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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.

Single figure walks the length of a long industrial control room at sunset, banks of dashboards on both sides, golden light streaming through a tall window at the far end.
CONTROL ROOM The whole operating surface, in one room.

OPERATOR PATH

Twenty-two years of operating, then advisory.

  1. 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.

  2. 2014

    Maintained 22% EBITDA through 4× revenue growth

    Operating discipline that didn't dilute margin: pricing architecture, utilization, partner economics, and forecast accuracy.

  3. 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.

  4. 2022

    Embedded as interim leadership across portfolio companies

    Interim CEO, CFO, CTO, CPO mandates with explicit constraint-removal targets and named transition plans.

  5. 2026

    Founded Human Renaissance

    Operator-led turnaround and performance advisory for the technology middle market. Fluent in EBITDA. Fluent in DevOps.

Two seasoned operators repair a small mechanical assembly together on a sunlit wooden workbench.
WORKSHOP The room, the scoreboard, the cadence.

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

Ready when the constraint is.

Justin reads every diagnostic intake personally. Operating diagnostic in 14 days. No retainer until we agree on the work.

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