Services for HVAC, renewables and electrical contracting businesses

Six services that work on how the business runs, arranged around the four outcomes an owner works towards: Grow, Raise, Acquire and Exit.

Services

Start from the outcome the business is working towards

The GRAX system

Each service supports one or more of the four GRAX outcomes. Choose the outcome, then the service.

G

Grow

Lift margin and capacity, and build the operating foundation everything else depends on.

R

Raise

Predictable cash and a disciplined balance sheet, ready for a funder’s questions.

A

Acquire

A working operating model and a documented playbook, so an acquired business can be brought in cleanly.

X

Exit

When the time comes to sell, the value is already built in and the evidence is to hand.

The six services

What we do

Every service works on how the business runs: its operating model, its management team and its value. None of it involves client jobs or site delivery.

GRAX

Fractional COO & Operating Partner

For when every decision still routes through the owner.

  • A senior operator working inside the business each month
  • An operating rhythm of meetings, numbers and accountability
  • A management team able to run the week without the owner
Fractional COO services →
GRAX

Management System & Playbook

For when the way the business runs lives in people’s heads.

  • How the business runs, written down once and kept current
  • Roles, procedures and measures held in one place
  • Built around the way the team already works
Management system and playbook →
GRAX

Value & Exit Readiness

For when a raise or a sale is in view and the business has to stand up to scrutiny.

  • What a buyer or funder will look at, and what they will find
  • Owner dependency and key-person risk, reduced before it is priced in
  • Evidence in order ahead of due diligence
Value and exit readiness →
GRAX

Integration Management Office

For when an acquisition has completed and two businesses need to run as one.

  • An integration plan with owners and dates
  • One way of working across both teams
  • Tracking that the benefits behind the deal arrive
Integration management office →
GRAX

Partner Network

For when the next step needs a specialist alongside the operating work.

  • Corporate finance and M&A advisers
  • Commercial finance, legal, tax and accountancy
  • Insurance and employment law

Partner firms deliver and bill their own work under their own name.

Partner network →

One retainer, not six projects

How the work is delivered

The services are not sold as separate projects. Work is delivered on a monthly retainer, and the emphasis moves between services as the business moves from one GRAX outcome to the next.

A business usually starts with improvement and the management system, because a raise, an acquisition or a sale each depends on the business running well first.

See how it works →

Not sure which service fits?

Next step

A 30-minute call is enough to place the business on the GRAX map and name the service that would move it forward.