What If Strong Financials
Mask Fragile Growth?

Financials show what a company has produced.

They don't fully reveal whether the business is built to keep producing it.

The Breakout Quality of Growth (QofG) Report addresses this blind spot.

Its proprietary scoring and AI-assisted analysis quantify the non-financial drivers, constraints, and alignment shaping growth durability.

Get the score before you invest, acquire or scale.

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Assess One Business at No Cost

* Your first Breakout QofG Leader Report is complimentary as part of our 2026 QofG launch. Reports thereafter start at $4,000.

20-minute assessment.

Complete it over multiple sessions if needed.

Not All Growth is For the Right Reasons.

How aligned is your view of growth with the reality of the company's growth durability?

This gap represents risk.

Who Benefits Most From the Breakout QofG Report?

PRIVATE EQUITY & FAMILY OFFICES

What's the Quality of Growth and what blind spots could be costly in a transaction The Breakout QofG Report helps investors separate perceived upside from real breakout-level growth quality. It addresses key questions such as: 1. Where are the growth-related risks that won’t show up in financials? 2. Where will growth strain or break as we push for scale? 3. What should we fix first post-close to unlock breakout potential? 4. Where is value creation realistic and where is it assumed?

TRANSACTION ADVISORS & INVESTMENT BANKS

Is the Quality of Growth real or driven by timing, a single client, or other similar risk factors The Breakout QofG Report helps transaction advisory (TA) and Investment Banks (IB) evaluate growth value and reduce surprises in diligence. It addresses key questions such as: 1. Is this business market-ready today, or does it require pre-sale preparation? 2. Which growth risks will buyers care about most and discount the hardest? 3. What buyer type is the best fit given the company’s growth profile? 4. What improvements would most increase valuation in the next 90–180 days?

BUSINESS OWNERS & OPERATORS

You know your company isn't growing as it should. Stop guessing why The Breakout QofG Report helps identify a company's growth quality. It addresses key questions such as: 1. Where should we invest next for the best ROI: sales, marketing, brand, or culture? 2. Which constraint is blocking or limiting growth right now? 3. Where is misalignment across our growth drivers quietly eroding performance? 4. What should we prioritize in the next 90 days to accelerate growth?

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What Defines Quality of Growth?

A Breakout QofG Report evaluates the strength and alignment of the key growth drivers that determine how well a company is built to deliver durable growth.

Our proprietary Breakout Score™ methodology and AI-assisted analysis quantifies and evaluates those drivers individually and collectively.

SALES

Conversion Reliability

MARKETING

Demand Generation Efficiency

BRAND

Differentiation

and Trust

CULTURE

Execution Consistency

LEADERSHIP AND FUNCTIONAL ALIGNMENT

Growth Multiplier or Drag

The Process of Quantifying QofG.

Every company is different. A scaling consumer services company's growth drivers carry different importance than an established manufacturer, based on industry, stage of business, target market, and other key business context.

THE BREAKOUT QofG MODEL FROM INPUT TO ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS

Structured Diagnostic

70+ data points assess Sales, Marketing, Brand, Culture, and Alignment, supported by business context and open-ended evidence.

Proprietary Scoring

The Breakout methodology calculates standardized driver scores and an overall Breakout Score™. AI does not determine or alter scores.

Agentic AI Diagnosis

Scores, responses, and business context are evaluated to determine what's limiting performance, why it matters, and what are the top three priorities.

Context-Specific Analysis

Findings are interpreted into a context-specific QofG diagnosis specific to a company's situation.

The Breakout QofG Report starts with a 20-minute online evaluation completed by a senior leader or the entire senior leadership team.

The report assesses multiple company-specific dimensions and considers over a thousand business context profiles.

The model’s agentic AI analyzes scores, leader responses, business context to identify patterns, reconcile competing signals, uncover constraints, evaluate consequences, and prioritize actions.

Each report includes an Overall Company Summary plus individual analyses for Sales, Marketing, Brand, Culture, and Alignment.

The Breakout QofG adapts to the decision situation, whether you're a PE firm conducting strategic planning for a PortCo(s), a transaction advisory firm or investment bank preparing a company for acquisition, or an owner assessing the durability of future growth,

Same standardized methodology. Different business context. Decision-relevant diagnosis.

The business can reliably deliver what it sells without straining people, systems, or quality.

a. Consistently happens...

b. Usually happens...

c. Occasionally happens...

d. Rarely happens...

e. Never...

