Detroit
Finance that speaks
shop floor.
Southeast Michigan runs on family-owned manufacturers and supply-chain businesses where the owner still knows every machine. We bring the financial discipline that makes those companies defensible, bankable, and sellable.
Why Detroit, and why now
A supplier base built by founders,
and mostly still run by them.
Southeast Michigan has one of the densest concentrations of aging, family-owned manufacturers and automotive supply-chain businesses in the country. These are operations-heavy companies with real assets, real customers, and financials that were built to file taxes rather than to run the business or survive a diligence process.
Two pressures are landing at once. The succession wave is real, with millions of American businesses expected to change hands this decade and only about half of owners carrying a plan. At the same time, customer concentration in this supplier base is unforgiving. When one customer is 40% of revenue, a resourcing decision made in a purchasing office two states away can reset your entire year.
Both problems have the same root and the same fix. You need contribution by part number, fully loaded. You need to know which programs earn their capacity and which quietly consume it. You need reporting a bank, a buyer, or a customer's cost engineer will take seriously. That is the work, and it is finance and operations together, not one or the other.
Detroit
Local presence across SE Michigan
$5M to $100M
Revenue range of the owners we serve
Tier 1 to 3
Suppliers, job shops, and industrial services
Per part
Contribution by part number, fully loaded
What we deliver
From part number to P&L.
- Fractional CFO leadership, embedded and senior, never a junior consultant
- Contribution by part, program, and customer, fully loaded
- Customer-concentration risk priced the way a buyer prices it
- Quoting discipline and price recovery on legacy programs
- 13-week cash flow forecasting through launch and tooling cycles
- Capacity, throughput, and constraint analysis tied to the P&L
- Bank, board, and sponsor reporting that survives scrutiny
- Exit readiness and ownership transition for family-owned suppliers
- Post-acquisition integration for buy-side add-ons
Free 2-minute assessment
Would your business survive a buyer's diligence?
Ten questions show where EBITDA and value are leaking, and how deal-ready your numbers really are. Your answers stay private.
Questions
Frequently asked.
Do you meet in person in Southeast Michigan?
Yes. For a shop, that matters. We walk the floor, sit in the quoting meeting, and are in the room for bank and customer conversations. The weekly cadence runs remotely so you are not paying for windshield time.
One customer is a huge share of our revenue. Can you help?
That is one of the most common reasons suppliers here call us. We price the concentration the way a buyer or a lender would, build contribution by part and program so you know what is genuinely worth defending, and put diversification on a calendar instead of leaving it to a panic after a resourcing letter.
Our books are built for the accountant, not for running the plant.
That is the normal starting point. Tax-basis books answer a filing question, not an operating one. We keep your accountant and your existing system, and add the layer that answers what a job actually earned, where capacity went, and what cash looks like thirteen weeks out.
We are a family business thinking about the next generation.
Then the work is making the business run without the person it was built around. That means a management team with real authority, documented processes, and financials someone else can operate from. It also happens to be exactly what raises the number if the family later decides to sell instead.
Do you only work with automotive suppliers?
No. Automotive and industrial supply chain is the densest part of this market, but we work across manufacturing, distribution, logistics, field services, and waste and recycling. The common thread is operations-heavy, not a specific end market.
Let's walk your floor and your numbers.
No retainer lock-ins. No junior consultants. Just senior-level work.