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The Market Became a Log Jam
PE overhang froze transactions. Strategics stopped acquiring. Venture-backed companies hit scale and became orphans. The flywheel that used to move middle market deals just... stopped.
When to call keel
When Failure Isn't an Option
In high-stakes situations, every delay compounds risk. Speed isn't recklessness. It's discipline under pressure. Precision under fire. While others analyze and wait, Keel executes. Hesitation loses.
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TURNAROUND
Operations broken. Cash bleeding. Credit facility expires in 90 days. Lenders circling. Surgical intervention, not a 90-day study. Immediate execution to stop the spiral.
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EXIT
6-12 month glide path to maximum valuation. We prepare operations, build the narrative, select your banker—protecting capacity while maximizing enterprise value.
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GROWTH
M&A sourcing and execution. Capital raising. Debt restructuring. Scale through acquisition while maintaining private control and accessing institutional capital.
Why Keel
The Keel Difference
Traditional advisory studies problems for 90 days and delivers recommendations. Keel solves them with day-one ROI. Operators, not consultants. Measurable savings, not unclear value. Speed as strategy. Selectivity over generalism.
Traditional Advisory
Studies your problem (90 days)
Delivers recommendations
Bills hourly
You execute alone
Unclear ROI
Keel Advisory Partners
Solves your problem (90 days)
Drives outcomes
Success fees
Executes with you
Measurable day-one ROI
The Keel is the hidden backbone of a ship, the structure that prevents capsizing when conditions get rough. You don’t see it, but without it, nothing survives.
Who qualifies
Who Keel Fights For
Selective by design. Only companies at true inflection points where failure isn't an option. If that's you, you probably already know it.
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Founder-backed businesses
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Founder-backed businesses
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Founder-backed businesses
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Founder-backed businesses
Keel works in the moments that really matter. Not every company qualifies.
When the business is on fire and the clock is ticking, Keel lives inside the problem until it's solved. Or dies trying.
Consultants study. Keel solves.
Performance Transformation
Complete reset when operations break. Holistic overhaul.
Underwriting like a principal investor. Current state. Desired outcome. Constraints. Then identifying levers and executing.
Operations. People incentives. Fixed overhead absorption. Margin structure. Cash conversion. Living inside the business until the enterprise value problem is solved. No studying, just solving.
PROOF OF WORK
Missions Completed
After-action reports from middle-market warfare. Companies hemorrhaging cash, locked out of capital, facing hostile lenders, staring at forced sales.
Project Fiat
Project CONFIGURE
Project Tote
Project Core
How Keel Works
Four Phases, Zero Bureaucracy
Underwriting like owners, deploying like special forces, executing on the factory floor at 5 AM, and disappearing when the mission is complete.
Underwrite
Assess the business like principal investors. Current state. Desired outcome. Timeline. Constraints. What needs to change. What's the end game. Beginning with the end.
Mobilize
Deploy Navy SEAL-style deal teams. Pattern recognition from 50+ acquisitions means no learning curve. Which law firm works for which structure. Which lender moves fast. How to organize the chaos.
Execute
Living in your business. Not Zoom strategy sessions. Gemba walks at 6AM in manufacturing plants. Ride-alongs with your distribution team. On-site during integrations. Real-time decision-making that drives outcomes.
Solve & Exit
Problem solved. Value created. Outcome delivered. No building dependency. No lingering. Solve problems and get out.
Inflection points are binary.
Either control is maintained or it is lost.
Either performance compounds or it breaks.
Execution determines the outcome.
Operators First, Owners Always
$500M deployed across 50 acquisitions at a middle market PE fund. Not managing from boardrooms. Living in the businesses.
Gemba walks at 6AM in manufacturing plants. Ride-alongs in distribution trucks. Living on-site for months during integrations. One of the founders literally lived in a trailer on a mushroom farm during an operational turnaround.
Two platforms built from sub-$500K to $5M+ EBITDA in 24 months. 23 acquisitions. Exited both to strategics and management.
Value creation understood from the ground up. Done multiple times. As owners.
Why Keel Exists
At a PE fund, execution could only apply to companies willing to sell. One fund. Limited reach.
The entire middle market needed this execution. Founder companies won't sell but need help. VC companies are stuck. Private credit lenders don't know what to do.
And the incumbent advisors went so far upmarket they became unaffordable and unavailable.
Keel is an advisory-first model. Private equity-level execution without selling your company.
A merchant banking lens. Not consulting. When you win, Keel wins.
You're At an Inflection Point
Keel doesn't sell services. Keel solves problems. If failure isn't an option, this is where it starts.
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