Industries
Trades and technical field service companies — and the PE platforms that own them.
Open a page for each industry.
Janitorial, commercial cleaning, maintenance, property management, building service contractors. Multi-site operations where labor is the margin line and the difference between a good month and a bad one is whether the district manager caught the overtime before it posted.
Fueling stations, HVAC, refrigeration, hydrogen, CNG, compliance. Revenue runs through the field team, not the office. AP, job cost, and subcontractor billing that close clean are the operating foundation everything else is built on.
Remote guarding, CCTV, access control, monitoring, AI-assisted detection. Installation and service delivered on time and to spec. The gap between what was sold and what was installed is where margin disappears.
Plumbing, electrical, low voltage, gate and entry, structured cabling. Job cost, dispatch, and billing that close clean. Companies that have outgrown the founder's system and need an operating machine that scales.
Inspection, compliance, vendor management, multi-site portfolio operations. The operating layer between ownership and the field. Accountability structures that let one person manage what used to take three.
Hold-period operations. Integration after a deal. Board cadence and reporting that shows up in the numbers. Margin protection through a growth period where the operating system has to scale faster than the headcount.
Also: founders professionalizing ops. Platforms under margin pressure. Companies post-acquisition or pre-exit. CEOs who need an operating partner, not another consultant.