One team, plan through results
No handoff. No second team. No re-learning the business.
Plan
Quadrillion co-authors the value creation plan with the CEO and leadership team. During diligence, in the first 100 days, or mid-hold when an existing plan needs a reset. Fixed fee. Portable. Yours to take anywhere.
Execute
Quadrillion runs focused 8-to-12-week sprints against the highest-value initiatives. Every sprint has a senior Quadrillion lead, a weekly cadence with your CEO or CFO, and a quantified target tied to the operating plan.
Realize
We measure in the only terms that matter: EBITDA, margin, working capital, and revenue. Every sprint closes against the target it opened with, and the gains hold because your team owns the plan, not us.
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Eight sprints.
One operating plan.
Measurable impact.
Every Quadrillion sprint runs 8 to 12 weeks, is led by a senior operator, and is tied to a named line in the operating plan.
Pricing and margin uplift
When margin is leaking through discounts, discipline, or untested willingness to pay
- List prices, discounts, and segment economics are out of sync with market value
- Sales teams apply inconsistent pricing across customers and deals
- No analytics capability exists to monitor pricing performance in real time
- Competitor pricing and willingness-to-pay data are not informing decisions
- AI lever: deal guidance and willingness-to-pay analysis at the point of quote
Commercial operations
When revenue growth is stalling and the pipeline can't be trusted
- Pipeline data is unreliable and forecasts are consistently inaccurate
- Quota design does not reflect actual market opportunity
- Go-to-market execution varies from team to team and region to region
- Sales productivity is flat or declining against industry benchmarks
- AI lever: lead response, qualification, and pipeline scoring that answer in minutes, not hours
lift
AI to EBITDA
When AI spend and pilots are not showing up in the P&L
- AI pilots and licenses have no measured revenue or cost impact
- No prioritized map of where models create value versus where simple automation is better
- The data models need is spread across disconnected systems
- No low-cost path from proof of concept to production
- Before you hire: find the return before you fund a permanent AI team
Operational speed uplift
When capacity, cost, or delivery are the bottleneck
- Teams are operating below capacity with limited visibility into constraints
- Lead times are causing customer dissatisfaction and lost opportunities
- Cost per unit is too high to support target margins
- Production KPIs and accountability mechanisms are missing
- AI lever: factory digital twins and simulation to test changes before spending capital
Procurement cost out
When spend is fragmented and supplier leverage is being left on the table
- Category strategies are inconsistent or not enforced
- Maverick spend remains high across the organization
- Supplier bases have grown without rationalization or tiering
- Procurement opportunities identified during diligence have not been realized
- AI lever: automated spend classification and supplier analytics across every category
Working capital uplift
When cash is trapped in receivables, payables, or inventory
- Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) exceeds peer benchmarks
- Payment terms leave financing opportunities untapped
- Inventory turns lag behind industry standards
- No working capital dashboard exists to support decision-making
- AI lever: collections prioritization and inventory forecasting that release cash faster
improvement
SG&A
Cost Out
When overhead has outgrown the business and layers are slowing decisions
- Span of control is below peer benchmarks
- Excessive management layers separate leadership from frontline teams
- Shared services opportunities have not been assessed
- SG&A spend exceeds comparable organizations
- AI lever: workflow automation across finance, HR, and service functions
Finance Transformation
When the finance function can't tell leadership whether the plan is working
- Financial close cycles are too slow to support timely decisions
- KPI reporting is disconnected from the value creation plan
- No operating system links initiatives directly to financial outcomes
- Board and sponsor reporting is heavily manual and time-consuming
- AI lever: AI-assisted close, forecasting, and board reporting
Built for two kinds of owners.
We work with PE sponsors and public company operators in industrials, technology, and services, where execution is the constraint on value.
Private equity portfolio companies
From acquisition to exit, we put operators inside the business to hit the value creation plan, capture the savings that were underwritten, and protect the return at exit.
Public companies and middle market
We work with companies at $300M+ in revenue under pressure to improve performance, transform operations, and accelerate growth.
Technology & software
- Semiconductors
- Electronics & Components
- Wireless & Connectivity
- Enterprise Software & SaaS
- IT & Network Services
- Data Center & AI Infrastructure
- Hardware & Devices
- Robotics & Automation
- Cybersecurity
- Advanced Materials
Industrials & manufacturing
- Aerospace & Defense
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Engineered Products
- Specialty Materials & Chemicals
- Industrial Technology
- Energy Services & Technology
- Trucks & Automotive
- Building Products
- Security & Safety Solutions
- Specialty Products
Services & distribution
- HVAC & Home Services
- Business Services
- Document & Print Solutions
- IT Services & MSPs
- Technical Distribution
- Industrial Distribution
- Facility & Field Services
- Logistics & Supply Chain
- Media & Entertainment Services
- Professional Services
Real operators
Former CEOs, COOs, CIOs, and functional leaders with execution experience and accountability to results.
Decipher & Deliver book
by George Stelling
“Every CFO has watched transformation capital disappear into programs that no one was willing to honestly evaluate. Decipher & Deliver changes that dynamic with a system built on radical transparency, where ongoing candor and genuine participation replace the polite consensus that kills programs quietly.”
-Donald Colvin, Former Chairman of Maxeon and Former CFO of Atmel
Learn the methods Quadrillion Partners uses to deliver measurable results across industries, from Fortune 500 companies to middle-market transformations. This book sets out hard-won lessons in a practical playbook for leaders who need to deliver results, not just presentations.
