Build exit-ready platforms. Command stronger multiples.
Most roll-ups don’t fail at the deal. They fail at the integration…fragmented brands, inconsistent governance, conflicting systems, and an equity story that doesn’t hold up in diligence.
Alignment Strategy Group exists to close that gap. We partner with private equity sponsors investing in industrial and OEM platforms to align brand, governance, integration, and go-to-market into a single operating system. Through our Platform Alignment Framework™, we turn collections of acquisitions into unified businesses built to operate at scale and sell at a premium.
PAIN
Buyers don’t discount for what your governance does. They discount for what it can’t prove. Most mid-market governance was assembled one policy at a time — a compliance scare here, a board ask there — and the seams don’t show until diligence finds them. By then, the discount is already priced in.
SOLUTION
We engineer governance as unified infrastructure — EHS, ESG, risk, and operating controls aligned into a single framework that holds up under diligence and runs cleanly day to day. Through our Platform Alignment Framework™, governance becomes provable, portable, and built to scale across the platform. The result: a company that’s easier to buy, harder to discount, and built to hold its value at exit.
PAIN
You’ve hired consultants before. They delivered a binder. Six months later, the org chart looks different, the documents are filed — and nothing on the operating floor has changed. The real cost isn’t the fee. It’s the value-creation timeline that quietly slips by a quarter, then two,and a board that’s stopped believing the plan.
SOLUTION
We don’t deliver binders. We build muscle. Through our Platform Alignment Framework™, adoption is engineered into the work from day one — operators, integration leads, and acquired-company management co-build the frameworks they’ll be asked to run. Change isn’t a phase that follows the project; it’s the operating model the project produces. The result: change that holds across every site, every add-on, every quarter.
PAIN
You don’t need another 90-page report. You need someone to do the work. Strategy decks don’t move the number. Execution does.
SOLUTION
We do the work. Multi-site policies, integrated. Reporting streams, consolidated. Compliance documentation, standardized. Operating standards, codified — and built to hold after we leave. Through our Platform Alignment Framework™, execution is the deliverable, not the recommendation. When we’re done, you don’t have a suggestion. You have a system the operators own.
PAIN
Growth outpaces governance. Every company knows it. Most don’t address it until a deal, an audit, or a customer review forces the issue. By then, it’s no longer a governance problem. It’s a timeline problem.
SOLUTION
We close governance gaps before they close deals. Through our Platform Alignment Framework™, we engineer the brand, governance, and operating infrastructure your growth plan will need — before the deal, the audit, or the customer review forces the issue. When opportunity accelerates, the platform is already in front of it. Growth doesn’t wait for governance. It runs on it.
Every engagement is scoped to your specific situation: the size of your operation, the state of your current governance systems, the timeline you’re working against, and the event (capital, operational, or regulatory) you’re preparing for. Three structures cover most of what our clients need.
BEST FOR
Growth-stage manufacturers professionalizing governance for the first time, or PE-backed companies preparing for a capital event in the next 12–18 months.
THE OUTCOME
You will know exactly where your governance gaps are, what they cost you at the transaction or audit, and what to prioritize to close them. You will have a direct advisor to pressure-test decisions as they emerge.
HOW IT WORKS
BEST FOR
PE-backed businesses and growth-stage manufacturers ready to move from fragmented compliance obligations to an integrated, investor-grade governance system.
THE OUTCOME
You will have a functioning governance architecture, one that is documented, adopted, and operating across your organization. Not a plan for governance.
HOW IT WORKS
BEST FOR
Private equity platforms and multi-site industrial groups managing governance across multiple subsidiaries, particularly during or after a period of acquisition activity.
THE OUTCOME
Your portfolio companies will operate from a shared governance standard. Compliance is consistent. Messaging is cohesive. The documentation tells a single, defensible story, whether the audience is an LP, an OEM, or a future buyer.
HOW IT WORKS
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