I’m acquiring a small specialty contractor as an add-on to our commercial finishes company. Plan is: - Keep their brand + entity (for now) - Run all operations through my main company - Same team managing both Reality looks like this: - Sometimes my company is the prime and subs them for labor - Sometimes they’re the prime and we run ops/install - Sometimes they expand scope and subcontract us So… two entities, one ops team, and jobs flowing both directions. Main concerns: - Accounting complexity (separate books) - Job costing across entities - Keeping it simple for the team - Preserving SBA-friendly financials for each entity What’s the cleanest way to structure this? Stick with separate entities + intercompany agreements, or simplify everything under one entity? Would love input from anyone who’s actually done this in trades/construction.