Strategic Advisory

Building Enduring Quality
Into Systems

We partner with exceptional founders, family businesses, and growth companies to build enterprises designed to create value for generations.

The Value of Compounding

We bring a systems thinking approach to every engagement, drawing on principles from natural design, multi-generational family businesses, and quality-focused organizations.

Capital Compounding

Quality businesses generate superior returns through durable competitive advantages that strengthen with age, pricing power that improves with reputation, and efficient capital allocation.

Relationship Compounding

The most valuable relationships compound through deepening trust, expanded opportunity access through network effects, and resilience during market disruptions.

Systems Value Creation

Systems-oriented businesses create accelerating value through reinforcing feedback loops, network effects that increase with scale and time, and adaptability that converts challenges into growth opportunities.

Our Philosophy

"In the short term, adaptation doesn't matter. In the long term, adaptation is everything."
01

Quality Over Scale

We've studied the patterns of businesses that endure for decades and even centuries. The common thread isn't rapid growth but thoughtful evolution.

02

Systems That Adapt

Like natural systems that thrive through adaptation rather than rigid control, we help build businesses that balance structure with flow.

03

The Value of Maintenance

The greatest businesses are designed from the outset with regeneration in mind. They get better with age through intentional care and evolution.

04

Deserved Trust Networks

We focus on building webs of trust with all stakeholders. This trust becomes a durable competitive advantage that strengthens over time.

Our Services

We focus on three core areas of compounding value creation, each designed to strengthen rather than dilute the quality of your business system.

Compounding Business Value

Strategic acquisitions that strengthen your business system

  • Strategic fit assessment using systems thinking
  • Target identification and evaluation
  • Integration planning focused on long-term value
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Compounding Equity Value

Portfolio optimization for multi-generational success

  • Governance frameworks balancing autonomy and alignment
  • Capital allocation strategy
  • Leadership development and succession planning
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Compounding Investor Value

Attracting partners who share your long-term vision

  • Capital structure optimization
  • Post-transaction relationship management
  • Integration of human, tech and financial capital
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Our Founder

Paul Higgins

Founder, INVRT

With over two decades of experience across diverse industries, Paul brings a systems thinking approach to every client engagement. His background in quality-focused business development has helped dozens of founders and business owners build enterprises designed for multi-generational success.

"The most enduring businesses are those that prioritize quality relationships, thoughtful adaptation, and long-term value creation over short-term gains."

Paul founded INVRT based on the belief that businesses can be designed to improve with time, creating compounding value for all stakeholders across generations.

Global Network

INVRT is part of a global network of aligned business builders, investors, and thinkers who share our commitment to building enduring enterprises. Through these partnerships, our clients gain access to:

Latest Insights

Frameworks and research from our work with founders and families building for generations

COMPREHENSIVE DECK

Project Quality 3.0

Our comprehensive deck exploring how quality compounds over time in business systems.

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ANALYSIS

Patterns of Endurance

What we learned from studying 50 companies that have thrived for over 100 years.

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PODCAST

The Art of Quality

Conversations exploring the patterns that lead to enduring excellence across disciplines.

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