Where value is decided.
Advisory for mid-market companies and corporates at the moments that determine value: an ownership change, margin under pressure, growth that has stalled, a decision too big to get wrong.
The moments we are brought in.
Most engagements start in one of five situations. If yours is on this list, the conversation will be short and concrete.
Ownership has changed
The deal closed. Now the plan has to happen.
The investment case becomes an operating plan: first hundred days, value levers, owners, and integration that shows up in the P&L.
Margin is leaking
Profit erodes and the reporting does not say where.
We build the fact base by area, across cost, price, and working capital, then lead the work that closes the gap.
Growth has stalled
The market kept moving. The company did not.
We name the culprits, stale pricing, churn, mix, sales productivity, and sequence the few moves that compound.
A decision too big to get wrong
Invest, divest, reorganize, replace.
Evidence plus a behavioral read of how judgment fails under pressure, so the call is made on facts, not the loudest voice.
The exit is two years out
Worth more, provably, by the time buyers look.
A value plan with proof behind it: improvements a diligence team can verify, and the change management to make them stick.
What would it be worth?
Move the sliders. Every assumption is visible, and the diagnostic replaces them with your numbers.
Arithmetic, not a promise: revenue × margin × multiple, plus working capital days converted to cash. The multiple is held constant. Whether the uplift exists in your business is exactly what the diagnostic establishes.
Replace the assumptions with your numbersDiagnose. Design. Deliver.
Every engagement runs through the same three stages, scaled to the situation: from a four-week diagnostic to multi-quarter delivery.
Diagnose
The business is read with the leadership team across numbers, customers, operations, and organization. The output is a short, opinionated diagnostic: what works, what does not, and where the leverage sits.
Design
The plan is co-authored with the team that will run it. Specific, sequenced, measurable. A handful of decisions, owners, milestones, and the leading indicators that show drift early.
Deliver
We stay in the room until the change is real. Embedded, part-time, alongside the team. Engagements end when the business runs the plan without us, not at the end of a slide deck.
The Value Diagnostic.
Three weeks, fixed scope, fixed fee. The diagnostic reads the whole business, across numbers, customers, operations, and organization, and returns where the value sits, what blocks it, and what to do in which order.
It stands on its own. Most delivery engagements start here, but the plan is yours either way.
Where value sits and where it leaks, by area, with every assumption shown.
The upside quantified and stress-tested. In euros, not adjectives.
Moves, owners, milestones, and the leading indicators that show drift early.
A short, board-ready recommendation: what to do, what not to do, and why.
A different shape of firm.
Qapital is built to be small on purpose: research-grounded in how it reads a business, operator-grounded in how it changes one. Three standards hold across every engagement.
Few engagements at a time
The people who scope the work do the work. Nothing is handed down to a bench, and nothing is stretched across more clients than it can carry.
Evidence over opinion
The method is grounded in doctoral research on investor decision-making and quality indicators, and in twenty-five years of operating across growth-stage, mid-market, and post-acquisition environments.
We stay until it lands
Engagements end when the business runs the plan without us. Recommendations that die in a binder are a cost, not a service.
The analysis behind our work runs on Qapital.ai, our proprietary intelligence platform for private markets.
QAPITAL ADVISORY & ACQUISITIONS B.V.Discuss an engagement.
Outline the situation and the timeline. We reply the same business day. If we are not the right firm for it, we will say so and point you to who is.