. We cut through the noise so you don't have to.
Perspectives, Playbooks, and Toolkits
We create thought leadership perspectives, growth playbooks, and toolkits on the topics growth company leaders care about most.
Questions We Have Researched Recently
- AI investmentHow do we measure the ROI of AI initiatives, and how do we budget for AI spend in 2027?
- AI adoptionHow do we ensure that team members embrace AI, become proficient, and begin building AI agents?
- AI outlookHow might AI capabilities evolve over the next twelve to eighteen months, and what is the impact on our industry, business, and team?
- Category leadershipWhat does it mean to be a category leader in our industry?
- CustomersHow is AI changing how our users and buyers behave, and what they expect from us?
- CompetitorsHow are competitors adopting AI, where might AI-native competitors emerge, and are we ready to compete?
How We Work
Business First, AI Throughout
Growth and performance objectives lead. AI is integrated into every plan because it now has to be.
Senior and Hands-On
You work directly with Randall Hancock, who builds AI agents himself, so the advice reflects what the technology does today.
Useful Early
We contribute from the first session, not after a long diagnostic. The measure is a team that agrees on where it is going and has started moving.
Who We Work With
CEOs, leadership teams, boards, and investors at growth companies that are past product-market fit and scaling, from roughly $15M to well beyond $100M in annual recurring revenue, in enterprise software and adjacent sectors.
AcceleratingBiz has advised and researched since 2007, through five technology cycles: the internet, cloud, mobile, Web3, and now AI.
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