Dynapsis owns and operates businesses, and brings the same discipline to the companies it serves.
We hold a select group of companies for the long term. Alongside them, we serve owner‑led businesses as a fractional partner: operating within the company, advising its leadership, and brokering the transactions that move it forward.
We build the plan, then help carry it out.
Owners bring us in when the business is working toward something larger: a sale, an acquisition, a merger, new locations, or a sharper operation. The plan that gets there is often more than a founder can carry alone, so we build it with them and stay to execute it, operating within the company, advising its leadership, and brokering the deals along the way. Few engagements need everything we do, and most draw on several of our disciplines at once. The approach is informed by ownership, since we contend with the same questions of capital and talent in our own companies.
Within your business
Each engagement draws on the disciplines its goal requires, from a single function to the full stack. Every mandate is defined by an agreed outcome and a fixed term, and where we are not the right partner, we say so at the outset.
- OperationsProcess design, staffing, and the operating cadence that keeps a business running to standard.
- AdvisoryCounsel to owners and leadership on strategy, structure, and the decisions that shape the business.
- Transactions and brokeragePreparing a business for sale, sourcing acquisitions and mergers, diligence, and brokering the deal through to close.
- ExpansionNew locations and new markets, with the operating model and channels that make each one perform.
- Customer experience and brandService standards and a coherent brand, carried through every point of contact with the customer.
- Growth and marketingWebsites, paid and local search, booking funnels, and measurement validated before launch.
- Systems and automationWorkflow design and AI tooling, built for the team that will maintain it.
- FinanceCFO dashboards, budgeting, P&L, and pricing, reported to the standard private equity expects in diligence.
- Venture buildsStrategy, systems architecture, vendor selection, and a working prototype.
Several of our clients now run on CFO dashboards built to the standard a private equity firm would expect to see in diligence, with unit economics and margin visible for every line of service. Most businesses of their size have never had that view of themselves.
Businesses we own
Dynapsis acquires or builds businesses it is equipped to operate, and holds them for the long term. The first is a web studio founded within the firm.
01fgs.studioWebsites that deliver measurable results, need little upkeep, and grow with a business as it scales. Held and operated by Dynapsis.VisitDynapsis is led by an operator.
Drew Roland founded Dynapsis after a career spent running the daily operations of businesses in automotive, home energy, and early-stage technology. The thread through every role has been ruthless operational discipline, applied as rigorously to customer service and the brand as to the numbers.
- Chief operating officer · Interim general managerAutomotive retail
Oversaw operations across a dealer group, then stepped in to run its dealership directly, holding every process to the standard of the customer’s experience.
- OperatorAutomotive service
Ran multi-location service operations, where quality and the customer’s confidence are decided on the shop floor.
- SalesResidential energy
Consultative selling across solar, roofing, and battery storage, a discipline built on clarity and earned trust.
- 2021 · CMO and GTM engineerEarly-stage technology
Built a young company’s brand and go‑to‑market systems at the pace, and with the economy, that a startup demands.
Perfect one thing, then do another. In the US we have it backwards.
Drew Roland, Founder
American enterprise has tended to grow by acquisition, assembling portfolios of businesses it is not equipped to run. When the parts cease to cohere, the result is a long sequence of divestitures and, eventually, separation.
The great Japanese manufacturers grew by capability, extending a mastered craft into adjacent products. Dynapsis follows that discipline, and takes on only as much as it can do exceptionally well.
A few at a time
We hold a small number of engagements at once, and each draws on as many of our disciplines as its goal requires.
Extend from mastery
We enter a new line of work once the previous one is fully mastered.
An owner's standard
Client businesses receive the care we give the companies we own.
Long-term ownership
Acquisitions are made to be held and operated, with no planned exit.
Selected engagements across a range of industries.
Client confidentiality is maintained throughout. Each engagement is identified by sector and by its current status.
| Trade | Work | Status |
|---|---|---|
Web studio fgs.studio | A web studio founded and operated by Dynapsis, building websites that deliver measurable results, require little maintenance, and scale with the businesses they serve. | Held |
Mobile healthcare Southeast | A complete rebuild of the digital presence and ongoing management of paid search, local search, and the booking funnel, together with a CFO-grade operating dashboard covering unit economics and margin. | Active |
Automotive retail software Southeast | Strategy, systems architecture, and vendor selection, culminating in a working prototype. | Active |
Marketing agency Southeast | Operation of the agency's web development practice, from proposal and audit through to delivery. | Active |
Recording artist Southeast | Royalty recovery and sync readiness, supported by an operating system the artist maintains. | Active |
IV therapy clinic Southeast | Exit from a franchise system, followed by a full rebrand, a new website, and the redirection of every legacy address to preserve customer access. | Complete |
Automotive service Southeast | Replacement of a slow legacy website with a fast, hand-built successor. | Complete |
Automotive service Southeast | An investor-grade annual budget and P&L model, an advertising plan, and revised service terms. | Complete |
Capital advisory firm Southeast | The website for a lender serving brokers and operators. | Complete |
Industrial efficiency manufacturer Entering the US | A US market-entry plan, including distribution channel strategy and partner terms. | Complete |
Freight brokerage Southeast | Buy-side review of an equity-for-automation proposal. We advised against proceeding before any capital was committed. | Passed |
Further detail on any engagement is available on request, within the limits of our confidentiality obligations.
Begin with an account of the situation.
We maintain a deliberately small number of engagements. Share a brief account of the business and the challenge at hand, and we will respond promptly with a candid view of whether we are the right partner.
- Founder
- Drew Roland
- drew@dynapsis.com
- Offices
- Nashville, TN · Charlotte, NC