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.

Step one, every time

Know where value sits, and what it takes to grow it.

Forty-five days or less, fixed fee. Where value concentrates and where it leaks, what sits with you personally, and a prioritised list of what to do first. Owners take it before a buyer does. Sponsors take it to baseline the thesis against the plan.

See ValueX › Start a conversation

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

What follows, once ValueX says what to build
Design12

A three-year plan your team owns.

Turn value creation into a team event.

Build90

Ninety-day sprint cycles.

The plan works, and the team grows with it.

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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