The deal: I'm under signed LOI (exclusivity through close) to acquire 60% of a 12-year-old specialty engineering firm serving cement, lime, aggregates, and bulk material handling producers across 30+ states — structural, mechanical, and process design for blue-chip industrial clients, with ~90% of revenue from repeat customers. Why this deal exists: The two founders are exceptional engineers who built a $3.4M firm on technical reputation alone — no salesforce, no marketing, no corporate development. They've taken it as far as engineering excellence can carry it, and they know it. What they need is a partner who can do what neither of them has done: institutionalize business development, open new markets, and scale the platform. That's the deal we struck. They're not exiting — they're rolling 40% of their equity, signing 5-year non-competes, and continuing to run day-to-day engineering operations, client delivery, and quality control. I step in as CEO to lead strategy, growth, and capital. Their second bite of the apple comes at exit, alongside my investors — everyone's economics point the same direction. The numbers: $3.4M TTM revenue, $727K TTM EBITDA, 21.3% margins. Revenue has doubled and margins tripled since FY2023. $1.9M signed backlog plus $6.2M in open proposals. Debt-free balance sheet, 17 employees. The structure: $5.0M enterprise value. $1.7M conventional bank term loan (not SBA, process well advanced) + $1.0M preferred equity = $2.7M to sellers at close. The preferred: 12% return, accruing and compounding, full capital plus accrual returned first — ahead of me in every scenario — then a 20% look-through equity participation. The path to exit: The playbook is proven: the company's two satellite offices each cost ~$50K to open and both succeeded. Next market: Dallas–Fort Worth, the largest aggregate market in the country, where the client base already operates. My background is the growth engine — five years as an M&A advisor covering construction materials exclusively (the target's customers are the companies I've been advising), CFO of an industrial fabrication business in the same ecosystem, and a licensed P.E. who speaks the language of the engineers who are the asset. Scale it, institutionalize it, and sell a larger, professionalized platform to a strategic or financial buyer. Raising $1.0M — one check or a small group. Targeting a ~9/9/26 close. Deck, QoE summary, and model available.