Growth Services.

How We Work

Our strategic growth consultants focus on these five core growth pillars: Strategy, Talent, Product, Revenue and Operations. In each of these areas, we execute a proven methodology for exit readiness. It’s built on three key steps.

We dive deep into the health and wellness of your company with a thorough diagnostic to discover where value creation opportunities exist, focusing on signals such as:
Value Creation Assessment (VCA)

This is a deep-dive diagnosis of how to make a company worth maximum value, focusing on each growth pillar. Our experts provide current state and future potential data insights and deliver a targeted value creation roadmap geared for aggressive and efficient progression toward value optimization.

Growth Strategy

The VCA enables us to architect a roadmap for all five growth pillars. This includes the creation of a short-term operational plan and a long-term strategic plan. These roadmaps detail activities, roles, timelines, and milestones to drive value; identify potential exit targets; amplify the strength of your business and team.

Execution & Exit Readiness

We implement the growth strategy and ready your business to ensure that it’s worth as much as possible on the path towards acquisition—and that you reach what you set out to achieve.

These aren’t just off-the-shelf service offerings — it's a growth program. In each step, we’re in it with you, side-by-side, as partners. We don’t just put the roadmap together and hand it off, our strategic growth consultants roll up our sleeves and execute alongside you.
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The growth program applies to all the key areas of your business. We see this as similar to the growth of an orchid.
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It begins with strategy, the roots of the plant, a strong foundation to feed the base and stem of the plant: your operations. To nurture this plant requires water—the company’s talent—a lynchpin to growth. If nurtured correctly, the operations stem, the backbone of the business, produces leaves—the company’s product. The leaves in turn, produce the ultimate goal—flowers, or in this case, revenue.

Creating Transferable Value

More tech companies will be acquired over the next ten years than ever before. At Orchid Black, our combined experience and insights of entrepreneurs, operators and strategy execs develop a growth program to provide you the missing ingredients to maximize your value.

We work with an exclusive group of B2B software companies and traditional businesses with software companies “locked” inside of their existing business. In both cases, we engage when we see a line of sight to significantly increase the value of the business over the next six to 36 months.

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Value is not about chasing multiples. It's about creating 'transferable value' by building the business in a manner that attracts and compels the right/best buyers and is stress-tested against due diligence and buyer criteria.

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—Jim Barnish Jr., Co-Founding Managing Partner

In our model, the majority of our compensation is tied to your success. Our growth consultants relentlessly focus on your value by aligning and optimizing around Revenue Enhancement, Product-Market Fit, Cost Improvement, and Capital Optimization.

Value is not about chasing multiples. It’s about creating “transferable value” by building the business to attract the right buyers and ensuring that it’s stress-tested against due diligence and other buyer criteria. Whether you’re looking for an exit or transaction, we partner with you to drive your best possible outcome.

Now acquirers are calling you. And you are not trying to sell, you are getting bought.

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“Value is not about chasing multiples. It’s about creating “transferable value” by building the business in a manner that attracts and compels the right/best buyers and is stress-tested against due diligence and buyer criteria.”

—Jim Barnish Jr., Co-Founding Managing Partner