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About the firm

We wrote the playbook in the trenches.

Founded after a 22-year operator run — building, scaling, and selling technology services firms.

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Plate /18 — the long view

22% EBITDA held through growth
$500M+ Delivered to Fortune 500
95% Customer retention post-merger

01 · The operator's story

Every engagement, inside the system.

The thesis always depended on a system the team had not yet built. The work was inside it, never above it.

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2003 The firm

Built from a laptop.

A technology services firm, bootstrapped into an award-winning practice — the operator inside every quarter.

22 years The operator run
Meet the operator
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2019 The exit

Sold with the system intact.

Diligence-survived ARR, defensible IP — the operating system the buyer underwrote is the one they received.

22% EBITDA held through growth
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2026 The practice

The playbook, out of the notebook.

Human Renaissance embeds where financial, commercial, and technical constraints must be solved together.

14 days To the first diagnostic
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Not a deck. Not a steering committee. The room, the scoreboard, the weekly meeting — the decision, signed.
Justin Leader · Founder & CEO

02 · How an engagement runs

Four phases, then usefully gone.

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01 · Days 1–14

Diagnostic Assessment

A senior operator sits inside the cadence and isolates the constraint.

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02 · Days 15–21

Operating Plan

The fix, sequenced into a plan the board signs.

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03 · Days 22–90

Implementation

One weekly scorecard, owners named, the system rebuilt in place.

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04 · Days 91–120

Value Capture

The cadence holds without us. Usefully gone.

03 · Reference environments

Tested where the stakes were real.

Environment Engagement, by industry and scale
GLOBAL MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT 28,000-user enterprise migration with zero downtime
GLOBAL ELECTRONICS OEM regulated-technology integration program
ENTERPRISE HARDWARE VENDOR post-merger systems consolidation
DoD AGENCY classified security frameworks
ENTERPRISE CYBERSECURITY $3M stalled initiative unblocked in 30 days
ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE complex carve-out and integration execution
GLOBAL FILM & TV STUDIO post-merger retention work
GLOBAL ASSET MANAGER technical platform rescue

Prior environments described by industry and scale. References available under NDA.

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Plate /39 — the registry Two decades of engagements, kept like a library.
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