Get matched with an Adelaide business coach who works on what you’re stuck on.

For South Australian owners working 60-hour weeks in a business that can’t run without them. Tell me about your business and I’ll introduce you to up to 3 independent Adelaide coaches who work with businesses like yours.

Tell me about your business How the matching works, and how this site makes money

Coaches pay me a fee for each enquiry I pass on. That's how this free service is funded, and it means I introduce you to coaches in the network rather than every coach in Adelaide. How this works

Is this you?

Almost every owner who fills in the form on this site describes some version of the same week. If 3 or more of these land, a coach is at least worth a conversation.

You're working 55 to 70 hours a week, and the quotes still get written at 9pm because that's the only quiet hour you get.
The order book is full and the account is still tight, and you can't say exactly where the money went.
You can't find people. Or you find them, train them, and lose them 6 months later.
The business doesn't run for a single day without you. A week off isn't a holiday, it's a shutdown.
You have no idea whether your pricing is right, and nobody to ask who isn't selling you something.
You know what the next 3 jobs are. Past that, there's no plan, just whatever comes in.

None of that means you’re bad at the job. It usually means the opposite: you’re good enough at the work that the business filled up with it, and nothing was left over for the decisions that set the price, the hiring plan and the shape of next year. That’s the gap a business coach is built for, and it’s the same gap whether you’ve got 0 staff or 14.

A coach isn’t a consultant who does the work for you and hands you a report, and isn’t a mentor who tells you what they did in 1998. A coach gives you a regular, structured conversation about the decisions you keep pushing to next month, and then asks what happened. Whether it helps depends largely on what you do between the sessions.

Working in the business against working on it

The phrase gets used so often it’s stopped meaning anything, so here it is as a picture of a week. Delivery, admin and sales are the parts that shout. The 4th block is the part that decides what the other 3 are worth, and it’s the block that gets eaten first.

Most owner-operators can name the problem straight away. The hard part isn’t seeing it, it’s protecting the time to work on it when a job goes sideways on a Tuesday. That protection is most of what an outside coaching conversation buys: a fixed appointment that doesn’t move, with someone who’ll ask what you said you’d do.

What a coach actually works on

Coaches in the network differ, and each one runs their own approach, so ask. Across an owner-operator engagement in Adelaide though, the ground covered is fairly consistent.

01
Pricing and margin
What you charge, what it actually costs you to deliver, and what's left on each job, each client or each hour. Usually the first thing a coach opens, because it's the fastest lever an owner controls.
02
Cash flow you can see coming
What's due in, what's due out, and when the gap turns up. Reading your own numbers well enough to spot the squeeze 6 weeks out rather than the morning it lands.
03
Your own hours
Where the week actually goes, which jobs only you can do, which ones only you think only you can do, and what has to change for the business to run a day without you.
04
Hiring and keeping people
Whether the business can carry the next person, what that person would take off you, how you'd induct them, and why the last one left.
05
Systems somebody else can follow
Writing down the parts of the job that currently live in your head, so the work is repeatable and the quality doesn't depend on you being on site.
06
Deciding what happens next
Second team, second location, different pricing model, or staying the size you are on purpose. A structured conversation about the decision you keep putting off.

What isn’t on that list matters just as much. Coaching covers the commercial side of your numbers: what you charge, what it costs to deliver, and what’s left. It doesn’t cover anything a licence or a registration is required for. See small business coaching in Adelaide for the long version of how an owner-operator engagement usually runs.

The South Australian businesses this is written for

Context, so you can place yourself. These are market figures about South Australia, not figures about this site and not a prediction about your business.

174,310

Actively trading businesses in South Australia at 30 June 2026, up 3.3% over the year.

ABS, Counts of Australian Businesses, June 2026 release, checked 1 September 2026

67.3%

Share of South Australian businesses that employ nobody at all. The owner is the business.

ABS, Counts of Australian Businesses, June 2025, checked 1 September 2026

Read those 2 numbers together and you get the shape of the market this site serves. South Australia is overwhelmingly a state of very small businesses, and 19,820 of them carry 5 or more staff (ABS, Counts of Australian Businesses, June 2025, checked 1 September 2026). The step from solo operator to a business with a payroll is where most of the hard, unglamorous decisions sit, and it’s where most enquiries through this site come from.

How the matching works

4 steps, and the money is drawn into the picture rather than left out of it.

1
You tell me what's going on
A short form: your industry, how many people work in the business, what you want to change, and roughly what you can spend. It takes about 3 minutes.
2
I read it and check the network
I read every enquiry myself. I look for coaches whose actual background fits your industry, your size and the problem you've described. If nobody in the network works on it, I'll tell you that.
3
I tell you who and what they charge
Before any introduction, you get the coach's background and their current fee band. You decide whether you want the introduction made.
4
Up to 3 coaches get in touch
I pass your details to up to 3 coaches in the network, and only after you've ticked the consent box. You take a first conversation with whoever you want to, and you're under no obligation to go further.

