Beyond the operating system

Build the blueprint. Set your team up to run it.

Cadence Growth installs the strategy, investor-grade finance, and operating rhythm that build enterprise value and let a business run on its team.

The structure becomes a rhythm your team lives: annual and quarterly planning, monthly learning, weekly solving, daily syncing. The plan stays alive in the work, instead of sitting in a binder in a drawer. That is what an investor underwrites.

For OwnersGrow the company past your own ceiling.Start here ›
For Capital PartnersDe-risk the hold.Start here ›
What growth is for

Growing, or just getting busier?

Revenue can climb while the business gets stuck. Value is a choice: to build something that lasts and gets stronger, instead of just getting bigger.

Why two companies with the same earnings are worth different amounts

Same earnings. Very different value.

The business that can't run without you is the one that sells at a discount, or doesn't sell at all.

Most of your wealth is locked in this one asset. This is the work that protects it and grows it.

The market sets the range

The valuation multiple

Cycle, sector, comparables, and the mood of the room set the range. Run well, you earn the premium end of it.

You build this

What earns the valuation

Durable earnings, and the intangibles that carry the rest: brand, customers, unique abilities, a team that runs it without you. Your financials never show them, and they are what lifts the multiple.

In practice

What the work has been worth.

Nearly 2×
the industry-average valuation, realized when Kinco exited to a capital partner after years of quarterly cadence and open economics.
About 3×
Membrion's next round over its Series B pre-money, after the operating work was written into the term sheet.
$500K–$1M
saved a year at UD+P, once forecasting moved from six-week fire drills to eight or nine months of line of sight.
Where it gets real

It starts with ValueX.

The work has two sides. ValueX is yours alone. Design12 and Build90 belong to your leadership team, and they start from what you bring to them.

Your side · step one, every time

ValueX

45 days or less, fixed fee
Know where value sits, and what it takes to grow it.

You see where value concentrates and where it leaks, what sits with you personally, and what to do first. Then you decide what your team needs to hear.

Owners take it before a buyer does. Sponsors take it to baseline the thesis against the plan.

What you choose to bring to your team.
Your team's side · once ValueX says what to build

Design12

three workshops, 90 days of support
A plan the team owns.

You open the first workshop with the starting point your team inherits. From there, the team turns value creation into a three-year plan they own.

See Design12 ›
Extends
when
needed

Build90

90-day cycles, extended as needed
A customized growth operating system.

When the situation calls for it, Build90 extends the work in ninety-day cycles across three phases of value creation.

See Build90 ›

If you want a smaller first move, the free diagnostic is open to anyone. It does not replace ValueX.

Where you sit

Start with the side that's yours.

For Owners

Grow the company past your own ceiling.

The team executes without you. The economics are open. The business is ready to stand on its own.

"Somebody is going to look at this company hard. I don't know what they'll find."
"The company works. It only works when I'm in it."
"I own the plan, not the company. I still have to deliver both."
For owners ›
For Capital Partners

De-risk the hold.

The value-creation plan becomes work the portfolio team owns and runs. The capability stays put, priced into the exit and provable to your LPs.

"Fund II gets raised on what Fund I can prove."
"There's no exit clock. There's also no forcing function."
For capital partners ›
In their words

What owners say about the work.

“We went from six-week fire drills to forecasting eight or nine months out. That easily saved us $500,000 to $1 million a year.”
Eric CressCo-founder, UD+P
“We built, for the first time, a foundation for the company.”
Greg NewbloomCEO, Membrion
“You can't have a $50 million business and not have some structure. It's a necessity.”
Andrew JanisonCEO, TransWest
Companies we've worked with
Kinco TransWest Membrion Pattern UD+P Akraya Lecticon Red Rock Resurfacing Oasis Physical Therapy Real Property Management Bob's Services C&E Trenching

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