Most owner-operated businesses don't have a operating problem. They have an owner problem.
DS5 Advisors works alongside owners of $1–20 million companies to build businesses that run — and sell — without them. We are operators, not a consulting firm that has read about operating.
Operations & Turnaround
You are still the estimator, the closer, and the final approval on everything. We move decisions off the owner: roles, process, and numbers a manager can act on without asking.
Acquisitions & Exits
Buying, selling, or handing off to the next generation. What a lender or a buyer will underwrite is decided long before anyone signs an LOI.
Real Estate & Development
Owner-operators usually hold their real estate by accident. We treat the property as its own asset, and plan the next use of the capital before the closing, not after.
Public Incentive Financing
TIF, business district and enterprise zone designations, abatement, and state programs. Incentives are negotiated before a project is committed, not after the slab is poured.
The Record
We give advice we have had to take.
DS5 Advisors is not a career consultancy. We own and operate established companies in title and settlement, roofing and restoration, and early childhood education, and we are actively acquiring in hospitality and commercial real estate. Every recommendation we make has already been run against a payroll, a lender, and a closing table.
A title and settlement operation. A roofing and restoration contractor. A licensed childcare center. Acquisitions underway in hospitality and commercial real estate.
Volume and compliance. Crews, seasonality, and estimating. Staffing ratios that set the ceiling. Lenders and diligence on live deals. Four industries, one question: can it run without the owner?
Start with thirty minutes.
Tell us what the business does and what is keeping you in it. If we are the right help, we will say so. If we are not, we will say that too.
P: (618) 575-0184
Serving the Metro East, Southern Illinois,
and the St. Louis metro