Value creation · M&A
Led by humans,
powered by machines.
MAZ is a management consulting firm built natively on frontier technology. Senior operators who have sat in your chair lead every engagement. COCO, our private intelligence engine, carries the evidence underneath.
"Where does this deal thesis leak value?"
SENIOR OPERATOR · ENGAGEMENT LEAD"Nine months to ramp is generous. Tighten to six and re-run the case."
How we work
One team. Two kinds of work.
One outcome.
Owns the judgment.
And the accountability.
- Has sat in your chair: deals, operations, the P&L.
- In your meetings, on your cadence. A person, not a portal.
- Every recommendation carries a senior operator's name.
Owns the evidence.
And the endurance.
- Every document read. Every lever sized. Nothing skimmed.
- Every number traceable to the document it came from.
- Never stops watching the number, through the hold to exit.
Never a handoff.
THE INSIGHT AND THE ACCOUNTABILITY SIT IN THE SAME SEAT
The firm
Built from the ground up.
No legacy. No compromise.
We started from a blank sheet with three convictions: senior people in the work, machines underneath, and proof behind every number. All of it graded on one measure: outcomes, not hours.
Operators first
Every engagement is led by a senior operator who has sat in your chair. No junior army, no handoffs. The people who scope the work deliver it.
Native intelligence
COCO is built into the operating model: intake, insight, execution. AI does the reading; our people do the thinking.
Evidence discipline
Stress-tested. Benchmarked. Measurable. We don't trade in opinions. We deliver proof.
The future doesn't wait.
NEITHER DO WE
Who we serve
One system.
Three seats at the table.
Deal teams & operating partners
Diligence sprints, value-creation systems and exit readiness. Across the portfolio, on fund time.
CEOs & CFOs in the hold
100-day programs, EBITDA levers and an operating cadence the sponsor can see, without a consulting army in the building.
C-suite & functional leaders
Strategy, M&A, transformation and functional performance. From the CEO's agenda to the CFO's P&L, without the traditional apparatus.
The method
A system,
not a study.
The traditional model sells projects that end with a deck. MAZ installs a value-creation system that compounds for years, not weeks.
Diagnose
Financials, operations and market data ingested; a working model of the business in days, not months.
Architect
Every lever ranked by value at stake. Strategy that commands the toughest room.
Accelerate
100-day execution with live monitoring and board-ready reporting on demand.
Compound
The model keeps learning across your portfolio or enterprise. Insight accrues to you, not the vendor.
The platform
Every engagement ships with COCO.
YOUR PRIVATE INTELLIGENCE ENGINE
Watch raw data become a decision. Ask the questions a partner would and get partner-grade answers you can act on, around the clock.
Drop your raw data here
FINANCIALS · OPS · COMMERCIAL
SIMULATED SESSION · REPRESENTATIVE OUTPUT
Why it matters
Built for the clock you're on.
Board-ready inside the week
Upload a financial model and have defensible insight within days. What consumed a team of analysts for weeks now happens before the next board call.
Every company, simultaneously
Analyze the entire portfolio at once: benchmark performance, surface synergies, and rank opportunities across the fund or the business-unit map, not one deck at a time.
Conviction you can defend
Every recommendation is built on hard quantitative evidence, and lands with the force to move a board.
Analysis that stays live
Traditional engagements end with a report. Your data keeps moving; the model, the monitoring, and the counsel move with it.
The approach
Retire the old way.
Speed and cost are not the pitch. They are the by-product of an operating model built without the leverage pyramid.
Capabilities
Purpose-built
intelligence.
Frontier AI, purpose-built for deals and operations. Not a chatbot in a consulting skin. A full analytical stack, with senior operators at the controls.
BUILT FOR CONFIDENTIALITY
Engagement-scoped models
Your data informs your answers, and no one else's. Strict isolation per engagement.
NDA-first, diligence-grade process
We work under your NDA and inside your process from first contact, including your data room.
Human sign-off, always
No recommendation reaches a board without a senior operator's name on it.
Enquiries
Bring MAZ to
your next move.
A first working session costs nothing but an hour. Bring a live question. Leave with the beginnings of an answer.
HEADQUARTERS
Chicago, IL
GENERAL ENQUIRIES
NDA-FIRST · CONFIDENTIAL BY DESIGN