Charles E. Gaudet II

Today’s buyer trusts algorithms before they trust you.
If your business depends on you… AI buries you.

That’s why most founders feel like this:

→ 60+ hours/week, still behind
→ No pipeline unless you chase it
→ Team can “execute” but can’t think
→ You can’t take a real vacation without anxiety
→ Growth is unpredictable because you are the system

You didn’t fail. You just scaled the wrong way.

I help founders escape... permanently and grow companies faster, more predictably and less dependent on themselves.

🔥 What we actually do:

We transform founder-led, referral-dependent, decision-bottlenecked companies into AI-resilient, systematically scalable enterprises using the Predictable Profits® Operating System.

This isn’t consulting.
This is engineering.

Examples:

- Agency: $950K → $66M in 7 years (company not dependent on founder)
- Healthcare: $250K/year → $250K every 3 weeks (50% less founder involvement)
- Professional Services: 40% revenue growth while breaking referral dependency
- Manufacturing: 30% growth with the founder having zero guesswork at what's working and what's not

One client said it best:

“It felt like using cheat codes. I went from 65 hours/week to 45… and grew 40%.”

🔥 Why our system works

Because we eliminate the three locks of The Founder’s Trap™:

→ No Demand System – 80%+ referrals = no pipeline control
→ Founder-Led Sales – you close 70% because the system isn’t doing the selling
→ Decision Bottleneck – everything breaks unless you approve it

The Predictable Profits Operating System replaces:

Reactive decisions → Clear frameworks
Founder heroics → Repeatable processes
Ad-hoc marketing → Demand engines
Founder-led sales → Scalable sales architecture
Chaos → Predictable growth

🔥 Who I work with

High-performance founders who are:

- $250k - $1M (Launchpad); >$1M - $10M+ (Board of Directors)
- Stuck in operational gravity
- Drowning in decisions
- Scaling by force instead of structure
- Tired of being the bottleneck in their own success

If you’re winning because of how hard you work - not because of the strength of your systems - you’re the person I built this for.

🔥 Recognition & Media

→ #1 Marketing & Sales Thought Leader 2025 (DMNews)
→ “The Go-To Business Coach for 7 & 8 Figure Entrepreneurs” — International Business Times
→ “The CEO Whisperer” — Yahoo Finance
→ Host of Beyond 7-Figures Podcast

🔥 Your next step

👉 https://start.predictableprofits.com/superconsumer

You built this far.
Now build something that can scale without you.

For Speaking: https://www.CharlesGaudet.com

CEO & Founder | Business Coach for 7 & 8 Figure Companies

Predictable Profits is an international network of premium business coaches and strategists for 7- & 8- figure entrepreneurs who seek better sales and revenue systems for more predictability, profitability, and scalability in any economy.  

The company follows The Predictable Profits Methodology created in 2010, which has helped thousands of businesses in over 55 industries scale faster.

Advice from our team is featured on Fox Business, Forbes, Inc., Success, Entrepreneur, and countless other media channels around the world.

See what countless others have said about their experience with us here: https://predictableprofits.com/testimonials/

Charles II

Richard Lorenzen

Fifth Avenue Brands

Fifth Avenue Brands is an award-winning New York-based public relations firm for companies in finance, policy and B2B tech. Our average client grows their audience by 500% and gets 200% more media coverage than with their previous agency.

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Richard Lorenzen is the CEO of Fifth Avenue Brands, a New York public relations firm providing financial, tech and public policy clients with media relations, crisis communications and strategic planning. He has been featured by CNBC, Forbes, Fox News, Inc., Entrepreneur, AdWeek and Business Insider. Richard speaks frequently on entrepreneurship and public policy at corporate conferences, TEDx, United Nations and more. 



Fifth Avenue Brands builds the public profile and industry leadership of brands.

Our clients come to us looking for:
⇨ Media Coverage - use our relationships with 3,000+ news outlets worldwide
⇨ Industry Recognition - speaking engagements at the most impactful conferences and events
⇨ Thought Leadership - become the industry's leading voice

We provide in-depth expertise to clients in:
⇨ Finance
⇨ Public Policy
⇨ B2B Tech

Why Fifth Avenue Brands?
✔️ Our average client receives a 512% increase in audience reach and 207% more media coverage than their previous PR agency.
✔️ 96.8% Client Retention Rate
✔️ We have helped hundreds of companies transform into award-winning industry leaders who are recognized by media, stakeholders, and audiences worldwide
✔️ Our work has been featured by CNBC, Forbes, Fox News, Business Insider, AdWeek, PRWeek, Inc. Magazine, Mashable, and more

Personal highlights include:
✓  Ranked Top 50 Marketing Influencers - Entrepreneur Magazine
✓  Top 50 People in Digital Marketing - Entrepreneur Magazine
✓  Top 25 Inspirational Entrepreneurs to Watch - Inc.
✓  25 Entrepreneurs Every VC Should Follow - AdWeek
✓  Richard is regularly cited as one of the most influential millennial entrepreneurs in the United States
✓  Richard speaks frequently on entrepreneurship and policy at the United Nations, TEDx, NASDAQ, and universities and conferences in the US, Europe, and Asia.


Services include: Media Relations, Strategic Planning, Crisis Communications, Financial Communications

Visit our website to schedule a meeting with us today: https://fifthavenuebrands.com/

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