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Unlock your company's true value. We help Texas trade & home service businesses scale past $3M and thrive without the owner.

For many business owners, the company they've built is their life's work. But growth stalls, margins shrink, and the business remains dependent on them. The path from $3 million to $10 million feels chaotic and uncertain.

What if you could build a more valuable, resilient, and profitable company—whether you plan to sell in two years or run it for twenty?

Building a Premium Asset Shouldn't be a Mystery.

Our framework transforms owner-dependent businesses into premium assets—fast. Most business owners focus on revenue and profit. But the real value in your company lies in four intangible capitals that buyers, investors, and successors care about most.

The Challenge Every Plumbing, HVAC, & Electrical Contractor Faces

You've built something remarkable. Your service business generates $1M to $15M in revenue. You have clients, a team, and a reputation. But somewhere along the way, growth became harder. Margins tightened.

The business started running you, rather than the other way around.

You know the problem:
1. Your company is too dependent on you.
2. Systems are in your head.
3. Processes aren't documented.
4. Key relationships rely on your personal touch.

And while you've built a business, you haven't yet built a premium asset.

The journey from where you are to where you want to be—whether that's $10 million, $20 million, or a successful exit—feels chaotic and uncertain.

You need a proven system that starts with your numbers and builds real, measurable value.

The Elevated HQ Difference:
Blueprint to Premium™

At Elevated HQ, we specialize in transforming owner-dependent contractors into optimized, profitable businesses through a proven system of financial analysis, operational mastery, and relentless execution.

We don't start with motivation. We start with your numbers.

Our Elevated Operations to Premium™ approach is designed to de-risk your business, create value, and build unshakeable operational excellence.

We combine the rigor of financial analysis with the disciplined execution of 90-Day Sprints to help you achieve measurable results.

Our approach is structured, human-centered, and relentlessly focused on execution.
Business owners who engage in formal strategic planning 3-5 years before their intended exit achieve valuations 20-40% higher than those who wait.

De-risk. Accelerate. Command your value.

Four pillars that transform your business from owner-dependent to a premium asset.

Understand Your Businesses's True Worth

Gain clarity on your business's current value and the key drivers that will increase it. We track this over time, so you always know the score.

Before you can elevate, you must optimize. Before you can have options, you must build value.

Always know what your business is worth and why. Clarity on financials.

De-Risk and Build Resilience

Systematically identify and eliminate the risks that suppress your company's value and make it less attractive to buyers, partners, or the next generation of leaders.

We help you build a business that can weather uncertainty and thrive without you by understanding clear financials.

Remove the obstacles that keep you from reaching your full potential.

Build Systems Buyers (and Teams) Trust

Implement the optimized systems and documented processes that prove your business can thrive without you.

We help you achieve the operational excellence that buyers, investors, and successors demand—and that your team needs to succeed.

Create a business that runs like a machine, not a one-person show.

Execute with a Quarterback

Drive focused progress in 90-day sprints with a dedicated partner keeping the entire process on track. No more scattered priorities or stalled initiatives.

We help you execute relentlessly on what matters most.

Stay focused, stay accountable, and see measurable results every quarter.

Accelerate value. Reduce risk. Get ready.

Our framework transforms owner-dependent businesses into premium assets—fast. Most business owners focus on revenue and profit. But the real value in your company lies in four intangible capitals that buyers, investors, and successors care about most.
Four intangible capitals often comprise 80% of a business's value.

Social Capital

Your culture,  brand reputation, market position, and strategic partnerships.

Most trade owners don't think of culture as a financial asset — but buyers, top-tier technicians, and your best customers do. Culture is the invisible system that determines whether your team shows up ready to win or just ready to clock out. A toxic or inconsistent culture creates turnover, callbacks, and chaos that suppresses your company's value and exhausts you as the owner. A strong one creates retention, referrals, and a reputation that precedes you in the market.

Human Capital

Your team's skills, knowledge, and ability to operate without you.

If your business stops when you stop, you don't own a business - you own a job. The goal: a team that runs the day-to-day so you can work on the business, not just in it.

Structural Capital

Your documented operations, optimized systems, and consistent processes. This is where most trade businesses bleed money without realizing it. When field dispatching, pricing frameworks, and service standards exist only as "tribal knowledge" locked in your head, scaling becomes impossible. We help you build a business that runs like a machine, ensuring consistent execution on every job site.

