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We build the systems behind revenue.

Find what’s holding your business back. Build a practical path forward.

Gridward helps you identify business problems, prioritize practical solutions and put them into action through business evaluations, go-to-market planning and systems implementation.

Start with your goals. Understand what needs to change. Build the systems to move forward.

Serving clients internationally online.

Strategy + build Tool-agnostic Built around the real constraint

Turn market reality into repeatable action.

Explore the revenue operating system
How engagement works

Choose the support you need.

Start with a free evaluation, add practitioner review and a focused go-to-market plan, or agree an implementation engagement. Explore each offer before deciding.

Step 01 · start free

Business Readiness Evaluation

Free

A guided starting point across eight business domains.

  • 32 self-reported answers across eight domains
  • Readiness, evidence confidence and headline gaps
  • Private workspace with saved progress

Complete the evaluation for a final score. GTM, consultation and independent evidence validation are paid.

Start free evaluation

Learn more about Business Readiness Evaluation

Step 02 · review and prioritize

Business Readiness + Go-to-Market Evaluation

CAD $2,500

Personal consultation, evidence review and a focused GTM evaluation.

  • Consultation, practitioner review and evidence validation
  • GTM for one agreed initiative and one defined customer segment within it
  • Reviewed findings and a prioritized practical action plan

Confirm scope, inputs, deliverables and fees before agreement and payment. Implementation is scoped separately.

Learn more about Business Readiness + Go-to-Market Evaluation

Step 03 · implement

90-Day Implementation Engagement

Priced to agreed scope

Hands-on support to turn agreed priorities into working systems.

  • Agreed processes, systems and workstreams
  • Defined responsibilities, milestones and regular reviews
  • Documentation, training and handover

Discuss the work first. Agree scope, deliverables and fees before payment and delivery.

Learn more about 90-Day Implementation Engagement

Review the plan. Decide whether to proceed. Implementation is optional.

The paid evaluation is CAD $2,500, plus applicable taxes. Implementation and additional segments are scoped separately. Delivery is confirmed after reviewing scope and required inputs, before payment.

Practical reference guides

Start with the question on your mind.

For businesses clarifying growth priorities, strengthening their foundations or reducing owner dependence. These guides show what to investigate, what a practical response could include and how to judge progress.

Practical guidance and clearly labelled illustrations, with primary references. No client results are claimed.

What we engineer

What we help you build.

At Gridward, we identify the constraint limiting growth, then design and build the systems required to remove it.

01 / GTM

Market & GTM architecture

ICP logic, positioning, market entry, account segmentation, commercial motion and sales process design.

02 / INTELLIGENCE

Market intelligence systems

Signals, research, enrichment, scoring and account intelligence that help teams know where to focus.

03 / WORKFLOWS

Revenue workflows

Connected processes that move data, decisions and action across people, CRM and automation.

04 / AI

AI & custom automation

AI agents, research layers, integrations and custom software where standard SaaS tools are not enough.

05 / VALUE

Enterprise value & value acceleration

Financial intelligence, owner-readiness and enterprise-value analysis that connect today's growth decisions to long-term transferability, risk reduction and optionality.

06 / EXPANSION

Pipeline & expansion infrastructure

Systems for new-logo growth, account expansion, opportunity management and repeatable follow-through.

Gridward

From insight to action.

Readiness → priorities → focused GTM → practical workflows. Illustrative process.

01 / Gather business signals
Illustrative synthetic sequence—not a client result or valuation. Readiness and evidence confidence stay separate. GTM requires the paid package and practitioner review. Scope, required inputs and deliverables are confirmed with you before payment. This sequence gives no recommendation or permission to launch.
Read the sequence
  1. Gather customer, people, financial and operational signals.
  2. Use the readiness view to identify questions and dependencies for review.
  3. Evaluate one agreed initiative and one defined customer segment within it through the paid GTM package. We confirm the scope, required inputs and deliverables with you before payment.
  4. Implement agreed workflows with human review, clear ownership and measures.
Systems delivery

How the work gets built.

