The companies that build what America needs still exist. They've been overlooked, undervalued, and left behind. We're bringing them together to build what none of them could build alone.
For over thirty years, American manufacturing has been hollowed out. Offshored. Underinvested. Culturally dismissed. The businesses that remain are often excellent at their craft but invisible to capital markets and starved of the operational investment needed to keep pace with modern technology.
Meanwhile, the U.S. faces a generational challenge: rebuilding sovereign capacity in energy, defense, and AI. The companies that can forge, fabricate, and machine the physical components of American strength are not in Silicon Valley. They're in small towns, running on thin margins, with owners approaching retirement.
The mandate to rebuild is real and immediate. Federal policy is pouring billions into domestic production through the CHIPS Act and Inflation Reduction Act. The Pentagon has identified over 300 critical supply chain risks demanding immediate attention. Private industry is reorganizing around AI hardware and energy infrastructure, creating unprecedented demand for precision manufacturing. And capital markets are beginning to remember what was forgotten. Real value is created in factories, on shop floors, by skilled hands.
Across America, manufacturing businesses with decades of irreplaceable expertise are approaching a crossroads. Their owners are aging. Their capabilities are undervalued. Without intervention, this knowledge disappears. We acquire these businesses not to strip them, but to preserve what they've built and connect them to a larger operating enterprise where their capabilities compound.
We are not building a portfolio. We are building an operating company. Each acquisition strengthens a strategic vertical, connecting capabilities across the enterprise. The sum becomes greater than the parts.
These businesses know how to build. What they often lack is modern operational infrastructure: digital quoting, real-time shop floor tracking, streamlined workflows. We bring that expertise. And as part of the larger enterprise, each company gains access to shared capabilities, customers, and resources that would be impossible to build alone.
Target overlooked firms with strong technical foundations but underutilized capacity.
Execute disciplined acquisitions focusing on asset value and operational potential.
Deploy standardized playbooks for automation, AI-driven efficiency, and system integration.
Connect the firm to the AE network for joint procurement, shared certifications, and new market access.
We seek established manufacturing firms with strong technical foundations and untapped potential.
Precision machining, fabrication, electrical hardware, specialty materials, and component manufacturing—capabilities essential to defense, energy, and critical infrastructure.
Skilled workforces, loyal customer relationships, and owners seeking a succession path that preserves what they've built.
Geography follows opportunity, with clusters forming where manufacturing talent, logistics, and energy costs align.
If you're reading this, you probably already see it. American manufacturing is at an inflection point. The companies that build what this country needs are undervalued, underleveraged, and running out of time.
We're looking for partners who want to do something about it.
Partners who know defense, energy, and critical infrastructure, and where the gaps are.
Partners who build automation systems, deploy AI, and modernize operations.
Partners who think in decades and build things that last.
If you see what we see, let's talk.