For Small-Cap & Mid-Cap Public Company CEOs

Your stock is undervalued. We’ll ask the buy-side why. Then fix it.

Primary institutional research. We ask the buy-side why they’re not buying — then build the research that changes their mind. Distributed across a $1T+ network of money managers, RIAs, and family offices.

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§ 02 · Why Your Multiple Lags

You’re undervalued because the market doesn’t understand you.

The perception
gap — and
why it’s costing
you multiple

Institutions don’t value your company on fundamentals alone. They value it on the story they’ve put together about your company — often from old coverage, sector shorthand, or the last earnings call.

That story is usually incomplete. Sometimes it’s wrong. Either way — it’s the one they’re allocating from.

Truth  01

Your story is being told without you.

Every institutional analyst sees your company through their own lens. If you haven’t shaped that lens, someone else has — usually with partial information.

Truth  02

Your multiple is a perception problem.

Two companies with identical numbers can trade at very different multiples because the market believes a different story about each. That gap isn’t fixed in stone — it can be closed.

Truth  03

Most IR work is inward-facing.

Press releases, earnings calls, investor decks — all produced by your team, for your use. None of it tells you how the buy-side is actually positioning your company.

You can keep guessing. Or you can hear it from the buy-side directly.

§ 03 · What We Do

Four things. That’s it.

01

We ask the buy-side.

Direct outreach to the institutions who should own your stock. We ask what they think, what’s holding them back, and what would change their mind.

02

We map the flow.

13F filings show who’s buying, who’s selling, and who owns your peers but not you. We turn that data into a real picture of your ownership base.

03

We write the research.

An initiation report in the same format buy-side analysts expect. Thesis, model, catalysts, risks, peer comp. Written for institutional readers.

04

We close the loop.

The strategic playbook: what to say, what to disclose, who to target next. Tied to the gaps we found in the buy-side intel.

§ 04 · What You Get

Research the buy-side actually reads.

Not pitch decks. Not marketing collateral. The same format institutional analysts use.

Cornerstone Deliverable

Institutional Initiation Report

The foundation document. Modeled on the structure institutional analysts expect: investment thesis, summary financial model, catalyst roadmap, risks, and a peer comp framework. This is the piece of paper that makes your company legible to the buy-side.

15–25 pages Analyst-drafted Peer-benchmarked
  • Thesis & narrative architecture
  • Financial model summary
  • 12–24 month catalyst map
  • Peer comp & positioning
  • Risk framework
Deliverable · 02

Investor Perception Report

Quarterly update. What institutions are saying. What the flow is doing. Where the perception gap is widest — and what to fix first.

QuarterlyHolder-level
Deliverable · 03

Competitive Positioning Analysis

How your story stacks up against your peer group — and where you’re losing the narrative battle.

Peer-mappedNarrative-scored
Deliverable · 04

Strategic Valuation Playbook

The actions to take next: messaging, disclosure, who to target. Tied to the specific gaps the research surfaces.

ActionablePrioritized
Deliverable · 05

Event-Driven Briefings

Earnings prep. M&A positioning. Investor day planning. Activist defense. On-demand, when it matters.

On demandExecutive-level
§ 05 · What We Work Toward

A higher multiple. Better shareholders. A clearer story.

Every engagement is built around six goals. Results vary by company, sector, and market conditions — we don’t guarantee outcomes, but these are the levers we work on.

01 /
Close the gap between how the market sees you and what’s true.
Perception · Gap
02 /
Attract long-term holders instead of short-term flow.
Ownership · Quality
03 /
Make your story and the market’s story the same story.
Narrative · Control
04 /
Narrow the gap between you and your peer group.
Relative · Position
05 /
Strengthen your position going into capital raises, M&A, or major events.
Strategic · Leverage
06 /
Stay ahead of institutional feedback — not behind it.
Posture · Shift
§ 06 · Why Us

We’re not IR. We’re not sell-side. We’re on your side.

