The EBITDA Your
Value Creation Plan
Can’t See
PE ops teams and pre-exit owners use Reflex to recover the operational waste that standard playbooks miss — the process-level inefficiency buried in how teams actually work. Every dollar recovered multiplies at exit.
Avg. annualized EBITDA recovery per diagnostic
8–15x
Return on enterprise value (not cash ROI)
Diagnostic to deployed automations
Enterprise Value
The Math That Changes the Conversation
Reflex recovers $210K/year in operational EBITDA
At a 7x exit multiple, that’s $1.47M in enterprise value
Engagement cost: $52.5K (diagnostic + retainer)
Return on enterprise value: ~28x
At a 10x multiple, the same recovery is worth $2.1M. Actual EBITDA recovery varies by company size and operational maturity — the diagnostic produces your specific numbers in 30 days.
The Problem
Every PE Ops Team Has a Value Creation Playbook. Here’s the Gap.
The standard playbook covers the macro levers. Headcount optimization, vendor consolidation, pricing strategy, financial restructuring. Those levers are well understood and most operating teams execute them well.
What they can't cover is the process layer. The 3 hours a week someone spends reconciling data between two systems that don't talk to each other. The workaround where ops emails a spreadsheet to accounting because two platforms never got integrated. Shadow processes that don't show up on any P&L line item but collectively represent 2–3 FTEs of wasted capacity across a 50-person company.
No operating partner finds that in a 100-day plan. It lives in how people actually use their tools, every day, and it only becomes visible when you instrument the work.
That's what Reflex does.
Process
How It Works
Diagnose
AI-powered workflow analysis maps how your portfolio company’s teams actually work. Which systems, in what sequence, where data moves, where processes stall. No surveys, no disruption. Produces a Priority List: every inefficiency ranked by EBITDA impact.
Fix
We build and deploy the automations against the Priority List. Working, in production, within 30 days. Each fix is documented for IC reporting and eventual buyer diligence.
Compound
Operations drift. New hires bring workarounds. Vendor updates create friction. We monitor continuously and refresh the Priority List monthly. Cumulative EBITDA recovery compounds over the hold period.
PE Operating Teams
Deploy alongside your value creation plan. Diagnostic fits inside the first 100 days. Documented EBITDA recovery your IC can underwrite.
Owners Preparing to Exit
Run the operational diligence on yourself before a buyer does. Recover margin, document the gains, strengthen your narrative at the closing table.
Most companies we talk to don’t think they have an operational waste problem. Then we show them $287K worth of it.
Guaranteed: $350K–$500K in enterprise value at market multiples — $50K in annualized EBITDA recovery — or you don't pay.