A book by Clayton Turner

Build and Scale

For owners who buy, build, scale with AI, automate, and prepare to sell.

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Twelve chaptersFrom the life you want to a business that can be sold.

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Who it is for

Build and Scale is for an owner of a small or midsize business. Buying a company is one way in. Building the one you already run is the other. The book stays with customer acquisition, profit, reliable operations, the owner's time, and a company that can transfer.

Clayton Turner is writing it. He is the founder of Leedly. He has described ownership as a way to have more impact, move faster, and choose his time, direction, and focus.

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The chapter path

Design the business and the life you want

The opening chapter is about the business and the life the owner actually wants. The draft is in progress.

Buy or build: choose the right opportunity

This chapter weighs buying an existing company against building one. The draft is in progress.

Understand your customer, offer and economics

This chapter is about the customer, the offer, and the economics of the business. The draft is in progress.

Build an AI operating system: knowledge, workflows, agents and human accountability

Clayton confirmed this chapter as the home for the operating stack. The published tool list is coming. It still has to be documented and checked before the book is released.

Create demand: positioning, website, SEO and distribution

This chapter covers positioning, the website, SEO, and distribution. Clayton approved a first-customer distribution playbook on November 8, 2026. It is working material, not a promise of a sales result.

Get discovered in AI search: visibility, evidence and measurement

This chapter is about being found in AI search, and about the evidence and measurement behind that. The draft is in progress.

Build a content flywheel

The flywheel Clayton described runs from an expert interview to source content, then to articles, clips, email, and sales resources, then to questions and results, and back to the next interview. The approved distribution playbook is on this chapter page.

Turn demand into revenue: sales follow-up, calling and CRM

This chapter follows demand into sales follow-up, calling, and the CRM. The draft is in progress.

Systematize delivery and build a team that can operate without you

This chapter is about delivery and a team that can operate without the owner. The draft is in progress.

Automate the owner's work and personal administration

This chapter is about automating the owner's work and personal administration. The draft is in progress.

Scale profitably: capacity, cash, quality and management

This chapter is about scaling with capacity, cash, quality, and management held together. The draft is in progress.

Build a transferable business and prepare for an eventual sale

The last chapter is about a business someone else can run, and about preparing for an eventual sale. The draft is in progress.

Themes readers are already searching

These headings use the keyword set recorded for the book on November 8, 2026. Each one links to a page on this site.

Small business acquisitions: buy, then build

One search theme for the book is small business acquisitions: buy, then build, including a search-fund path. In Build and Scale that work sits in the choice to buy or build, and later in preparing a company someone else can own.

Generative AI tools for entrepreneurs

Another theme is generative AI tools for entrepreneurs and a founders' playbook. The book puts those tools inside an operating system with human accountability, and inside the work of being found in AI search. The specific tool list is coming.

Automate business operations

Automate business operations is a core theme: lean operation, scaling, and growth without pretending the owner's job disappears by slogan. The related chapters cover delivery, the owner's own work, and profitable scale.

How to start an online business with artificial intelligence

How to start an online business with artificial intelligence is a reader path through the book, not a separate product. It connects the choice to build, the AI operating system, and the work of creating demand.

Solopreneur AI workflows: systemize, delegate, and prepare an exit

Solopreneur AI workflows, systemizing, delegating, and an eventual exit are one theme. The book treats them as a sequence: delivery that does not depend on the owner, automation of the owner's work, and a transferable business.

Entrepreneurship, management, and new venture creation

Entrepreneurship, management strategy, and new venture creation describe the reader who is designing a company, choosing an opportunity, and then scaling it with management still intact.

E-commerce, SaaS, and agency growth playbooks

E-commerce, SaaS, and agency growth playbooks are search terms for the same demand problem: positioning, a content flywheel, and turning attention into revenue. The book does not promise a growth-hack result.

What others are saying

Six of these are the testimonial videos from the current buildandscale.com page, played from the same hosted files. Erika Butler and George Mallers are included with them.