Epic Pivot

04/24/2026

So many changes. How is your company navigating them?

02/27/2026

Our quantitative team has perfected a new product for multi-location retail and service stores.

Store and Branch Portfolio Optimization

A great location optimization strategy requires more than just financials. From marketing spend to market quality, our analysis goes beneath the surface and into the factors that matter most for your business’s profitability. With the holistic picture in mind, you can expect the kind of strategic advisory services our clients have trusted for over 18 years, tailored to your business and informed by your data.

Without a tested strategy for making real estate decisions, multi-location businesses are leaving money on the table.

Using insights, internal data, and custom models, Epic Pivot collaborates with you to make consistent, repeatable decisions about stores in the your portfolio. We help multi-location businesses decide, location by location, whether to optimize, remodel, move, open/acquire, or close locations, so that you can invest in what’s working and cut out what’s not.

To do this, we:

* Develop a database of prioritized internal data, relevant to the industry and store type
* Identify key revenue and profit drivers (e.g. marketing spend, employee turnover, customer retention, store location, etc.) and uncover the metrics that matter most to the specific company/brand
* Compare tailored metrics for individual stores to composite metrics across the portfolio, using percentile-based metrics for performance
* Develop filters to sort stores into optimize, remodel, move, open/acquire, and close buckets based on performance metrics
* Collaborate to compare performance in individual metrics to overarching strategic goals, ensuring an aligned portfolio strategy and incorporating related strategic advisory when needed
* Outline a repeatable process for compiling data, formulating metrics, and conducting the above analysis in the future

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02/03/2026

Store and Branch Portfolio Optimization

A great location optimization strategy requires more than just financials. From marketing spend to market quality, our analysis goes beneath the surface and into the factors that matter most for your business’s profitability. With the holistic picture in mind, you can expect the kind of strategic advisory services our clients have trusted for over 18 years, tailored to your business and informed by your data.

Without a tested strategy for making real estate decisions, multi-location businesses are leaving money on the table.

Using insights, internal data, and custom models, Epic Pivot collaborates with you to make consistent, repeatable decisions about stores in the your portfolio. We help multi-location businesses decide, location by location, whether to optimize, remodel, move, open/acquire, or close locations, so that you can invest in what’s working and cut out what’s not.

To do this, we:

* Develop a database of prioritized internal data, relevant to the industry and store type
* Identify key revenue and profit drivers (e.g. marketing spend, employee turnover, customer retention, store location, etc.) and uncover the metrics that matter most to the specific company/brand
* Compare tailored metrics for individual stores to composite metrics across the portfolio, using percentile-based metrics for performance
* Develop filters to sort stores into optimize, remodel, move, open/acquire, and close buckets based on performance metrics
* Collaborate to compare performance in individual metrics to overarching strategic goals, ensuring an aligned portfolio strategy and incorporating related strategic advisory when needed
* Outline a repeatable process for compiling data, formulating metrics, and conducting the above analysis in the future

Store and Branch Portfolio Optimization A great location optimization strategy requires more than just financials. From marketing spend to market quality, our analysis goes beneath the surface and into the factors that matter most for your business’s profitability. With the holistic picture in min...

01/22/2026

Guess I’m going to put vibraphone practice away for a while; thank goodness. We are busy again with a lot of interesting work.

Consulting, even growth consulting, transformation, and human-centered design took a huge hit when all of the commercial world was experimenting with AI, and, arguably, over-invested and hope-drunk with the potential.

A good toolset, yes. The solution to all strategy, culture alignment, collaboration, innovation, and transformation issues? No.

Our phone and email is blowing up—and I hope the same for every other good firm out there.

People need smart, driven people to make real things happen. There are no easy answers, even if the easy answers look good in a deck made by a robot.

Holler if you have a challenge worthy of human experience.

12/01/2025

Our client, everystory, is doing great work in the world.

11/17/2025

More and more often, we meet founders and leaders of small businesses who have been drifting along without a strategy. Given the uncertain times, they know they need an actionable strategy but lack the funds and time to hire a Big consulting firm to facilitate.

To meet this need, we have designed a 10-day strategy offering for business leaders who need clarity and direction but don’t have the time or money to spend on larger consulting projects.

