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AMERICAN WEALTH LAB

Don’t Just Earn. Build Ownership.

Your job can create income. Your business can create ownership. American Wealth Lab helps working Americans assess their ownership readiness, establish a Seed Company, build business infrastructure, and begin developing an additional economic engine alongside the income they already earn.

✓ 22-Point Assessment ✓ Ownership Readiness Report™ ✓ Personalized Recommendations ✓ 30-Day Action Plan
OWNERSHIP READINESS

Where do you stand today?

22

Questions designed to examine the foundations behind a functioning business.

FORM

Build the foundation.

LAUNCH

Enter the marketplace.

OPERATE

Build business systems.

GROW

Develop opportunity.

THE ECONOMIC QUESTION

One Household.
Two Paychecks.
Dozens of Obligations.

For millions of households, wages are expected to support nearly every financial responsibility. American Wealth Lab begins with a different question.

What could change if the household also owned an economic engine?

Household Income
PAYCHECK #1
PAYCHECK #2
Household Obligations
Housing
Food
Utilities
Transportation
Insurance
Healthcare
Taxes
Debt
Education
Childcare
Retirement
Savings
Credit Cards
Family Support
Emergencies
A DIFFERENT ECONOMIC STRUCTURE

Build a Second Economic Engine.

Building ownership does not necessarily require abandoning employment. The objective is to begin developing another economic engine alongside the one you already have.

ECONOMIC ENGINE 01

Labor

Income generated primarily through your time, skills and employment.

  • Employment
  • Wages & Salary
  • Time
  • Professional Skills
  • Employee Benefits
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ECONOMIC ENGINE 02

Ownership

Economic activity developed through a business you own.

  • Company
  • Products & Services
  • Customers
  • Business Revenue
  • Systems & Assets

OWNER-EMPLOYEE

Keep earning. Start building ownership.

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Seed Company™

Start small. Build intentionally.

Business Structure
Business Infrastructure
Products & Services
Customers
Revenue
Systems & Assets
Ownership
PLANT THE FOUNDATION

Plant Your Seed Company™

Every established business started somewhere. A Seed Company is the business foundation from which an individual can begin developing ownership, infrastructure, customers, revenue, systems, assets and future opportunity.

The goal is not simply to file business documents. It is to begin building the structure required for a business to function in the real world.

Find Out Where You Stand →
YOUR STARTING POINT

How Ready Are You for Ownership?

Find out in 22 questions.

The Ownership Readiness Assessment™ examines the business foundations you have already built, identifies potential gaps, and helps establish practical next steps.

Readiness Score 22-Point Review Strengths & Gaps Recommendations Readiness Report™ 30-Day Action Plan
Take the 22-Point Assessment →
01

FORM

Examine the legal and structural foundation of the business.

02

LAUNCH

Determine whether the business has the infrastructure to enter the marketplace.

03

OPERATE

Examine the systems required to function like an operating business.

04

GROW

Examine readiness for customers, marketing, capital and opportunity.

THE AWL PROCESS

Connect. Launch. Grow.

A simple pathway from understanding where you are today to developing the business you’re prepared to build tomorrow.

1

CONNECT

Complete the Ownership Readiness Assessment™, understand your starting point, identify gaps, and connect with the American Wealth Lab ecosystem.

2

LAUNCH

Establish or strengthen your Seed Company and put the business infrastructure needed to enter the marketplace in place.

3

GROW

Develop customers, revenue, systems, business capabilities, capital readiness and long-term opportunity.

BEYOND BUSINESS FORMATION

Ownership Requires Infrastructure.

Filing business documents can establish an entity. Building a functioning company requires much more.

Legal Structure
EIN & Documentation
Business Banking
Business Website
Professional Email
Business Phone
Bookkeeping
Accounting Systems
Customer Systems
Marketing Strategy
Business Credit Education
Funding Preparation
WHY A LAB?

Because Ownership Isn’t Just a Theory Here.

It’s something you build.

American Wealth Lab is designed as an environment where individuals can examine their current economic structure, identify business gaps, establish foundations, test ideas, develop systems, measure progress and improve the companies they own.

01 ASSESS Understand your starting point.
02 DESIGN Develop the ownership roadmap.
03 BUILD Put business infrastructure in place.
04 TEST Take the company into the marketplace.
05 OPERATE Build repeatable business systems.
06 MEASURE Understand performance.
07 IMPROVE Strengthen what isn’t working.
08 GROW Develop customers and opportunity.
WHO IS THE LAB FOR?

Built for People Ready to Build.

You do not need to leave your job or already consider yourself an entrepreneur to begin learning how ownership works.

W-2 Professionals Side Hustlers Gig Workers Consultants Independent Contractors Veterans Retirees First-Time Entrepreneurs Existing Business Owners Community Builders
ONE ECOSYSTEM

The American Wealth Lab.

Ownership requires more than one service. The Lab brings major parts of the ownership journey into one ecosystem.

OWNERSHIP LAB

Ownership Education

Understand business ownership, structure and the economic principles behind building an enterprise.

ASSESSMENT LAB

Readiness Analysis

Identify business strengths, missing foundations and practical next steps.

BUSINESS LAB

Seed Company Development

Build the company foundation and infrastructure required to operate.

CAPITAL LAB

Capital Readiness

Learn how businesses prepare for credit, financing and potential capital opportunities.

GROWTH LAB

Customers & Revenue

Develop marketing, sales, customer acquisition and growth systems.

PARTNER LAB

Business Community

Connect business owners, partners, navigators and resources within the broader AWL ecosystem.

22 Ownership Readiness Questions
4 Business Foundations
30 Day Initial Action Plan
1 Seed Company
AWL INTELLIGENCE

Understand the Ownership Economy.

Research, conversations and practical insights for people building businesses and ownership.

DAILY

AWL Daily Insights

Practical observations about business, ownership and the economy.

WEEKLY

Ownership Newsletter

Ideas, tools and developments for current and future business owners.

WEEKLY

Ownership Podcast

Conversations about building companies, income and ownership.

VIDEO

Business Builder Show

Practical business-building discussions and owner education.

QUARTERLY

Ownership Report

Trends and developments affecting business owners and entrepreneurs.

ANNUAL

State of Business Ownership

An annual examination of the broader American ownership landscape.

YOUR STARTING POINT

Your Paycheck Tells Us What You Earn. Your Ownership Tells Us What You’re Building.

You don’t need to have everything figured out. Start by understanding where you stand today. Find out in 22 questions.

Take the Ownership Readiness Assessment™ →

Ownership Readiness Report™   •   Personalized Recommendations   •   30-Day Action Plan

Helping working Americans understand ownership, build business infrastructure, and develop companies alongside the income they already earn.

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