⸻ THE WORK
Four ways to work together — calibrated to where you are.
Every engagement is built around one question: can the company run for 30 days without you? The work to close that gap takes one of four shapes.
All engagements are flat-fee and all-inclusive — travel, preparation, deliverables, and follow-up. No hourly billing. No success fees. Pricing is calibrated to scope and shared directly in conversation.
01 · THE WEDGE
Working Visit
90 minutes on-site · Complimentary · One-page Snapshot
02 · THE DIAGNOSTIC
Rawhide Readiness
Audit
3 weeks · Flat fee · Written value-creation plan
03 · THE ANCHOR
Operator’s Partner Engagement
Monthly flat fee · 12-month minimum · Defined exit
04 · THE SPECIFICS
Targeted Projects
Flat fee · 3–6 months · Five named projects
Most engagements start with a Working Visit. Where they go next depends on what the company needs
⸻ 90 MINUTES ON-SITE · COMPLIMENTARY
Working Visit
A structured 90-minute working visit at your facility. No deck. We walk the company, sit with the financials, and have the conversation owners rarely get to have with someone who has actually run a company themselves. You leave with a one-page Transition Readiness Snapshot — your starting score across the six dimensions of the Rawhide Readiness Audit that measure what the business is worth when it's time to step out.
What’s Included
A 90-minute on-site working session with the owner — no presentation, no pitch
A one-page Transition Readiness Snapshot scoring the company across six dimensions
A direct read on where the largest gap is — and whether it's worth doing the deeper Rawhide Readiness Audit
Most engagements begin here. It's the cleanest way to know whether the fit is right — for both of us — before either side commits to anything bigger.
90 Minutes
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On-Site
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Snapshot Delivered
⸻ THREE WEEKS · FLAT FEE
Rawhide Readiness Audit
The Audit is the full operational and leadership assessment across the six dimensions — owner concentration, senior team independence, decision architecture, customer durability, talent depth, strategic optionality. Three weeks. Stakeholder interviews, a financial deep-dive with the CFO, and a written value-creation plan with a prioritized 6–12 month roadmap.
What’s Included
Kickoff call, then 2–3 days on-site for stakeholder interviews and walkthroughs
Financial and reporting deep-dive with the CFO
Written Value-Creation Plan scoring the company across six dimensions and prioritizing the work for the next 6-12 months
In-person working presentation session walking through the findings with you and your senior team
30 days of follow-up access for clarification and refinement
The Audit is the diagnostic. Most often the front door to either an Operator’s Partner engagement or one of the Targeted Projects.
Three Weeks
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Six Dimensions
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Written VCP
⸻ SUSTAINED ANCHOR · 12-MONTH MINIMUM
Operator’s Partner Engagement
Five or six days a month in your building, working alongside the owner and senior team to close the gap between owner-dependent and buyer-ready. Quarterly milestone reviews against the six Audit dimensions. Twelve-month minimum. Typical engagements run 18 to 24 months. A defined exit when the work is done.
What’s Included
Five or six days per month of structured on-site presence
Direct work with the senior team — sessions, 1:1 development, financial work with the CFO
Direct work alongside the owner — strategic decisions, succession, escalation pattern coaching
Quarterly milestone reviews scored against the six Audit dimensions
Direct phone and email access between sessions
What It Builds
→ Decision architecture and reporting that hold up to outside scrutiny
→ A senior team that runs the company 90% of the time without you in the room
→ A company with the optionality to be valued by multiple buyer types — strategic, PE, family office, ESOP, internal succession (for when the moment comes)
→ An owner who can step out of daily operations on the timeline of their own choosing
A defined exit when the composite score reaches 80+ and the senior team operates independently. The point is to leave, not to embed.
5-6 Days a Month
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In-Person
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Defined Exit
⸻ FIXED-SCOPE · 3–6 MONTHS
Targeted Projects
Fixed-scope projects for the cases where an Audit reveals one acute gap — a missing senior leader, reporting that won't hold up, customer concentration that scares a buyer, a successor who needs to be onboarded, or a transaction on the horizon. Flat fee. Defined deliverable. Defined end date.
