Occasional notes on the careful conversation.
We publish long-form pieces only when there is something worth saying. Most thinking happens privately, in the room with owners and their advisors. A small number of essays appear here over time.
The first pieces are being written.
When essays appear on this page, they will be short, structural, and written in the same voice as our conversations. No newsletter, no cadence, no list-building. If you would like to be told when a new piece is published, write to us and we will note it.
Ask to be notifiedWhat we are likely to write about first.
Each piece begins with a question we have been asked privately more than once. The themes below describe the shape of the first essays, and the hub each one belongs to.
- 01 — Succession
The quiet succession
Why most owner-led successions begin years before the first conversation — and how that timing shapes everything else.
- 02 — Acquisition
When acquisition is not the answer
Continuity work, partial transitions and other paths an owner can take when sale is the wrong tool.
- 03 — Legacy & Values
The advisor in the room
How the accountant, the solicitor and the family member each shape a private succession conversation.
- 04 — Legacy & Values
What legacy actually means
Staff, clients, reputation and the things that rarely appear on a valuation. A practical inventory.
All four hubs, when you want to read by topic.
Succession, acquisition, continuity, legacy and values. The hub view groups pieces by the question they answer rather than the order they were written.
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