PE operating partner / diligence
Find the operational risk before the LOI hardens.
The operational risk a financial model cannot see is the risk that torpedoes the LOI or resets the valuation after close. By the time it surfaces in the first quarter of ownership, you have already paid for it.
What is at stake
The cost of waiting is not measured in weeks.
Manufacturing diligence on a 21-day clock rewards an operator who can read a floor, not just a data room. The gap between the model and the shop is where value leaks after the deal closes.
A polite assessment confirms what the seller told you. A forensic read tells you what the seller did not know to mention.
Diligence and strategic engagements run nationally. On-site floor work and embedded operating roles are concentrated across New England, where the defense industrial base I know best is dense.
The mechanism
How the work meets the loss.
Forensic operational due diligence that surfaces the Hidden Factory, the working-capital trap, and the compliance gaps
A defensible read of whether the target can actually deliver its backlog at the margin in the model
A 90-day post-close stabilization plan ready before you sign, so integration starts on day one
Compliance exposure scored under CMMC, ITAR, and AS9100 so it never becomes a post-close surprise
Who it is for
PE operating partners and deal teams running manufacturing diligence on a tight clock, who need an operator's read before the number is final.
Start here
Put the constraint in front of an operator.
Name your trigger when you request the conversation, a prime supplier letter, a CMMC window, an LOI in diligence, and I respond within 48 hours with a realistic timing window.