Step 2 carries a sentence worth reading twice: if nobody in the network works on your problem, I’ll tell you that. The network is a set of coaches who’ve been checked against a published standard and who pay for introductions, not a directory of everyone practising in this city, so it won’t fit every enquiry. How the matching works, in full sets out the 13 checks a coach goes through before joining, and exactly what happens to your details after you press send.

Coaching isn't financial, tax or legal advice

Business coaching covers things like pricing, margins, cash flow, hiring, systems and planning. It isn't financial product advice, tax advice or legal advice, and the coaches in this network don't provide those unless they separately hold the licence or registration to do so and tell you that themselves. For advice on investments, super or insurance, see a licensed financial adviser. For tax, see a registered tax agent. For anything contractual or employment-related, see a lawyer.

What it costs, before you ask

The introduction costs you nothing, because the coach pays ADL Business Coach a fee for it. The coaching itself is a real expense, and here are the indicative Adelaide monthly bands for 1-to-1 work so you can decide whether this is worth your time.

Light touch (monthly session plus email access): $800 to $1,500 a month
Standard SME (fortnightly): $1,500 to $2,800 a month
Intensive SME (weekly): $2,800 to $4,500 a month

Indicative Adelaide ranges, ex GST, checked September 2026. Each coach in the network sets their own fees and will quote you directly. See the full Adelaide pricing guide.

Those are indicative Adelaide ranges, ex GST, checked September 2026. Each coach sets their own fees and quotes you directly, and you’ll be told a coach’s fee band before any introduction is made. Executive work sits well above those bands and a group programme sits well below. What business coaching costs in Adelaide carries the full tables, the hourly tiers and the reason a monthly retainer isn’t just hours multiplied by an hourly rate.

What this site doesn't do

Being straight about the limits is the fastest way for you to work out whether this is worth 3 minutes of your evening.

It doesn't deliver the coaching: ADL Business Coach is a matching service. The coaching is delivered by separate Adelaide coaching businesses, on their own terms and at their own fees, and the agreement is between you and them.
It isn't the whole Adelaide market: Introductions come from coaches in the network, and those coaches pay for them. There are good coaches in this city who aren't in the network, and you're free to approach them directly.
It doesn't cover money, filing or contracts: Investments, super and insurance belong to a licensed financial adviser. Tax belongs to a registered tax agent. Anything contractual belongs to a lawyer.
It's Adelaide and South Australia only: The network covers Adelaide metro plus the adjacent South Australian regions. If you're outside South Australia, this site has nothing to offer you and I'll say so rather than pass you around.

Questions owners ask before they enquire

The ones that come up most often, answered plainly rather than sold around.

Do I pay anything to be introduced to a coach?

No. You pay nothing to ADL Business Coach, at any point. The coach pays a fee for the introduction, which is how this site is funded and why it’s free to you. What you pay after that is between you and the coach, at the coach’s own rates, and you’re told the fee band before any introduction is made.

Who is behind ADL Business Coach?

It’s operated by Loudachris Digital Marketing (Chris Lourenco) in Adelaide, at 21-22 Greenhill Rd, Wayville SA 5034. It’s a 1-person operation, which is why every sentence on this site is written in the first person singular rather than the plural. More about who runs this and why it exists.

What happens if nobody in the network fits my business?

I tell you, and no introduction gets made. That’s a real outcome and it happens: the network is a set of coaches who have signed up and been checked, not the whole city. If it happens, nothing is passed to anyone and you’ve lost nothing but the 3 minutes it took to fill in the form.

How many coaches will contact me?

Up to 3, and only the ones I think fit what you’ve described. Nobody gets your details until you’ve ticked the consent box on the form, which names the coaches, names ADL Business Coach, and names all 3 contact channels: phone, email and SMS. You can withdraw that consent later by emailing me, and I pass the withdrawal on to any coach who already has your enquiry.

Can I ask for a coach in a particular part of Adelaide?

Yes, and the form asks where in South Australia you are. Plenty of coaching happens by video now, so location matters less than it did, but if meeting in person near your site matters to you, put it in the notes field and I’ll factor it in. Business coaching by Adelaide area covers what tends to differ between the precincts.

How long does an engagement usually run?

Typically 6 to 12 months, and the market has largely moved to rolling 30-day terms. A 12-month lock-in paid up front is widely treated as a buyer red flag, so if you’re offered one, ask why the term is structured that way before you sign anything.