Preserving Legacy.
Accelerating Industry.
The best industrial businesses in America weren’t built to be sold. They were built to last. We find them before the process does — and we show up in person to prove it.
Most firms review businesses from a distance.
We don’t.
We go where the work happens — hangars, shop floors, fabrication yards, and spend time with the people who built them.
We look at how things actually run, not just how they’re reported. We focus on durable companies outside major markets, the kind you can only truly understand by showing up. That’s how we decide. That’s how we partner.
Boots on the Ground. Not Behind a Desk.
What We Look For
We partner with mission critical businesses that already work — profitable, disciplined, and built to last. Most are founder-led. Many are approaching a transition.
We don’t chase turnarounds or trends. We look for companies with real customers, steady demand, and operations that hold up when you walk the floor.
Sectors
Mission Critical Businesses
Scale
Lower Middle Market
Geography
Mountain West, Southwest, and Heartland
Ownership
Founder-led businesses and succession transitions
Grant Willoughby
Grant Willoughby spent eleven years developing real estate and learned one thing that didn’t show up in any pro forma: the most valuable businesses in America are run by people who never planned to sell. They built something real — a customer base earned over decades, a workforce that stayed, a reputation that didn’t need marketing. Then one day the question arrives. Grant founded Willoughby Industrial to be the first call when it does.
A type-rated pilot based in Vail and Oklahoma City, he flies his own aircraft into markets most advisors never visit, walks the floor, shakes the hand, and decides in person whether a business is worth protecting. When it is, he finds it a partner who understands what was built, and makes sure the transition is quiet, fair, and worthy of what the founder sacrificed to get there.
We don’t pursue companies to fix them. We pursue companies worth protecting. The businesses we focus on were built over decades, by founders who showed up, made payroll, and earned their customers one job at a time.
Our role is to find them before the bankers do, understand what makes them irreplaceable, and introduce them to partners who respect what was built. No broad processes. No auction dynamics. Just a quiet conversation with someone who flew in to have it.