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Fractional CFO · M&A Advisory · Corporate Strategy

Independent advice
for the industrial
economy.

Partner-led fractional CFO, M&A and corporate strategy for founder and family-owned industrial businesses across North America.

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Years across investment banking, private equity, consulting and operating
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Capital raise advisory completed: industrial services, Western Canada Embedded CFO mandate commenced: power generation, January 2026 Equity research coverage initiated: Essential Services, North America Sell-side mandate in progress: NDT and asset integrity, Western Canada Capital raise advisory completed: industrial services, Western Canada Embedded CFO mandate commenced: power generation, January 2026 Equity research coverage initiated: Essential Services, North America Sell-side mandate in progress: NDT and asset integrity, Western Canada
02Why research matters

Most advisors pitch.
We arrive with a view.

We model thirty public companies from source filings before we ever take a mandate. That work is not a marketing exercise, it is what makes the advice worth paying for.

  1. 01
    Credibility

    We know the sector before the first meeting

    The valuation framework, the comparables, the precedent transactions and the questions management is already wrestling with. No ramp-up billed to you.

    Our method
  2. 02
    Pricing

    Your value anchored to thirty live comparables

    When we position a private company for a sale or a raise, we are not guessing at a multiple. We anchor it to public companies we model ourselves, updated continuously.

    Coverage universe
  3. 03
    Independence

    No underwriting revenue to protect

    No balance sheet, no trading desk, no house view. We say what we believe and change it when the facts change, not when a relationship is at stake.

    How we think
The engine

Research is the backbone, not the brochure

We cover the chain end to end, from the engineers who scope an asset to the operators who haul it away, and rebuild every model from source filings. That is where the pricing and the buyer list come from.

04Selected mandates

Mandates, not pitches

Power generation plant
Fractional CFO and debt capital raise
Power generation and rental platform

Embedded finance leadership alongside a debt raise to fund fleet expansion.

BluPrint Capital acted as fractional CFO and capital raise advisor

Western Canada
Fire protection systems
Sell-side M&A advisory
Fire protection inspection and service business

Full sell-side process for a recurring-revenue inspection and monitoring business.

BluPrint Capital acted as sell-side M&A advisor

British Columbia
Chemicals manufacturing
Restructuring and corporate carve-out
Intermediate chemicals manufacturer

Separation and divestiture of a capital-intensive business unit.

BluPrint Capital acted as special advisor to the board

United States
Selected engagements only

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BluPrint Capital / Capabilities

What we do.
And how we think.

BluPrint provides the full spectrum of financial advisory services available to an independent firm, without the conflicts of a balance sheet, the pressures of a trading desk, or the compromises of a bulge bracket.

Eight capabilities · One firm · Complete independence

For companies that require the judgment and capability of a senior CFO without a full-time hire. We embed directly into the business, owning the financial function, building institutional-grade infrastructure, and providing the strategic counsel that turns a good business into a financeable, transactable one.

Our partners bring private equity, investment banking, and operating CFO experience to every engagement. We think like investors and operators because we are ones.

Engagements include
  • Financial planning, forecasting and scenario analysis
  • Board and investor reporting
  • KPI and management reporting frameworks
  • Capital allocation strategy
  • Financial infrastructure build-out
  • Transaction readiness
  • Ongoing strategic financial counsel

We advise founders, owners, and management teams on the most consequential transactions of their careers. Our process is disciplined, discreet, and partner-led from origination to close.

We bring investment banking rigour and private equity judgment to every mandate, running sell-side processes that maximise value and buy-side searches that find the right deal at the right price.

Engagements include
  • Sell-side process management
  • Buy-side origination and execution
  • Deal structuring
  • Financial modelling
  • Management presentations and data room preparation
  • Counterparty identification
  • Negotiation support

The questions that matter most, where to grow, how to allocate capital, how to respond to a competitive threat, whether to pursue a transformative transaction, deserve rigorous, independent thinking.

