Opportunity to work with Mike Michalowicz

Read if you're feeling stuck.

February 10, 2026

I don’t send emails like this often, but this one matters.

If your home service business feels stuck, despite your best efforts, I want you to read this with an open mind.

I’m looking to personally partner with a small number of home service businesses as we move into 2026. Not clients. Not coaching students. Actual partners.

If you’ve hit any of these walls, pay attention:

  • Growth stalled after an early run-up

  • Revenue without real profit

  • You’re the bottleneck, whether you want to be or not

  • More hustle isn’t producing better outcomes

  • You know something is fundamentally broken, but can’t see it clearly anymore

This is not a program you buy into, this is not a service package, and I’m not taking equity in your company.

Why This Exists

In 2023, I started working closely with Mike Michalowicz, who many of you know from Profit First, Fix This Next, and Clockwork.

Through that work, I was introduced to The Prosper Group, the team Mike partners with to execute and support these business turnarounds.

What I saw surprised me.

Businesses that had been stuck for years became profitable, stable, and owner independent, fast.

After seeing their work firsthand, I chose to partner directly with The Prosper Group. They are the execution arm behind this model and the team I trust to help fix what’s broken and build businesses the right way.

Mike has done this across industries. I’ve lived it inside HVAC and home services. Together, we realized something important:

This model works exceptionally well in the trades, when it’s done right.

How This Partnership Works

This is a three-year profit-share partnership.

  • Zero equity taken

  • We hire and fund the experts

  • We take the financial risk

  • We share only in the bottom-line success for three years

At the end of the term, your business is returned to your full control, and all ongoing success is completely yours.

Why I’m Doing This

Too many good operators grind themselves into the ground because they don’t have the right help at the right time.

I know that trap well.

Early in my career, when my businesses struggled, I didn’t have access to great advisors or the capital to hire the right help. Traditional investors wanted control and long-term ownership.

What I needed was a partner who would share the risk, help fix the real problems, and then step away once the business was healthy again.

This model exists because it’s exactly what I wish I’d had.

This is about fixing the real issues quickly and building something sustainable, without stripping ownership from the person who built it.

What’s In It For Me?

I want to be clear about why I’m doing this.

I intend to fix what I call the quicksand trap our industry falls into. Most home service businesses struggle for years, and the harder the owner pushes, the more stuck they become.

Through this work, I’ve learned how to break that pattern in a real and lasting way. If we partner, my focus is simple: mutual success with a clear and shared financial outcome.

Here’s how I think about it.

We bet on ourselves:

Our team and I take the risk and are only paid from profit extracted from the business. We ensure persistent profitability within the first few months and establish a permanent debt-eradication path.

We do it right and we do it now:

The three-year structure creates the pressure needed to fix what matters now, not later. That urgency is intentional. It forces hard decisions to happen early and prevents problems from dragging on for years. This approach has produced strong results across the businesses we work with.

The ultimate win is alignment:

By the second year, the goal is for the business to be healthy enough that our investment is recovered and meaningful profit is being shared. You retain full ownership, we share in the upside we help create, and the business is positioned to keep winning long after the partnership ends.

At the conclusion of the third year, the keys to a stronger and healthier business are returned to you. You continue operating at that new level and reap all of the ongoing rewards.

Do You Qualify?

To make sure this is a fit for everyone involved, there are a few minimum requirements.

  • Annual revenue between $2M and $15M USD (Businesses between $1M and $2M may be considered under special circumstances)

  • A United States based business (We will expand geographically, but not yet)

  • You are the sole or majority decision maker.

  • You are committed to working collaboratively with my team and experts for the full term.

  • You are open to challenging long held assumptions to achieve a real breakthrough.

  • You are willing to move through hard decisions and uncomfortable transitions, including shifting from working in the business to working on the business.

  • You welcome direct feedback and are committed to following through on agreed upon solutions.

This process is demanding by design. That is what makes it work.

Next Steps and Timing

I will be putting together the portfolio for my next partnerships over the next four weeks.

If you believe you may be a fit for one of these spots, the next step is to begin the qualification process.

You will first speak with Jacob Limmer, our Performance Manager. If you move forward, you will also interview with me and Mike.

We move quickly. Appointment availability is limited over the next five days.

(If call times run out, please email [email protected])

I look forward to partnering with you

Here’s to our success,

-Tersh