About The Breakout Group:
Bill Glenn, Founder

“Financial analysis, QofE, and management discussions are essential, but they focus on results. The Breakout QofG Report analyzes what produces those results to quantify growth durability.”

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Bill Glenn is a sales, marketing, and brand strategist. He helps companies unlock growth by using 30+ years of knowledge and experience to solve sales, marketing, and brand challenges which impact growth.

His background includes startups, mid-size companies, and Fortune 50 brands where he built a rare blend of sales, marketing, strategic, analytical, and creative expertise across a variety of industries such as sports, entertainment, technology, financial services, legal, and construction.

As founder of The Breakout Group, Glenn created the Breakout QofG Report, utilizing his proprietary Breakout Score™ methodology.

His approach combines AI, data, and related insights with real-world experience to help leaders replace guesswork and speculation with clarity.

Relevant Highlights

Featured marketing SME on CNBC, MSNBC, Bloomberg News television and major publications.
Co-founder of the DBI, the first data scoring index for evaluating celebrity/athlete endorsements.
Adjunct marketing and sales professor at SMU, Baylor University, and the University of Dallas.
Launched Insights & Analytics Group at Omnicom agency, including econometric ROI modeling.
Consultant and speaker for business sales, marketing, brand integration, and growth.

Our Vision, Mission, Values

Quantify Your Quality of Growth.

Choose the level of insight and executive alignment needed to identify growth drivers, surface execution risk, and focus value-creation investment where it can create the greatest return.

Option

LEADER QUALITY OF GROWTH

Invest at a fraction of the cost of one bad growth assumption.

Breakout QofG Leader Report

A company-level growth diagnostic informed by one senior leader’s perspective, identifying the non-financial drivers, constraints, and priorities shaping growth.

Company-specific QofG diagnosis
Scores and analysis of the company and its five growth drivers
Key strengths, constraints and growth risks
Top three priorities for the next 90 days

Breakout QofG Executive Report

Everything in the Breakout QofG Leader Report, plus executive-level interpretation and 30 days of strategy-focused email support to turn findings into prioritized action.

One-hour Executive Review of results
30 days of strategy-focused email support

$ 4,000

Invest In Leader Report

$ 5,000

Invest In Executive Report

Option

SINGLE COMPANY QUALITY OF GROWTH

See where leadership agrees, disagrees, and why it matters.

Breakout QofG Company Report

A company-level Quality of Growth diagnostic that combines up to five (5) leadership perspectives to reveal where alignment, disagreement, blind spots, and execution risk may shape growth.

Includes one-hour Executive Review session
QofG Leader Reports for each participant
Company level Breakout and growth-driver scores
Leadership Consensus Analysis: Alignment and misalignment
Strengths, constraints, blind spots and organization tensions
Top company-level priorities for the next 90 days
6+ leader Company Report pricing is available on request

$15,000

Assess Leadership Team View

50% initiates the engagement. The balance is invoiced with the Company Report and due before the executive review.

Option

MULTIPLE PORTCO QUALITY OF GROWTH

Find PortCos that are growing for the wrong reasons.

Preferred Pricing: Volume-based pricing
Priority Processing and Support
Increased Leader Participation: Includes up to 10 leader participants
Portfolio-Wide Relevance: Apply a standardized QofG methodology
Comparable Benchmarks: Identify and learn from differences in growth quality, constraints, and leadership alignment across companies
Consistent Measurement: Establish annual, semi-annual, or 100-day plan benchmarks or measure key metrics such as leadership alignment

Request Portfolio Pricing

Most quotes are provided within one business day.

APPLY TO THE BREAKOUT CHARTER PROGRAM

A limited strategic partnership for firms helping shape the future of the Breakout QofG Report.

LIMITED TO FOUR (4) QUALIFIED FIRMS

(3 SPOTS REMAIN)

Preferred QofG Report pricing
Includes up to 15 leader participants
Highest priority for processing and support
Semi-annual strategy sessions
Direct access to the founder
Input into future QofG platform development
Flexible engagement terms

Reserve Your Charter Partnership

The Breakout Score quantifies a company's quality of growth by assessing core growth drivers and core driver alignment, as well as leadership team alignment and constraint severity. It is designed to support strategic and investment decisions, but does not replace financial diligence, cost structure analysis, or operational audits.

See Four Sample QofG Reports

No email required.

What If Strong Financials
Mask Fragile Growth?

Not All Growth is For the Right Reasons.