Customer Capital

Your customer relationships, retention rates, and recurring revenue streams.

A full CRM doesn't mean much if customers aren't coming back. We analyze your retention rates, average ticket trends, and revenue concentration to identify whether your customer base is an asset or a liability. Then we build systems — follow-up sequences, membership programs, service agreements — that turn one-time calls into long-term relationships. Predictable, recurring revenue from a loyal customer base is one of the most powerful value drivers in any trade business.

We help you systematically build and optimize all four capitals, creating a business that's worth more- and woth more to the right buyers.

Meet the team

Your partners in Strategic Operations Planning.
Kaela Reedy

Kaela Reedy, Founder & CEO

Operations and strategy advisor with a deep financial background.

Kaela Reedy is the founder of Elevated HQ. As an operations and strategy advisor with a deep financial background, she's an expert at finding the hidden value in your business. A certified EOS Integrator and Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA), Kaela has seen the painful pattern of brilliant contractors stuck in the day-to-day, unable to optimize and elevate their operations. Her love language is P&Ls and balance sheets, and she uses data to drive decisions that create real wealth. She is dedicated to guiding business owners through a process that builds a stronger, smarter, and more sustainable company—one that gives them freedom and options.
Kaela Reedy

Johnny Walker, Managing Advisor

M&A veteran and financial operator with 50 years in the C-suite.

Johnny Walker is a Managing Advisor at Elevated HQ. As a CPA, former Deloitte Partner, and seasoned CEO, COO, and CFO at companies up to $175M in revenue, he has spent five decades doing exactly what buyers do when they evaluate a business — scrutinizing financials, identifying risk, and determining what something is truly worth. He has led acquisitions, executed board-directed exits, restructured banking relationships, and turned around distressed companies. His love language is a clean EBITDA and a leadership team that runs without the owner in the room. He brings that same operator's lens to every Elevated HQ client — so when it's time to face a buyer across the table, there are no surprises.
Kaela Reedy

Ron Tiller, Managing Advisor

Turnaround specialist who has seen every way a business can break — and exactly how to fix it.

Ron Tiller is a Managing Advisor at Elevated HQ and one of the most experienced turnaround and stabilization operators in the lower middle market. As a seasoned controller and entrepreneur, Ron has spent his career inside businesses that needed more than advice — they needed someone who could diagnose the real problem, make the hard calls, and execute a path forward. Most recently, Ron spent 15 years at GrowMore where he more than doubled revenue while simultaneously reducing operational costs — proof that financial discipline and growth are not opposites. He brings that same operator's rigor to Elevated HQ clients who are ready to stop bleeding value and start building it. If your business is at risk, overleveraged, or simply not performing the way it should, Ron has seen it before — and he knows the way out.
Kaela Reedy

Jon Reedy, Managing Advisor

Technology and infrastructure advisor specializing in AI, derisking, & IT optimization.

Jon Reedy is a Technology and Infrastructure Advisor at Elevated HQ and the founder of Sentri-Fi, an IT and cybersecurity firm serving businesses across the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Jon brings a practitioner's perspective to one of the most overlooked components of business value — the technology stack. Buyers and their diligence teams increasingly scrutinize cybersecurity posture, systems documentation, and operational tech infrastructure as part of every acquisition. Jon knows exactly what they're looking for, because he's the one businesses call to build, secure, and audit those systems. He works alongside Elevated HQ clients to ensure their technology infrastructure is not a liability in diligence — and wherever possible, a proof point of operational maturity.

Meet the team

Your partners in Strategic Operations Planning.
Kaela Reedy

Kaela Reedy, Founder & CEO

Operations and strategy advisor with a deep financial background.

Kaela Reedy is the founder of Elevated HQ. As an operations and strategy advisor with a deep financial background, she's an expert at finding the hidden value in your business. A certified EOS Integrator and Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA), Kaela has seen the painful pattern of brilliant contractors stuck in the day-to-day, unable to optimize and elevate their operations. Her love language is P&Ls and balance sheets, and she uses data to drive decisions that create real wealth. She is dedicated to guiding business owners through a process that builds a stronger, smarter, and more sustainable company—one that gives them freedom and options.
Kaela Reedy

Johnny Walker, Managing Advisor

M&A veteran and financial operator with 50 years in the C-suite.

