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.
Delivered inside environments where stakes are real.
Workday HCM and Financial Management across a high-growth organization with global headcount and rapid operational change.
Workday implementation within a large, multi-entity integrated health network navigating compliance, workforce, and operational complexity.
Workday deployment for a global clinical-stage biopharma company scaling finance and HR across international operations.
One engagement, sequenced across three practices.
GroupA is not three services. It is a single arc of work delivered in order — risk quantified, platform stabilized, margin installed. Each practice compounds into the next, and the whole thing is scoped against the hold period.
Find the risk
Quantified IT risk against a transaction clock. A board-ready register of exposure, cost, and opportunity — the foundation everything else in the engagement is sequenced against.
Fix the platform
Most of what the risk register surfaces is platform work. GroupA executes the remediation on the systems that carry the operating model — Workday, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Microsoft 365, and the security underneath.
Install the margin
Once the platform is stable, AI installs operating leverage that compounds. Measured in margin, not demos — and written into a diligence-ready narrative that shows up in the exit model.
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.
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.
Situations GroupA has sat in.
Sanitized engagement vignettes. Client names withheld; situation, scope, and outcomes are real.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tell us what’s broken, stalled, or at risk.
A direct conversation about your environment, your constraints, and whether GroupA is the right firm for the work.