Drive EBITDA across your portfolio. Without rebuilding the wheel at every portco.

CostCtrl is the operating model platform built for operating partners who want to deploy profitability programs across portfolio companies. One repeatable methodology, transferable across operationally complex industries, run by each portco's own finance team.

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Repeatable
Oneshared model schema

The same methodology deploys at every portco, so results are comparable across the portfolio.

Built for speed
Weeksnot quarters

Designed to reach a first margin insight in weeks, because the schema and engine are already built.

Efficient by design
A fractionof a traditional engagement

Built to deliver what a bespoke cost-modelling consultancy would, without the bespoke cost each time.

The portfolio thesis

Why CostCtrl works at portfolio scale.

Every operating partner wants the same thing: more profit out of the companies they already own. The blocker is the same at each one. The P&L reports the past, no one can see where margin is genuinely made or lost, and there is no consistent way to compare one portco against another.

CostCtrl was built so the same methodology deploys at every portco, with results comparable across them. The model schema is shared. The allocation engine is shared. What changes is the data, the customers, and the activities, all of which the platform absorbs without a custom build.

One methodology. Every portco. Repeatable EBITDA in weeks, not quarters.

The engagement

How a typical portfolio engagement works.

Four phases, repeatable across the portfolio. Each phase has a defined output and a clear hand-off to the operating team.

Portfolio review

One-week diagnostic across all portcos. Identify the two or three with the highest signal-to-effort ratio for a profitability program.

Prioritisation

With the operating partner and the portco's leadership team, pick the first portco and lock the model scope. Two-day workshop.

Pilot deployment

Build, integrate, and run the first model. End with a board-ready profitability deck and a finance team that owns the model.

Scale-out

Roll the same methodology across the remaining priority portcos. Each subsequent deployment is faster than the last as the playbook firms up.

Portfolio pricing

Pricing built for portfolios, not single companies.

Portfolio engagements are priced differently from direct customers. The intent is for the per-portco rate to fall as the portfolio commits more deeply.

Pilot portco

Single rate

A single portco engagement, priced as a direct customer would be. Same scope, same timeline, same tailored proposal within 48 hours.

Multi-portco

Per-portco rate

Portfolio-wide minimum plus a discounted per-portco rate, designed so the marginal cost of adding each portco is lower than the first.

Portfolio license

Annual fee

Unlimited deployments across the portfolio for an annual commitment. Best suited to sponsors running profitability as a portfolio-wide program.

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