Execution Momentum™ in 45 Days.
Summit OS brings disciplined operating rhythm to founder-led companies — turning priorities into measurable growth without added complexity.
- Align your team
- Clarify priorities
- Establish weekly execution discipline
In 45 Days
Reach Execution
Momentum™
In 12 months
Systematize and Activate
Growth Drivers
In 3 years
Build Margin-Boosting
Unique Activities™
Experience
the Summit OS®
Transformation
- Are you struggling to boost profitability and scale?
- Are you facing tough decisions alone?
- Are things still dependent on your energy and skills?
- Are constant fires blocking growth?
You can now tap into simple, proven business growth frameworks that will help you transform your business into a well-oiled machine of execution and growth.
What is the Summit OS Transformation?
We will help you create Execution Momentum™ in your business within the first 45 days. From there, we will help you implement a Custom Growth Roadmap™, including
- Systematizing your business
- Activating growth drivers
- Elevating your leadership team
- Developing high-margin Unique Activities™
We will be the “Private Equity” that will grow your business without Private Equity. Why give away a big chunk of your business just to get a boss who will tell you what to do? You can do all the right things to grow your business with the help of a seasoned business coach and the use of the Summit OS Toolkit™.
What Makes Summit OS® Unique?
Evolved the traditions of EOS®, Scaling Up®, and other operating systems—streamlined into one integrated, easy-to-use operating system. An evergreen framework that adapts and scales with your business.
People
BECOME A TALENT MAGNET
Purpose
CRYSTALIZE VISION & STRATEGY
Perform
EXECUTE
LIKE HELL
LIKE HELL
Playbooks
SYSTEMIZE & AUTOMATE
Profit
DIFFERENTIATE & DOMINATE
The Summit OS framework helps businesses build scalable operational systems across five core areas: People, Purpose, Perform, Playbooks, and Profit. It focuses on strengthening culture and leadership, aligning strategy and execution, systemizing operations, improving accountability, and creating long-term sustainable growth.
View Summit OS Framework Breakdown
People
Become a Talent Magnet
- Culture: Build a healthy, accountable, high-performing company culture.
- Functions: Define clear responsibilities and operational ownership.
- Coaching: Develop leaders and improve communication across teams.
Purpose
Crystallize Vision & Strategy
- Vision: Create long-term clarity around direction and goals.
- Strategy: Align strategic priorities and decision-making.
- Alignment: Ensure teams move toward shared business objectives.
Perform
Execute Like Hell
- Rocks: Focus teams on the highest-impact priorities.
- Metrics: Track measurable operational performance indicators.
- Meetings: Establish disciplined execution rhythms and accountability.
Playbooks
Systemize & Automate
- Define: Document repeatable operational processes.
- Ingrain: Standardize execution across teams.
- Optimize: Continuously improve systems and workflows.
Profit
Differentiate & Dominate
- Benchmark: Measure performance against competitors and targets.
- Engineer: Improve business structure and scalability.
- Sustain: Build long-term operational resilience and enterprise value.
Now that you understand how Summit OS works, the real question is: where does your business actually stand? Is Your Business Engineered to Scale —or Held Together by Effort?
The Summit OS Climb Assessment™ evaluates the underlying systems that determine whether growth is repeatable, profitable, and sustainable.
- Score across the 15 Business Growth Practices™
- See where structure is missing
- Measure dependence on you as the founder
- Spot gaps limiting growth and scalability
Takes 5 minutes. Immediate results.
This gives you a clear starting point before speaking with a Summit OS Architect™.
We’ve been in your shoes. As Summit OS Architects™, we’ve owned and run companies so we know the pressure of tough calls. Our work is practical and hands-on: we help your team align, execute consistently, and turn your vision into strategy and significant results.
Our mission is to help business owners reach their Ideal Lives while creating a positive impact.
Meet our Architects
Our Summit OS Architects are ready to help you grow your business across the US.
SummitOS gave us the structure and clarity we were missing—turning constant firefighting into focused execution with real accountability and trust across the team. We’re no longer drowning; we’re aligned, making better decisions, and actually building momentum around the right priorities.
-Greg Althaus
CTO and Co-Founder of RackN
Our sales were flat and execution lacked focus before Summit OS. Seven years later, disciplined planning and accountability have transformed both our performance and our culture.
-Bob Collins
President, Gerstel Inc.
I used to wear every hat and work nonstop just to keep the business moving. After implementing Summit OS, I spent an entire month away with zero calls from the office.
-Harlan Reichle
CEO and Founder, Reichle Klein Group
At a critical inflection point, we needed strategic clarity and focus. Summit OS aligned our team and helped us win multi-million dollar contracts.
-Mike Barthlow
President and CEO, BT Federal
We needed real systems and accountability to grow beyond a small practice. Now our team is aligned, disciplined, and executing toward expansion with confidence.