Interim Leadership
Quadrillion partners step into named executive roles inside PE-backed and public companies for defined periods. P&L accountability, decision rights, team leadership for the duration of the engagement.
Chief Transformation Officer (CTrO)
Cross-functional value capture across EBITDA, working capital, and operating model.
Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Technology and data leadership through modernization, integration, or cost reset.
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Finance leadership through transitions, transformations, or capital events.
Chief AI Officer (CAIO)
AI strategy, architecture, use case development, and scaled deployment across the enterprise.
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Operations leadership through scaling, restructuring, or integration.
Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)
Commercial leadership across sales, pricing, and revenue operations.
Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
Marketing leadership through positioning, demand, and brand resets.
Chief Procurement Officer (CPO)
Procurement leadership through spend consolidation, supplier leverage, and cost takeout.
Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)
Strategy leadership through planning, M&A, and portfolio decisions.
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Product and engineering leadership through architecture resets and roadmap execution.
Financial Planning & Analysis Leader
Embedded finance support reporting to the CFO (planning, forecasting, business partnering).
M&A / Business Dev Leader
Deal sourcing, diligence, and integration leadership for active acquirers.
Tell us the gap and we will fill it.
Trusted worldwide
We know how operating differs from market to market, and our methods work in each.
Impact backed by numbers
Measurable results across PE-backed and public companies.
1.4B
Created
Realized EBITDA, margin, and working capital gains. Co-owned with the leadership team, so the value holds.
40+
Plan builds, value acceleration sprints, and interim executive roles, each tied to a quantified target in the plan.
28+
partnerships
Owners and operators who brought us in to hit the plan. Most come back for the next engagement.
At risk
Up to 35% of our fees ride on the target you set. Beat it and we share in the upside. We win when you do.
125+
A bench of senior operators who have carried P&L accountability inside companies like the ones we serve.
20
Cross-border operating experience built from running global businesses firsthand.
We get paid when the number moves.
Most firms bill for effort. We are accountable for results. Every engagement starts with a quantified target tied to a line in your plan, and our economics follow it.
Target set up front.
Before work starts, we agree the EBITDA, cash, or growth target with you and tie it to a named line in the plan.
Up to 35% of fees at risk.
A defined share of our fee rides on hitting that target. Miss it, and we earn less.
Upside when we beat it.
Exceed the target and we share in the upside. You only pay more when you have captured more.
What makes us different?
Most firms hand you a plan and leave. We build the plan, run the sprints that deliver it, and step into the role when you need an operator. Leadership owns the result, so it holds.
FAQs
Most frequently asked question
Forward-deployed engineers build AI systems inside a company. Quadrillion owns the business result those systems are meant to produce. We pick the use cases tied to a line in the plan, set the revenue or EBITDA target, run the change in how the work gets done, and put up to 35% of our fees at risk against it. Many clients use both: our operators set the target and run the change, and engineers, theirs or a vendor's, build the system. When a client wants its own team, we can stand it up as Interim Chief AI Officer and hand it over.
Quadrillion Partners is an operator-led performance improvement firm for PE-backed and public companies, with AI embedded in every lever. We work across three motions. We Plan: operating and strategic plan builds that anchor capital to the EBITDA, cash, and growth targets that matter. We Execute: 8-to-12-week sprints, inside 90-to-180-day engagements, against the constraint limiting performance, including AI to EBITDA, pricing, commercial operations, throughput, procurement, working capital, SG&A, and finance transformation. We Embed: senior partners step into interim line roles, COO, CIO, CFO, and Chief Transformation Officer, and own the target the work is built around. Up to 35% of our fees are at risk against that target. We have delivered $1.4B in enterprise value across PE portfolio and public company engagements. Headquartered in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Texas, with global reach for our clients.
The big strategy firms recommend, then staff the work with large leveraged teams. At Quadrillion, the senior operator you meet is the person who does the work, from inside a line role (Interim COO, CIO, CFO, Chief Transformation Officer), owning the EBITDA, cash, or growth target the engagement is built around. Sprints run 8 to 12 weeks inside 90-to-180-day engagements, and up to 35% of our fees are at risk against the result. Outputs are captured value and deployed AI, not decks. PE sponsors often use strategy firms for diligence and QP for value capture post-close. The two play different roles and frequently coexist on the same asset.
Operating partners work at the fund and cover the whole portfolio. They are stretched thin and rarely able to embed in one company for 90 to 180 days. Quadrillion adds surge capacity tied to a defined sprint outcome. Operating partners set the thesis. QP runs the play. Sponsors typically engage QP when an asset needs a specific value capture program (EBITDA, working capital, or growth) that requires dedicated operator capacity the fund cannot supply internally.
Staffing firms place a single executive into a role and bill hourly. Quadrillion places a senior operator with a sprint methodology, a delivery team behind them, and accountability against a defined EBITDA, cash, or growth target. The engagement is structured as a 90-to-180-day program with milestones, not an open-ended placement. Pricing is a fixed fee per sprint with up to 35% at risk against the target, not hourly. The difference shows up in who owns the outcome: a staffing firm owns the placement, QP owns the result.
A value creation sprint is an 8-to-12-week operator-led program built around a specific EBITDA, working capital, or growth target. Quadrillion runs eight sprint types: AI to EBITDA, pricing and margin, commercial operations, operational throughput, procurement, working capital, SG&A, and finance transformation. Each sprint has an AI lever built in. A senior QP partner takes an interim line role for the duration, with a delivery team behind them. Sprints can run in parallel or be sequenced inside a 90-to-180-day engagement based on the value creation thesis.