We bring the analytical framework of a top-tier strategy firm and the financial lens of an investment bank to the decisions that define a company’s trajectory.

Engagements include
  • Growth strategy
  • Capital allocation frameworks
  • Competitive positioning and portfolio analysis
  • Strategic planning
  • Build vs. buy analysis
  • Market entry advisory
  • Operating model design

The right capital structure is not just about minimising cost, it is about building a balance sheet that supports the strategy, survives stress, and positions the business for its next stage of growth.

We advise on optimal debt and equity mix, recapitalisation opportunities, and the structural decisions that protect and create enterprise value.

Engagements include
  • Capital structure optimisation
  • Recapitalisation advisory
  • Debt capacity analysis
  • Covenant review
  • Balance sheet restructuring
  • Leverage and returns analysis

When a business faces financial stress, the quality of advice in the first thirty days determines the outcome.

We advise companies and their stakeholders on navigating financial distress, stabilising operations, restructuring obligations, and creating a path to a sustainable capital structure. Our approach is direct, experienced, and independent.

Engagements include
  • Financial distress assessment
  • Debt restructuring advisory
  • Stakeholder negotiation support
  • Operational turnaround strategy
  • Liquidity management
  • Creditor advisory

Activist pressure, shareholder disputes, and governance challenges demand a trusted advisor who has no conflicts and no agenda other than the client’s best outcome.

We advise boards and management teams on understanding activist demands, developing credible responses, and communicating effectively with shareholders, before, during, and after a campaign.

Engagements include
  • Activist situation assessment
  • Board preparedness
  • Shareholder communication strategy
  • Governance review
  • Defensive positioning
  • Proxy advisory support

Accessing private capital requires more than a good business, it requires knowing the right people, understanding what they need to see, and positioning the opportunity correctly.

We help companies identify and approach the right private capital providers, private equity, family offices, and private credit, and prepare them to have the right conversations.

Engagements include
  • Investor targeting and mapping
  • Investment thesis development
  • Financial model and metrics package
  • Investor presentation and data room
  • Introductions to institutional and private capital providers

When the financial terms of a transaction need to be independently verified, BluPrint provides rigorous, bottoms-up fairness opinions for private company transactions.

Our opinions are grounded in institutional-grade financial modelling, deep public market benchmarking, and precedent transaction analysis, delivered with the independence that only an unconflicted advisor can provide.

Engagements include
  • Fairness opinions on private M&A transactions
  • Related-party transaction valuations
  • Independent board advice on financial terms
  • Management buyout assessments
  • Minority interest valuations
01Independence

No balance sheet.
No trading desk.
No house view.

Our only obligation is to the client in front of us. That is the difference between advice and distribution.

Where it comes from

Built by investors
and operators,
for founders.

BluPrint was founded to give private companies access to the calibre of financial advice previously reserved for large-cap corporates. Independent, unconflicted, and built for the long term.

01 / Investment banking

Transaction execution at a bulge bracket level

M&A, capital markets, and corporate finance advisory executed at the highest level. The discipline and rigour behind every mandate we take on.

02 / Private equity

Institutional capital deployment and value creation

Sourcing, diligence, and portfolio management across industrial and technology sectors. We think like the investors sitting across the table.

03 / Strategy consulting

Corporate strategy for major North American businesses

Operating model design, growth strategy, and capital allocation frameworks built for complexity. The analytical rigour behind every strategic engagement.

04 / Operating leadership

CFO-level leadership in growth-stage businesses

We have sat in the CFO seat, building financial infrastructure, managing boards, and navigating capital decisions under real operating pressure. That perspective is irreplaceable.

Next step

Every engagement
begins with a partner
conversation.

Tell us about the situation. If we are the right firm for it, we will say so, and if we are not, we will tell you that too.

BluPrint Capital / Equity Research

Bottoms-up research.
Built from first principles.

Thirty companies across the five stages of an industrial asset's life. Every model rebuilt from source filings, never from consensus.

