Most owners sell either
too early or too late.

The deal does not just buy shares. New money goes into the business at completion: another van on the road, another engineer hired, stock on the shelf, the software paid for. Growth funded with our investors’ equity, not overdrafts.

We become your in-house M&A team. Our origination engine scrapes Companies House across your entire sector, so we know which businesses are growing and which directors are entering retirement age. We source deals off market, our investors fund them, and we integrate them. A business plus two well-chosen bolt-ons is a different proposition at the second sale.

Engineer voice notes turned into completed job sheets, quotes drafted from a site survey, an overdue-invoice chase that runs itself, out-of-hours calls answered and logged, and much more. Hours of admin gone from every week.

One pipeline you can trust: every enquiry captured, every quote chased three days later without anyone remembering to, every service renewal flagged a month before it lapses. Small businesses rarely lose work on quality; they lose it on follow-up.

From quote to job to invoice in one system, instead of a whiteboard and a WhatsApp group. And for the first time, a true cost on every job.

We install the sales machinery of a much bigger company: winning the searches in your area, a tracked cost for every lead, follow-up on every quote, and referral schemes that turn happy customers into a sales force.

Our investor base is curated deal by deal for the doors it can open: backers with serious property portfolios for a fire and security business, care home and hotel operators for an HVAC firm. Introductions become contracts.

Speed wins work. Harvard Business Review found that responding within an hour makes you seven times more likely to qualify a lead, and the first company to respond wins 78% of customers. We rebuild the path from enquiry to quote so it takes a day, not a fortnight.

Most founder-led businesses have not raised prices properly in years. We rebuild the rate card, write CPI uplifts into every contract, put minimum charges on small jobs, and hold the line when the first customer pushes back.

A decade of installations is a customer list nobody has called. We build the service plan, price it and offer it to every past customer, shifting revenue from one-off jobs to contracted maintenance, which is exactly what the next buyer pays a premium for.

The bid library written, case studies gathered, accreditation evidence filed, pricing models built. So when the next big tender lands, the answer is yes rather than “we have not got time”.

Tighter routes, first-time fixes, the right stock in the van. In a trade where engineers are scarce, one extra job per engineer per day is the cheapest capacity you will ever buy.

The same kit, cheaper: suppliers consolidated, terms renegotiated, buying-group rates on materials, consumables and insurance. Margin recovered without touching a single person’s job.

Applications for payment submitted on time, deposits taken on installs, debtor days measured and chased. Cash that funds growth instead of sitting in other people’s accounts, with profit over net working capital tracked as a hero KPI.

The hires beneath the founder that a buyer needs to see: an operations lead, a financial controller. Key people locked in with EMI share options, so the team that grows it shares in the exit.

Monthly management accounts within ten working days, margin tracked by customer, job type and contract, a KPI pack and a proper board rhythm. The discipline that sharpens decisions now, and that private equity expects to find later.

Optimising company and shareholder tax before the second sale rather than after: holding structures, Business Asset Disposal Relief, pensions and family planning done early, so you keep more of what you built.

We shape the business around what acquirers pay a premium for: contracted recurring revenue, change of control and novation clauses tidied, customer concentration reduced, clean data behind every number. When diligence starts, there is nothing to fix.

The data room built from day one, not the final month: board packs, minutes, contracts, accreditations and diligence papers filed as we go, so nothing is scrambled together when a buyer appears. Read the essay.

Two decades of relationships across UK mid-market private equity. When the time is right, we introduce buyers ready to pre-empt a process.