Advisory
Some leaks you fix with a calculator. Some you fix with an operator.
Twenty-six years scaling companies from $28M to $1.6B across construction, manufacturing, distribution, and industrial services. PE-backed turnarounds, founder-led scale-ups, international operations. When you are ready to act on what the numbers are telling you, bring in someone who has done it.
We find it, we split it.
For the right operator the first diagnostic is free. We go through your real numbers together, show you exactly where the money is leaking, agree on what is worth fixing, and take an agreed share only of the savings we verify together. If there is nothing to find, you owe nothing.
No retainer, no hourly billing, no fee until the savings are real and measured. We only win when you keep more money.
A no fee review of pricing, margin, cash conversion, and customer concentration against your actual figures. You see the leaks ranked by dollars, not opinions.
We choose the leaks worth fixing, set a baseline from your trailing twelve months, and put in writing how each saving is measured and over what window.
As the savings show up in your actuals, a flat 20 percent share, set in advance and not open to negotiation, is invoiced against verified results only. Projections do not count, banked dollars do.
Say we agree the fixes are worth $400,000 a year. The share is a flat 20 percent. In year one you verify $250,000 of those savings in your actuals. The fee is 20 percent of the verified $250,000, which is $50,000. You keep the other $200,000. The fee never touches the $400,000 projection, only the dollars that actually landed, so you paid $50,000 to keep $200,000 you were losing before.
Built for operators doing roughly $10M and up, where verified savings are worth measuring.
Operating partner
A senior operator in the seat part time: pricing, margin, cash, and the hard calls, without a full-time hire.
Profit recovery sprint
Start from your audit, fix the leaks that matter most, and put the math behind every decision.
Scale, exit, integrate
Preparing to raise, sell, or absorb an acquisition. Get the operating story and the numbers ready.
Ready when the number is.
Run the audit, see where you are leaking, and bring the report to a first conversation. We will go through your real figures together.
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