Aepiphanni Business Consulting

What Aepiphanni Business Consulting does

Aepiphanni Business Consulting is a privately held US strategy and operations consulting firm founded in 2005 by Rick Meekins and headquartered in Kennesaw, Georgia. The company operates under multiple related brands, including Big Scary Vision Company, Big Scary Vision Sherpa, and Aepiphanni Business Catalyst Group, and is legally incorporated as Big Scary Vision Company, Inc. The firm employs between 11 and 50 people and serves primarily founders and growth-stage leaders, with a smaller share of enterprise clients, helping them differentiate offerings, redesign customer journeys, and execute disruptive strategies.

Its service portfolio is structured as a productized consulting ladder: 1:1 Sherpa advisory engagements, a 2-3 day Strategic Disruption Accelerator workshop with a 90-day execution roadmap, a 4-day Catalyst Experience retreat, and a 12-month Summit Community peer-group subscription. Underlying these offerings are proprietary frameworks — the Vision Catalyst Retreat Framework, the Strategic Disruption Methodology, and the Growth Readiness Assessment — described as guided innovation processes rather than protected technology. No patents, trademarks, certifications, or external AI/ML capabilities are disclosed.

The business model combines project-based professional services fees with a recurring subscription component via the Summit Community, though no public pricing is disclosed and revenue is undisclosed. Go-to-market is sales-led and event-driven, supported by a multi-channel content engine that includes two podcasts (Relentless Pursuit of Winning and Aepiphanni Off the Cuff), the AEP Impulse blog, the BizOps Insider newsletter, free eBooks, and an active social presence. The firm has no disclosed funding rounds, investors, parent company, partnerships, or M&A activity, and operations appear entirely founder-dependent.

Name

Aepiphanni Business Consulting

Legal name

Big Scary Vision Company, Inc.

Website

https://aepiphanni.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Aepiphanni Business Consulting is a privately held US strategy and operations consulting firm founded by Rick Meekins that helps founders and growth-stage leaders differentiate their offerings and execute disruptive strategies through advisory engagements, workshops, multi-day retreats, and a 12-month peer-group subscription community.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Business Consulting Services

NAICS

Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services (541611), Management Consulting Services (54161), Other Management Consulting Services (541618)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Management Services (8741)

akta.pro primary industry

Strategy & Corporate Development Consulting (BPAHACAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Corporate Strategy Advisory (BPAHADAA), Organization Design & Operating Model Consulting (BPAHAGAB)

Keywords

• Strategic consulting
• Business advisory
• Growth strategy
• Management consulting
• Operations planning

Headquarters

HQ city

Kennesaw

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Advisory Services: One-on-one business partner advisory engagements providing guidance for building businesses with confidence and differentiating from target markets. Includes ongoing consultation and strategic guidance.
2. Strategic Disruption Accelerator Workshops: Group or private 2-day intensive workshops to shape offerings, customer experience, or delivery. Includes focused 90-day execution roadmap and guidance during implementation.
3. Big Scary Visions Retreat (Catalyst Experience): Multi-day immersive experience - group or private guided innovation, design thinking, and strategic implementation programs. 4-day elite transformation lab with expert-led programming and high-performance peer collaboration.
4. Summit Community Membership: 12-month peer group program with weekly sessions, monthly expert guest sessions, online community access, and office hours. Ongoing engagement and accountability structure.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Aepiphanni Business Consulting provides strategic business advisory, operations planning, and management consulting services to founders and growth-stage leaders. Core offerings include one-on-one Sherpa advisory engagements, multi-day Strategic Disruption Accelerator workshops, the four-day Catalyst Experience transformation lab, and a 12-month Summit Community peer group program. The firm helps clients differentiate their offerings, design market-disrupting strategies, and convert bold visions into execution roadmaps.

