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Operational Restructuring

Take the founder out of the critical path. Put the business on institutional rails.

Most African businesses don't have a capital problem. They have an operating problem that capital alone will make worse.

We rebuild the operating model so the business can absorb growth, hire senior talent, and survive the founder taking a week off.

What we do

Inside a Operational Restructuring engagement.

Operating model design

Org chart, decision rights, accountability and the scorecards that hold them together.

Finance function build

Controls, close cycle, reporting cadence and an FP&A function that runs without heroics.

Process and systems

Workflows, tooling and data flows that remove spreadsheets from the critical path.

Leadership bench

C-suite gap analysis, hiring specs and onboarding for the next layer of leaders.

How it runs

  1. 01

    Audit

    Where the business breaks, who is the bottleneck, what is held together by goodwill.

  2. 02

    Design

    Target operating model, org and systems blueprint, sequenced against cash.

  3. 03

    Build

    We sit inside the business and stand up finance, ops, HR and tech.

  4. 04

    Handover

    We exit only when the team runs it without us.

You walk away with

  • Documented operating model
  • Finance, HR and ops systems live
  • Leadership bench with clear KPIs
  • Founder freed from day to day delivery

Best fit

  • Founder led businesses scaling past 50 people
  • Companies that just closed a round and need to deploy
  • Operators preparing for due diligence

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