We're a value maximization firm. We spend six months inside your business — growing what it's worth, reducing how dependent it is on you, and getting it running well enough to be genuinely sellable, whether or not you ever plan to sell.
Most owners find out their business isn't sellable the day they try to sell it. Every year they waited is a year of value they left on the table. We fix that in six months — embedded in your business, growing EBITDA, building the team, and installing the systems that turn a founder-dependent operation into a company a serious buyer will actually pay for.
Get paid on the deal. Whatever value you left on the table stays on the table.
Leave the execution to you. Six months later the binder is on a shelf.
Higher EBITDA. A higher multiple. A business that survives your absence — and sells for what it's actually worth.
You built something real. You're not desperate to sell — but you know the offer will come one day, and you don't want to be the founder who scrambles while the buyer's clock is ticking. The best time to prep is when you don't need to.
Founders who are still central to daily operations — and want to change that.
Owners quietly thinking about a sale in the next 1–5 years.
Operators who want fewer hours without less income.
Businesses that have never seen formal due diligence.
Owners who got an unsolicited offer — and weren't ready.
Not a fit: businesses outside $2M–$10M in revenue, owners who need to close a sale in the next 90 days, or anyone looking for a report instead of an operator in the business.
Not a menu of add-ons. Not a piecemeal retainer. Everything you need to build a business that runs — and sells — without you, in a single engagement.
We reduce buyer risk from customer concentration, strengthen your contract terms, and build the buyer-ready data room and growth story that justify a higher multiple — whenever you decide to sell.
A clear plan to grow EBITDA — plus the systemization and documented SOPs that let your business scale past what you alone can manage.
Hands-on financial leadership and reporting for owners who don't have — or don't yet need — a full-time CFO.
We build a management team that runs the business without you in the room — and dramatically reduces key-man risk. The single most common reason deals fall apart in diligence, solved before it comes up.
Weekly hands-on sessions with like-minded visionaries — helping you step out of the day-to-day grind and back into the role only you can play.
That's what a minimum $7,500 EBITDA lift is worth at a 4× multiple — guaranteed in your first six months. We put our own compensation on the line to back it: hit that number, or we keep working at no cost until we do. Measured against your trailing twelve-month EBITDA, locked in writing on Day 1. No new invoice. No renegotiation. We finish what we start.
A full day with Doug and Josh. We identify your top five growth opportunities, biggest risks, and the exact roadmap for six months. You leave with clarity. We leave with a plan.
Weekly sessions with our team and a peer group of like-minded owners. Systemization, management buildout, key-man mitigation, SOPs, data room. We're in your business — not sending decks.
EBITDA up. Systems in place. Team running the business without you in the room. Whether you sell next month or in five years — the work is done and the terms are yours to set.
Protects your terms before a buyer ever sees them.
Doug is an attorney, serial entrepreneur, and business exit strategist with over two decades of experience helping founder-led businesses scale, systematize, and sell at maximum value. He started his entrepreneurial journey at age ten and has since founded and sold multiple businesses of his own, giving him firsthand experience on both sides of the deal table that most advisors simply don't have. Over a 23-year legal career he has served as counsel to thousands of organizations across for-profit, nonprofit, educational, and governmental sectors, and lectures frequently on personal wealth transfer and business succession planning. In 2024 he co-founded Hedgehog Solutions to bring that experience to the owners who need it most: founders who built real businesses and want to leave on their own terms. He leads every client engagement personally.
The first call. The right fit.
Finn is Chief Financial Officer at Hedgehog Solutions. He began as a bookkeeper in early 2024 and has since led the financial teams of dozens of founder-led trade and service businesses, cleaning up books, rebuilding reporting, and giving owners the first clear read they've had on their own numbers in years. That ground-level view of what trade businesses actually run on, where cash leaks, where margins hide, where owners are flying blind, is what Hedgehog was built around. As Head of Development he leads growth, partnerships, and the fit conversations with prospective clients.
Builds the systems that run without the founder in the room.
Josh has led operations since 2005. Chief Trading Officer running trading and operations at a registered investment advisor, then director of operations at a college, COO of a for-profit international academy, and executive vice president at a law firm. Across four industries his instinct never changed: find where a business works harder than it should, and redesign it to run leaner, with less dependence on any one person. At exit, that's the whole game. In 2024 he co-founded Hedgehog Solutions and brings that same operational instinct to every engagement. His job is to find what's holding your multiple down: owner dependency, customer concentration, a thin management bench. He fixes those while there's still time.
The work isn't dependent on selling. It's about growing EBITDA, reducing how much the business runs through you, and building something that would hold up in due diligence. Most of our clients aren't selling next year — they want the option, the higher valuation, and the freedom, whether or not they ever list.
You keep everything — the systems, the team, the EBITDA lift. That doesn't go away. Most clients continue with us at $5,000/month for ongoing advisory, and so far 100% have. It's optional. If you don't continue, what we built stays in your business.
You'd be hiring one function. We run five disciplines in parallel — sell-readiness, EBITDA growth, financial leadership, management buildout, and coaching for you personally — under one guarantee, for less than most fractional CFOs charge alone.
None. We lock your baseline EBITDA in writing on Day 1. If we haven't added a minimum $7,500 within six months, we keep working — no new invoice, no renegotiation — until we do. That's our risk, not yours.
Founder-led businesses doing $2M–$10M in revenue. Below that, there's usually not enough margin to fund the work. Above it, you likely already have the team and systems we'd be building.
We take on five businesses a month to protect the quality of the engagement. Book a discovery call below — we'll talk about your business, your timeline, and whether you're the right fit for a six-month engagement. If it's not right, we'll tell you. No pitch decks. No pressure.
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