Revenue advisory · Growth · Exit
Installing the growth systems that make businesses worth buying.
Enterprise-grade distribution, sales, talent, and agentic AI systems, engineered to reduce key-man risk, increase revenue velocity, and compound enterprise value.
Kadenwood Consulting
Bankers who grow businesses, then sell them.
Kadenwood Consulting is the revenue-advisory and growth division of Kadenwood Group. We are a team of bankers with deep, in-the-trenches expertise in go-to-market: distribution, sales, conversion, and growth.
That combination is rare. We bring the capability of an institutional banker, packaging and selling deals, placing debt, and taking founders through an exit, and marry it to the operating expertise of people who have actually grown businesses, many times, from the inside.
So we carry a client across the whole arc: build the growth engine, raise the capital, place the debt, plan the exit, and run the transaction. One firm, end to end, with no separate underwriting desk to feed and no conflicts to manage. You own the business and the upside. We build the enterprise value and broker the exit that pays it out.
The full arc
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Growth
Distribution, sales, and conversion installed as a system
02
Capital
Equity raised for funds and operating companies
03
Debt
Placement and structured financing
04
Exit planning
The business packaged and re-rated to sell
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Exit
Kadenwood Group runs the transaction to close
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Why we built it
The offer is no longer the moat.
A strong offer used to be enough. It is not anymore. Anyone with an AI subscription can reconstruct your product, your case studies, and your credibility in a weekend.
What cannot be copied is distribution and sales run as a system: owned demand at the lowest viable cost in your market, a process that converts it, and the operations to carry the volume. Whoever reaches their market most cheaply and converts it best wins. That is the game now.
And rented attention is a rising, terminal-value-less cost. B2B customer acquisition cost is up roughly 60% over five years1, while owned distribution reaches a qualified meeting at roughly 2 to 30x lower cost than paid channels2. You can rent demand at an escalating price that buys no enterprise value, or you can own the channel.
We built it for our own firm first, then made it installable.
Louis Garoz-Ferguson
Founder, Kadenwood
The ethos
Done right, you don't get a better business. You get out of it.
The business runs without you, cash-flowing and exit-ready. We measure everything against one number: revenue velocity, the rate at which it compounds. That is what an acquirer pays a premium for, and what every system we install is built to raise.
When it runs without you, the real game begins. Roll up your market. Raise a fund. Or take the company to market and exit. That is what this is named for. That is sovereignty.
The market rewards that transition directly. Founder-run firms change hands near 3x, while professionalized businesses re-rate to 5x and beyond as owner-dependence is removed3. The re-rating is a market mechanism, not a Kadenwood guarantee, but it is the mechanism every system we install is built to put in your favor.
The protocol
It starts with demand, not opinion.
Before a dollar goes to distribution, we reverse-engineer the offer from the market itself. We point the data engine at your serviceable market and read what is actually being bought: the language buyers use, the trigger events that move them, and the gaps your competitors leave open.
From there we work backward to the message and the offer the demand is already asking for. Message-market fit stops being a guess made in a room. You launch into proven appetite, not into a test.
That is the front of the protocol. Once the message is reverse-engineered from demand, the four pillars carry it to market and convert it.
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Read the demand
Intent signals and buying language across your serviceable market
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Reverse-engineer the offer
Message and packaging built from what is already being bought
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Launch into appetite
Distribution puts proven demand in front of the market
The engagement
Sovereign installs four functions that compound into enterprise value.
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Distribution
Owned demand at single-digit-dollar CPMs, built on intent rather than spend.
02
Sales
An enterprise process that closes upfront and structures the back end.
03
Talent
Vetted closers and operators placed into the business, off the founder's desk.
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AI throughput
Agentic software runs fulfillment and the back office, so a small team carries the load.
The complete engagement is Sovereign.
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Case studies
What it does in the field.
Multiple six figures in his first five weeks. First backend fee on a roughly $250M transaction. Built to eight figures.
Six figures in under ninety days. Closed 2025 at $4.5M, with a $100M exit on the horizon.
Bernardo Mendes de Almeida
Avalanche Capital
Lead-generation agency to private capital advisory. $150K in his first five weeks. Now runs Avalanche Capital, a roughly 18-person firm raising over $2 billion.
Arman Shaz
GLP-1 compounding pharmacy
Built to $5M in year one. Now $150K to $200K a month net on autopilot through B2B clinic sales, scaling toward a $1B valuation.
Exited his solar company for eight figures, then built a debt-advisory firm transacting in the billions.
From selling AI to agencies to $35K+ enterprise engagements with BCG, Coca-Cola, and BMW. Now licenses proprietary datasets at $100K+.
Brendan Choi La Rosa
Ciaan
$6M on a single transaction, assembled in four months. Built his own firm on the back of it.
No background in high-ticket consulting. Trained from scratch on our protocols, now running his own firm at roughly €300K a month.
Individual results shown. Not typical, and not a guarantee of future outcomes.
See the full recordThe fit
Built for a specific operator.
Built for
- Founder-led businesses with real revenue, typically past the first million, that have outgrown the founder doing everything.
- Owners who want to raise enterprise value and exit at a premium, not just add another marginal month of revenue.
