Practice
Advisory
Management and strategic consulting for owners and operators of growing private companies. Planning, partnerships, capital, operations, people, and process — scoped, not staffed.
How advisory worksLawrence, Kansas
Strategy for the company.
Readiness for the household.
Room for the next thing.
Ascendent Strategies helps leaders run a business well and keep a family ready, without those two jobs crowding each other out.
Practice
Preparedness
Family and land readiness: protection, home security, emergency planning, and outdoor use. Quiet, practical work for households that already have something to keep.
How preparedness worksPractice
Ventures
When the work is a new operating question, we scope it, test it, and either install it or stop. Same entity. Not a second brand.
How ventures work
An operator, not a commentary shop.
This is a Kansas firm. The principal lives and works in Lawrence. The work is led by Jeremy Brakenhoff, who founded Mass Metal in 2008, took SilverSaver onto the Inc. 5000, and still runs OWNx — a national platform for physical gold, silver, and platinum.
Ascendent Strategies is a separate company. It exists so the same long-horizon discipline can be applied to a business, and to a household, without a big-firm theater around either.
About the firm