Direct investors and family offices

Diligence you can act on.Delivery you can hold.

Direct investors carry the operating risk themselves. BML quantifies what is actually being bought, then stays to deliver the change the investment depends on.

01

The pressure

01

No portfolio operations team

The operating capability has to come from somewhere, and it has to be senior.

02

Concentrated exposure

One asset, one thesis. Diligence findings need to be quantified, not flagged.

03

Continuity from diligence to delivery

The people who found the risk should be the people who close it.

02

Where we work in the lifecycle

02

Diligence

What are we really buying, and where is the value?

  • Technology
  • Data
  • AI and IP
  • Cyber
  • Operating model
  • Cost base
  • Value opportunities
04

Value creation

How does the investment thesis become operating performance?

  • Revenue
  • Cost
  • Process
  • Technology
  • AI
  • Organisation
  • Data
05

Exit

Can the value be evidenced and defended?

  • Exit readiness
  • Technology readiness
  • Data and IP
  • Cost story
  • Separation planning
  • Management evidence
03

Proof

£10m

Deal adjustment

Bridgestone

Buy-side technology, data, IP and cyber diligence on a £200m deal. Security, system and process risks quantified.

Key outcomes

  • £10m adjustment
  • £200m deal
Buy-side diligenceManufacturing

3%

EBITDA released

PE-backed healthcare platform

Reference on request

Sponsor-backed platform with an operating thesis to prove. Value levers identified, sequenced and delivered with the management team.

Key outcomes

  • 3% EBITDA
Value creationHealthcare
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BML/OS underneath the work

A single evidenced record from diligence findings to realised value, ready for the next buyer.

One record

Every engagement runs on the same operating system, so the evidence exists before anyone asks for it.

Bring us a live situation.