Most businesses don’t fail to scale. They leak value faster than they can create it.
Not dramatically. Not all at once. Just slowly, quietly, expensively — through the gaps between strategy and execution, between what the leadership team decided and what the frontline actually does, between the business you’re running and the business you’re capable of building.
The Leak is a newsletter for founders and leaders scaling from £3M toward £50M. Every issue diagnoses a different kind of leak, in your strategy, your team, your operations, your decisions , and gives you a practical framework to seal it.
No theory. No inspiration porn. No 47-step frameworks you’ll never use.
Just the sharp, uncomfortable questions that reveal where your business is draining, and what to do about it this week.
Written by me, Stuart Webb - Oxford doctorate, three founded businesses and exits, Non-Executive Director, and The Unicorn Mentor. I’ve spent twenty years in the engine rooms and boardrooms of scaling businesses. I’ve seen what breaks. I know what fixes it.
If you’re working hard and still feel like the goal keeps moving further away, you probably don’t have a strategy problem. You leak
Let’s find it.
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No fluff. No sales pitch. Just clarity on where to look first.
Stuart Webb is the founder of The Unicorn Mentor and creator of the PATH framework. He helps founders scaling £3M→£50M seal the structural leaks that stop businesses from becoming what they’re capable of.
Stuart Webb works with founders and leadership teams scaling businesses from £3M toward £50M — helping them identify and seal the leaks in strategy, execution, team, and growth that prevent sustainable scale.
Stuart speaks from direct operational experience, not theory. Every session is grounded in real scaling challenges, real structural fixes, and the specific leaks that cost founders most between £3M and £50M.
After a research science career, Stuart founded and exited three companies, held senior corporate roles, and serves as a Non-Executive Director across multiple sectors.
He holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and is the creator of the PATH 2 SCALE framework — a proprietary methodology for operational scaling used by founders across the UK.
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