Rice and Grind

Real World Advice on SMB's Business Growth and Leveraging AI

Real growth strategies for operators who refuse to stay small

No fluff. No theory. Fortune 500 strategies for founders doing $20K a month and business owners doing $10M a year.

What You'll Find Here

  • Growth Frameworks: the sequence Fortune 500 teams run before spending on promotion, translated for $20K a month to $10M a year businesses
  • Fixing What's Broken: why pricing kills deals, why leads go cold, what's wrong when effort's up but revenue's flat
  • Operational Excellence: CRM, pipeline, and pricing systems built before you need them, not patched after
  • AI Without Hype: what actually works on a bootstrapped budget; real returns from $20K to $2M a month
  • Case Studies: real numbers, real timelines, real businesses

You're a Fit If

  • You're doing $500K to $10M a year and something's broken you can't pinpoint
  • You want systems that scale from day one, not fixed later
  • You're tired of agency noise: tactics, not 50 page decks
  • You're working harder with flat revenue and suspect it's a systems problem
  • You want operational excellence without hiring a Chief Operating Officer

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About Brandon

Brandon Fears, Managing Partner at Gracchus Partners. 25+ years at Compaq, Intel, HPE, and Honeywell: $2B server portfolio directed, $11B conglomerate portfolio, $700M in sales targets hit. MBA from Rice. Started his own business and took it from a negative 3% margin to 21% in nine months.

Off the clock: smoking brisket for 14 hours, Texas style; hosting the Growth Without Fears podcast; making cookies with the kids to deliver to neighbors every Sunday.

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