Prices nobody has touched since 2021. Comp plans paying for the wrong thing. Growth and cash flow stuck at the same level two years running. We help identify the upside levers with you, put a number and a plan on it, and help you execute toward that plan. Paid on results. When the situation is right, We are capital: our own money goes in alongside yours.
Payroll clears this month. The one after it is a question. The bank has started asking better ones.
Revenue has sat at the same level for two years. Nobody inside has time to find out why.
Two or three years out, at a number that changes your family's life. The work has to start now.
Cash, profit, multiple. Now, next, and the exit.
Cash is how you control your outcomes. It comes first, every week.
Improve the profit of the business.
De-risk and scale toward the sale.
"Cash keeps you alive. Profit makes you rich. The multiple makes you free."
Horizon one pays for horizon two. The Operator's Notebook runs on the same three horizons.
A $16M manufacturer came in with a single-digit EBITDA margin. We mapped three concrete opportunities and modeled them into a clean pro-forma. Executed in full, the model more than doubles EBITDA.
Modeled findings from the diagnostic. See the work, week by week · Run your numbers
Our founding partner is the number-two executive of a $750M global business, reporting to the owners, and owns pricing and incentive strategy end to end. Principal-led: no junior team between us and your business. Names stay off the site for now. You get one on the call, first thing.
Every business leaks in the same three places. The scan sizes all three on your own data.
Hourly billing pays for effort. We would rather carry some of the risk and share in what gets captured.
Start small. The work gets bigger only when the results earn it.
Fifteen or thirty minutes, principal to principal. Your situation and goals, where the cash flow is stuck, and whether we can help. No pitch, no deck, no obligation.
Within a couple of weeks, under NDA, on your data. Your highest-value levers, modeled to a pro-forma with owners and dates. From $15K, credited in full against any engagement.
Cash flow, pricing, incentives, pre-sale profit programs. We work beside your team until the number moves. Paid on results.
One reads your business from the outside. The other opens the books.
Three pages built entirely from your public footprint: your Big 3 levers, our Online Presence, Price & Value, and Repeat & Refer indexes benchmarked against competitors you name, and a 30-minute working session with the principal on where to push first. No data room, no NDA. Credited in full if we ever work together, and backed by the 10x Findings Guarantee.
Your top levers for profit and cash flow, quantified against a baseline agreed in writing, modeled to a clean pro-forma with owners and dates, and sequenced so the fastest cash funds the rest. Customer-level margin analysis included. Five pages decide the next ninety days. Credited in full against any engagement.
Fifteen to thirty minutes, no pitch. We love the puzzles operators find themselves in and the goals you want to reach, and a fresh set of eyes always helps. If nothing else, we get to know each other. Live availability below.
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Tell us where the business is. We reply within one business day, and if it makes sense we start with the call.
Spend fifteen or thirty minutes with the principal. We talk through what is happening in the business and whether there is something worth digging into.
No pitch, no obligation. A conversation about where the economics might be leaking.