You have a team. Why are you still doing their work?
We help founder-led businesses with a team of 8 or more hand day-to-day work, checking and problem-solving to the team, so the founder has time to find, win and keep clients. Back to the work only you can do.
Does this sound familiar?
You're still doing work your team could do.
You check what they do before anything goes out.
Their problems end up on your desk.
Decisions wait until you have time to look at them.
Work you delegate keeps coming back half-done, so you quietly take it back.
You've tried the fixes: training, new software, a better system. None of it held.
Updates only come when you chase.
The work that would find, win and keep clients keeps getting pushed to later.
If you're nodding to any of these, you're exactly who we built TBG for.
Built for founders with a team of 8 to 50.
Your mess doesn't scare us.
You're not too far gone, and you're not behind. You built a team because the business needed one. The next step is letting it carry the work.
We want to build with you.
From doing their work to doing yours.
R400k to R900k a year.
That's the value of founder and leadership time spent doing, checking and fixing work the team could do, for a founder-led business of 8 to 45 people, at South African market rates.
Estimates at South African market rates. Your own number comes out of the Whose Work Is It? session.
Back to the work only you can do.
That work is going to market: finding, winning and keeping the clients that let your business keep growing. Your team carries the day-to-day, checks its own output and solves its own problems, because there's finally something clear to own besides you. It's not effortless. The structure asks something of you too. But it asks less every month, and gives back more.
Room to find clients
Time to get out into the market, meet the right people and start new conversations.
Room to win clients
Time for the follow-ups, proposals and relationships that turn a conversation into a client.
Room to keep clients
Time to look after the clients you have, so they stay, buy more and refer you.
Calm, clarity, and structure.
We stay until it holds.
We don't drop a deck and leave. We work alongside your team until the work is theirs. With one client, the team started running the new structures on their own. Nobody asked them to, and we were still in the engagement.
We start with your season.
Everything we build is configured to your business and the season it's actually in. Structure designed for the wrong season doesn't just fail. It adds weight you're already carrying too much of.
Specific beats generic. Every time.
Generic frameworks don't hold because they weren't written for your business. We sit inside yours, and what we build together is specific enough that it actually sticks. As one client put it: a book can't see your business. Someone sitting with you can.
Our approach isn't invented from scratch. It's built on the Art of Scale framework, an execution system developed for scaling businesses in South African and emerging-market conditions, and configured to your business, your team and your season.
What working with us looks like.
No long onboarding, no discovery phase you pay for. It starts with a conversation and moves at the pace your business can carry.
A connect call
We get to know you and your team, show you how we work, and decide together whether there's a fit.
Whose Work Is It?
We find the work your team could take on, what doing it yourself costs you in rand, and which starting point fits.
We work alongside your team
We work with your team on the doing, checking and fixing that still sits with you.
Your team takes it off your desk
The team carries the work. We step back and support.
It holds without you
You're back in the market, finding, winning and keeping clients. That's not us leaving early. That's the whole job done.
Wherever you are, there's a place to start.
There are two ways to start. One for the business, one for you.
Over four months, we find the bottleneck, put a rand figure on what it costs you, build a 90-day plan and hold you to it with three accountability sessions.
A one-on-one journey through your own story, naming the season you're in, clarifying your purpose, and walking away with a map you'll actually come back to.
Want to know what comes after? Book a connect call and we'll walk you through it.
Not ready for a call?
Start with your own to-do list.
Fifteen minutes with the Prioritisation Scorecard and you'll have three things worth protecting this week, and a clear list of what you can drop or hand over. Free, and it ends with a thirty-minute conversation where someone actually asks how it went.
Founders don't need another playbook. They need someone who stays.
I'm JC de Jongh. I started The Burgeon Group because I kept meeting the same founder: capable, committed, carrying a business that had grown past the way it was being run, and quietly exhausted by it.
Before TBG, I helped build a consultancy alongside its CEO, and through it, worked inside company after company facing the same struggle. Different industries, same pattern: a capable team, and a founder still doing, checking and fixing their work. I've seen where it breaks. More importantly, I've seen what actually holds: clear ownership, honest conversations and structure built on methods proven in South African scale-ups, not imported theory.
That's the work I do now. Not slide decks. Not theory. I sit with founders and their teams, month after month, until the work is theirs and the founder is back out in the market, finding, winning and keeping clients.
If that sounds like the kind of help you've been looking for, let's talk.
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No pressure. Thirty minutes to understand your team and where the work sits now, show you how we work, and decide together whether there's a fit. The first step is always small.