Aerospace & Defense Precision Manufacturing
EST. 2022
We own and operate the companies the mission depends on.
Anchored in precision manufacturing, acquiring the capability and capacity around it. Held, not flipped. No fund clock, no resale plan.
We don't buy to sell.
Why we exist
America's defense and space programs depend on small, founder-owned shops that hold the hardest tolerances. Most have no succession plan.
We buy them and keep them. Certifications maintained, teams retained, capacity expanded. Our anchor is in precision manufacturing; we are acquiring capability and capacity around it.
At our anchor, since 2022
Headcount more than doubled · aerospace QMS built · capacity expanding
The platform
One anchor, and what we’re adding.
Machining
Fabrication
Specialty
Scope
Where our anchor operates. We're adding capacity and sites.
Not ours yet. We're looking to acquire forming and bending.
Not ours yet. We're looking to acquire finishing processes.
Processes
- Precision machining
- High-complexity manufacturing
- Sheet metal
- Bending
- EDM
- Secondary processing
Position
- Held · adding capacity
- Sought
- Sought
Machining
- Scope
Where our anchor operates. We're adding capacity and sites.
- Processes
- Precision machining
- High-complexity manufacturing
- Position
- Held · adding capacity
Fabrication
- Scope
Not ours yet. We're looking to acquire forming and bending.
- Processes
- Sheet metal
- Bending
- Position
- Sought
Specialty
- Scope
Not ours yet. We're looking to acquire finishing processes.
- Processes
- EDM
- Secondary processing
- Position
- Sought
At the anchor
AS9100D, ISO 9001:2015, and ITAR registration sit with the operating company — where they would stay with yours.
Capital support
Factoring and bridge capital
Primes pay slowly; shops deliver fast. We fund our own supply base so the industrial capacity we depend on stays liquid. Collateralized and boring by design.
What we acquire
Founder-built. Mission-critical. Held for good.
A narrow filter, by design.
- Businesses
- Precision manufacturers
- Founder- or family-owned. Aerospace, defense, space, and adjacent industrial.
- Revenue
- $10M – $30M
- Cash-flowing, certified, customers in place.
- EBITDA
- $2M – $6M
- Positive and durable. We buy earnings, not turnarounds.
- Geography
- United States
- Anywhere in the country. We come to the shop.
- Ownership
- Control
- Majority or full. Rollover welcome for operators who stay.
- Hold period
- Permanent
- No fund life. No forced exit. We run what we buy.
Leadership
Operators, not allocators.
We are early, and we move at that speed. Decisions get made in days, not committee cycles.
President
Zach Doss
Leads the platform day to day. Precision manufacturing, operations, finance.
Chairman
Wes Murry
Capital and structure. Decades backing industrial businesses through the cycle.
Bench
Depth comes from the platform itself — the operators already running our anchor. We are building the executive team out of people who have run shops, not funds.
Filling next
VP, Operations · Business Development · Independent Director · Operating Advisor
Contact
Own a shop that can hold the tolerances the mission needs — and wondering who takes care of it after you?
We're not running a process. We're having a conversation.
- No fund. No LPs, no investment committee, no fund life.
- Control positions only. We don't take minority stakes.
- We hold permanently. There is no resale plan to disclose.
Owners
Your name stays on the building, your team stays employed, and the certifications stay current. Ask us what happened to the last shop we bought.
Intermediaries
Send the teaser or the CIM. We read everything that fits the criteria above and we say no quickly when it doesn't.
Lexington, KY
We don't publish the names of the companies we own. That isn't marketing restraint — it's the same discipline we'd apply to yours.