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Verticals, design through decommissioning
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Models built from source filings
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Exchanges: TSX, NYSE and NASDAQ
01The value chain

Why these five verticals

Select a stage to filter the coverage universe below.

Asset lifeDesign to decommissioning

An industrial asset is designed, built, equipped, maintained through its working life, then decommissioned. Different companies own each stage. They share the same customers, the same capital budgets and the same cycle.

So we cover the chain, not a sector. Engineering backlog today is construction revenue in eighteen months, equipment utilisation after that, and maintenance and environmental spend for the two decades that follow. Reading one stage tells you what is coming for the next.

02Coverage universe

Thirty companies,
five verticals

TSX, NYSE and NASDAQ listed. Showing 5 of 5 verticals.

04Valuation snapshot

Where the sector
trades today

Thirty companies, five verticals, one screen. Switch the metric or isolate a vertical to see how the sector is being priced.

Coverage universe: trading multiples
Every company in the coverage universe, plotted against its vertical. The bar is the range, each dot a company, the heavy tick the median. Switch to Companies for a column view, or Table for the numbers.

Illustrative figures shown. The chart reads from a single table in assets/js/chart.js. Drop in live model output to publish. Not investment advice.

05How we build it

Every number earned,
not assumed.

We rebuild every financial statement from source filings. Revenue by segment. Margins normalised for one-time items. Working capital mapped quarter by quarter. Free cash flow reconciled to the penny.

Method

No consensus. No shortcuts.

We do not accept reported numbers at face value and we do not start from a consensus estimate. Every assumption in our models is explicitly documented and stress-tested. The output is a view of value we can defend in full, because we built every line of it ourselves.

Why it matters

The public market lens on private decisions.

Knowing what public market investors pay for a business gives our private company clients an enormous advantage. When we position a company for a transaction, we are not guessing at valuation, we anchor it to 30 live public comps we model ourselves.

Independence

No conflicts. No house view.

Our research has no underwriting revenue to protect and no banking relationships to preserve. We cover what we find analytically interesting, we say what we actually believe, and we change our view when the facts change, not when a client relationship is at stake.

P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow rebuilt from 10-K and SEDAR filings. Every segment. Every adjustment. No shortcuts.

Revenue growth, EBITDA margins, ROIC, and FCF conversion mapped across the full 30-company coverage universe.

DCF with explicit assumptions, EV/EBITDA, EV/Revenue, and precedent transaction comps. Sensitivity tables on every key driver.

Bull case, bear case, and the specific catalysts that move the stock. Written for institutional readers. Applied to every private mandate.

From research to mandate

The analytical edge
behind every
engagement.

Research is how we know the sector. It is also how our clients get a valuation view anchored in live public comps rather than a rule of thumb.

BluPrint Capital / Transactions

Selected
transactions.

BluPrint works with a limited number of clients at any given time. We are selective by design, it is the only way to deliver the quality of counsel our clients deserve.

Showing 15 of 15 mandates

Power generation plant
Fractional CFO and debt capital raise
Power generation and rental platform

Embedded finance leadership alongside a debt raise to fund fleet expansion.

BluPrint Capital acted as fractional CFO and capital raise advisor

Western Canada
Steel fabrication
Strategic advisory to the board
Vertically integrated steel and construction group

Board-level advice across a multi-company fabrication and construction platform.

BluPrint Capital acted as strategic advisor to the board

Western Canada
Structural steel manufacturing
Fractional CFO
Structural steel and storage systems manufacturer

Forecasting, reporting and working capital discipline inside the business.

BluPrint Capital acted as fractional CFO

Western Canada
Industrial coating operations
Restructuring advisory
Industrial coating and blasting business

Stabilising operations and obligations through a period of financial stress.

BluPrint Capital acted as restructuring advisor

Western Canada
Warehouse racking installation
Fractional CFO
Storage and racking installation contractor

Finance function build-out for a project-based installation business.

