Growing businesses often need senior leadership, a clear plan and better systems at the same time. Our partners step in as executives, lead strategy, transactions and operational change, and direct the engineers who build and run the technology.
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Partners have held CEO, COO, CFO, CIO, CTO and CISO roles.
We design, build and run software in house.
Intake, extraction, review agents and copilots in live workflows.
The partner who scopes the work runs it.
Most consulting ends at the recommendation. For a growing business, that is often where the hard part starts.
Owners usually know where the business is struggling. What they often lack is the time, the senior management capacity or the technical team to fix it properly, and to make the fix hold.
That is where we come in. A Bunnell Hill partner joins your leadership team, takes ownership of the problem, and stays until the result belongs to you.
Sometimes the need is a senior executive. Sometimes it is a system that no longer works. Often it is both. We bring the leadership to make the decisions and the team to carry them out, so the owner is not managing separate consultants and developers.
A partner in the executive seat for as long as the work needs one. We work directly with owners and the leadership team, and with boards or investors when appropriate, make the decisions that come with the role, and develop the person who takes the seat over.
Explore the practiceCapital, deals and direction
Partners who have raised capital, bought companies and sold them. We help owners set direction, get the business ready for a raise or a sale, and run diligence and negotiation on either side of a deal, through close and integration.
Explore the practiceHow the business actually runs
For businesses that have outgrown how they work: the owner makes every decision and the same problems keep coming back. We find what is breaking, assign ownership and change how the business actually runs, especially where the work carries compliance rules.
Explore the practiceWe build it, and we run it
We take responsibility for the technology, not just the code. Our engineers design and build custom platforms, put AI agents into production workflows and keep the systems running after launch, with technology and security leadership at the table.
Explore the practiceMost businesses do not need another technology vendor to supervise. Our engineers build the systems, keep them running after launch, and answer to a partner who understands the business problem.
Custom platforms, client portals, integrations and data migrations, from architecture to production.
AI that does real work inside regulated workflows, with human review where judgment matters.
We keep what we build running: support, monitoring, releases and infrastructure, under agreed service levels.
Much of our work has been in regulated, transaction-heavy businesses where the details matter. The same problems show up in plenty of other owner-led companies, and we take that work when our experience fits.
Practice operations, legal technology and the software consumer bankruptcy firms file on.
Debt resolution, settlement and consumer credit workflows under state-by-state rules.
Multi-state scholarship programs with eligibility, disbursement and audit obligations.
Digital insurance distribution, embedded coverage, and settlement and closing operations.
Operating systems for distributed businesses, from unit economics to field technology.
Diligence, integration and executive cover for private investors and the companies they back.
Representative engagements from completed and ongoing work. Client identities are confidential; every engagement described here is real.
Education finance
A scholarship organization running programs in several states needed its platform to keep pace with growing volume and each state's rules. Bunnell Hill took responsibility for the technology from requirements through stabilization, upgraded eligibility, disbursement and audit workflow, and supports the platform while the organization's team runs it day to day.
Bankruptcy software
The company changed hands and needed operating leadership and a product rebuild at the same time. Bunnell Hill holds the senior operating seat while our engineers remediate the code, build a client intake portal that reads and extracts client documents, and add an AI assistant inside the product. Licensed professionals keep authority over every legal decision.
Private investment
An investor needed an operator's read on an acquisition, not just a financial review. A CFO-level partner examined the financials and diligence materials, negotiated key deal points and guided the deal through close. It closed on target terms, and the firm was retained for ongoing advisory work.
Every engagement follows the same arc, whether it lasts a quarter or several years.
A partner joins your leadership rhythm, reads the numbers, talks to the people doing the work, and agrees with you what success looks like in terms you can measure.
We carry the work ourselves. That can mean holding an executive seat, rebuilding a platform, closing a transaction, or all three, with the right partner on each.
We hire or develop the person who keeps the seat, document how the work runs, and step back. Many clients keep a partner on as an advisor afterward.
Short pieces on what we see from inside the seat: leadership, operations and AI in companies that have to get the rules right.
Operations
Asked where to start with AI, we start where we always have: listening, documenting and mapping the workflow. AI attaches to a pipeline that has to exist first.
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Technology
Vendor marketing is shipping at AI speed while engineering ships at enterprise speed. The gap only shows up when you run real workloads against real data.
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AI in operations
Building a production agent taught us that the AI is the easy part. Defining success, evaluation and the rails is where the cost lives, and it needs an owner.
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Executed, not advised.
The first conversation is with a partner. We will talk through what you are facing, what you have already tried, and whether we are the right fit.
Conversations are confidential.
