How we work

Value in 100 days.

Every engagement is led by an experienced Operating Partner, staffed by a pod built for the problem, priced against the value it creates, and measured in enterprise value.

The first hundred days.

  1. See the value

    Days 1 to 15

    We read how the enterprise actually works end to end: where value is created, where it leaks, and which decisions sit in the wrong place. You leave with a value thesis written in enterprise-value terms and the two or three moves that matter most.

  2. Decide and design

    Days 15 to 45

    The leadership team commits to the moves. We design the operating model, the decision rights and the intelligence agenda needed to land them, with owners and measures in place before anyone is asked to change.

  3. Deliver first value

    Days 45 to 100

    The first moves go into production, so the value shows up in the numbers inside the first hundred days. Your people run what we build, with us beside them.

  4. Compound

    Beyond day 100

    We stay on as Operating Partners through the build and into the operating year, scaling what worked. The measure is what is still running, and still adding value, three years on.

How we hold ourselves

Six things that are true of every engagement.

Everything ties to enterprise value

Every move is traced to the value it creates: revenue, margin, cash, risk or the multiple the market will pay. Work that cannot be traced to value waits.

Led by experienced Operating Partners

We bring some of the most experienced Operating Partners in the market: people who have built and run enterprises. They lead from strategy all the way to value realization, and they do the work themselves.

Pods, sized to the value

Each engagement gets a pod assembled for its problem: the Operating Partner plus the specialists the value calls for, from data and AI to finance, operations and sustainability. Pods form fast and change shape as the work moves, which keeps us nimble.

Value-based deal structures

We prefer to be paid the way you are measured. Fees can be tied to milestones and to the value delivered, with a share of the upside, so our interests and yours point the same way.

The truth, including the expensive kind

You are paying for judgement. If the right answer is to stop, you will hear it early, in private, with a stronger alternative attached.

Capital, where it helps

Through VAPAA Capital, we can back what we help build, investing where we can make a company more valuable, more intelligent and more resilient.

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