In just 10 days, we will deliver an insights-driven strategy that identifies key growth opportunities, unites leadership, and provides an ex*****on roadmap. We will enable your organization to face the future with clarity and confidence.

Our 10-day breakthrough strategy process harnesses our deep expertise to deliver clarity, alignment, and actionable growth for small businesses who desire disciplined growth. Read more about it here: https://epicpivot.com/10-day-breakthrough/
Epic Pivot has worked with more than 300 clients in 18+years of being in business—and we’d love to help you create a breakthrough strategy you can execute and afford.
Reach out to discuss the possibilities,
Michael Graber
[email protected]

10-Day Breakthrough Strategy In just 10 days, we will deliver an insights-driven strategy that identifies key growth opportunities, unites leadership, and provides an ex*****on roadmap. We will enable your organization to face the future with clarity and confidence. Designed for business leaders who...

11/13/2025

Epic Pivot (formally both the Southern Growth Studio and Pedal) turned 18 years old recently. We are now legal adult age, ready for expansive learning and collaboration (as if going off to college).

We are so grateful to all of our clients, partner firms, contractors, and past and present employees.

Here’s to the next 18 years. May they be as fruitful, interesting, and additive as the last 18 years.

We’ve added a lot of value to clients over this span of time. If your organization seeks tangible outcomes with transformation, innovation, insights, or strategy, we are here—with a depth of experience—to help.

Thank you everyone.

11/12/2025

We had an incredible day at our first-ever Build a Winning AI Strategy Workshop! The room was full of great conversation, innovative ideas and actionable insights.

A huge thank you to everyone who attended — and to the Edit Media team and Sridhar Sunkara for sharing their strategy and AI expertise! 👏

11/10/2025

Happening this Wednesday morning—limited space. Sign up now.

Join a half-day, hands-on workshop where you’ll roll up your sleeves with Memphis’ top minds in strategy, AI, and communications and walk out with a custom AI plan that drives real growth.

Led by:
🔹 Epic Pivot – strategy & growth planning pros
🔹 Enaiblr (Sridhar Sunkara) – decoding the tech behind AI
🔹 Edit Media Consulting – crafting the message that gets leadership buy-in

📅 November 12 | 8–1 PM
🎟️ Bring your team & save — $249/person (group rate)

AI doesn’t have to be confusing. It just has to be strategic.
👉 Reserve your spot:

Come join us for a hands-on training event where you'll learn how to develop a successful AI strategy from start to finish!

11/06/2025

AI won’t do your strategic thinking and storytelling for you—and that’s why most pilots have failed and organizations cannot find ROI with these tools.

Let’s skip the AI hype and get to the part that actually matters: making it work for your business.

Join a half-day, hands-on workshop where you’ll roll up your sleeves with Memphis’ top minds in strategy, AI, and communications and walk out with a custom AI plan that drives real growth.

Led by:
🔹 Epic Pivot – strategy & growth planning pros
🔹 Enaiblr (Sridhar Sunkara) – decoding the tech behind AI
🔹 Edit Media Consulting – crafting the message that gets leadership buy-in

📅 November 12 | 8–1 PM
🎟️ Bring your team & save — $249/person (group rate)

AI doesn’t have to be confusing. It just has to be strategic.
👉 Reserve your spot: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/training-event-build-a-winning-ai-strategy-tickets-1762366368249?aff=oddtdtcreator&mc_cid=49a1d410b0&mc_eid=ce6d76f8dc

11/06/2025

AI won’t do your strategic thinking and storytelling for you—and that’s why most pilots have failed and organizations cannot find ROI with these tools.

Let’s skip the AI hype and get to the part that actually matters: making it work for your business.

Join a half-day, hands-on workshop where you’ll roll up your sleeves with Memphis’ top minds in strategy, AI, and communications and walk out with a custom AI plan that drives real growth.

Led by:
🔹 Epic Pivot – strategy & growth planning pros
🔹 Enaiblr (Sridhar Sunkara) – decoding the tech behind AI
🔹 Edit Media Consulting – crafting the message that gets leadership buy-in

📅 November 12 | 8–1 PM
🎟️ Bring your team & save — $249/person (group rate)

AI doesn’t have to be confusing. It just has to be strategic.
👉 Reserve your spot:

Come join us for a hands-on training event where you'll learn how to develop a successful AI strategy from start to finish!