Evaluate, Prioritize and Accelerate describes the engagement. These five delivery steps explain how an agreed system is designed, built and improved. Select a step to see what happens.

Deployment feeds the next evaluation. That loop is the product: every cycle should create better information and better decisions.
Enterprise value

Build a stronger company now. Preserve more options later.

Revenue growth matters more when it creates a business that is less dependent on the owner, easier to operate, easier to measure and more valuable to a future buyer, successor or management team. Gridward brings in the right commercial, systems, data, automation or specialist capability only where the diagnosis calls for it.

Gridward owns the strategy and the implementation thread. Evaluation, prioritization, the Value Gap & Readiness plan, revenue systems, commercial systems, AI and automation, and the coordination that holds the work together.

Specialist expertise may be brought in where the work requires it
Business valuationAccounting & financeLegalM&ATaxOperational & technical expertise

Where specialist work sits outside Gridward’s core scope, we can help identify and coordinate the right qualified expertise as the engagement develops.

The team

Four Disciplines. One Revenue System.

Gridward combines commercial judgment, technical engineering, enterprise-value strategy and AI intelligence into one integrated revenue system.

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Caden Forbes

Founder + Chief Product Officer
Google AI Professional Certification
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Caden brings nearly 25 years of experience in enterprise sales, business development and commercial leadership across technology, business automation and digital transformation. His background includes roles with Microsoft and Indeed, alongside leadership experience in market development, strategic accounts and sales operations.

His expertise spans customer discovery, go-to-market strategy, complex buying decisions and translating technology into practical business outcomes.

At Gridward, Caden owns the company’s strategy, methodology, decision rules and governance. He leads commercial direction and sets the standards that guide how Gridward evaluates businesses, prioritizes recommendations and connects evidence to action. His focus is helping owners build stronger, more repeatable revenue systems through clear commercial judgment and disciplined execution.

Caden Forbes — LinkedIn profile

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Greg Keane

Engineering + AI Systems
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Greg brings a practical mix of technology consulting, product education and client enablement. Since 2009, he has led Speak Geek To Me, supporting business clients from initial needs assessment through solution development, implementation, training and ongoing technical support. His work also includes cybersecurity awareness training focused on phishing, social engineering and everyday security practices.

His field experience includes representing Google through Premium Retail Services and Microsoft through Mosaic, alongside product education for Meta and Qualcomm through BDS Connected Solutions. Across these roles, he has helped customers and retail teams understand technology, connect product capabilities with real needs and adopt practical solutions.

Greg also founded Escape Running and spent more than a decade supporting Toronto’s Nike Run Club community, bringing experience in coaching, relationship building and community leadership.

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Anthony Burke

Enterprise Value + Exit Readiness
CEPA · Certified Exit Planning Advisor
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Anthony brings 30 years of financial services experience and a management consulting focus on enterprise value creation, strategic positioning and business transition readiness. As Principal Advisor at Legacy Capital Group Inc., he helps business owners prepare for a future transition or exit. His background includes insurance brokerage, wealth advisory and financial education.

At Gridward, Anthony contributes an enterprise value and owner readiness perspective, helping connect revenue improvements with the broader requirements of a more transferable business.

Anthony Burke — LinkedIn profile

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Jody F

AI Strategy + Intelligence
AI strategic intelligence layer
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Jody F is the name used for Gridward’s platform research and development function. The work supports turning Caden’s commercial methodology into usable digital tools, with business judgment and governance retained by Gridward’s accountable practitioners.

That work includes the Gridward app, the company readiness questionnaire and the segment-focused go-to-market module. It brings together structured objectives and customer segments, explicit scoring rules, category breakdowns, an RPM-style preparedness gauge, prioritized next steps and versioned reports.

