What we do when we're in.
Blue Chip is a builder-operator holding company — not a consulting firm, not private equity. We own and run our own businesses. Occasionally, when an organization has a serious operational problem, we go in and fix it.
Engagements are finite — months, not years. We send senior operators, not junior consultants. When we leave, the systems work and the team can run them. We don't sell retainers, place staff, or produce strategy decks.
Engagement patterns
Diagnose
Something is wrong and no one internal agrees on what. Or they know, and no one will say it. We go in, find the truth, and deliver it without political hedging.
Capco — investigated insider fraud in banks. $90+ million in tracked assets.
Separate
Two things that need to come apart are deeply entangled — systems, organizations, or both. The problem isn't building. It's extracting one thing from another without breaking both.
Sandvik — separating Alleima's technology infrastructure from a Forbes Global 2000 parent to operate as an independent public company.
Stand up
A critical capability needs to exist and doesn't — and the organization can't build it internally at the speed the situation demands. Not a roadmap problem. A "this needed to be running yesterday" problem.
FIS — real-time EBT processing for 22 states. $65 million banking software line.
Stabilize
Something critical is failing and the timeline isn't theoretical. Volume, velocity, or complexity has overwhelmed the existing operation. We take it over and run it until it's stable.
FDIC — crisis-speed operations when bank closures scaled from 3 a year to over 100. $180 billion in managed transactions.
