A repeatable value-creation playbook for operating partners: a data foundation at each company, tools that travel across the portfolio, and one view of what is working.
Most lower-middle-market companies don't have one. The foundation and the stewardship come with the engagement.
We have run businesses. We build around how the work actually gets done.
Every claimed dollar is measured against a baseline agreed with finance — not asserted in a slide.
The foundation pattern is already proven, so new platforms and add-ons start further along.
Everything lives in the company's accounts. The system stays with the business.
Lessons from one company become the starting point for the next.