Built for PE-Backed Manufacturers

The PE Firm

For Operating Partners and Value Creation Teams

Operating partners and value creation teams engage us when a portfolio company's commercial infrastructure can't support the board's reporting requirements — or the next acquisition.

Who We Work With

We work with two types of PE clients — and the portfolio company sits at the center of both engagements.

Family Offices & Micro PE (sub-$250M funds) typically don't have a dedicated internal ops team. We serve as the commercial operations partner across the portfolio — from initial assessment through implementation and ongoing bolt-on integration. Typical portfolio company: $25M–$75M revenue, 25–300 employees, no CRM or a CRM nobody uses.

Lower Middle Market PE executing buy-and-build strategies have an internal ops team that's lean and not specialized in commercial systems. We come in as the specialist — engaged by the operating partner or value creation lead to stand up the commercial infrastructure at the platform level or at each bolt-on. Typical portfolio company: $50M–$500M revenue, 150–1,500 employees, multiple ERPs, no unified commercial layer.

In both cases, the trigger is the same: the commercial operations infrastructure can't support the board's reporting requirements, the next acquisition, or the exit timeline.

The Portfolio Company

For Operating Partners and Value Creation Teams

Your PE sponsor brought us in — or you found us yourself — because the sales process that worked when the founder was running it doesn't scale. The team is growing, the territories are overlapping, the pipeline is invisible, and the board wants data you can't produce.

We've been inside manufacturers like yours. We understand the sales cycle complexity: long timelines, large ticket sizes, relationship-driven, territory-based, multi-stakeholder. We build the commercial infrastructure for how you actually sell — not a SaaS playbook.

Industries We Serve

Manufacturing & Industrial Focus

We specialize in companies across these sectors:

  • Discrete Manufacturing — Industrial equipment, machinery, components, specialty products

  • Process Manufacturing — Chemicals, materials, food and beverage production

  • Industrial Distribution — Packaging, MRO supply chain, wholesale trade

  • Industrial Services — Field service, maintenance, calibration, environmental services

We deprioritize construction, pure software/SaaS, staffing, and professional services. Not because those aren't good businesses — they just aren't where our expertise creates the most leverage.

Timing

When to Engage

The highest-impact window is 12–36 months post-acquisition. The PE firm has stabilized operations and is now focused on value creation. The commercial operations gap has been identified but not yet addressed.

Other trigger points:

  • A founder or owner-operator has exited and the sales process left with them

  • A bolt-on acquisition needs to be integrated into the platform's commercial infrastructure

  • The PE board is asking for pipeline data and forecasts that don't exist

  • A new VP of Sales or CRO has been hired and needs tools and process to execute

  • Exit preparation is beginning and commercial data needs to be defensible

Blue Chevron Solutions exists for one purpose: to close the commercial operations gap at PE-backed manufacturing and industrial companies. We don't serve everyone — we serve the firms and portfolio companies where our experience creates the most value.

Does this sound like your portfolio?

Start with the Valuation Velocity Audit. Fixed scope. A clear picture of what the commercial operations gap is costing — and how to close it.