One Operating Motion

Find the risk. Fix the platform. Install the margin.

GroupA runs one sequenced engagement across PE-backed and complex enterprise environments. We quantify the IT risk, execute the platform remediation, then install the AI that compounds the value into the exit model.

Currently Working With

Delivered inside environments where stakes are real.

Media & Technology

Workday HCM and Financial Management across a high-growth organization with global headcount and rapid operational change.

Healthcare

Workday implementation within a large, multi-entity integrated health network navigating compliance, workforce, and operational complexity.

Life Sciences

Workday deployment for a global clinical-stage biopharma company scaling finance and HR across international operations.

How we're different

Senior operators, not a staffing bench.

The buyers we talk to have already been pitched by the four firms below. GroupA is built against the gaps in all of them.

Big 4 / strategy consultancies
ThemFrameworks and decks, junior delivery teams, billed to the hour, handed off to someone else for execution.
GroupASenior practitioners who have run these platforms in the seat. Scoped deliverables, fixed outcomes, documentation written to survive diligence.
MSPs / staff augmentation
ThemTicket queues, per-seat pricing, generalists on a bench, incentives aligned to headcount growth.
GroupAEngagement-shaped work, not managed services. We do not carry your helpdesk. We leave when the work is done.
Boutique advisory / vCIO
ThemFractional titles, slide-ware, read-only recommendations, no accountability for the fix.
GroupAWe execute the remediation we recommend. No handoff to a third party, no advisory retainer that goes nowhere.
Platform SIs
ThemSingle-vendor optimized, incentives tied to license growth, quiet on shelf-ware and over-provisioning.
GroupAVendor-neutral. We right-size licenses and kill shelf-ware without losing sleep. No SI kickback structure.
Proof

Quantified outcomes from a single engagement.

A snapshot of the kind of findings GroupA produces in a value-risk assessment. Sanitized from a live portfolio engagement.

PE-Backed Electrical Contractor
~$350M revenue · PE-backed · Multi-entity electrical contractor · 37-item risk register
$918K
in misclassified IT costs identified; overstating IT spend by 32%
$325K+
in documented annual cost savings from vendor renegotiation and optimization
$85–120K
in near-term license savings from platform right-sizing
4 acquisitions
completed with zero pre-acquisition IT diligence; unknown security posture
$5M → $25–50M
cyber insurance gap flagged against $350M revenue with prior ransomware event
Active breach
account compromise detected and blocked at an acquired entity during the audit
Field Notes

Situations GroupA has sat in.

Sanitized engagement vignettes. Client names withheld; situation, scope, and outcomes are real.

Post-close platform diligence
Mid-market healthcare services platform, first 90 days post-close. Sponsor inherited a three-entity roll-up with no unified IT view and a ransomware event in the prior owner's history.
What we didValue-risk assessment delivered against a six-week clock. $1.1M of cumulative IT spend carried across overlapping SaaS contracts and unclaimed licenses. Built the integration IT playbook for the next bolt-on.
Outcome~$400K of annual run-rate cost eliminated by month five. Diligence-ready IT narrative handed to the sponsor's operating partner ahead of the board review.
Stalled enterprise platform implementation
Multi-entity operator, ~$600M revenue, 14 months into a Workday deployment that had missed two go-live dates and run 40% over budget. Incumbent SI had rotated leads twice.
What we didGroupA engaged a senior lead as interim program owner. Re-baselined scope against what could actually go live, pulled configuration work back from the SI, and owned the last-mile cutover directly.
OutcomeProduction cutover completed 11 weeks after GroupA engagement. Finance closed the first month in Workday on day four. Annual managed-services run-rate reduced by collapsing redundant implementation streams.
The Team

The people you talk to are the people who do the work.

GroupA is a practitioner firm. No bench, no hand-offs, no junior rotation. Every engagement is staffed by operators with direct experience at this scale.

Principal

Jake Hastings

Founding-era principal at GroupA since 2009. Over 25 years in consulting and IT services, spanning sales leadership, operations, and enterprise delivery. Before GroupA, served as VP of Sales and Consulting Services at Adam Jacobs Associates where he opened the West Coast operation, and held director-level sales and operations roles at TechLink Systems and Qualis Consulting — building client practices, recruiting teams, and working directly with CIOs and MIS directors on IT strategy.

Business Development & Service Delivery

Jason Gotchall

Leads business development and service delivery at GroupA, partnering with customers to align technology initiatives with meaningful business outcomes. Career built across small and mid-sized businesses — from early-stage startups to multibillion-dollar enterprises — spanning both infrastructure and software environments. Focused on helping organizations modernize, scale, and compete in the rapidly evolving age of AI through practical, outcome-driven technology investments.

IT Audit & BCDR

Peter Schabinger

Leads IT audit and BCDR engagements for PE-backed portfolio companies at GroupA. Delivers infrastructure and cybersecurity assessments, business impact analyses, and remediation frameworks to executive and investor stakeholders — the work that determines whether IT becomes a purchase price adjustment or a clean pass in buyer diligence. Over a decade at Commvault Systems as a Professional Services engineer across healthcare, financial services, and biotech — building the hands-on infrastructure depth that makes his assessments specific, not theoretical.

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