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Internal Deal Room · Project Bedrock · 2026-05-20

Design Precast & Pipe

Buy-side precast roll-up — Mississippi operator with a 4.5× ceiling, three-and-a-half-year strategic exit, and a hurricane-corridor thesis that rests on twenty years of federal disaster funds.

Side

Buy

Acquisition search

Ceiling

4.5×

5.5× hard wall

Funnel

530 → 75 → 1-2

ICP → willing → close

Verdicts on file

24

8 hot · 10 pass

The Room

Four artifacts, one deal. The thesis is the calibration; the history is the verbatim record; the contacts are the people; the blind hub is what targets see when we send a link.

01 · Internal Brief

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Acquisition Thesis

McKinsey-grade buy-side brief — 4.5× discipline, five-product fingerprint, hurricane-corridor macro, Pat's 3.5-year clock, 11 named targets in a status-tagged table, six open questions for engagement.

Mined from 7 Fireflies calls · Oct 29 2025 → Jan 15 2026 · INTERNAL-ONLY

02 · Engagement Signals

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Deal History & Verdicts

24 verbatim Chris Fore verdicts on named targets — top picks, would-buys, ghosts, hard passes — joined to live Supabase signals (calls, meetings, Gmail threads, list appearances). "Chris's Top 30" is the primary scoring lens.

Source: inventory/deal-history-verdicts/design-precast.json + Supabase live

03 · Outreach

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Owner Dial List

Chris's Top 30 plus the companies Chris liked on Fireflies but aren't in the tag — owners identified, front-office phones (tel: links), Fireflies-call attribution, drop-for-noise flags, and principal-overlap warnings. Sortable, filterable, ready to dial.

33 entries · 27 live targets · 6 dropped (4 noise + Alcrete too_big + Georgia Concrete not_now) · P&D excluded (architectural ≠ Chris's wheelhouse)

04 · Weekly Cadence

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Weekly Standup

Live dashboard: recent intel from 248 transcript extractions — open next steps, key metrics, buyer signals, and risk flags. Chris Fore's weekly cadence view.

Live · Supabase transcript_extractions · deal_id 4aaf0ae3

05 · People

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Contacts

The DPP-side roster — Chris Fore (president, decision owner), Pat Fore (operator-founder, strategic-clock holder), Sherman (advisor, role pending confirm), Wayne (referral source), Boston Bingham (outside counsel), CII Advisors, Jones Capital (potential bolt-on PE).

Roster + correspondence index

05 · Public Surface

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Seller-Outreach Hub (Blind)

Project Bedrock — the password-gated, codenamed hub a prospective seller lands on. Light-theme rewrite on the Hugo design system. Six "Why Sell to Us" pillars, geo priority stack, criteria table, "Not a Fit" exclusions, our approach in five numbered steps.

Gated · Boss123 (solo-testing phase) · Audience: prospective sellers

Funnel Snapshot

01

530

Precast operators identified

02

473

With websites (qualified ICP)

03

200

Working list

04

75

Willing to talk

05

1-2

Closes per cycle

Of Ewing's Nov 25 top-20 list, Chris kept 17-18 — "only 2-3 outside the box." The scoring model is calibrated; the bottleneck is now reachability and willingness, not ICP fit.

Open Questions for Engagement

Six lines Next Chapter still needs to clear before the next major move. Full context in the Acquisition Thesis §7.

Q1

Chris's true ceiling on a Savannah-greenfield play (the 3.5-year clock collides with build-out timelines).

Q2

Who is Sherman, and does the engagement letter / LOI require his sign-off?

Q3

Is the 3.5-4 year exit clock movable if a strategic arrives at year 2.5?

Q4

Segment-floor on EBITDA size — does a sub-$1M target survive Chris's attention if it's perfect-fit in a priority geo?

Q5

Fold Triple M, Jarrett, The Precast Group, Lee's Precast, American Free Cast, Aberdeen verdicts (Dec 16 / Dec 31 / Jan 15 transcripts) into the §4 table.

Q6

Confirm engagement letter signed and in force on the 2% / 2.5% / 90-day-retainer terms.

Provenance

Hub consolidates the three internal artifacts plus the blind seller-outreach surface for the DPP buy-side mandate. Architecture per inventory/dpp-deal-room-architecture-memo.md §4.1 (primary render surface) and §4.3 (deal-room template selection on deals.side). Codename mapping: Project Bedrock in inventory/blind-codenames.json.

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