Category
Posture & Limits
Verdict
Traditional IR firmsIncumbent
Work for you. Optimize inbound communication, earnings cadence, investor meetings. Rarely produce market-facing intelligence. Your narrative stays in-house.
→ Inward-facing
Sell-side researchIncumbent
Coverage often follows banking relationships. Tied to issuers who pay — coverage typically ends when the deal does. Limited focus on companies outside an active mandate.
→ Tied to mandates
Generic consultantsIncumbent
No live institutional data. No buy-side lens. Strategy in a vacuum, presented on slides, with no feedback loop to the market that would validate any of it.
→ Disconnected
PublicCo InsightsOur approach
Independent. Institutional lens. Data-backed. Written for the sophisticated reader. Designed not to market your company — but to move institutional allocation toward it.
→ Market-facing
§ 07 · The Foundation

Research pedigree. Institutional distribution. Buy-side frameworks. The infrastructure behind the work — so your research holds weight the moment it lands on an analyst’s desk.

Core Frameworks 01

Coverage modeled on institutional sell-side research architecture.

Thesis construction, model summaries, catalyst mapping, comp frameworks — the same structural DNA buy-side analysts expect when they open a research file. Your story, in a format the market already trusts.

13F Surface02
$0T+
Institutional AUM visible through our 13F intelligence layer.
Distribution03
0K+
Investors and capital markets professionals in our network.
Investor Network04
$0T+
Cumulative AUM across portfolio managers and allocators.
Editorial Standard05

Analyst-led. Not marketers. Not generalist consultants.

Every report is written to a standard that respects how institutional readers actually consume research: density over decoration, specificity over claims, and zero tolerance for the language that makes serious readers close the tab. The goal is not to impress you — it is to make your company legible to the people allocating capital.

Discretion06

Private. Selective. Limited engagements each quarter.

We work with a small number of public companies at a time to maintain the depth of research our clients expect. Inquiries are reviewed individually.

§ 08 · The Platforms Behind The Work

Three platforms. One engagement.

Built on three proprietary platforms — the intelligence engine that surfaces the buy-side intel, the institutional terminal where sophisticated investors consume research, and the media network that puts your story in front of $1T+ in capital.

§ 09 · How It Works

Four steps. Six to eight weeks.

Step 01
I

Discovery & Perception Audit

Private session with leadership. Holder base analysis. Perception diagnostic. Baseline established.

Week 1–2
Step 02
II

Intelligence Synthesis

Competitive mapping. 13F flow analysis. Sentiment capture. Narrative-gap identification.

Week 3–5
Step 03
III

Strategic Report Production

Institutional-grade deliverables drafted, peer-reviewed internally, and finalized for distribution.

Week 5–8
Step 04
IV

Executive Briefing & Advisory

Private session with leadership. Deliverables walked through. Ongoing quarterly cadence established.

Week 8 +
§ 10 · Frequent Questions

In case you’re wondering.

Q.01Isn’t this what my IR firm does?+
IR firms optimize your outbound communication — press, calls, decks. Necessary work. But it is produced by your team, for your audiences. What we produce sits on the other side of the desk: research written the way institutional analysts write it, built from the data they consume, and addressed to the problem they are solving. Different function. Different audience. Complementary, not overlapping.
Q.02Who’s this for?+
Primarily CEOs, CFOs, and heads of investor relations or strategy. It is also commonly shared at the board level — particularly in any discussion involving valuation, capital allocation, strategic review, or defensive positioning. The engagement is deliberately executive-facing.
Q.03What size companies fit?+
Small and mid-cap public companies that are under-covered or poorly understood by institutional analysts are the clearest fit. Large-cap engagements are considered case-by-case — typically when there is a specific perception gap, a re-rating opportunity, or a strategic event that warrants market-facing work.
Q.04Is this confidential?+
Every engagement operates under a formal NDA. All research is produced from public filings and public market data; we do not ingest, request, or handle MNPI. Any external distribution of research includes appropriate disclosures regarding the engagement relationship, per standard research convention.
Q.05How much of my time?+
Minimal. One to two discovery sessions with leadership in the first 10 days. One briefing session per deliverable. Ongoing cadence is typically one quarterly check-in unless an event-driven briefing is requested. We do the work. You stay in the seat.
§ 11 · Private Briefing

See how the market truly values your company.

A private, no-cost briefing for qualifying public company leadership teams. We will walk through how we would approach your perception gap, the data we would draw on, and what a full engagement would look like.

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Limited engagements each quarter to maintain the research depth our clients expect.

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