Senior Team Build
Recruit, onboard, and integrate one or two missing senior leaders.
Customer Diversification
A 6-month commercial diversification roadmap with named target accounts and pricing audit.
Reporting Maturity
Recruit, onboard, and integrate one or two missing senior leaders.
Successor Onboarding
A 12-week structured onboarding for an internal or external CEO successor.
Pre-LOI Readiness Sprint
A 12-week intensive when a transaction is on the horizon — Quality of Earnings prep, data room, working capital normalization, deal-killer mitigation.
Most Targeted Projects come out of an Audit. Occasionally they stand alone — when the owner already knows the gap and just needs the right hands on it.
Flat Fee
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3–6 Months
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Five Named Projects
⸻ HOW EVERY ENGAGEMENT WORKS
How every engagement works.
Flat-fee, all-inclusive.
Travel, preparation, deliverables, and follow-up are all included. No hourly billing. No success fees. No surprises. Pricing is calibrated to scope and shared directly in conversation.
A handful of clients at a time.
Five to six days a month on-site means three to four anchor engagements at a time. Just the math of doing the work the way it needs to be done.
In-person by default.
I fly myself to your location. Half the read happens on the floor and in one-on-one conversations with your senior team. Remote, you get a worse product.
Engagements end when the work is done.
Operator’s Partner Engagements have a defined exit. Projects have a defined deliverable and end date. The point is to leave a company that doesn't need me — or you in every room.
Frequently Asked Questions
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All engagements are flat-fee and all-inclusive — travel, preparation, deliverables, and ongoing support are included. No hourly billing, no scope creep, no surprise invoices.
Pricing is calibrated to the specific scope of your engagement and is shared directly in conversation.
Reach out, and we'll talk through what makes sense for your situation.
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Four tiers: a complimentary 90-minute Working Visit that produces a one-page Snapshot, a three-week Rawhide Readiness Audit with a written value-creation plan, a sustained Operator’s Partner Engagement (12-month minimum), and Targeted Projects on a single dimension (3–6 months each).
The Working Visit is usually the right place to start.
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The Working Visit is 90 minutes. The Rawhide Readiness Audit is three weeks. Targeted Projects are three to six months. Operator’s Partner engagements are 12 months minimum, typically 18 to 24 months — long enough to make structural change stick. Defined exit when the composite Audit score reaches 80+ and the senior team is operating independently.
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Less than you'd guess. The five or six days a month in an Operator’s Partner engagement is my time on your floor — most of it spent with your senior team, your CFO, and the people running the day-to-day. From the owner, I usually need a 90-minute working session each month, a longer quarterly milestone review, and occasional ad-hoc conversations on the decisions only you can make. For the Audit, plan on three 60–90 minute interview sessions across three weeks plus a working presentation at the end. The whole point of this work is to compound your time back — not consume more of it.
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Two things, both measurable. The senior team is running the company without escalation — owning 90% of operational decisions and holding under that load. And the composite Readiness Score crosses 80 across the six dimensions, the threshold where a serious buyer's diligence team finds what they expect to find. When both are true, the engagement ends.
The structural work that closes the gap between owner-dependent and buyer-ready is typically worth a turn or two of EBITDA at transition — but the value at exit is the byproduct, not the promise.
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No. All engagements are fixed-fee. I've made a deliberate choice to keep the work clean — implementation lives with you, my fees don't depend on outcomes I don't control, and we both keep our incentives transparent.
The exception is rare: occasionally an owner asks me to consider an investment alongside the work. Those conversations happen separately from the advisory engagement and through Rawhide Capital, not through Rawhide Executive Solutions.
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With a Working Visit. Ninety minutes on-site at your facility — no fee, no deck, no pitch. We walk the company, sit with the financials, and you leave with a one-page Transition Readiness Snapshot that scores your starting position across the six dimensions.
From there, if the fit is right, the next step is usually the Rawhide Readiness Audit.
If it isn't, you have the most honest read on your company you'll get this year — and it's yours either way.