ADVISORY · OPERATING · INVESTMENT
We advise, operate, and invest.
Three ways to work with us: a plan you can act on, a senior operator who steps in and runs it, or capital alongside you. Big-company discipline for founder-led, family-owned, sponsor-backed and multi-unit businesses — from people who have actually done the job, in Australia and America.
- years in operating seats
- 20+years in operating seats
- businesses backed, advised or operated
- 50+businesses backed, advised or operated
- revenue run through
- $5B+revenue run through
- continents
- 2continents
Where we're useful.
Founder-led businesses
You built it. It shouldn't depend on you to run it.
Read more →Family-owned businesses
Everyone owns a piece. Nobody owns the decision.
Read more →Sponsor-backed companies
The underwriting case doesn't care how busy the team is.
Read more →Franchise & multi-unit
Units open is not the same number as units working.
Read more →Three ways to work with us.
Advise
A plan you can act on. A senior operator reads the business, tells you what's actually holding it back, hands you the things to do first, and lays out a plan for the rest.
Operate
Someone in the seat. When advice isn't enough, we step in — COO, GM, or a defined mandate — run the play, and write a leaving date into the scope before we start.
Invest
Capital alongside you. Where it fits, we back the businesses we believe in as well as advise them — so our incentives sit with yours.
Data drives decision. People drive businesses.
We start with the people, because you cannot fix a business you do not understand, and you cannot understand one without understanding who runs it and why they do it that way. Then the numbers come in — and they come in hard. Both halves matter, whether we're advising you or running it ourselves.
The work falls into four kinds.
Growth
Grow on what already works before betting on what doesn't.
- Au Naturel
- Big Foot
- Strategic Reset
Systems
Install the numbers, the scoreboard and the bench so it runs without you.
- Single Source of Truth
- The Scoreboard
- Handover
Turnaround
Stabilize the cash, cut to the core, rebuild trust in that order.
- Cash First
- Cut to the Core
- Unit Triage
Owner & Exit
Get the owner out of the day-to-day and the business ready to stand alone.
- Sellable
- Take Back the Calendar
- Succession
How we work, in brief.
See how we work →01 · Diagnose
A 20-minute call, then a longer conversation if it looks like a fit. We are trying to work out whether your problem is the kind we are good at. Sometimes it isn't, and we say so.
02 · Scope
One page. The mandate, what success looks like as a number, who is doing it, how long, what it costs, and when we leave. Fixed fee, agreed in writing before we start.
03 · Run
We are in the business, not adjacent to it. Weekly scoreboard, monthly written update to you and anyone else who needs it — your board, your sponsor, your lender. No surprises in month three.
04 · Hand over
Every engagement has a leaving date in the scope. We write it before we start, because a firm that can't say when it's leaving isn't planning to. You get the artifacts, your people get the training, and we check in at 90 days to see whether it held.
Companies we've backed, advised and operated.
Tell us what's actually going on.
Twenty minutes, no deck. If it's not a problem we're good at, we'll say so and point you somewhere better.