ABOUT THE FIRM
We wrote the playbook while in the trenches.
Human Renaissance was founded after a 22-year run building, scaling, and selling technology services firms. The financial model and the operating system finally agreed; the playbook lived on a few stacked notebooks. We took the playbook out of the notebook.
Founder narrative
The pattern was always the same. The thesis depended on a system the existing team had not yet built — a sales motion that converted, a delivery model that scaled, an integration that respected the customer, a financial discipline that survived the next quarter. Every engagement, every quarterly board meeting, every ARR-quality argument, the work was inside the system, not above it.
What changed at exit was not the playbook. It was the readiness to say it out loud. Operator-led advisory means a senior leader sits inside the operating cadence — finance, sales, engineering, delivery — until the constraint moves. Not a deck. Not a steering committee. The room, the scoreboard, the weekly meeting. The decision, signed.
Human Renaissance now embeds where financial, commercial, and technical constraints have to be solved together. The 14-day diagnostic is the first move. The 90-day operating scorecard is the second. The transition plan is the third. After that, we are usefully gone.
OPERATOR PATH
Twenty-two years of operating, then advisory.
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2003
Built and ran a technology services firm
From zero to a recognized professional services brand. Operator inside every quarter, every customer escalation, every architecture review.
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2014
Maintained 22% EBITDA through 4× revenue growth
Operating discipline that didn't dilute margin: pricing architecture, utilization, partner economics, and forecast accuracy.
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2019
Successful PE exit
Diligence-survived ARR, IP defensibility, and integration thesis intact. The operating system the buyer underwrote is the operating system the buyer received.
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2022
Embedded as interim leadership across portfolio companies
Interim CEO, CFO, CTO, CPO mandates with explicit constraint-removal targets and named transition plans.
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2026
Founded Human Renaissance
Operator-led turnaround and performance advisory for the technology middle market. Fluent in EBITDA. Fluent in DevOps.
REFERENCE ENVIRONMENTS
Where the operating system has been tested.
- GLOBAL MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT
- $90B+ revenue · 28,000-user enterprise migration with zero downtime
- GLOBAL ELECTRONICS OEM
- $200B+ revenue · regulated-technology integration program
- ENTERPRISE HARDWARE VENDOR
- $90B+ revenue · post-merger systems consolidation
- DoD AGENCY
- Mission-critical infrastructure · classified security frameworks
- ENTERPRISE CYBERSECURITY
- $7B+ revenue · $3M stalled initiative unblocked in 30 days
- ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE
- $30B+ revenue · complex carve-out and integration execution
- GLOBAL FILM & TV STUDIO
- Major-studio scale · post-merger retention work
- GLOBAL ASSET MANAGER
- Top-tier financial services scale · technical platform rescue
Prior environments described by industry and scale.
- $500M+
- value delivered to Fortune 500 divisions
- 22%
- EBITDA margins maintained through growth
- 68%
- win rate vs. 29% industry average
- 92%
- forecast accuracy from guessing
- 95%
- customer retention post-merger
- 100%
- staff retention 9 months post-close
Where to read next.
OPERATOR PROFILE
Justin Leader
The operator in the room when we engage.
RESULTS
Selected operating outcomes.
The metrics behind the Human Renaissance operating story.
AI TRANSFORMATION
Practical AI transformation for growing businesses.
Practical AI work across use cases, workflow automation, governance, agents, knowledge systems, and measurable adoption.