What it sounds like when the system holds.

“He walked our floor at 6 a.m. before he said a word about strategy. By the end of the month we had a value stream map that finally explained where the cash was going. We had been blaming the wrong department for two years.”

Owner, 40-person AS9100 electromechanical assembly shop, southern NH

“Our prime sent the CMMC letter and I froze. Garrett did not sell me software. He mapped what we actually had and built the controls into the way we already work. The auditor found them running.”

President, precision sensor and transducer supplier to a Tier 1 prime, MA

“I expected another consultant with a deck. I got an operator who had clearly signed payroll before. He spoke P&L and shop floor in the same sentence, and my engineers stopped rolling their eyes by day two.”

CEO, build-to-print contract manufacturer, $18M revenue

“The backlog was growing and the bank account was not. He found 14 days of cash conversion cycle trapped in rework we never tracked. One quarter later it was free.”

Founder, aerospace components shop, central NH

“We were standing up a US site to chase defense work and the gate was closing fast. Garrett ran the build like he had done it before, because he had. We qualified inside the window.”

VP of Operations, US subsidiary of a Canadian manufacturer

“As an operating partner I needed forensic diligence in three weeks, not a polite assessment. He surfaced the ops risk the financial model had missed entirely. It changed our number.”

Operating Partner, lower-middle-market PE firm

“He named the Hidden Factory in our shop on the first walk. I had felt it for years and never had a word for it. Putting a number on it is what got my partners to act.”

Co-owner, test-fixture and interface-adapter shop, MA 128 corridor

“Our MES, ERP, and SCADA were three islands and three audit headaches. He turned them into one digital thread. The CMMC prep stopped being a fire drill.”

Director of IT, defense electronics manufacturer, southern NH

“The report was not a binder I would shelve. It named the constraint and the order to fix it. We are still working that sequence and it still holds.”

General Manager, machined components supplier, $30M revenue