Drift: Why Small Businesses Fail and How to See It Coming

Most small businesses don't fail because of one bad decision. They fail because of a pattern nobody sees until it's too late. Margins thin. Cash stretches. The owner works harder for less. And the people who should be watching the numbers - the accountants, the advisors, the coaches - are looking somewhere else.

Aynsley Damery has spent twenty-five years sitting across the desk from business owners whose data told a story they had never been shown. In The Drift, he identifies the seven reasons small businesses silently erode, and lays out the system that turns diagnosis into action.

This is not a motivational book about hustle or mindset. It is a diagnostic book about the decisions, blind spots, and missing structures that let a business drift from healthy to fragile without anyone noticing until it's too late.

This book is for every business owner who suspects something isn't quite right but can't name it. And for every accountant who knows they should be doing more but doesn't have the model to deliver it.