-Dr. Nima Shemirani
CEO, Eos Rejuvenation
Over five years, Steve helped us build the structure and accountability our business was missing — and our valuation has since quadrupled. In the last year alone, we achieved 26% growth in monthly recurring revenue.
-Adam Luecking
Founder and CEO, Clear Impact
Summit OS transformed how we think about and execute our business. The clarity and accountability it created elevated our leadership team and sharpened our growth direction.
-Rob Hirschfeld
Founder and CEO, RackN
Over three years, Steve helped multiple of my companies grow to multi-seven figures, with some nearing eight figures. He brings the clarity and systems required to break through each new level of growth.
-Vikram Raya
Founder and CEO, Limitless MD
As I prepared for a management buyout and took the company private, we needed real structure and execution discipline. Summit OS gave us the clarity and quarterly focus to pursue aggressive growth with confidence.
-Nick Beavers
CEO, Media Cybernetics
Before Summit OS, we lacked structure and clarity on how to reach the next level of growth. After 18 months, we strengthened revenue focus, improved metrics, and built the discipline to lead and grow intentionally.
-Tejash Patel
CEO of TAYS, Inc.
Are you ready for the transformation?
The first step is to find a Summit OS Architect. Your Architect will run a quick diagnostic, map your 45-day Execution Momentum™ sprint, and build a simple plan to align your team, sharpen priorities, and start digging your moat.
Find your Architect to get started and elevate how your business executes.
The Summit OS Library™
A Must Read For Business Coaches and Owners!
[The authors] have done a masterful job of consolidating the “best of the best” business thought leader philosophies and models and incorporated into tools that provide a concise and actionable journey to the top. Without fluff and dull, time-consuming exercises, they cut to the chase and give the reader clear direction, purpose and navigation that works for each company embarking on their journey. I am excited to introduce my clients to the Five Principles and Fifteen Practices detailed in the book.
-Carol Steinberg
A Must Read for all business owners!
Pinnacle takes the concept of a business operating system to the next level. If you gained insights from books such as The eMyth, Scaling Up, The Great Game of Business, or Traction, Pinnacle is a must read. It will take you deeper and farther than all of these books combined.
If you are an owner or leader of a privately held business that is looking to grow, increase your profit or improve your business, buy this book, you are guaranteed to come away with numerous ideas that you can implement in your business tomorrow.
-Gordon Caudle
Fantastic book for those who are reaching for the next level with their business.
The Pinnacle Book breaks down and prioritizes actionable steps for those who are always pushing for the next level. After reading the book I feel like I now have a better path to driving growth while improving communication and alignment throughout the organization. This book helped simplify a great deal of the complexity I deal with daily and I have now passed it onto my executive team. I highly recommend this book if you own or run a company and are striving for sustainable growth.
-Steven Ayres
Love this book
I keep a stack of these on my desk to send friends and colleagues. It has such useful tools for working ON a business; rather than IN a business. Easy to read and apply right away!
-Emi Kubota
The fable tells it all
Preda is a master at the OS and brings it to life in this fable. I’m not usually a fan of fable biz books but this one is the exception. I really think it is powerfully written.
-Barry LaBov
A great first step for owners and managers to learn the Pinnacle business growth system
The book is written in a narrative format that gives a great introduction to the five concepts of the Pinnacle business growth system (People, Perform, Playbooks, Purpose).For company owners and managers who are interested in creating a lean, scalable, profitable, sustainable business, this book is a great first step!
-Noah
Quick Read for CEOs on how an operating system helps a company scale and become investable
Steve Preda builds upon his prior book, Pinnacle: The Five Principles to take your Business to the Top of the Mountain, by adding a business fable of a Dermatology practice trying to scale. Using his real world experience, he takes the reader through the challenges businesses face and how a guide and his operating system, Summit OS, can straighten the path for the Team.Geared toward the entrepreneur, this book is a fast but a very informative read for CEOs and their leadership teams who want to learn what a company’s scaling Journey firsthand using the Summit OS System. In an interesting twist, the company seeks outside capital and the reader can see how the operating system helps a company become more attractive to third party investors.
-Peter
Very practical. Gets the point across.
In this fable, Steve delivers the content of Summit OS in a very practical and down to earth manner. This approach makes it easy to visualize the application of the principles and practices of Summit OS to real life situations. It gets the point across and one can easily extrapolate the experiences of these fictional characters into one’s own business.
-Arvin
A Quick Read with Great Info for Business Leaders
Business owners ride a roller coaster every day. One minute, the trusted team works together like clockwork; profits are up, and management congratulates itself for its brilliant performance. The next minute, the company’s survival is at stake because of one unexpected event. If you think it can’t happen to your business, read this business fable and learn just how important it is to have a plan and how an outsider’s objective view can make all the difference. I highly recommend this book.
