Big-firm leadership assessment. Without the big-firm fleecing.
You have been paying big-firm rates for one person in a room with your CEO. We kept the person, dropped the markup, and deliver in days on a fixed fee.
Diligence prices the market and the model. It rarely prices the people.
Every deal is underwritten on a plan, and every plan is delivered by a handful of people. The market can be right, the model can be right, and the whole thing still stalls because the CEO who built a $40M business cannot run a $120M one.
That is a knowable thing. It is knowable before close. Most firms find out eighteen months later, with a search fee and a lost year attached.
You are paying for the brand, the building and the bench. Not the assessment.
Strip the invoice back and a leadership assessment is one experienced person in a room with your CEO, asking the right questions and knowing what the answers mean. Everything else you are paying for is overhead: the offices, the cucumber water, the eight-person team that never met your leader, and the placement fee waiting downstream if they decide your CEO has to go.
The hours behind that invoice have collapsed too. The transcription, the first draft and the scoring are done by software now. The fee did not follow the hours down. That gap is the fleecing, and you have been funding it on every deal.
We kept the person and dropped the rest. Same rigor, same evidence, same board-ready output. A fixed fee that reflects the work, not the building.
Fast enough for a deal. Rigorous enough for a board.
One leader is assessed in days. A full leadership team is completed inside a normal diligence window. One advisor runs the whole engagement so nothing is lost between interview and report.
No placement fees, no search practice waiting downstream. The assessment is the product, and it is priced as one.
Evidence on every leader, tied to the plan you are underwriting.
One leader, or the whole team
Individual assessments of every leader who matters to the thesis. A single leader in days, a full team inside the diligence window.
Scored against your plan
Role scorecards built from the value creation plan, not a generic competency model. The question is whether they can run this deal.
One advisor, no handoffs
Maxwell Salazar runs every assessment personally. The person in the room is the person who writes the report.
Board-ready, per leader
A report on each leader an investment committee can act on, plus candid feedback to the leader and a view on succession.