I went from running every part of my business to eight hours a month.

Building businesses that run without you.

Adrian Hancock is a Manchester-based founder and operator. He built Clear Technology Group into a group of businesses that now runs largely without him, and brings that same operator-to-owner playbook to every venture he touches: quarterly planning, functional meetings, leadership team structures, and the discipline to step back.

As a partner at Advisory 9, Adrian brings the scale side to the AI work. Where Rebecca Whitney builds the tools, Adrian builds the operating systems around them, helping owners turn AI into something that actually moves revenue and profit while keeping the human element intact.