BluPrint Capital acted as fractional CFO

Western Canada
Industrial storage racking
Strategic advisory
Industrial storage solutions provider

Growth priorities and capital allocation for the next stage of the business.

BluPrint Capital acted as strategic advisor

Western Canada
Fire protection systems
Sell-side M&A advisory
Fire protection inspection and service business

Full sell-side process for a recurring-revenue inspection and monitoring business.

BluPrint Capital acted as sell-side M&A advisor

British Columbia
Fire suppression pipework
Buy-side M&A advisory
Fire suppression systems installer

Target identification and execution on a complementary installer.

BluPrint Capital acted as buy-side M&A advisor

British Columbia
Non-destructive testing
Valuation and financial modelling
Non-destructive testing services business

Sell-side modelling and valuation analysis. No process was run.

BluPrint Capital acted as financial advisor on valuation

Western Canada
Electrical infrastructure
Equity raise advisory
Electrical infrastructure technology company

Financial modelling and investor materials supporting an equity round.

BluPrint Capital acted as financial advisor on the raise

Canada
Environmental services
Fairness opinion
Hydrovac and environmental services operator

Independent opinion on the financial terms of a proposed transaction.

BluPrint Capital acted as independent financial advisor

Western Canada
Chemicals manufacturing
Restructuring and corporate carve-out
Intermediate chemicals manufacturer

Separation and divestiture of a capital-intensive business unit.

BluPrint Capital acted as special advisor to the board

United States
Turbomachinery
Growth strategy and fractional CFO
Turbomachinery equipment and services provider

Growth strategy alongside embedded finance leadership.

BluPrint Capital acted as strategic advisor and fractional CFO

International
Engineering consultancy
Sell-side M&A advisory
Fire and life safety engineering consultancy

Sale of a risk-based engineering and consulting practice.

BluPrint Capital acted as sell-side advisor

Canada
Industrial safety services
Strategic advisory
Industrial safety services provider

Corporate strategy for a national training and emergency response business.

BluPrint Capital acted as strategic advisor

Canada
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01How we work

Most of our work never appears on this page.

Mandates are confidential by default. What is published here closed, or the client asked us to. The rest stays where it belongs.

Pipeline

More transactions
to be announced.

Most of our work is confidential. What appears here is a fraction of the mandates in progress, the rest will be published as they close, and some never will.

Considering a process?

The best outcomes
start long before
the process does.

Owners who understand their value, know their strategic alternatives, and have an advisor in their corner before a process starts achieve materially better outcomes.

BluPrint Capital / The Firm

The BluPrint
edge.

Nobody else is doing what we do. We use deep, proprietary sector research to build CFO-level relationships, and those relationships are the pipeline for every transaction we advise on. Research leads to trust. Trust leads to mandates. Mandates become transactions.

The BluPrint flywheel
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Sector Research

We build proprietary, bottoms-up models on 30 companies across five essential services verticals. Not to publish. To know the sector better than anyone advising in it.

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CFO Relationships

That research gets us in front of CFOs and boards of the most interesting companies in the sector, not as a banker pitching a deal, but as a financial partner who already understands their business.

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Transaction Advisory

When the moment comes, a sale, an acquisition, a capital raise, we are already inside the tent. The mandate is the natural conclusion of the relationship, not a cold pitch.

Why nobody else does this

The large banks don’t
cover the companies
that need advice most.

Below $500 million in market cap, institutional research coverage drops to near zero. These companies, profitable, growing, with real strategic decisions to make, are invisible to Bay Street. Not because they aren’t interesting. Because they don’t generate enough fee revenue to justify the overhead of a bulge bracket.

That is not a gap we stumbled into. It is the entire thesis for BluPrint.

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01The operator difference

We have sat in the seat. Not studied it.

We have held the CFO chair at a $100M public company, accountable for the outcome, not parachuted in. Most advisors have studied that seat.

Precision engineering detail
Philosophy

Independent thinking.
No agenda.

