Complex work,
carried to
completion.
ScottyKnows LLC advises and represents business owners through the work that determines outcomes — capital projects, operational build-outs, and the systems that run a company day after day.
Growth. New limits.
Higher we build.
Every engagement starts with real ground — a lot, a building, a business. Then the build line keeps rising: growth and scale, sightlines past the old limits, infrastructure beyond the old ceiling. Property becomes future infrastructure. The work compounds.
Four practice areas.
One standard of delivery.
We combine seasoned judgment with modern operating technology, and we stay until it's done.
& Capital Projects
We stand in the owner's position on projects where the details carry the risk — site acquisition, entitlement, design, and construction. We direct architects, engineers, surveyors, and contractors; hold budgets and schedules against commitments; and protect ownership's interests from letter of intent through occupancy.
& Business Systems
Growing companies lose revenue in the same places: follow-up that lapses, hiring that stalls, reporting that flatters. We diagnose how the work and the money actually move, then design and install the management systems that close those gaps — with a weekly cadence of evidence, not assurances.
Operations
We build and operate AI-assisted infrastructure under disciplined human governance — automated candidate screening and scheduling, customer response and recovery, document and reporting workflows. Enterprise-grade capability, sized and priced for owner-operated companies, with a human accountable for every outcome.
& Growth Operations
Presence work in service of the operation: positioning and messaging that reflect how the business actually competes, web properties built to convert rather than decorate, and recruiting brands that bring qualified candidates to the door. Measured in customers and hires.
How engagements work.
Engagement structures are matched to the work — project-based, milestone, or performance-linked. We prefer arrangements where our compensation depends on outcomes.
We start inside the operation — how money, work, and decisions actually move. Findings are written, specific, and owned.
A plan with named owners, defined gates, and a definition of done for every deliverable. No plan survives without one.
We direct the work — vendors, builds, systems — and hold it to schedule and budget. Judgment stays human; the chasing is automated.
Installed systems run daily and report weekly. Numbers that don't flatter anyone: what shipped, what stalled, what's next.
Scott Dunning is a Northern Nevada operator with a generalist's range and a closer's temperament. He has acquired commercial real estate on behalf of companies; directed architects, engineers, and survey teams through seven-figure projects; built staffing programs for regulated industries; and installed the back-office and automation systems that let multi-location businesses run without an owner on site.
ScottyKnows LLC is that experience made into a firm: seasoned judgment on the decisions that matter, modern operating technology on everything that repeats.
- Commercial site acquisition & development coordination
- Multi-location service business expansion
- Staffing programs for certification-regulated trades
- Remote-operations backends for absentee ownership
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