We help you grow through the point every successful business reaches, when the enterprise is worth too much to leave exposed and too promising to slow down.
Overview
We help you determine how much resilience your growth plan actually requires, where the business is exposed, and where it is carrying cost that growth no longer justifies. That means modelling the plan against the risks that could stop it, pricing every increment of resilience for what it costs and what it returns, and sequencing the changes against your timeline and your capital. Not a maturity assessment. An investment case the board can act on this quarter.
Resilience Investment Case
Before you commit capital to resilience, you need to know what it buys and what it returns. We identify the exposures that could stop the growth plan, quantify the value at risk in each, price the investment that closes it, and rank them by return. The result is a funding decision the board can defend, and a clear view of the risk it chooses to retain.
Cost and Friction Release
Growth changes what the business needs, and most resilience budgets never catch up. We assess what the plan has outgrown, quantify what retiring it returns in cost and speed, and state the risk of each change in the same terms. The goal is to release capital and momentum back to growth without surprising the board later.
Staged Resilience Planning
The level of resilience the plan needs at launch is not the level it needs at scale. We map the stages at which requirements change, cost the adjustments in advance, and set the points at which the board should revisit them. Resilience becomes an operating decision that keeps pace with the plan, rather than a posture fixed once and defended.
For an acquisition or a portfolio review, the same analysis establishes the resilience a target requires to support its valuation, before terms are agreed.
Outcomes
Growth, Fully Funded
You leave with a growth strategy that is fully funded on the numbers: the resilience it needs, the capital it releases, and the timing of both. We deliver the investment case, the ranked decisions behind it, and the schedule for revisiting them as the plan unfolds, in the format your board already uses to approve capital. Not a report to be interpreted. A decision the board can take at its next meeting.
Instrument
Stakeholder
Decision
Materialiti Return Gradient Review
CFO
Which protection to retire, which to strengthen, and in what order.
Materialiti Merge Graph Review
Operating partner
Where to intervene across the portfolio, and what to report to the fund's investors.
Materialiti Design Lattice
CEO and CFO
Capital allocation for resilience across the whole growth plan: the levels available, the cost of each, and the value each preserves
Materialiti Gradient Advisory
Board of directors
The next increment of resilience to fund, its return, and the point at which to stop.
Materialiti Return Gradient
CFO
Return on the capital already invested in resilience, and where that capital is under-performing
Materialiti Gradient Rank
Executive team
Which resilience investments still create value, and which can be stopped without raising exposure
Materialiti Loss Edge
CFO
Time to payback on each resilience investment, measured against the losses it averts
Materialiti Fix Gradient
Executive team
Cost, return and timing of every proposed change, prioritised against the growth plan
Engagement
Value Engineered
A value-creation plan rests on assumptions about the resilience of the business beneath it. We test those assumptions and price them. For a growth strategy, an acquisition or a portfolio, we quantify the resilience required, identify the spend that can be released, and value both against the plan’s returns.
Step 01
Establish the Baseline
The baseline is the set of commitments the growth plan depends on, and the operations, suppliers and systems behind each of them. We construct it from the public record, reconcile it against your contracts and inventories, and mark every point at which a single failure would reach revenue.
Step 02
Quantify Value at Risk
Each dependency is valued in the plan’s own currency. We quantify the revenue it carries and the margin it supports. We cost what sustaining it requires and price what its loss would remove. The figures are drawn from your management accounts, budgets and targets. The plan and the risks to it are then stated in the same terms and can be compared on equal footing.
Step 03
Prioritise Capital
With the plan priced, the investment choices can be set out in full. We model every level of resilience the plan could carry and price each increment. We rank the options by return, separating the investments that defend growth from the spend that no longer returns its cost and can be released. Each option is tested against the board’s appetite for risk before it is presented.
Step 04
Sign the Recommendation
The recommendation is reviewed before it is signed. Our senior advisors assess it against the factors the analysis cannot measure: the transactions in flight, the leadership in place, and the timing of the plan. They set the recommendation in that context, and they sign it.
Client Success
Built on Trust and Results
Our engagements address three situations. A growth strategy the board will approve once its risks are priced. An acquisition whose valuation rests on the target’s operating resilience. A portfolio whose value requires each holding to sustain performance through scale. In each, we quantify the exposure, price the resilience the plan requires, and set the return against the capital it takes.
"Materialiti have been transformational. Our DSO improved by 17 days, freeing up $5.2M in working capital. We went from an 18-day billing cycle to 6 days consistently."
Jane Berwick
Managing Partner
$180K
Cost Savings
94%
Increase in ARR
10x
ROI
The Briefing