Product overview

Aepiphanni Business Consulting operates as a consulting and advisory services firm offering a portfolio of professional services including one-on-one business advisory, group workshops, immersive transformation experiences, and peer group programs. The core offering is the Big Scary Vision Sherpa advisory service, which provides strategic business guidance. This is complemented by the Strategic Disruption Accelerator (2-day workshops with 90-day execution roadmaps), The Catalyst Experience (4-day immersive innovation labs), and the Big Scary Vision Summit Community (12-month peer accountability program). The firm also provides free digital resources including eBooks, a blog, podcast content, and assessment tools. These services collectively help founders and business leaders develop bold visions, create disruptive strategies, and transform ideas into market leadership.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Strategic Disruption Accelerator: A workshop offering for founders to design and execute market-disrupting strategies, including product innovation, process innovation, and customer journey innovation.
• The Catalyst Experience
• Summit Community
• Sherpa Advisory
• BizOps Insider
• AEP Impulse Blog

Products and services

• Big Scary Vision Sherpa
• Strategic Disruption Accelerator A 2-day intensive workshop (group or private) designed to help founders design and execute market-disrupting strategies across product, process, and customer journey innovation. Includes a focused 90-day execution roadmap with guidance during implementation.
• The Catalyst Experience A 4-day elite transformation lab and immersive retreat combining guided innovation, design thinking, and strategic implementation to help founders and growth-stage leaders develop bold disruptive visions and engineer plans to execute them.
• Big Scary Vision Summit Community A 12-month peer group program for founders and leaders featuring weekly 1-hour guided innovation sessions, monthly expert guest sessions, online community access, office hours, and peer accountability structures.
• Coffee & a Consult A 90-minute high-impact consultation session designed to push beyond surface-level thinking and create an actionable roadmap for sustainable success.

Quantifiable outcome

• Restaurant re-launched to become one of the most talked-about dining locations in the northeast (U.S.) region

Named customers6 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• EOS Worldwide: EOS Worldwide implements the Entrepreneurial Operating System for founder-led and growth-stage companies via a global network of certified EOS Implementers — directly comparable to Aepiphanni's Sherpa advisory, workshops, and peer accountability programs targeting the same mid-market founder segment.
• Strategic Coach: Dan Sullivan's Strategic Coach is a subscription-based peer coaching program for entrepreneurs and founders, with workshops, retreats, and a community structure — a near-mirror of Aepiphanni's Summit Community + Catalyst Experience stack serving the same buyer.
• Gazelles (Verne Harnish): Gazelles, founded by Verne Harnish (author of Scaling Up and Rockefeller Habits), coaches growth-stage CEOs through workshops, summits, and a certified coach network — overlapping directly with Aepiphanni's strategic growth advisory and disruptive strategy workshop positioning.
• Chief Outsiders: Chief Outsiders provides fractional C-suite executives (CMOs, CROs, CFOs) to mid-market growth companies — comparable to Aepiphanni's Sherpa advisory and its 'Do You Need a Fractional CGO' assessment tool, both targeting growth-stage leaders needing senior strategic firepower without full-time hires.
• Growth Institute (Verne Harnish / Scaling Up): Growth Institute delivers executive education, workshops, and a certified coach network built around the Scaling Up methodology — directly comparable to Aepiphanni's Strategic Disruption Accelerator workshop format, certification-less coach model, and growth-stage founder buyer.

Broad incumbents

• Bain & Company: Bain & Company is a top-tier global strategy consultancy delivering corporate strategy, M&A, and operational advisory to enterprise clients — represents the incumbent large-scale reference point against which any founder-focused 'strategy advisory' firm is implicitly benchmarked.
• McKinsey & Company: McKinsey is the largest global management consultancy with deep corporate strategy, organizational design, and transformation practices — establishes the broad strategic consulting category and serves as a ceiling reference for any firm positioning on 'strategy + disruption' for growth-stage leaders.
• Tony Robbins Business Coaching: Tony Robbins' Business Mastery and Results Coaching are high-ticket entrepreneur coaching programs using multi-day events, peer accountability, and a strong founder brand — broader incumbent analog to Aepiphanni's Catalyst Experience retreats and Summit Community in target buyer, event format, and pricing structure.

Others

• Harvard Business Review / HBP Ascend: HBR Ascend provides subscription content, courses, and curated resources to early-career and growth-stage professionals — thematically adjacent as a content + community monetization model for the same founder/leader demographic, though via editorial rather than 1:1 advisory.

Emerging players

• Predatory Thinking (Dave Trott-era / modern spin-offs): Predatory Thinking and adjacent boutique strategy/marketing disruption firms deliver founder-focused disruptive strategy workshops, keynotes, and short-format intensives — overlapping with Aepiphanni's disruption-themed workshop and retreat offerings in positioning and buyer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/aepiphanni
• Facebookfacebook.com/aepiphanni
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/aepiphanni-business-consulting
• Instagraminstagram.com/aepiphanni

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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