-Michele
A Six-Step Sytem to Business Growth
Steve Preda has written (and drawn) a book that takes what can be overwhelming concepts and breaks them down into six executable steps. The illustrations make you feel that you are in the room as Steve is at the white board. Plus, the use of white space gives the reader a break, allowing you to absorb the material. This book strikes a good balance of theory and implementation, providing support for the recommendations made.
-Krista Crawford, PhD, MBA, SPHR
Practical implementation guide to today’s leading Strategy Trends and practices
Strategy Operating System® (Strategy OS) is a groundbreaking concept that has the potential to revolutionize the way businesses approach strategy creation. Steve Preda has spent years researching and studying the most important strategy books of the past half-century and has distilled the essential ideas into six consecutive steps that are easy to understand and implement. By providing clear, actionable steps and real-world examples, the author has created a system that is both accessible and effective.
I highly recommend Strategy OS to any ambitious entrepreneur or CEO looking to take their business to the next level.
-W Smith
You won’t go wrong with any of Steve’s books
This book is one of the best books I have gotten on the subject of Strategy. In fact, getting the trio of books from Steve’s has been one of the best investments in building a business I have made. One thing you will appreciate about Steve is that his style of writing ensures that you grasp concepts easily, and you can take them and immediately implement them. What I particularly liked about this one was that Steve takes you by the hand and walks you through all the foundational strategy pillars you need to build a business that will scale. I was able to identify the mistakes I made initially and devise a plan to rectify them. You can’t go wrong with this one.
-Tanya Kabuya
Steve has hit it out of the park!
I love the anecdotes from the real world that help illustrate the points. Unlike most strategy books, Strategy OS is very readable and interesting – not just a book of recipes and prescriptions. This is a must-read for any SMB owner or executive.
-greenie
Next Level Strategy Tools
Steve Preda provides a logical framework around the hard to pin down strategy discussion. Starting with the basics of positioning and differentiation, the Strategy OS tools take a company through a six-step process to build a unique and defensible position in the market to drive profitable growth. Simple in design and logically organized, Strategy OS is for the company that has mastered a basic operating system and is ready to break out to a whole next level of growth.
-Peter
Business strategy, abstract no more.
A typically abstract subject to many, is presented as a systematic and coherent system that any business can implement. I highly recommend reading this book to business owners or executives who are struggling to define and put in place a business strategy that targets their goals and that is clear to their team.
-Arvin
Solid unique book on building value recognized by potential buyers as well as for all stakeholders
The Pinnacle Book breaks down and prioritizes actionable steps for those who are always pushing for the next level. After reading the book I feel like I now have a better path to driving growth while improving communication and alignment throughout the organization. This book helped simplify a great deal of the complexity I deal with daily and I have now passed it onto my executive team. I highly recommend this book if you own or run a company and are striving for sustainable growth.
-Deb Tyler
Thought Provoking Book
The book was well written, interesting and was clearly written by an expert in the field. It is always interesting to get the details behind the deals, what works and what brings a deal to fail. No two buyers or sellers are alike and the anecdotes made the book that much more flavorful. It was also valuable to learn more about international and cross-border deals, areas in which I lack knowledge.As someone who is intimately familiar with the subject matter, I did have one point that I feel needs more substantiation. The insinuation that only one in 12 businesses is really sellable, does not fit with what I see every day. I am not sure I would support the Statista findings – does this data capture all sales including mergers, employee buyouts, kids buying out their parents, etc.?
-Ashley Raphael
Good, insightful look at starting, growing and selling a Buyable Business
Steve Preda takes his decades of experience, research and statistical data to walk the reader through not only the lift of building a “Buyable” business, but also the pit falls and opportunities that can arise along the way. Many books in the business management world – commit to a “one size fits all” or this is the newest fad and try to debunk or only pitch ONE way to do things. Without focusing on only one management style, Preda highlights the main concepts/theories that have been adopted and adapted over the past century and gives them all equal and fair consideration.
At times it can get a bit technical and distracting with some of the stories but overall his direct interaction from both his European and American negotiations play into his explanation of how to layout the plan of starting, building and orchestrating a Buyable Business.
At times it can get a bit technical and distracting with some of the stories but overall his direct interaction from both his European and American negotiations play into his explanation of how to layout the plan of starting, building and orchestrating a Buyable Business.
-Patrick Burke
Absolutely the best on the concept
I previously built a business where I was trapped in the business, missed a $500k acquisition offer, and I made all the mistakes the author identified in the book.I burned it to the ground, and starting over from scratch in a different sector, but I became obsessed with knowing how to do it right this time, and this is probably the best book on the subjectI have read a number of them, however with this one, it is like the author is aware that the person he is talking to is out of his depth, so he really makes it so easy to understand as if he was talking a young child, making it really easy to grasp instead of using industry jargons.The examples and stories in the book are so practical and feel familiar, that you leave each chapter knowing much more than before.Highly recommend it to anyone who is looking to build a successful, Buyable business.