Johnny Walker is a Managing Advisor at Elevated HQ. As a CPA, former Deloitte Partner, and seasoned CEO, COO, and CFO at companies up to $175M in revenue, he has spent five decades doing exactly what buyers do when they evaluate a business — scrutinizing financials, identifying risk, and determining what something is truly worth. He has led acquisitions, executed board-directed exits, restructured banking relationships, and turned around distressed companies. His love language is a clean EBITDA and a leadership team that runs without the owner in the room. He brings that same operator's lens to every Elevated HQ client — so when it's time to face a buyer across the table, there are no surprises.
Kaela Reedy

Ron Tiller, Managing Advisor

Turnaround specialist who has seen every way a business can break — and exactly how to fix it.

Ron Tiller is a Managing Advisor at Elevated HQ and one of the most experienced turnaround and stabilization operators in the lower middle market. As a seasoned controller and entrepreneur, Ron has spent his career inside businesses that needed more than advice — they needed someone who could diagnose the real problem, make the hard calls, and execute a path forward. Most recently, Ron spent 15 years at GrowMore where he more than doubled revenue while simultaneously reducing operational costs — proof that financial discipline and growth are not opposites. He brings that same operator's rigor to Elevated HQ clients who are ready to stop bleeding value and start building it. If your business is at risk, overleveraged, or simply not performing the way it should, Ron has seen it before — and he knows the way out.
Kaela Reedy

Jon Reedy, Managing Advisor

Technology and infrastructure advisor specializing in AI, derisking, & IT optimization.

Jon Reedy is a Technology and Infrastructure Advisor at Elevated HQ and the founder of Sentri-Fi, an IT and cybersecurity firm serving businesses across the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Jon brings a practitioner's perspective to one of the most overlooked components of business value — the technology stack. Buyers and their diligence teams increasingly scrutinize cybersecurity posture, systems documentation, and operational tech infrastructure as part of every acquisition. Jon knows exactly what they're looking for, because he's the one businesses call to build, secure, and audit those systems. He works alongside Elevated HQ clients to ensure their technology infrastructure is not a liability in diligence — and wherever possible, a proof point of operational maturity.

Take the First Step with a Business Value & Strategy Assessment

Four intangible capitals often comprise 80% of a business's value.
Our complimentary, 30-minute Business Value & Strategy Assessment is the first step in Elevated Operations to Premium™. We will help you identify the top 3 value-killers in your business and provide a clear, actionable path to de-risk your company and accelerate its value

Is Elevated HQ Right for You?

This is for you if...
  • ✓  You own a service business doing $1M-$15M in revenue
  • You want to maximize your business value—whether you plan to sell or optimize for growth
  • Your business runs on you—and you know that's the problem
  • ✓ You want profitable growth, not just more revenue
Building a valuable business is a strategic discipline that starts long before you're ready for a change. If you are a business owner who wants to secure your legacy and unlock the full potential of your life's work, let's have a conversation.

Proven Results from Fellow Trade Leaders

See how Texas contractors and home service business owners have partnered with Elevated HQ to optimize their operations, protect their margins, and build companies that thrive independently.

Recommending Kaela is effortless. She brings the perfect blend of strategic vision, motivational presence, timely execution, and contagious energy. As COO, the tools and systems she implemented have become essential to my daily operations. My advice: bring her on board sooner rather than later.

Channing Ritchie

Kaela is an experienced professional service provider. Her ability to identify key strengths and weaknesses to grow and stabilize my service business has been so worthwhile.

Kathy Brownell

Working with Kaela Reedy has been an exceptional experience. Her strategic insight, professionalism, and ability to identify practical solutions significantly improved our operational efficiency and overall business performance. They demonstrated strong leadership, clear communication, and a deep understanding of business management throughout the engagement. I especially appreciated their proactive approach and commitment to delivering measurable results. I would highly recommend Elevated HQ to any organization seeking a knowledgeable and reliable business management consultant.

Amanda Rawlings

Great company and Kaela is awesome.

Wayne Neal