Co-ownership without the handcuffs
Co-Ownership to Independence
We build it alongside you, until it's 100% yours.
Most co-ownership models lock you in. You can grow your stake, but you can never own the practice outright. Ours is built the other way around. You co-own your practice with True Vet Potential and lead it from the first day. We invest alongside you, help you build a thriving practice and business, and run the back office. Over time, you buy back our shares in planned stages until you own it all.
What you get
You're the owner
Your practice, your leadership, your name on the ownership from the first day. True Vet Potential invests alongside you as a partner with skin in the game, not a boss.
We build it together
True Vet Potential training in owning and leading a practice: your financials, building and leading a great team, culture, client experience and growth.
We run the back office
Accounting, payroll, HR, purchasing, recruiting, marketing and compliance can be centralized as part of the deal, so your time goes to medicine, your team and your community.
A clear path to 100%
You buy back our shares in planned stages as the practice grows. Each stage gives you a bigger share, until the practice is entirely yours.
Your road to independence
Every deal is tailored. This is the shape of it.
- 1
Own
Buy the practice together. You're an owner and its leader from the first day, with a partner and a back office behind you.
- 2
Build
Grow the practice, your team and your business skills, and buy back our shares in stages as you go.
- 3
Independence
Complete the final stage and the practice is 100% yours.
How it compares
Most co-ownership models handcuff you. Ours is built so you can walk away owning it all.
| Traditional co-ownership | Co-Ownership to Independence | |
|---|---|---|
| Who leads | Often the partner sets direction; the veterinarian runs the clinic. | You do. You're the owner. |
| The practice | Frequently absorbed into a larger brand. | Stays independent, local and yours. |
| Business training | Little formal ownership or leadership training. | True Vet Potential ownership and leadership training is built in. |
| Back office | Centralized, and usually the partner's to control. | Centralized for you, as part of the deal. |
| Owning it outright | Often impossible. Your stake is capped, or designed to be bought back from you. | Built in. You buy back our shares in stages until you own 100%. |
Partnering with True Vet Potential is optional. You can also buy on your own with us as your buy-side advisor.
Why we do this
More veterinarians leading. More practices staying independent.
We exist to expand veterinary leadership and ownership: creating more fulfilling careers, keeping practices independently owned, and building practices that exceed the expectations of the communities they serve.
The veterinarian and the team win
A fulfilling career as a leader and owner, and a team that works for someone who's invested in them, not a distant head office.
Clients and the community win
A practice that stays independent and local, led by a veterinarian who lives its standards and grows it to exceed what the community expects.
The selling veterinarian win
A fair transition to a successor who'll honor what they built, with their name, their team and their clients carried forward.