The emphasis is on questions with defined meanings, reproducible calculations and clear separation of reported facts, assumptions and unknowns. These tools support professional judgment and commercial action; they do not replace practitioner review.

The record behind Gridward

Experience that informs every system we build.

Experience across Microsoft, Drake, Netex, Blacksmith and Echo Tone informs our approach to market entry, pipeline development, CRM discipline and complex buying decisions.

Prior career experience at Microsoft, Drake, Blacksmith and Echo Tone informs Gridward’s approach. These figures describe work at those employers, not Gridward client results.

MICROSOFT

Enterprise commercialization

Large enterprise agreements, market development and revenue execution; Caden and Greg also worked together during their Microsoft careers.

$75M+ revenue commercialized inside a global enterprise
$16M multi-stakeholder deals closed and defended
NETEX

Build the motion, then build the team

Business automation GTM, team leadership and pipeline generation.

Double-digit sustained revenue growth
DRAKE INTERNATIONAL

CRM implementation + GTM system leadership

Led a nine-person HRIS sales team through a CRM implementation and go-to-market refresh, strengthening pipeline management, sales-cycle velocity and conversion performance.

$2M+ qualified pipeline in under 90 days through disciplined outbound prospecting focused on mid-market HRIS buyers.

$250K HRIS platform agreement with a major Montreal medical facility, navigating a complex, multi-stakeholder procurement process from discovery through close.

BLACKSMITH

Audit-led GTM and rapid pipeline creation

$1.8M+ qualified pipeline in under 90 days through a focused outbound and commercial audit motion.

ECHO TONE

Automation, AI and net-new revenue

$2.1M+ in net-new revenue from business automation and AI-related commercial work.

Figures shown per engagement and are not additive across employers: they measure different things over different periods.

Common questions

What to know before starting.

Explore the service pages for full details, or book a 30-minute introductory call.

What is Gridward?

We evaluate business constraints, develop focused go-to-market plans and build the processes, workflows and tools a team needs to run, measure and improve its revenue system.

What does the free Business Readiness Evaluation include?

Self-reported readiness, separate evidence confidence and headline findings across eight domains. A final score requires completion. GTM, practitioner consultation, independent validation and a detailed action plan are paid services.

What is included in the paid evaluation and GTM package?

CAD $2,500 plus applicable taxes includes practitioner consultation, evidence validation, GTM for one agreed initiative and one defined customer segment within it, and a prioritized plan. See scope and deliverables.

How is the 90-Day Implementation Engagement priced?

To agreed scope. Deliverables, fees, responsibilities and meeting cadence are confirmed before work starts. Implementation is optional. See the engagement details and evaluation-fee credit.

Who is Gridward built for?

Businesses with unclear growth priorities, inconsistent execution, limited capacity or owner dependence. Suitability is confirmed before paid work. Serving clients internationally online; client-site visits by arrangement.

Do you replace our software or sell subscriptions?

We configure existing tools wherever suitable. AI or custom software is considered where standard tools fall short. You retain the system and its documented knowledge.

What is the Gridward Method?

Evaluate, Diagnose, Design, Build, then Deploy + Learn. Explore each delivery step to understand the work and its purpose.

What experience is behind Gridward?

The team brings enterprise sales, GTM, revenue systems, automation and financial analysis experience. Read the bios and attributed career examples.

How does engagement with Gridward start?

Create a private free workspace with verified email, company name and interest. Use the same sign-in method to return. For paid work, conversation and agreement on scope, inputs, delivery and fees come before payment. No marketing subscription.

Do you advise on selling or exiting the business?

Readiness and evidence review can include indicative value-gap analysis where supported. It is not a formal valuation or buyer offer. Formal valuation, legal, tax and transaction work requires appropriately qualified professionals.

Start here

Start with a conversation about your revenue system.

Book a complimentary 30-minute introductory call to discuss the challenges you’re facing, what you want to improve and where to focus next. There’s no commitment to paid work.

We build the systems behind revenue.

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