Straight answers on the diagnostic, the fractional COO model, who owns the system, and whether operations work really moves a sale price.
ACRE is a fractional COO for custom builders. I install the complete operation I ran on $750M of work, use AI to make it light enough for a small shop to carry, and stay on as your operator. You own the system, and it keeps running whether or not I'm engaged.
It's a fixed-fee, structured review of where your operation leaks time, margin, and control. You get a written, prioritized fix list, yours to keep whether or not we work together further. Everything past the diagnostic is scoped from what we find, quoted to your operation, never off a menu.
Yes. Buyers pay for cash flow they believe survives the handover. When the operation can't be explained without the owner, they lower the offer, restructure around the risk with earnouts and holdbacks, or stall in diligence. Documented, transferable operations remove that discount, the same work that makes a business run better is the work that makes it sell better. See the exit-ready engagement →
Good custom and trades builders whose operation lives in the owner: profitable, respected, busy, with a PM at capacity and no admin hire available at any price. For the exit-ready engagement: owners 12 to 24 months from a sale, and the CPAs, brokers, and surety professionals who advise them.
No. Your software is fine. Procore, JobTread, Buildertrend, keep them. The failures don't live inside one tool; they live in the gaps between them. I run the complete operation across all of it and use AI to make that operation light enough for your shop to carry. I can also build a clean spine from scratch if you'd prefer.
You own it. Every record lives in a workspace you own, visible, searchable, traceable to its source. No black box, no lock-in, no losing access to your own data. Stop anytime and the system keeps running.
No. AI replaces the information processing, not your judgment. People review the financials, the decisions, and anything client-facing. The system clears the desk; a forty-year builder makes the calls that cost money.
The install, standing up a high-pain spine, is fixed scope, fixed fee, quoted from the diagnostic. The ongoing fractional COO role is monthly and cancel-anytime. You never get a surprise menu price; everything is scoped to your operation.
A consultant leaves a binder that fades. A full-time operations manager runs a six-figure loaded cost, if you can find one. ACRE does the work of the manager you can't hire and leaves a system that stays, at a fraction of the cost, running even when I step back.
Under deal pressure, 90 days fixes presentation, documentation, and a credible plan, not a full renovation, which rarely sticks under that pressure. Sometimes the strongest move is to pause, fix the operation properly, and return to market at full price. Call and we'll tell you which situation you're in.
Based in Oregon, serving the Western US, with four decades of resort and custom work across Aspen and Jackson Hole behind the practice.
Start with a $2,500 fixed-fee diagnostic. We'll spend the time on your bottleneck, not on a demo, and the fix list is yours to keep, whatever you decide next.
