Our firm

A business plan should
have a life beyond
the document.

Ryan Brown and Johnny B. Gaines III founded Brown & Gaines to connect business direction with the work required to carry it through.

Co-founder · Business strategy & coaching

Ryan Brown

A clearer direction starts with asking the right questions.

Ryan helps business owners untangle their ideas, make clear decisions and turn those decisions into a practical plan.

Her work brings together business strategy, offer development and coaching. She helps owners work through who they serve, what they offer and what needs to happen next.

Ryan also leads Ryan Brown & Company, the Brown & Gaines product for curated gatherings, repeatable event formats, and venue programming.

Co-founder · Applied AI & systems

Johnny B.
Gaines III

The plan becomes useful when people can put it to work.

Johnny builds the systems and tools that put the plan to work, using AI where it supports the business goal.

He connects workflows, websites and customer experiences around the way a business needs to operate. The starting point is the actual problem: where work gets stuck, which decisions are missing and what the people involved need.

His role is to turn the chosen direction into something practical that the business can use, question and improve.

How we work together

From the question
to the working day.

Understand.

Look beyond the initial request. Define the business problem and what a useful result would look like.

Decide.

Compare the options, examine the economics and choose the first move worth making.

Put it to work.

Build the right process or system, give it a clear owner and look for evidence that it helps.

See the approach in practice →

What are you
working through?

You don’t need to arrive with the answer. Tell us what’s happening in the business.

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A business plan shouldhave a life beyondthe document.