The EBITDA Your Value Creation Plan Is Missing
Reflex recovers process-level operational waste that standard PE playbooks can't see. Deploy in the first 100 days. Document for your IC. Compound over the hold.
You bought a platform at 8x EBITDA. Your value creation plan targets revenue growth and financial engineering. Operations gets a bullet point.
Here's what that bullet point is worth when someone actually executes it:
At a 7x Multiple
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
Same $210K/year recovery
At a 10x exit multiple: $2.1M in enterprise value
Same $52.5K cost
Return on enterprise value: ~40x
Actual recovery depends on company size, industry, and operational maturity. Average finding across all diagnostics: $287K annualized.
Timeline
How It Maps to Your Hold Period
Days 1–30
Value Diagnostic
- •Priority List produced, first automations deployed
- •Baseline EBITDA recovery documented
- •$350K–$500K in enterprise value at market multiples — $50K annualized EBITDA guarantee
Months 2–6
Implementation Sprint
- •Monthly Priority List refresh
- •Cumulative recovery documented against value creation plan milestones
- •Each cycle: new automations, measured impact
Months 6–12
Compounding
- •Recovery stabilizes and compounds
- •IC-ready documentation package building
- •Operational maturity score improving
Pre-Exit
Diligence Package
- •Comprehensive diligence package: all improvements, recovered EBITDA, deployed automations
- •Buyer verification-ready documentation
- •Clean operational narrative backed by data
Process Layer
What We Find That You Don’t
You've seen this at Month 6 of a hold period. The question nobody asked during the 100-day plan. We find it at Day 30.
“The AP team manually reconciles vendor invoices across two systems every week because nobody ever built the integration. Cost: 0.5 FTE, ~$35K/year.”
“Customer onboarding requires 14 handoffs across 3 departments with data re-entry at each step. Average cycle time: 3x what it should be.”
“The ops team built a workaround in Excel that routes around a broken workflow in the ERP. It works. It also absorbs 6 hours/week from two people.”
Representative patterns from typical diagnostics. Not case studies. Every company's waste profile is different.
Investment
Pricing
Diagnostic
$12.5K
$50K+
guaranteed minimum finding
$350K+
enterprise value at 7x
$350K–$500K in enterprise value at market multiples — $50K in annualized EBITDA recovery — or you don’t pay.
Growth
$10K/mo
$40K/mo
target EBITDA recovery
$280K–$400K/mo
enterprise value at exit
Scale
$15K/mo
$60K/mo
target EBITDA recovery
$420K–$600K/mo
enterprise value at exit
Your next portfolio company has six figures of hidden EBITDA. The diagnostic takes 30 days.
Guaranteed: $350K–$500K in enterprise value at market multiples — $50K in annualized EBITDA recovery — or you don't pay.