Join us for the next GrowFL Breakfast Boost on Friday, September 11, 2026 at 8:30am at Northern Trust in Stuart featuring Robin Weston, Compendium Technologies

Why Attend?

Every growing company hits the same wall: the technology decisions that worked at 5 employees start breaking at 20 or 50. The tools you chose because they were fast, cheap or familiar become the very things slowing you down.

In this session, Robin Weston of Compendium Technology Solutions breaks down how the technology purchase process should evolve alongside The Entrepreneur’s Journey. From the early days of founder-led, gut-feel buying to the inflection point where businesses need a structured business first approach, Robin maps the common patterns, and the costly mistakes, he sees across mid-market companies throughout Florida.

It’s a framework for thinking about when, how and why your approach to evaluating and purchasing technology needs to mature as your business does. You’ll learn the warning signs that your current process has outgrown your company, how to separate the signal from the noise when vendors come calling and what a disciplined technology review actually looks like in practice.

Whether you’re running a 20-person team that’s duct-taping solutions together or leading a 200-person operation wondering why your infrastructure costs keep climbing, this conversation will give you a lens to evaluate where you stand and what to do about it.

Key Takeaways:

• A framework for matching your technology buying maturity to your business stage so you can identify whether your current approach is appropriate for where you are or a holdover from where you were.
• The specific warning signs that your technology purchasing process has outgrown your company, including the patterns that signal you’re overspending, under-evaluating or locked into vendor relationships that no longer serve you.
• A practical understanding of what a structured, vendor-agnostic technology review looks like and when in the growth journey it becomes worth the investment versus continuing to buy ad hoc.