We work with owners, founders, and investors where a business is viable but hard to read — clarifying it enough to be understood, backed, and carried into its next phase.
Many firms are more than they appear on paper. The business is real and viable, but what makes it valuable — how it works, what it holds together, why it matters — isn't legible to the people who could back it, govern it, or carry it forward. The problem usually isn't the business. It's that its worth can't yet be read. IDP exists to close that gap.
Where a firm runs several activities as one business, often on land and buildings it holds, capital can read it only as a whole. Our investment thesis sets out how making each part legible — separating what the firm holds from what it operates, under a board of its own — can improve both how it raises capital and how it performs. It describes the approach IDP is building towards, and is accompanied by a technical annex setting out its definitions, evidence, parameters and risks.
Read the investment thesis (PDF)
This thesis describes an approach. It is not an offer of, or invitation to make, any investment.
If you're carrying a business that's stronger than it looks on paper, we'd be glad to talk.