Buy
Buy the right business, and make it work.
Buying a business is often harder than selling one. We help you find the right target, pressure-test it before you commit and run the integration after close, so the value you paid for actually shows up.
How we work on the buy side.
From the first target to the first hundred days, you get an operator in the room, not just an advisor on the phone.
01 FIND
Find the right target
We help you sharpen the acquisition thesis and screen for businesses that fit it, working with sourcing partners so you are looking at the right companies, not just the ones already for sale.
02 EVALUATE
Know exactly what you are buying
Commercial and operational due diligence, run by people who have actually operated businesses. We find what a spreadsheet misses.
03 ACQUIRE
Negotiate from an informed position
With a clear view of the value and the risk, you negotiate from strength. We support the deal through LOI, diligence and close.
04 INTEGRATE
Make the acquisition actually work
Integration does not start at close, it starts at diligence. We plan the first hundred days and lead or support the integration, on a framework our founder built over twelve acquisitions.
Why we are different
We evaluate whether a deal can succeed, not just whether it can close.
Most advisors tell you if the numbers work and the deal can get done. We have run the businesses on the other side of that decision, so we look at the thing that actually determines the return: whether the two companies can become one, whether the value survives the handoff and whether the team you are buying will stay and perform.
That is the part that gets missed, and it is the part we know best.
Diligence
The questions we answer before you commit.
A clean set of books tells you the deal can close. It does not tell you the deal will work. We look at both.
Will the revenue survive the handoff?
Customer concentration, relationships tied to the seller, pricing power and how durable the pipeline really is.
What breaks when the owner leaves?
Who actually makes the decisions, how deep the bench is and what walks out the door with them.
Can you trust the numbers?
The quality of the reporting, the data behind it, spreadsheet dependence and the real working-capital need.
Can the two companies become one?
Operating models, systems, culture and whether the team stays. This is where the value quietly leaks.
Is the AI real, or a good story?
Most buyers take it on faith. We build production AI ourselves, so we can tell a durable advantage from a demo dressed up as a moat.
Integration starts at diligence
We run the integration.
Integration is where acquisitions lose the value that justified them. It does not start at close, it starts at diligence. We run it on a framework our founder built over twelve acquisitions.
Before close
Plan the deal you will actually run
Define the integration thesis, the real risks, the leadership model and the non-negotiable day-one decisions, while you still have leverage.
Day one
Land it without losing people
Align the team on what changes, who owns each result and how customers and employees hear the story, so nobody fills the silence with the worst version.
First 100 days
Make the thesis real
Run the cadence, integrate the systems and track whether the value you paid for is actually showing up in the numbers.
Proof
We have run the buy-and-build ourselves.
Onspire Health Marketing started as a single planning session. A private-equity-backed healthcare marketing group, in the middle of a roll-up, brought Jeff in to facilitate one strategic planning meeting. That session became standardizing their sales onto one CRM, which became running the integration of the acquired businesses, which became the COO seat. Over the next two years Jeff led five acquisitions, rebranded the group as Onspire, moved the departing founders out without losing a step and rebuilt five companies into one: centralized leadership, shared services and an offshore team grown from a couple of people to nearly twenty. He also led the company’s transition to AI, both as a force multiplier in how the work gets delivered and inside the product itself, where AI now drives the review responses, SMS and chat that convert inquiries into patients. This is the framework we bring to your deal, built from the seat and not the sidelines.
Start here
Thinking about an acquisition?
Let us talk through the target and where the risk really is.
Buy-side engagements are a project fee or a monthly retainer, scoped to the deal.