Obsessed with giving business owners more and more control of their business.
An accountancy, advisory and acquisitions group built around one obsession: learning what makes businesses work, and giving that back to the people running them, in the form of control. Built the way it should have been from the start.
Free · 45 minutes
10,000+
ACCA
250+
Master’s & PhD
Live
Acquisitions Programme
I watched business owners receive answers to individual problems, but no guidance for the business as a whole. So I built something different.
I’ve trained over 10,000 entrepreneurs. Spent years working alongside accountants, advisors and coaches at every level of the industry. And the same thing kept happening, in business after business.
An accountant who spoke to the owner once or twice a year, with no connection to what the business was trying to achieve. A coach who’d never run a business themselves, charging thousands to teach others how to run one. A wealth advisor who didn’t understand the company generating the wealth in the first place. Each one giving individual input, but none looking at the whole business. And then the owner – left in the middle trying to connect everything together.
I built the alternative. An ACCA-regulated accounting practice, experienced advisors who run real, profitable businesses themselves, with Master’s degrees as a minimum across the team, a founder doing a PhD whilst developing a fully accredited Master’s in Entrepreneurship, and an active acquisitions programme putting money behind everything we teach.
Qualified accountants and experienced advisors, looking at your whole business at once, giving you full control of your business. The way it should have been from the start.
Ben Jacob-Smith
10,000+ trained · Active acquirer · PhD researcher
How control is delivered.
Three services – accounting, advisory and acquisitions – each giving you more and more control over your business.
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Control Your Numbers.
An ACCA-regulated team handling the financial side of your business, so you always know where you stand.
02
Control Your Growth.
The Growth Academy – twelve months of structured curriculum that puts you in control of how your business grows.
03
Control Your Wealth.
The Acquisitions Academy – twelve months taught by a team buying businesses themselves, so you can do the same.
There are a lot of people offering advice. Very few have earned the right to give it.
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Every advisor is qualified to be one.
Every advisor holds a Master’s degree as a minimum, and the lead is a PhD researcher developing an accredited Master’s in entrepreneurship. The practice is ACCA-regulated. The people advising your business have the credentials to advise it.
02
Strategy from people who have built businesses themselves.
Every piece of advice has been tested in real businesses across hundreds of industries, by people who’ve been there when things go wrong. What gets recommended has already worked.
03
Accounting, advisory and acquisitions on the same team.
You won’t find another practice that brings all three together the way we do. Three teams sit inside one group, working from the same picture of your business, in real time. That’s the whole point of how Obsessed was built.
04
Accountability for our advice.
An ACCA-regulated, Master’s-qualified practice, governed by the global body for professional accountants. A proper professional practice has to answer to the body that licences it, and we do.
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A platform you can stay on as you grow.
There are tiers built for every stage of growth, from your first set of accounts to your first acquisition. We listen to what clients need, and keep building.
How we know this works.
Every offering, every programme, every conversation we have with a client comes from a decade of watching how this plays out in real businesses, start to finish, over and over again.
A decade on stages and screens.
Hundreds of UK business events and hundreds more online sessions livestreamed across Europe, America and the Middle East. Rooms ranging from intensive 1:1s to 500-person crowds, including engagements at Metro Bank’s Central London HQ. Thousands of business owners have been in those rooms.
Ben still speaks regularly, whether on stages, on podcasts or directly with business owners – and everything he learns goes straight into the Academies we deliver to our clients. Years of what works across hundreds of industries, the questions every business owner ends up asking, the strategies that consistently work – clients get the benefit of it all.
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Take back control of your business.
In 45 minutes, we’ll identify the biggest opportunities and the biggest areas where you’re losing control across your numbers, growth and long-term wealth. If there’s a way we can help, we’ll show you what it is. If there isn’t, you’ll leave with a clearer plan of what to do next.
Your numbers should make decisions obvious. If they don’t, something important is missing in how they’re being used.
Your growth shouldn’t feel inconsistent. If it does, it isn’t being driven by a repeatable, reliable system.
Your wealth should be building every day. If it isn’t, value isn’t being retained in the business efficiently.
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