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We preserve what has made your firm exceptional.

And we provide the resources and support to help it scale.

We support your team through meaningful growth.

Strategic thought partner
Strategic perspective, financial discipline and experience scaling businesses to help management teams shape the next stage of growth.
Long-term orientation
We preserve the culture and core elements that define the firm's success, and partner to build lasting value well beyond our ownership.
Aligned incentives
We invest alongside owners and management and align incentives across the organization — equity and incentive structures that reach deeper into the business, so the people who build the value share in it.

We back high-quality businesses and seek to amplify human expertise.

What we look for

Businesses where expertise compounds.

  • B2B businesses where skilled professionals deliver high-value work
  • Durable differentiation and critical client relationships
  • Predictable revenue with multiple avenues for growth
  • Fragmented end markets with a credible M&A runway
  • Businesses where technology and AI compound an existing advantage
How we invest

Patient partners.

  • Control positions and structured minority investments
  • Meaningful retained ownership by founders, partners and management
  • Prudent leverage
  • A roughly five-year-plus partnership, with reinvestment optionality at exit
  • $50–250M of equity per platform; $10–30M of EBITDA
What we bring

Resources, not just capital.

  • Dedicated operating, technology and AI resources
  • Process engineering and automation programs run across the portfolio
  • An in-house M&A and capital markets team, from origination through integration
  • Executive search, board construction and organizational design
  • Equity and incentive structures that reach deeper into the organization

We work alongside management to drive scale and improve economics.

Organization

Build the team the next stage needs.

Executive search, board construction, organizational design, and equity and incentive structures that reach deeper into the organization.

Go-to-market

Sell what the firm already does well, to more clients.

Commercial strategy, coverage and compensation models, pricing, and account growth inside the client base the firm has earned.

Technology & service delivery

Change how the work gets delivered.

Workflow mapping, process engineering and automation with experts reviewing instead of processing, so capacity grows ahead of headcount.

Astira AI Cortex
Strategic M&A

Become the acquirer of choice.

In-house origination, diligence, financing and integration, building an acquisition capability the company keeps.

Discrete pieces of work, and what changed.

Numera
Technology · Service delivery

Bookkeeping and financial close automation

Context

Numera delivers outsourced accounting, tax and CFO advisory to more than 4,000 business clients with over 500 professionals. The work is accuracy-critical and was delivered by hand, so expert time went to data entry and repeatable month-end close tasks instead of the advice clients value.

What we did together

Working with management, we shaped Numera's AI strategy, identifying automation opportunities, optimizing pricing and defining where expert review stays in the loop on accuracy-critical work. We then built the organization to deliver it and funded the roadmap. We added an independent director, embedded a dedicated AI advisor and stood up an in-house AI and engineering team led by a CTO. To support the technical buildout, we established a cross-functional leadership council connecting the technical team to the firm's operating leaders across bookkeeping, tax, advisory and CFO services. Together, the team built a bookkeeping engine to automatically execute bookkeeping entries and month-end close tasks while accountants review the output instead of producing it. Every correction an accountant makes is captured in a proprietary record of decisions, so the system improves with every client and every close. The twelve-month roadmap extends the model from bookkeeping to close automation, client onboarding and quality assurance on client deliverables.

What changed

Human override has been reduced to just 16% of transactions, shifting accountant time from posting transactions to review and advisory. BookWise.AI is live, and the roadmap is approved and in execution.

How we apply AI for impact.

The business process is the center of everything

Business processes come first, and AI serves them. We start from workflows and the P&L, not models. Our focus is reimagining the process.

Proof of concept in the first 90 days

Workflow mapping, an approved roadmap and initial builds, tailored to each of our platforms.

We amplify people and never replace judgment

AI strengthens the work of auditors, collectors and accountants. Expert judgment remains central to complex cases.

Change management is most critical for AI adoption

We focus on successful change management from the inception of every AI initiative.

Strong foundations for applied AI

Solution design, data architecture and reliable models (predictive & deterministic) provide the foundation for automation using language models and AI agents.

We build for use in production

AI tools become part of daily operations, with performance reviewed weekly and reported to the board.

Let's talk about the firm you've built.

A first conversation is about your business, not our process. Tell us what makes the firm exceptional and where the next stage is hard.