Expertise for Every Stage of the Business Lifecycle.

From High-stakes Transactions to
Everyday Business Challenges.

Blue Ops brings together transaction expertise, Office of the CFO support, augmented finance, and data-driven intelligence to help companies, investors and advisors move with greater clarity and confidence.

From diligence and onboarding to finance transformation, lean-team support and enterprise data solutions, we help clients solve difficult problems, uncover value and keep moving forward.

How we Help

Different Moments. Different Needs. One Team Ready to Move.

A transaction may bring us in. A finance challenge may bring us back. A capacity gap, a data problem or a critical initiative may start an entirely new conversation.

Our services are built to meet the business where it is — bringing the right people, expertise and technology to solve the problem in front of you and stay useful as your needs evolve.

Why Choose
Blue Ops?

Better data for informed decision-making.
Deep experience in M&A, Finance & PE firms.

  • The gold standard in speed and responsiveness
  • More reliable, decision-ready data powered by our AI and analytics stack
  • Reduced risk and increased certainty
  • 100% commitment to your success

“The best measure of our work is whether a client calls us again.

We earn that trust by being available, doing what we say we’ll do and staying with the problem until it’s solved. Whatever it takes.”

John Derus, Managing Partner, Blue Ops

Our Services

Where Expertise, Execution and Intelligence Come Together. Built to Create Value at Every Stage.

From M&A and the Office of the CFO to augmented operations, data and AI, Blue Ops brings experienced people and modern capabilities together to solve complex challenges, strengthen performance and create lasting value.

01 | M&A PLANNING & TRANSACTION SERVICES

See the Whole Deal. Move with Speed and Confidence.

Senior deal expertise. Deeper data. Better decisions when the stakes are highest.

The best transaction decisions happen when experience and evidence come together.

Blue Ops gets beneath the summary-level story, answers difficult questions faster and brings clarity to the moments where uncertainty can cost time, value — or the deal itself.

Buy-Side Due Diligence | RECON™

Know more before you own it.

Replace assumptions with verified data fast enough to compete. We dig beneath the seller story to surface risks, trends, profitability drivers and value-creation opportunities before they become surprises.

Sell-Side Due Diligence

Be ready before the questions start.

Get the business, the data and the story ready for market. We help management teams and bankers surface issues early, build defensible analytics and respond faster throughout the sale process.

Quality of Earnings | QofE

Make sure the financial story stands up.

Senior-level financial diligence meets tech-enabled speed. From EBITDA and net working capital to business trends, forecasts and closing mechanics, we help buyers and sellers understand what is really behind the numbers.

02 | OFFICE OF THE CFO

Whatever Is on the CFO’s Desk, You Don’t Have to Solve It Alone.

From the first 100 days to the next strategic move, we bring the expertise and horsepower to keep finance — and the business — moving.

Some challenges are planned. Others show up Monday morning.

Blue Ops works alongside CFOs, management teams and investors to strengthen the finance function, improve performance, uncover value and step into critical gaps when something important needs to get done.

We can lead the initiative, augment your existing team or take ownership of the work — bringing experienced people who understand the business, get up to speed quickly and are ready to work alongside your team from day one.

Acquisition Onboarding

Build the right foundation from day one.

Turn the first 100 days into a stronger operating foundation — aligning finance, reporting, people, processes and priorities so the business is ready for what comes next.

Hold Period Value Creation

Find the opportunity. Build the plan. Deliver the value.

Translate strategic objectives into measurable initiatives, meaningful KPIs and disciplined execution that improve performance and strengthen enterprise value.

FP&A & Strategic Finance

See what’s happening. Understand why. Know what to do next.

Build the models, planning processes and analytical capabilities leaders need to understand performance, anticipate what comes next and make better decisions faster.

Accounting & Controllership

Get the foundation right. Then make it better.

Strengthen close, reporting, controls and financial infrastructure so leadership can trust the numbers — and the finance organization can keep pace with the business.

Capital & Liquidity Management

Know where the cash is. Know where it’s going.

Improve working-capital performance, cash visibility, liquidity planning and lender reporting so management can stay ahead of pressure rather than react to it.

Interim Finance Leadership

The right person. Right now.

Put an experienced CFO, Controller, VP of Finance or FP&A leader in the seat quickly to stabilize the function, lead critical initiatives and keep important work moving.

No Perfectly Packaged Problem Required.

Start with what isn’t working. We’ll help figure out the rest.

03 | OPERATIONS & AUGMENTED FINANCE

More Capability for Lean Teams. Better Answers for the Business.

Experienced people, ongoing analytical support and tech-enabled delivery — without building every capability in-house.

Growing businesses rarely lack ambition. They lack time, bandwidth and sometimes the specialized expertise to turn all of their priorities and data into action.

Blue Ops gives lean teams a deeper bench. Through Compass and our performance analytics capabilities, we add experienced finance, operational and data professionals where they are needed most — helping leaders run tighter, see problems sooner and move important work forward.

Team Compass

A Bigger Team. Without Building One.

Compass adds an experienced finance and operational analytics team behind your existing organization.

From recurring reporting and dashboards to cash flow, margin visibility and deeper business analysis, our people help take important work off your team’s plate while giving leadership clearer answers and greater confidence.

Performance Analytics & BI Solutions

Turn the Data You Have into Answers You Can Use.

Connect financial and operational information across the business and put it to work.

We build dashboards, KPIs, profitability analytics and decision-support tools that give leaders a clearer view of performance — without waiting weeks for another spreadsheet pull.

BUILT INTO THE WORK

Data, Analytics & AI Power Every Service.

Technology is not a separate step in the Blue Ops process. It is part of how we work.

Across transactions, finance and operations, our teams combine experienced judgment with modern data infrastructure, advanced analytics and secure AI to move faster, go deeper and deliver better answers.

Built on Diligent, the transaction platform behind 130+ deals a year, DiligentIQ brings Smith-powered intelligence into the diligence workflow — helping our teams move through complex data faster, surface issues earlier and go deeper without slowing the deal.

Explore DILIGENTIQ

Blue Ops’ secure AI engine sits between our team, your systems, and the world’s leading models. Faster diligence, deeper analytics, and defensible analysis with your data fully protected.

Explore SMITH

Compass is your augmented finance and operational analytics team. Senior experts work alongside yours inside the Compass Portal with secure AI built in, delivering the reports, dashboards, and analysis that leaders need to decide with confidence.

Explore COMPASS

Catalyst sits above your existing systems as a unified analytics layer, accelerating month-end close, board reporting, forecasting, and margin analysis.

Explore CATALYST

PE and M&A expertise from day one

AI-powered tools and battle-tested processes

A partner invested in your outcome

Measurable impact at every stage

Add Speed and Certainty to Your Process

We understand the issues that arise again and again across M&A and value creation cycles. Our services are designed to address those problems directly — so you can rest easy at night and stop scrambling for ad hoc fixes to PE-industry-specific issues. We’re a team you can trust to step in, get our hands on the data, and deliver results. Every. Single. Time.

You guys are better than any other provider we have ever used.

VP, Jefferies | Project Pub