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After forty comes forty-one.

41 Legacy is named for a threshold and built around one belief: the business should serve your life, not the other way around.

About 41 Legacy

The CFO seat for owner-operated companies, aimed at what the business is worth.

41 Legacy is an enterprise value focused fractional CFO and value growth advisory for owner-operated companies from $1M to $30M, with a full finance department behind the seat. We help owners know their number, grow it, and convert it into value.

Most firms look at profit. We judge every decision twice: once for what it does to profit and cash today, and once for what it does to what the business is worth tomorrow. That second lens is what turns good months into a business that serves your life and stands on its own.

Why 41

Forty is the trial. Forty-one is what comes after.

The number forty shows up again and again across history and faith. Forty days and forty nights of rain. Forty years in the desert. It marks the period of testing, the long stretch that shapes a person into who they are supposed to become.

Forty-one is what comes after. I chose it on purpose. The words we use change how we see things, which is why I care so much about naming, and I wanted a name that says the trial is behind us and the real work begins.

Why Legacy

A last chapter, chosen on purpose.

This is my last professional chapter. I get to choose who I help and what I do, and my goal is to help as many of my fellow entrepreneurs as I can. It is not a career move. It is a calling.

The philosophy

Five beliefs behind every engagement.

  1. 01

    The business should serve your life.

    Not the other way around. We start with what you want your life to look like, then work back to what the business has to become to deliver it.

  2. 02

    Today's cash flow decisions are tomorrow's enterprise value.

    Every recommendation is judged twice: once for profit and cash, once for what it does to the value of the business to someone other than you.

  3. 03

    The complaint is a symptom.

    What keeps an owner up at night is rarely the real problem. We diagnose before we prescribe, and we work on the one constraint that governs the rest.

  4. 04

    The goal you arrive with may not be the one you leave with.

    Owners often start with a goal borrowed from someone else. The work helps reveal what you actually want, then turns it into a concrete, sequenced plan.

  5. 05

    Insight only matters when it changes a decision.

    The analysis is the easy half. The real work is helping an owner and a leadership team act on it. If nothing changes, we have not done our job.

The thesis

Most owners carry the largest asset they own without anyone measuring it, reading it forward or building it to stand on its own. 41 Legacy exists to change that: know the number, grow it, and convert it into value, so the business serves the owner's life and outlasts their involvement.

Every offer below is one step on that path, and each one earns the next.

Mike Laskowski, founder of 41 Legacy

About the founder

Mike Laskowski

Founder, Fractional CFO and Value Growth Advisor

Mike spent 26 years as a Special Agent with IRS Criminal Investigation, reconstructing what actually happened inside businesses from their financial records. He has built and run his own service company since 2012, so he knows the owner's seat from the inside.

He is a Certified Exit Planning Advisor and a Growth Drive certified practitioner, and he trains in Neuro-Semantics coaching, because insight only matters when it leads to a better decision. 41 Legacy is the chapter he chose on purpose: helping as many fellow owners as he can build businesses that serve their lives.

  • Special Agent, IRS Criminal Investigation, 26 years
  • Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA)
  • Growth Drive certified practitioner
  • Owner-operator since 2012
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How the work serves the thesis.

  1. The Owners Council

    Education and community first, in small local chapters.

  2. The owner check

    A private read on where you stand, in four minutes.

  3. Know the number

    The six-week Strategic Insight Intensive.

  4. Grow the number

    The ongoing fractional CFO seat.

  5. Convert it into value

    Value growth advisory, when the time is right.

  6. The record seats

    Bookkeeping and controller, so every number above can be trusted.

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