ACQUISITIONS

We don't only fix businesses.

Sometimes the right move isn't a project - it's a partner, or a buyer. We acquire and operate owner-run businesses, and we'd rather hear from you early than never.

Start a confidential conversation

Plenty of good businesses have no succession plan and no buyer who understands them. We're the buyer who already knows the work.

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

01

Owner-operated and real

Profitable businesses with actual customers and a founder who has been carrying it personally. Not turnarounds, not distress - good operations that have outgrown the way they're run.

02

Where systems never arrived

If the business still runs on spreadsheets, memory, and one person's phone, that isn't a problem to us - it's the entire reason we're a better owner than the next buyer.

03

Close to home

Victoria, Vancouver Island, and the Lower Mainland first - we want to be able to stand in the place. Software and services businesses we'll look at from anywhere.

THREE WAYS THIS CAN GO

BUY

We buy it outright

You want out, cleanly. We take it over, keep the staff and the name, and you hand off on a timeline that suits you rather than the deal.

PARTNER

We buy in alongside you

You take some money off the table now and keep a share of what the business becomes once it has the systems it never had.

OPERATE

We run it, you own it

You're not ready to sell - you're ready to stop working in it. We step in as operating partner and you keep the business you built.

HOW A CONVERSATION ACTUALLY GOES

01

A call, not a process

Thirty minutes, no broker, no NDA to start. You tell us what you've built and what you actually want out of it.

02

A look at the numbers

Two or three years of financials under NDA. If it isn't a fit we tell you inside a week, and we tell you why.

03

Something in writing

A structure and a number you can take to your accountant - including how you exit, how staff are handled, and what happens to the name.

04

We take it from there

Close, then operate. The same systems work we do for clients, done on our own dime - because now it's our business too.

What you can expect from us either way.

Nothing you tell us goes anywhere. No listing, no broker network, no name floated around town - selling a business is personal, and a leaked conversation costs you staff and customers before it ever costs you a deal.

And if we're not the right buyer, we'll say so quickly and tell you what we'd want to see. Plenty of these conversations end as a working relationship instead of a sale, and that's a good outcome too.

CONFIDENTIAL - GOES STRAIGHT TO AIDAN

Tell us what you've built.

You don't need financials ready, or a decision made. A sentence about the business and what you're weighing is enough to start.

Whatever you send stays between us.
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