The Inefficiency Hiding in Your Operations Is Suppressing Your Exit Multiple
Buyers discount what they can't verify. Every dollar of unrecovered margin is $5-10 left on the table at close. Most owners don't know the inefficiency exists because the business is profitable.
The Opportunity
Operational Efficiency Is a Valuation Lever
Annual Margin Recovery
4x ROI
$1 invested in Reflex recovers $4 in annual margin
Exit Multiple Effect
$20–40
$4 recovered × 5-10x EBITDA multiple = $20-40 in enterprise value per dollar invested
Full Example
$400K annualized recovery × 5x EBITDA multiple
$2M
in added enterprise value
First-Year Engagement Cost
$72.5K
Diagnostic ($12.5K) + 6 months Growth ($10K/mo)
Return on Enterprise Value
$2M value created on $72.5K invested
27x
Illustrative example using conservative assumptions. Actual recovery depends on business size, industry, and current operational maturity. The Diagnostic will produce your real numbers.
Who We Work With
Three Paths to the Same Outcome
Owner Preparing to Sell
Run the due diligence on yourself before a buyer does.
Buyers pay more for operations they can verify. Documented efficiency gains, deployed automations, and a clean operational narrative reduce the discount they'd otherwise apply. Reflex produces that evidence.
We also reduce owner-dependency, which is one of the biggest value suppressors in lower middle market deals. If your business can't run without you for 30 days, a buyer will price that risk into the offer.
CEPA / M&A Advisor
Turnkey operational engagement for your client's deal book.
Your clients know they need to tighten operations before going to market, but you don't have the bandwidth to manage that engagement yourself. That's where we come in. Reflex runs the operational workstream, produces documented results, and hands you a clean report for the deal book.
No operational work lands on your desk. You look great because the client's numbers improved. Everybody wins.
PE Operating Partner
Operational efficiency alongside revenue growth and financial engineering.
Most value creation plans focus on top-line growth and financial structure. Operations gets a bullet point and a vague commitment to "improve processes." Reflex turns that bullet point into quantified margin recovery with documented evidence for your IC.
The Diagnostic fits inside the first 100 days of a hold period. You'll have a Priority List, deployed automations, and a baseline to measure against before the first board meeting.
The Timeline
Built for a 12-24 Month Exit Preparation
Month 1
Diagnostic
We analyze your workflows, produce your first Priority List, and deploy working automations against the highest-value findings. You'll walk away with real numbers and real results. $50K guaranteed finding or you don't pay.
$12.5K · 30 days
Months 2-12
Growth Engagement
Continuous monitoring, monthly Priority List refreshes, new automations each cycle. Cumulative recovered margin gets documented for due diligence as it compounds. This is the phase where the exit multiple math starts working in your favor.
$10K/mo · Target 4x monthly ROI
Pre-Sale
Documentation
Comprehensive report of all improvements, recovered margin, and deployed automations. Built for buyer verification. Your deal team gets a clean narrative backed by data, and the buyer gets confidence that the operational gains are real and sustainable.
Included with Growth engagement
Industries
Where We Work
Pricing
Simple Pricing. Guaranteed ROI.
Diagnostic
$12.5K
30-day deep analysis. Produces your first Priority List and deploys working automations.
Guarantee: If we don't identify at least $50K in annualized inefficiency, you don't pay.
Growth
$10K/mo
Ongoing implementation and automation. Target: $40K/month in recovered margin.
4x
return on investment
Scale
$15K/mo
For larger operations. Target: $60K/month in recovered margin.
4x
return on investment
Your clients' operations are leaving money on the table. Every dollar recovered multiplies at exit. We guarantee the Diagnostic finds at least $50K in annualized inefficiency, or you don't pay.