Results

The work, and what it produced.

The work below was led and executed by Kim Graham DeNenno, inside franchise brands and in current Elevare engagements.*

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Career highlight

Two companies Kim helped scale have since sold to private equity.

Case study · Dealer-to-franchise transition

Building a franchise model alongside an existing dealer network

The challenge

  • Launching a franchise model alongside an established dealer network
  • Need for a compliant structure and clear differentiation
  • No defined franchise development systems or process

What we built

  • An eight-step discovery and development process
  • Franchise sales materials, workflows and the candidate journey
  • Territory strategy and market segmentation
  • CRM strategy and pipeline structure aligned to compliance

The results

  • A fully structured franchise model ready for launch
  • Defined systems for recruitment, qualification and conversion
  • Alignment across development, operations and leadership

Why it mattersHybrid dealer and franchise models require careful strategy; early structure determines long-term success.

Case study · Disclosure & compliance platform

Turning franchise disclosure into a scalable, trackable system

The challenge

  • Manual, inconsistent FDD delivery
  • No visibility into receipts and disclosure timing
  • Complex multi-state registration and effective-date rules
  • Legal, franchisor and technology teams working in silos

What we built

  • End-to-end FDD delivery and receipt workflows
  • CRM-to-disclosure-to-tracking integration with e-signature automation
  • State registration, renewal and effective-date tracking logic
  • Audit-ready records and reporting for attorneys and franchisors

The results

  • Centralized, trackable disclosure process
  • Improved compliance visibility and audit readiness
  • Less manual work and fewer errors
  • Infrastructure that scales across brands and legal teams

Why it mattersCompliance has to be built into daily operations.

Profiles

Career and engagement profiles

Career profile · National senior living advisory franchise

Scaling franchise sales through systems and broker strategy

Kim led a complete custom CRM build and redesigned the franchise sales pipeline. The results: a 500% increase in broker network contacts, a 25% increase in average franchise fees and the highest franchise sales performance in company history.

Career profile · National territory design

Defensible territory maps across all 50 states

Two national franchisors needed defensible territory maps. Kim designed about 350 territories across all 50 states, plus territory systems for two regional brands, each built from demographic and company data and tied to Item 12. At one brand, she restructured 90+ existing franchisee territories through amendments to their franchise agreements.

Elevare engagement · Home improvement franchisor

Finding compliance risk before it became costly

Elevare completed a franchisor analysis, a year-over-year FDD comparison and a compliance memo to the founders and their counsel, identifying registration, sales-conduct and disclosure issues and a clear remediation path.

Elevare engagement · Quick service restaurant brand

Designing fees that work before the FDD is filed

Elevare is supporting the business side of a multi-unit restaurant brand’s first FDD, including Item 7 investment modeling and a fee collection design that protects franchisee cash flow and avoids costly post-filing amendments.

The common thread across every engagement

Different brands, different industries, the same issues: growth without structure, systems that don’t match the process, CRMs used as databases, no visibility into performance, and compliance handled after the fact.

The Elevare approach is the same every time: structured systems, defined processes, CRM-driven infrastructure, compliance-aligned workflows and growth frameworks that scale.

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