The large banks cannot give unconflicted advice. Their balance sheets, trading desks, and underwriting pipelines will always come first. The advice they give is shaped, consciously or not, by the capital they want to deploy, the relationships they want to protect, and the deals they want to win.

BluPrint has none of those constraints. No balance sheet. No trading desk. No underwriting pressure. Our only obligation is to the client in front of us.

01 / How we think

Sector depth before anything else

We build proprietary research before we ever walk into a client meeting. We know the sector’s valuation framework, the comps, the precedent transactions, and the strategic questions management is wrestling with. We arrive with a view, not a pitch.

02 / How we work

One client. One obligation.

We work with a small number of companies at any one time. Not because of capacity constraints, because giving genuinely unconflicted advice requires undivided attention. Every engagement gets the full weight of the firm.

03 / What we bring

The operator’s lens

We have been inside the business, not just advising on it. Building financial infrastructure, managing boards under pressure, making capital decisions with real consequences, that experience shapes how we think about every mandate.

From the founding partner
We have run the finance
function of a $100M
business. We know what it
feels like when the answer
actually matters.
BluPrint Capital, Founding Partner
“I spent years making million-dollar decisions without the right people in the room. That changed when we found BluPrint.”
CEO, Western Canadian Industrial Company
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Conversations are
direct and
confidential.

We work with a small number of companies at any one time. If we are the right firm for your situation, we will say so, and if we are not, we will tell you that too.

01Market Outlook

2026 North American
Industrial Services
Market Outlook

Growth in 2026 is selective, not broad-based. The essential services sector is bifurcating, between companies exposed to structural demand tailwinds (infrastructure, power, data centres, water) and those facing macro headwinds. Here is where we see the opportunity.

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Themes defining the sector
02Themes

Five themes defining
the sector in 2026

The aggregate numbers mask a deeply uneven market. Sub-sector selection now matters more than cycle timing.

Theme 01

Selective growth replaces broad momentum

Total US construction spending is forecast to increase ~1% to $2.2 trillion in 2026, but the aggregate masks a deeply uneven market. Public infrastructure and government-funded projects are outperforming while multifamily, traditional office, and manufacturing face ongoing headwinds.

Companies positioned in power, water, and data centre infrastructure are outperforming materially. Those that have not are managing margin pressure. The playbook has changed from riding the cycle to picking the right sub-sectors.

Theme 02

Data centres and power are reshaping the E&C landscape

Data centre construction is driving office spending up 6% in 2026, nearly all of it concentrated in mission-critical facilities. Power construction is accelerating toward 14% growth by 2028. Water infrastructure leads all nonbuilding segments, driven by PFAS compliance mandates and the water intensity of data centres and advanced manufacturing.

Engineering firms with exposure to power, water and digital infrastructure, WSP, AtkinsRéalis, Stantec, are reporting double-digit organic growth in these sub-segments. This is a multi-year structural shift, not a cyclical spike.

Theme 03

Nation-building is the dominant Canadian theme

Canada's federal infrastructure agenda, defence, energy, transportation, northern development, is creating a multi-year pipeline that has materially improved the outlook for Canadian E&C. Aecon's $10.9B backlog is up 12% year-over-year. Stantec is growing double-digits in Northern Canada.

Defence spending, expected to scale from $63B to $155B by 2035, is a structural tailwind for companies with engineering and construction capabilities. The Arctic Over-the-Horizon Radar program, trans-Canada infrastructure, and nuclear refurbishment are the visible portion of a much larger pipeline.

Theme 04

M&A is back, but buyers are disciplined

59% of Canadian dealmakers expect increased M&A activity in 2026, and sector data confirms it. Industrial services M&A is being driven by structural conviction rather than cyclical momentum, buyers are targeting service-oriented, asset-light businesses with recurring revenue, infrastructure exposure and defensible technical capabilities.

The lower-middle market is the most active segment: companies between $10M and $100M in EBITDA are trading at historically attractive multiples relative to larger-cap peers. For acquirers, this is a rare window. For owners, independent financial advice has never been more consequential.