- Operators ready to take the business off their desk and let a system carry the volume.
- Companies in markets deep enough to own distribution cheaply and convert it at scale.
- People who want a partner accountable to the outcome, not a vendor accountable to a deliverable.
Not built for
- Pre-revenue startups still searching for a product or a market to sell into.
- Founders looking for a course, a template, or a one-off campaign to run themselves.
- Businesses chasing a quick lead spike with no intention of building a durable asset.
- Owners who want to stay the bottleneck and keep every decision on their desk.
- Anyone expecting a guaranteed multiple. Re-rating is a market mechanism, not a promise.
For private capital
Run this across a portfolio.
Sovereign installs the four pillars inside one operating business. For private equity firms, independent sponsors, family offices, and allocators, the same capability deploys across two surfaces inside one engagement.
At the fund
Operating leverage across the firm. Compress diligence, investment-committee prep, portfolio monitoring, and LP reporting, so the team carries more throughput and decision velocity without adding headcount.
Up to 70% lower document-processing cost across origination and diligence. EY, 2025.
In the portfolio
EBITDA expansion in every company. Engineers and operators ship agentic AI into finance, sales, operations, and exit readiness, tuned to KPIs agreed before the engagement begins.
2x ROIC for portfolio companies that systematically deploy AI versus non-adopters. BCG, 2026.
The squeeze on returns
12%
annual EBITDA growth now needed to clear PE return hurdles, up from 5%. Multiple expansion no longer carries the deal.
Bain, 2026
84%
of PE firms have appointed a Chief AI Officer. The mandate is set; the execution is not.
EY, 2025
95%
of enterprise GenAI pilots produce no measurable P&L impact. The gap is execution, not strategy.
MIT, 2025
The mandate is set, the bar is higher, and the execution gap is the only thing left to close. Sovereign closes it, asset by asset.
Figures cited are the named research findings under well-deployed conditions, not a Kadenwood guarantee. Results vary by firm, sector, and asset.
Questions
Questions, answered.
Who is this actually for?
Founder-led businesses with real revenue that still run on the founder. If the company stalls the week you step away, you do not own an asset, you own a high-paying job with overhead. This is for operators who want that fixed: the business off your desk, enterprise value compounding, and a premium exit on the table.
What do you actually install?
Four systems, built into your business and left running. Distribution: owned demand at the lowest viable cost in your market. Sales: an enterprise process that converts it. Talent: vetted closers and operators placed off your desk. AI throughput: agentic software that carries fulfillment and the back office. We build the machine. You run it, keep the upside, and own what it is worth.
How is this different from an agency or a course?
An agency rents you attention and goes quiet when the retainer stops. A course hands you a binder and wishes you luck. We are operators with institutional banking backgrounds, we install the system inside your company, and we stay accountable to one number: what the business is worth. We do not run your ads forever and we do not sell information. We build the asset and hand you the keys.
Will this actually work in my industry?
The four systems are not industry-specific. We have run them in real estate, capital advisory, M&A, debt, compounding pharma, and AI infrastructure. Distribution, sales, talent, and throughput are the same levers in any market that has buyers. What changes is the build, which is exactly why we scope it to your business before we quote it.
I have been burned before. Why is this different?
Most founders have paid for a campaign, a hire, or a course that went nowhere. The reason is almost always the same: someone sold you a tactic, not a system, and left before it was installed. We do the opposite. We build the whole machine, instrument it, and stay embedded until it runs without you. You are not betting on a tactic, you are installing infrastructure.
What does it cost?
Engagements run $25k to $150k, scoped to the build. We take a limited number each month because the work is hands-on, we are inside the business, not emailing you decks. You are not buying our hours. You are buying a system we build for you, that you keep, that compounds enterprise value you realize, in the cash flow now and in the exit later.
Do you guarantee a result?
No, and be careful with anyone who does. A re-rating is a market mechanism, not a promise. What we control is the system we install: owned distribution, an enterprise sales process, operators off your desk, and AI throughput. Outcomes vary by operator and market and are not typical. What is consistent is that we build it to a standard and stay on the hook for the work.
What happens after I apply?
A diligence call, both ways. We pressure-test the fit and you pressure-test us. If there is a fit, your team joins a deep dive, then we scope the build and start. You leave the first call with the full Sovereign breakdown either way.
What if it is not a fit?
Then we say so on the call. We would rather pass than take an engagement we cannot carry to the outcome. The first conversation is diligence, so a clean no is a perfectly good result for both sides.
We take a limited number of engagements each month.
ApplySources
- 1. B2B customer acquisition cost up roughly 60% over five years (70 to 75% in saturated categories). ProfitWell / Paddle, 2025.
- 2. Cost per qualified meeting: owned and outbound roughly $20 to $100 versus $120 to $600+ for outsourced and in-house SDR or paid channels, a 2 to 30x advantage. SalesHive; Belkins; LevelUpLeads; LinkedIn / WordStream, 2025.
- 3. Median sale multiples by size band, from 2.0x for the smallest founder-run firms to 5.3x EBITDA for $5M to $50M businesses. IBBA Market Pulse, Q3 2025. The re-rating reflects the market mechanism, not a guaranteed outcome.