Our platform
Motion OS
Motion OS is the operating system behind our work: the research, intelligence and benchmarking layer that every mandate runs on. It is how we keep our view of value current, score a business the way an acquirer would, and know which buyers have appetite. You will see it in the quality of the advice.
- Where it lives
- Inside every mandate we run.
- Built for
- Our research, intelligence and benchmarking.
- What it gives you
- A better-informed starting point and a sharper process.
Its role
Technology for the research layer, judgement for everything else
Technology is making much of the M&A execution layer faster and cheaper. We welcome it, and we built our own.
Motion OS is the operating system behind our work: the research, intelligence and benchmarking layer that every mandate runs on. It tracks the transactions, multiples and buyers in the markets we cover, scores a business the way an acquirer would, and keeps our view of value current as the market moves.
That lets our time go where it earns its keep: strategic judgement, international relationships, deal negotiation and the industry knowledge that comes from doing this on both sides of the table.
What it means for you
A better-informed starting point, and a sharper process
For a founder, it means the first conversation starts from evidence: where the business sits against current multiples, which factors are moving the number, and which buyers have appetite for a business like yours, before anyone has to guess.
For an acquirer or investor, it means a clearer map of a market we know from the inside, and a process run on data as well as instinct. You will not log into it; you will see it in the quality of the advice.
How it fits
Part of how we work, not a substitute for it
Motion OS gives us a faster, better-informed starting point. The judgement about what a business is worth to a particular buyer, which route creates the most shareholder value and how to negotiate the terms still comes from the partners, and from decades of doing this on both sides of the table.
The one part of it we have opened up is the valuation calculator: the same scoring and multiples we use, available to any founder who wants a grounded view before a conversation with us.
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Twenty quick questions, about three minutes, and an indicative range built on the multiples acquirers are paying now, with the three things that would move it. Nothing to sign up to.