Ownership changed. The business didn't.

We won't promise that nothing ever changes. We will promise you'll know why when something does.

Our starting point is that the business worked before we got there. The name, the people, the customers and the way work gets done are most of what we're paying for, so our instinct is to leave them be. We're allocators of capital, not caretakers: we invest where it helps and stay out of the way where it doesn't. The test for anything shared across the group is whether scale creates an advantage bigger than the complexity it introduces. Insurance, yes. A new logo, no.

Before close, almost nobody — the two or three people you'd need to keep the deal quiet and the business running. At close, everyone, the same day, from you. After, customers and vendors hear it from the people they already know. We work out the day and the words with you, and we're in the room if you want us there.