Authority-Driven Growth

From chasing leads — to choosing clients.

What if clients came to your consulting firm — already sold?

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The Core Insight

Successful firms don't chase clients—they've built such strong authority that clients find them, already sold.

That shift changes everything. Better margins. Faster deals. Ability to scale without hiring endlessly. But it requires mastering 4 specific levers.

One lever is holding your business back.

Here's which one — and the solution we built to fix it.

Authority

Authority Lever

The Invisible Expert

Nobody outside your network knows you exist

Clients

Clients Lever

The Leaky Pipeline

Generating leads feels like pushing water uphill

Efficiency

Efficiency Lever

The Bottleneck

You can't scale without hiring more people

AI

AI Lever

The Manual Operator

Your best work stays locked in your own head

The Growth Assessment

Take the 3-minute Consulting Growth Assessment

Find out which growth lever is holding your firm back — and what to fix first.

We've identified 4 levers that determine if a consulting firm scales or stays stuck: Authority, Clients, Efficiency, and AI. Most firms are weak in at least one. The assessment reveals yours.

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HJ Barraza

HJ Barraza

Founder, Digifolk Media

20+

Years of experience

50+

firms transformed

Industries & Clients

  • Media & Publishing

    20+ largest brands

  • Defense & Intelligence

    Critical sectors

  • Marketing & Agencies

    Service firms

  • Enterprise Leadership

    C-suite coaching

20 years building trusted authorities

Media & Corporate Leadership

Served as Chief Deal Officer for Televisa. Grown Hearst and Meredith brands across Latin America and the US. Built independent business brands like Fortune, Whitepaper and Contxto.

Global Strategic Advisory

Advised on Digital Strategy for more than 100 companies across Latin America, the US, France, and Spain.

AI & Intelligence Infrastructure

Built AI systems to detect narrative manipulation from hostile state actors—engineering intelligence infrastructure that identifies how narratives spread at 100M+ scale. Created The Authority OS™: Military-grade AI meets world-class editorial standards.

Now Applied to Consulting

I've spent 20 years making brands the trusted authority in their space. Now I do it for consulting firms—with AI. This methodology has helped 50+ consulting firms, coaches, and fractional executives build authority, generate qualified leads, and scale delivery.

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Why this matters

The most successful consultants don't chase clients—clients chase them. They've built authority so strong that ideal clients come inbound, ready to buy.

But authority is only half the equation. You need systems that let you scale delivery without hiring endlessly. That's where AI comes in.

The four levers—Authority, Clients, Efficiency, and AI—aren't arbitrary. They're the result of 20 years of building brands that became household names in their industries. I've seen what works, what fails, and where most firms get stuck.

This assessment reveals where you are. Everything else flows from there.

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