Open the next one on numbers, not nerve.
A second location doubles whatever you haven't fixed — and hides in the company total for months. Xyzios makes expansion a numbers project: readiness on one board, presale counted from day one, and goals paced from your own sites' history.
How does Xyzios help when you open another location?
It replaces gut feel with your own history. Goals and forecasts are built from your existing sites’ seasonality, a presale location is paced daily against its founding-member goal and its opening date, and the home studio keeps being watched while your attention is on the new one.
The pain
The decision gets made on nerve — the current site "feels" ready — and the new site's real performance disappears into a company total that still looks fine while it burns.
What Xyzios does
Puts the readiness numbers on one board before you sign, counts the presale from day one, maps the new site's goals from your own ramp history, and compares it honestly once it opens.
What changes
You open with a baseline instead of a blank board, the ramp is judged against a fair curve, and a struggling week surfaces in days — while it's still a week, not a quarter.
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How Xyzios runs an expansion.
Retention without your daily presence, intro conversion stability, cash cover for the ramp — the numbers that should decide the lease sit on one board, current, instead of in a someday spreadsheet.
The new location exists in the OS as planned, then presale — founding memberships, leads and goals tracked from day one, so the opening isn't a leap into a blank board but a line you're already watching.
The ramp is paced from your own sites' history — never the flagship's curve — and the Compare board keeps the new site visible instead of buried in the company total.
What expanding owners ask first.
How do I know if my studio is ready to open a second location?
Readiness is a numbers question before it is a lease question: is the current site's retention holding without your daily presence, is intro conversion stable, is there cash cover for the new site's ramp, and do you actually know those three numbers monthly? Xyzios puts them on one board so the decision is made on evidence — and our notes publish the four readiness tests in full.
Can Xyzios track a location before it opens?
Yes. A location can exist in the OS as planned or presale before it goes live: presale memberships and leads are counted from day one, goals and pacing are mapped from your existing sites' history, and opening day starts with a baseline instead of a blank board.
How does Xyzios set goals for a brand-new location?
From the closest honest reference: your existing sites' ramp history and seasonality, adjusted for the new site's size. A six-month-old location is never judged on the flagship's curve — and as its own history accrues, its pacing shifts onto its own data.
Will opening a new site swamp me in reporting?
The opposite is the point. The new site joins the same boards with the same definitions, the weekly brief covers it site by site, and the AI staff drafts its follow-up work like anywhere else — so opening adds a location, not a second reporting job.
What does adding a location cost?
One additional-location price on top of your existing bill — every board, the full AI staff and approvals included, same as your first site. The published price runs to nine locations; from ten, it is built to your specification. See pricing.
The work Xyzios drafts for you.
The next one opens already understood.