About Next Sage Group

We help well-run companies grow.

EOS, or any good operating plan, keeps a business running. We add a Growth Plan beside it, align your real data to it, and build a Dashboard that shows where you’ve been and what to focus on. The result is a company that runs well and grows well.

Montana landscape near Billings
What we believe

Growth is the point.

Built against a plan

Every dashboard is built against your growth plan. Reporting alone isn’t the product.

Evidence over opinion

What we recommend comes from your own source data, not from a framework or a hunch.

Built on what works

We use your plan and your language, EOS or your own. We add no new framework.

Systems that serve people

A dashboard should make leadership easier and add no administration.

Practical experience

We’ve built and run businesses for 35 years. We know what it takes to hit a number.

Straight answers

If it won’t work, we say so early, at either checkpoint, and end the process.

The founders

A father and son who build things together.

Bruce Smith

Bruce Smith

Co-founder

Bruce has spent 35 years building and running businesses, including two that grew past $20 million. He knows EOS, he knows how to turn messy data into a clear picture, and he’ll tell you plainly whether there’s a real opportunity.

Connor Smith

Connor Smith

Co-founder

Connor has spent the last seven years working with his dad and for his companies. He started as an entry-level data analyst right out of college, and along the way he learned EOS and how a Growth Plan can supercharge it. Now he helps other companies do what they did together.

Bruce and Connor Smith holding trout on the Bighorn River in Montana
Inspired by Montana

Montana keeps it simple.

We live and work in Montana, and the Bighorn River is one of our favorite places. Montana is where we find our inspiration, and it shapes everything we do.

It’s a place that knows how to keep things simple, and we carry that into our work: a clear plan, the few numbers that matter, and straight answers about what to do next.

To be clear

What we are not.

Not an EOS Implementer

We’re not affiliated with EOS Worldwide. Implementers are our allies, and we work alongside yours.

Not a software reseller

You don’t buy software from us. You get a dashboard, a monthly review, and people who know your numbers.

Not open-ended consulting

The work is focused: your plan, your data, the gap, and the few drivers that close it.

See where you are. Know where to go.

Start with the Growth Fit Check. If the numbers point to a real opportunity,
we’ll build your dashboard for free and show you.