The deal is the easy part. Running a lower-middle-market business after the owner leaves is the hard part, and it's where most buyers get hurt. We help you check it out, get it financed, and actually run it after the close.
We've sat on both sides of the table. We help you find what the seller's numbers are hiding before you wire the money, then we stay in the work as the CFO and Operating Partner who run it after close. One team, first look through long-term ownership.
Target screening, thesis, and first look, so you spend time on the deals worth pursuing.
Ryan has run 100+ buyer-side reviews. We deliver operator-grade Quality of Earnings on sub-$2M EBITDA targets, the deals big firms decline, plus financial modeling and deal structuring. We find what's hiding before you commit.
We structure and package the deal, including SBA and conventional paths, and work with lenders who back good operators with a good story. (Warm partner: Merchants Bank of Indiana.)
From Day 1, the CFO Partner and Operating Partner embed: stabilize the team and cash, install reporting and rhythm, and build the first-year plan.
Rolling up a fragmented market? We give you a repeatable diligence playbook, a model that holds across the combined entity, and the operating muscle to integrate each deal instead of drowning in them.
You bought the platform. Someone has to run it. We embed as the operating and finance horsepower your lower-middle-market portfolio business can't hire on its own. Sponsor-aligned, board-grade, hands-on.
100+ Quality of Earnings reviews, from the buyer's side.