Execution that drives enterprise value.

Great strategies cannot drive returns without execution. We execute. We embed operators who have run go-to-market before. We use AI to move at a speed consulting has never moved before, and then hand your team an engine that keeps running after we leave.

Who we work with

We come in when the growth plan stops producing.

Private equity operating partners

You have a value-creation plan and a deadline. We turn the plan into pipeline that the portfolio company's own team is running.

Portfolio company executives

You do not need another strategy. You need the one you already have to produce revenue this quarter. We build it with your team, alongside the people who will own it.

PE leadership and deal teams

You need to know the thesis is real before the next board meeting. We make the growth case visible in numbers, not narrative.

Independent and founder-led executives

No sponsor, no board mandate, and no one else's capital at risk. Growth probably still runs through you personally, which is both a ceiling on what the company can do and a discount on what it is worth. We build a go-to-market engine that sells without you in every deal, scoped one problem at a time rather than as a transformation you never asked for.

All the reports are the same. You are buying the outcome.

What you get sold

A beautiful document

Findings, recommendations, a roadmap. The big firms do this very well.

What happens next

The deck goes into a drive

They leave, and a year later the business is roughly where it was.

What we do instead

We work it with your team and hand it over

We rebuild the motion with your team and hand it over when they can run it without us.

The point

That is the whole company

Not one of our service lines. You buy the outcome, not the hours.

By the numbers
[XX] private equity firms · [XXX] portfolio companies · [XXX] engagements delivered.

Full go-to-market rebuild at a 70-year-old industrial manufacturer.

150 reps, family-owned, no repeatable motion. We rebuilt targeting, positioning, territory structure, and the sales process. Every workstream was implemented. A year after we left, the company was still using the vocabulary we installed.

Read the case
3x MOIC · 9x EBITDA multiple
Retirement and benefits provider. Read the case
1.9x increase in exit value
SaaS portfolio company, revenue surge going into exit. Read the case

Each of these opens the full case behind the number.

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Trusted by private equity
Bain Capital · K1 · Resolve · Kohlberg · STG · HIG Capital · Platinum Equity

"Cortado came in and kicked the beehive. The new vocabulary, RevOps, ICP, territory structure, didn't exist in the lingo of the company a year and a half ago. There's a lasting impact."

Fund Partner, private equity firm

One system for go-to-market, in three layers.

We do not sell a menu of services. We install one operating system that produces revenue, and we scope each piece to a real problem with a fixed timeline and a fixed price.

Strategic Foundation Who to sell to, why they should choose you, and the team to do it.
Enablement Center The engine underneath: the process, the CRM and data your leaders can actually trust, and AI wired through all of it.
Execution System The frontline, where pipeline turns into closed revenue.

You see results in 60 to 120 days, because the work goes into the field in week two, not month six.

See how it works
Artificial intelligence

Analysis is getting cheaper every month. Judgment is not.

AI makes us faster. Our experts make it right.

We build it. We do not just buy it. Bespoke AI solutions, starting with our own platform, Cortado Group AI, put through our own go-to-market before we ever install it in yours.
What actually gets faster. AI does the heavy analysis in a fraction of the time, so more of your hold period goes to executing and less to waiting on a deck.
You keep the machinery. Engagements end with bespoke agents, dashboards, and tools built for your business and still running inside it, with your team's hands on it.
How we use AI

Great strategies don't drive returns. Execution does.

Tell us where growth is stuck and we will tell you honestly whether we can move it, and how fast.

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