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Operational Data Fabric
A single source of truth stitched across ERPs, point solutions, and the spreadsheets nobody will give up. Clean, reconciled, and live.
Issue 01Software & OperationsThe Portfolio Quarterly
A consulting studio for operation-heavy portfolios
Order,
engineered into
the operation.
Stacked Hand builds the software that turns sprawling, operation-heavy portfolios into a single legible system — so every business you hold runs like it was designed to.
Plate I- Private Equity✦
- Multi-Site Operators✦
- Holding Companies✦
- Franchise Networks✦
- Real Assets✦
- Roll-Ups✦
- Healthcare Groups✦
- Logistics✦
The Practice
We are not a software vendor. We are the operators' engineers.
Operation-heavy portfolios accumulate friction. Spreadsheets multiply, systems fork, and knowledge lives in the heads of a few essential people. Growth makes it worse, not better. Stacked Hand exists to reverse that entropy — designing and shipping software that absorbs the operational weight so leadership can see clearly and move quickly.
We embed with your teams, map the real workflow beneath the org chart, and build the connective tissue between the tools you already run. The result is not another dashboard — it is an operating system for the whole portfolio.
The Index of
Capabilities
Six disciplines, one mandate — to make an operation-heavy portfolio run like a single, well-tuned instrument.
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Workflow Automation
We remove the repetitive human relay — approvals, reconciliations, onboarding — replacing manual handoffs with software that never forgets a step.
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Portfolio Intelligence
Executive-grade visibility across every holding, with the same metrics defined the same way, so comparison is finally honest.
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Custom Internal Tools
Purpose-built applications for the work your teams actually do, shaped to the operation rather than forcing the operation into off-the-shelf software.
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Integration & Migration
We connect what exists and retire what should not, moving critical operations off fragile systems without stopping the business.
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Embedded Engineering
Senior teams that sit inside your operation for the length of the engagement — building, shipping, and transferring ownership as we go.
Plate IIThe Method
Four movements,
one system.
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Diagnose
We embed and map the real operation — the workflows, the workarounds, and the friction that never makes it into a deck.
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Architect
A deliberate systems design: what to connect, what to build, what to retire, sequenced against operational risk.
III
Build
Senior engineers ship in short cycles, in production, alongside your teams — value in weeks, not roadmaps in years.
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Transfer
We hand over documented, owned software and the people trained to run it. The dependency we design out is our own.
On the record
“Complexity is not the enemy. Complexity left unstructured is. Our work is to give an operation its structure back.”
The Stacked Hand Practice— Founding principle
Where we work
Built for the
operation-heavy.
We work with owners and operators whose value lives in running many things well at once — the portfolios where operational excellence compounds.
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- Systems consolidated, on average
- 6wk
- To first production release
- 100%
- Code & ownership transferred
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Private Equity Operations
Standardised reporting and shared tooling across a portfolio of holdings.
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Multi-Site Operators
One operating layer across dozens or hundreds of physical locations.
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Holding Companies
Consolidated visibility without forcing every business onto one platform.
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Roll-Ups & Integration
Absorbing acquisitions onto a common operating system, quickly.
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Franchise & Network
Software that keeps standards consistent across independent operators.
The Enquiry
Let's make the
operation legible.
Tell us where the friction is. We reply to every serious enquiry within two business days with a point of view, not a pitch.