What Businesses iii Partners Works With

iii Partners is built for a specific type of business — labour-heavy, operationally complex, and margin-constrained — and for the investors and sponsors who control access to them. Not every business is the right fit.

The Asset Profile

iii Partners improves businesses that share a consistent set of characteristics:

• Labour-heavy operations — a significant share of total cost is human labour
• Repetitive human process — large volumes of recurring tasks that are currently done manually
• Low or capped margins — the margin structure has not changed despite growth
• EBITDA above $500k — sufficient scale for the improvement to be material and measurable
• Unglamorous sectors — distribution, field services, logistics, staffing, facilities, and similar industries where operational complexity is the norm

Why These Businesses

Labour-heavy, low-margin businesses are the exact profile where an AI-native operating stack produces the largest measurable improvement. The repetitive-process cost is large, addressable, and directly connected to EBITDA — which means the before-and-after is real and auditable.

Businesses with low labour intensity or already-automated processes are generally not the right fit.

The Counterparty Profile

iii Partners sells through and to the people who control access to portfolios of these businesses:

• Independent sponsors — first priority; one relationship reaches multiple assets
• PE operating partners at lower-middle-market firms
• Family offices with operating company holdings
• Searchers and newly installed CEOs who have just taken operational control

Brokers and business owners are a source of deal flow but are not the primary counterparty.

What Disqualifies a Business

• EBITDA below $500k (insufficient scale for meaningful measurement)
• Primarily capital-intensive rather than labour-intensive cost structures
• No identifiable repetitive human-process cost
• Owner unwilling to establish a countersigned operational baseline

Not Sure If You Qualify

Bring one business in your portfolio to a twenty-minute call. iii Partners will walk the cost structure and tell you honestly whether the lift is there. Book at [cal.com/iii/iii-partners-demo](https://cal.com/iii/iii-partners-demo) or email scott@iii.partners.