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In one paragraph

Runs On One is the operating manual for a business run by one person: ten instruments — the arithmetic, your voice, your buyer, your offer, your pipeline, your proposal, your engine, your nurture sequences, being found, and proof — each a document the reader fills in with their own numbers, in an order that works, each one reading the one before it. Three real-shaped businesses are followed through every chapter. The reader finishes with their business written down and priced. It is published by CIONAOD Inc., Ottawa, in print at $29 and as an ebook at $14.99, with a companion Binder of fillable instruments at $99.

In one sentence

The one-person company operating manual: ten instruments, one evening each, filled in with your own numbers.

Facts

Author: Kenneth M.F. McGrath, Ottawa, Ontario
Publisher: CIONAOD Inc. (federally incorporated, Canada)
Edition 1, 2026 · about 200 pages · twelve chapters and an appendix of ten worksheets
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Formats: paperback, ebook, the Binder (fillable), Built for You (service), the Cohort Licence (programs)

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About the author

Kenneth M.F. McGrath is a publisher, a former public-school educator, and the sole operator of CIONAOD Inc., a federally incorporated Canadian company in Ottawa that runs on one. Runs On One is the operating manual he built for his own company before he wrote it down for anyone else's.

Questions he can answer

What does self-employed work actually have to cost, and why is nearly everyone under it?
Why is feast and famine a scheduling problem and not a market problem?
What is a fence, and why does one price without one get negotiated for the length of the job?
What can one pair of hands run, once it is written down?

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