What becomes my job?
Founders ask this before they ask almost anything else about a sale. There isn’t one answer, because the honest one depends on the specific acquisition and the transition built around it — not on a template we hand every founder in the same room.
For some founders, the point of all of this is more time in the room, not less.
Keep the parts you trained for.
Some founders want to keep seeing clients, keep shaping the clinical culture of the practice, and keep being the person the community recognizes — without carrying the operating load underneath that identity.
This is a real direction some founders take. It isn’t a role we assign; it’s a shape a transition can be built toward, when that’s what a founder wants.
Shed the parts that were never really yours.
Most founder-clinicians didn’t start a practice to run payroll, chase claims, or source candidates. For many, the more accurate change isn’t stepping away from the practice — it’s stepping away from the accidental operator duties that built up around it.
What’s left is a job closer to the one a founder actually wanted, with the administrative weight carried by people whose job that is.
The room stays the point. The paperwork stops being.
Where the transaction and leadership plan allow, hand it over across time.
For founders thinking about succession, stepping back isn’t a single date. Whether that’s possible, and how it’s sequenced, depends on the specific deal and on who is positioned to lead the practice next.
This is discussed and shaped as part of the transaction itself — not offered as a standard feature of every acquisition.
What do I want a Tuesday to look like, two years from now?
Sessions I still want to keep
Decisions I want to stay part of
Work I never wanted in the first place
Who is ready to lead what
Worth writing down early — not assumed, and not answered for you.
None of these three is decided before the conversation.
Your actual role — what you do, for how long, and on what terms — is worked out in your specific acquisition and transition. This page describes the directions founders take, not a menu we choose from for you.