Built to Break: Why Your Business Can't Run Without You (And What to Do About It) - Softcover

Aleczander, Damon

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798257829208

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Your business is doing $1M, $2M, $5M in revenue. From the outside, it looks like success. From the inside, you haven't taken a vacation in three years, your team can't make a decision without you, and you kept $87K on millions.

You didn't build a business. You built a job. And it was built to break.

Built to Break is a diagnostic manual for founder-dependent businesses between $500K and $10M in revenue. It won't tell you how to fix your business. It'll show you why it's broken across four pillars: Operations and Systems, Revenue and Sales, Financial Structure, and Team and Leadership.

Inside you'll find:

• Why your business can't function without you (and why that's a design problem, not a work ethic problem)
• The patterns that show up in every founder-dependent business, regardless of industry
• Dollar-quantified breakdowns of what broken operations, revenue systems, financial structure, and team infrastructure actually cost
• Why every hire fails, every tool dies, and every "system" you've tried to implement on a Saturday morning never sticks
• A self-diagnostic that scores your business across all four pillars and tells you exactly where the cracks are

This isn't a motivational book. This isn't a step-by-step manual. This is the book that shows you what's actually happening inside your business while you're too busy running it to notice.

Includes a 10-question self-assessment with scoring guide.

For founders doing $500K to $10M who are ready to stop being the business and start building one.

About this title

About the Author

Damon Aleczander is the founder and CEO of OpFix, a business operations firm that works with founder-led companies to fix broken systems and build infrastructure that scales. Before OpFix, Damon built and operated companies across financial services, lending, and business consulting. He started in the markets as a day trader, built a trading academy that enrolled nearly 1,000 students in its first year, managed private investment funds, and launched a financial services company that has served over 50,000 clients to date. Along the way, he experienced every version of operational failure that exists in a growing business. Broken systems. Founder dependency. Revenue without profit. Teams without structure. He built the businesses, broke the businesses, and then built the system to fix them. That system became OpFix. The approach: assess the business across four pillars, then spend 90 days installing the infrastructure it never had. Built to Break is the book he wished someone had handed him ten years ago. Damon lives in Portland, Oregon.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798257829208
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 170