Turnaround advisory for technology operators

Fluent in EBITDA. Fluent in DevOps.

Human Renaissance embeds operator-led financial, commercial, and technical execution inside technology middle-market companies when the thesis needs measurable rescue.

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$500M+ value delivered to Fortune 500 divisions

$500M+: value delivered to Fortune 500 divisions
22%: EBITDA margins maintained through growth
68%: win rate vs. 29% industry average
92%: forecast accuracy from guessing
95%: customer retention post-merger
100%: staff retention 9 months post-close

WHERE WE ENTER

The operating gap between the model and the system.

Operator-led teams move into the gap fast and stay until the model and the system agree again.

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4x annual revenue growth: COMMERCIAL TURNAROUND

Commercial Turnaround

Engineered sales motion, forecast discipline, and GTM operating cadence for teams where founder heroics stopped scaling.

$3M stalled project unblocked in 30 days: TECHNICAL RESCUE

Technical Rescue

Governance reset, delivery sequencing, and stakeholder alignment when the code and the board deck no longer agree.

95% customer retention: POST-CLOSE INTEGRATION

Post-Close Integration

Integration management tied to retained value, not status meetings: customers, staff, systems, and synergy evidence.

The shelf operators reach for first.

OPERATOR

Justin Leader

Founder. Built, ran, and exited a 22%-EBITDA technology services firm before opening Human Renaissance.

Operator desk with notebook, terminal, and pen.

ENGAGEMENT MODEL

How we sit inside the operating system

Diagnostic in 14 days, plan in 21, implementation through day 90, then we hand it back.

Team working through a turnaround on a workshop floor.

FIELD NOTES

Operating intelligence from inside the deal

800+ short briefs from operators in the workshop. Updated weekly.

CAPABILITY MODEL

Four operating paths. Eight service lines.

Each pillar collects the services that solve a single value-creation problem. The mandate follows the constraint, not the menu.

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TRANSACTION SERVICES

Diligence the operating system before the term sheet.

Operator-led buy-side and sell-side diligence: ARR quality, technical debt, integration risk, and IP defensibility in one decision system.

TAS · VAL · TES · IB Service codes

COMMERCIAL PERFORMANCE

Reverse the win-rate trend in the first quarter.

Forecast accuracy, GTM motion, pricing architecture, and unit economics — installed by an operator who has run the dashboard.

PI · OCFO Service codes

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

Make the founder optional without making the company smaller.

Decision-rights audit, interim leadership backstop, scaling architecture for the founder-extraction year.

PI · IM · OCFO Service codes

TURNAROUND & RESTRUCTURING

When advice is not enough. When the operator is.

Crisis interim leadership, runway extension, stakeholder reset, and the 90-day operating scorecard that reverses red status.

TRS · PI · IM Service codes

REFERENCE ENVIRONMENTS

The operating system has been tested at scale.

GLOBAL MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT: $90B+ revenue · 28,000-user enterprise migration with zero downtime
GLOBAL ELECTRONICS OEM: $200B+ revenue · regulated-technology integration program
ENTERPRISE HARDWARE VENDOR: $90B+ revenue · post-merger systems consolidation
DoD AGENCY: Mission-critical infrastructure · classified security frameworks
ENTERPRISE CYBERSECURITY: $7B+ revenue · $3M stalled initiative unblocked in 30 days
ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE: $30B+ revenue · complex carve-out and integration execution
GLOBAL FILM & TV STUDIO: Major-studio scale · post-merger retention work
GLOBAL ASSET MANAGER: Top-tier financial services scale · technical platform rescue

Specific engagements anonymized. Metrics verified against the operator's portfolio history. Reference environments, not active engagements.

When the model and the system stop agreeing, advice is not enough. The operator is.

Justin Leader Founder Human Renaissance