05The BluPrint thesis

The companies Bay Street hasn’t found yet

Below $500M in market cap, institutional research coverage drops to near zero. These companies, profitable, growing, with real strategic decisions to make, face the same capital allocation, M&A and investor positioning questions as their large-cap peers, without the same access to independent financial expertise. That gap is the entire thesis for BluPrint Capital.

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Companies under proprietary research coverage
03Sector view

Sector by sector

Our view across the BluPrint coverage universe, five verticals, from design through disposal.

The strongest sub-sector in the coverage universe. WSP is growing Power & Energy at double-digits following the TRC acquisition. AtkinsRéalis is tracking 5-7% organic growth with nuclear revenue targets raised to $2.6-3.0B by 2027. Stantec sees double-digit growth in the US water and power markets. Defence is an emerging tailwind as Canadian government spending accelerates. Healthy balance sheets support continued M&A-driven consolidation.

Selective strength. Canadian nation-building is a genuine tailwind, Aecon's backlog is up 12% with nuclear at 28% of construction revenue. US specialty contractors (EMCOR, Quanta, MYR) are benefiting from power and data centre construction. General construction faces margin pressure as fixed-price legacy contracts roll off. Infrastructure work is outperforming private commercial.

Toromont is seeing Product Support demand ramp from fleet deliveries 2-3 years ago, with mining remaining constructive across multiple commodities. The AVL generator business is running at full capacity in Hamilton, serving data centre backup power demand along the eastern seaboard. Finning's Canadian business faces softer construction demand offset by mining strength. United Rentals continues to benefit from infrastructure and industrial capex.

The most defensively positioned bucket. Comfort Systems, IES Holdings and EMCOR are executing strongly on data centre electrical and mechanical work alongside their recurring maintenance base. Dexterra's workforce accommodation business is exposed to Canadian resource sector activity. APi Group's fire protection and life safety inspection revenues (85%+ recurring) provide earnings visibility across cycles. The sub-sector rewards incumbency and technical certification.

The most compelling long-term structural thesis. Waste Connections is tracking 5%+ core price growth with AI tools expected to contribute 100bps of margin expansion by 2028. GFL's environmental services platform continues to benefit from pricing discipline and route density gains. RNG projects are ramping with meaningful EBITDA contributions expected from 2027. For smaller environmental services companies, mine water treatment, clean combustion, industrial wastewater, regulatory tailwinds are accelerating demand with no comparable increase in the supply of qualified operators.

04M&A outlook

2026 will be an
opportune year for
domestic dealmaking

A lower interest rate environment, a Canada-first investment agenda, stronger valuations and the stabilisation following tariff uncertainty are converging to create a favourable deal environment. 59% of Canadian valuation professionals expect M&A to increase in 2026, driven by fundamentals, not distress.

Construction and engineering, logistics, oil and gas services, advanced manufacturing and business services are expected to see the most consolidation activity.

Buyer profile

Well-capitalised strategic acquirers and private equity platforms prioritising service-oriented, asset-light businesses with recurring revenue, infrastructure exposure and defensible technical capabilities.

Valuation environment

Public multiples compressed 15-20% from 2025 peaks, creating a meaningful gap versus private transaction precedents. Lower-middle-market companies are trading at historically attractive multiples relative to large-cap peers.

Advisory implication

This environment rewards preparation. Owners who understand their value, know their strategic alternatives and have an advisor in their corner before the process starts will achieve materially better outcomes.

This report reflects BluPrint Capital’s independent views on sector trends and market conditions as of June 2026. It draws on proprietary research, publicly available data, and management commentary from industry participants. Not investment advice. Data sources include FMI Corp, PwC, KPMG, Torys and CBV Institute.

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LocationCalgary, Alberta · Canada
Industrial operations in Western Canada
Calgary, Alberta · serving North America

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Selective by design

BluPrint works with a limited number of clients at any given time. It is the only way to deliver the quality of counsel our clients deserve.