Does the company create cash returns above the return required for its risk?
Exceptional judgement travels quietly.
Make the business worth owning, whether you decide to sell, seek investment or pass it on.
STRATIGeX takes responsibility for the operating work that strengthens cash, management control, return on capital and buyer confidence. Working alongside the owner and their advisers, while there is still time to change the outcome.
London New York Toronto Discreetly serving Europe and North America.
The unassigned responsibility
Excellent advisers. A shared objective. Someone accountable for the operating work.
Your accountant and CFO need earnings supported by cash and reliable information. Your transaction adviser needs a company whose value stands up in diligence. STRATIGeX works alongside them to deliver the operating changes that make both possible, with clear responsibility for the work between disciplines.
What buyers actually test
A buyer pays for the future it believes it can own.
History earns attention. Evidence determines whether the forecast, the management team and the business model deserve belief.
Why do customers buy, stay and pay, and can that persist?
Can management make and execute the decisions that produce the result?
Can every material claim survive buyer, investor and board scrutiny?
Can another owner preserve, control and compound the engine, and can a defined buyer exploit a transferable asset?
See what your filed accounts say about you - before a buyer does.
Two situations One standard
The mandate changes with the company.
Each mandate has a defined scope, accountable delivery and evidence of what changed.
Founder or family owner · £5m to £15m turnover
Preparing for exit within two to five years
You have built a valuable company. Earnings quality, management independence or buyer evidence may still prevent that value surviving scrutiny.
What you buy
SGX Mandate - owner. Operating work for an owner-led business, delivered in six-week cycles with one agreed priority, a named output and a decision on whether to continue.
Defined board mandates · £15m to £50m turnover
Facing a defined ownership or capital decision
The company has systems and management. The board needs an independent answer on a specific value risk before the event controls the timetable.
What you buy
SGX Mandate - board. A defined mandate on growth quality, value at risk, buyer relevance or transaction evidence, with agreed outputs and six-week decision gates.
Start with the evidence
From first read to continuing work
- SGX Signal is the free read of filed accounts.
- SGX Signal Review is a decision review that stands alone.
- SGX READINESS™ is a six-week cycle: one agreed priority, a named output, evidence of what changed and a decision on whether to continue.
- SGX Mandate takes the work further through the owner or board route.
The work
Change the business before anyone has a reason to make it look good.
The STRATIGeX team works inside the business alongside management, from diagnosis through to evidence a buyer can verify.
Diagnose
Find where value is created, lost or dependent.
Prioritise
Direct time and capital toward the issues that move the outcome.
Change
Give management clear ownership of the operating work.
Evidence
Build history a buyer or investor can verify.
Test
Challenge the company through the eyes of the right buyer.
The practitioner
A Raoul Nembhard
Operator. Adviser. Principal investor.
Raoul works inside founder led businesses to rebuild the operating system, establish management responsibility and leave the company able to run without its founder.
At Advantage Interlock, he rebuilt the management, operations and sales systems. Revenue more than tripled, from USD 3m to USD 10m. When the company was sold, its buyer retained him to drive their top line as well. Today, it is the largest independent ignition interlock distributor in the US.
“With his assistance my company grew from a small Southern California company to the largest independent Ignition Interlock Distributor Company in the US.”Chick Richardson
Founder, Advantage Interlock
His own capital has also been at risk in acquisitions across logistics, hospitality and commercial property.
He leads the STRATIGeX team, which carries out the operating work with management.
Selected engagements
The operating work, in context.
Three engagements. Different constraints. Accounts of what changed and what followed.
The full case studies are available on request. Client names and identifying details remain confidential.
01 / US ignition-interlock distributor
A strong product. A sales system that could not keep up.
Sales were sluggish despite a strong market position. The work connected sales, installation capacity and management responsibility. The full case follows what changed, the reported revenue growth and the later decision by the buyer to retain Raoul.
02 / Canadian construction contractor
Busy contracts. Little left at the end.
Contract delays and idle time were eroding profit. The work changed the pipeline, project planning and access to specialist capacity. The full case sets out the operating changes and the reported net-profit result.
03 / Canadian business-interiors distributor
A distributor that could not fund its next order.
The gap between order, delivery and payment had become a survival problem. Supplier finance and an investor search led to a recommendation to combine with a better-capitalised competitor. The full case explains why that route was chosen.
These accounts draw on A Raoul Nembhard's direct record. Reported results are distinguished from independent corroboration in the full case studies.
The STRATIGeX philosophy
What the market will not forgive.
- 01A valuation is not an offer.
- 02Growth must earn more than the capital it consumes.
- 03Profit that does not become cash will be questioned.
- 04An indispensable founder remains a transfer risk.
- 05Diligence exposes unsupported stories.
- 06The market does not reimburse sacrifice.
A confidential first conversation
Find out what could still change before the buyer decides for you.
The first conversation establishes the intended event, timing and principal concern. Owners and their existing advisers are welcome together. It does not end with an automatic proposal. You will speak with the STRATIGeX team, in confidence.
Further reading and preparation
Examine the questions before the conversation.
What Buyers Actually Buy The READINESS™ study
The READINESS™ study
What Buyers Actually Buy
Why transaction value depends on economic performance, transfer confidence and the buyer's purpose.
Read the ten questions every owner should answer before a buyer asks them.
Would the business survive without your explanation? The owner self-assessment
The owner self-assessment
Would the business survive without your explanation?
Ten questions. A directional view of the evidence a sceptical buyer would test.
How do I increase the value of my business before selling?
Reduce founder dependency, strengthen cash conversion and recurring economics, build management independence and create evidence that can survive buyer scrutiny.
When should exit readiness work begin?
Before transaction urgency exists. Operating history, management independence and transferable relationships take time to build and cannot be manufactured during diligence.
What does STRATIGeX do?
STRATIGeX works upstream of a transaction to build a more valuable, transferable business. SGX Signal Review supports a decision; SGX READINESS™ delivers a six-week cycle; SGX Mandate continues the operating work through an owner or board route.
Partners and associates
Bring the work you are known for.
For practitioners interested in working with STRATIGeX. Introduce your discipline, the work you have delivered and where your judgement makes a difference.
The STRATIGeX team works with a small network of associates and partners where the mandate needs specialist depth.
Where STRATIGeX works
London. New York. Toronto.
Business value growth and exit readiness for owners and boards preparing for sale, succession or strategic investment.