Hi, I’m Laura
Build a firm that runs without you.
I’m a business systems advisor. I help founders of professional services firms build firms that don’t need them in every room.
Or, as I put it on my business cards: I get paid to meddle in other people’s business.
16+
years building organisations
400+
systems projects
270+
firms advised and built for
15+
countries
I put the PLAN in Plantak.
As a kid, I made my dad sign a typed sheet every time he gave me my pocket money, because he kept forgetting whether he already had. My first approval workflow, complete with an audit trail and a very surprised stakeholder.
Sound familiar?
Signs your firm is running on you
01
The spreadsheet someone made three years ago is now essential infrastructure nobody is allowed to touch.
02
Something that should take minutes takes three people, four tools and two days.
03
Every Monday, someone rebuilds the same report by hand.
04
Everything works perfectly, until you take a holiday.
05
You keep paying for software because of what you could do with it. Next month.
06
Clients email you directly, because nobody else knows where things are.
Three or more? You haven’t failed. You’ve just become part of the infrastructure. That’s fixable.
Work together
Two ways to fix it. Neither involves you doing it all yourself.
With me
Advisory and strategy
For founders who want a thinking partner at the table. I find where the firm still runs on you, we decide what changes, and I stay until it holds.
With my team
Systems built by Proprium
For firms that know what needs fixing and want it built properly. My team at Proprium designs, builds and supports the systems, so you don’t have to learn them on YouTube at midnight.
Not sure where your firm stands? Take the PLANtak Check. It takes a few minutes and it’s honest.
Results
What changes when the firm stops running on you
“If I could reach through the screen and shake you and say “SCHEDULE THE CALL WITH LAURA!” I would. It was hands down, the best thing I ever did for my business.”
Christine Lawson | CEO, Compass Consulting
Get to know me
Panic or champagne? Pull up a chair.
Every founder I know swings between two moods. Panic: we’re going to sink, cut everything, say yes to anything that pays. Champagne: we’ve made it, hire everyone, buy the shiny tools. The good decisions happen in the calm in between, and that’s what I write and talk about.
Read
Laura’s Notes
Weekly notes on running a business without becoming its permanent fuel source.
Listen
Systems with Laura
The podcast about systems, tools and the people who have to live with them.
Watch
The Laura Plantak Show
Conversations on building a business that doesn’t depend on you.
Learn
Free webinar
See every client, project and deadline in one dashboard. Live, with questions.
Latest note: Do you run your business on panic or champagne?
Coming soon
I’m writing a book.
On building a firm that runs without you. Sixteen years of building organisations and 400+ systems projects, minus the parts that would get me in trouble.
Invite me
Your stage, your podcast or your pages.
I talk about systems, operations and building firms that run without their founders, in English and Croatian.
Ready when you are