01 / Single Company
80/20 Value Creation
Help one leadership team improve the bottom line, simplify the business, and turn clearer priorities into measurable results.
Explore Value CreationSift & Winn | Earned Perspective
Earned perspective for the decisions that matter most.
We work alongside leaders to identify what matters most, make better decisions faster, and turn those decisions into measurable results.
See how we helpScale, Sell or Save.
Make your next move with clarity.
You want help improving the business because you need to scale it, sell it, or save it.
Four ways to create value.
Start with the decision and who owns it.
One company, a portfolio, an ownership transition, and an acquisition each require a different relationship. All four benefit from candid judgment and people who know how decisions play out in practice.
02 / Private Equity Sponsors
80/20 Value Platform
Build a repeatable sponsor-level program that creates a common method while keeping execution grounded in each portfolio company.
Explore Value Platform03 / Business Owners
Acquiring Entrepreneurs
Find a capable next owner who respects the people, knowledge, and relationships that made the company worth building.
Explore this path04 / Acquisition Entrepreneurs
Value-Add Investing
Work with an equity partner who brings aligned capital, operating judgment, and practical help when the work gets real.
Explore investingEarned Perspective
Earned while building the capability—not after the playbook was written.
Between us, we have built, led, fixed, bought, and grown businesses. It was shaped by real tradeoffs and the consequences that followed.
Our methodology
Segment → Simplify → Zero-up → Grow
Most engagements follow this sequence because each phase creates the foundation for the next. Some situations require only part of the methodology or a different order. We apply it according to the business and the decision in front of management.
- 01
Segment
See the business clearly: customers, products, markets, and the work that creates value.
- 02
Simplify
Reduce noise so the team can put time and capital behind the right priorities.
- 03
Zero-up
Build plans from the facts on the ground.
- 04
Grow
Turn sharper focus into disciplined commercial and operating action that can be measured.
Facts over commercials.
Experience carried into the work.
The evidence spans company-level operating choices and four years helping stand up a cross-portfolio 80/20 practice. Confidentiality limits the names, not the clarity of what we can responsibly show.
Case study
Standing up a cross-portfolio 80/20 practice
Over four years, our partners helped a major private-equity sponsor build and apply a repeatable 80/20 practice across its portfolio companies.
4 yearsworking together across the practice
Cross-portfolioapplication across operating companies
Case study
Turning product and market choices into commercial focus
An established commercial product business aligned product, market and operating choices to support growth.
10+product introductions led
1new market entered
Bring the real situation