You find a property in the area you're targeting. Everything pencils out, you hire an architect for space planning, and you’re ready to begin getting proposals from contractors, but another project drops in your lap and your bandwidth just got a lot smaller.

Let us take the wheel. We love coming in at any stage of the project, assessing needs, meeting new folks, and providing leadership you need so you can pursue new business.Item description

There’s a delicate balance of capital to part with and time to spend when you’re reviewing a new deal. Too little, and confidence may be low; too much, and opportunity cost becomes glaring. Time wasted can hurt your trajectory.

Without a property condition report, feasibility study for future intended operation, and reasonably accurate development cost estimates (construction, soft costs, furniture & equipment, etc.), amongst other things, it’s impossible to tell if a deal should proceed.

By hiring Meerkat to handle pre-acquisition scope, you free your time up to continue chasing deals, meeting with new investors, and growing your business.

If you’ve been on, or are currently a member of, a development team for a brand expanding faster than the big bang, you know how it goes; incredibly quick project schedules, tight budgets, and low personnel bandwidth.

Meerkat can help - by understanding expansion goals firsthand from past experience of running development teams at brands like Joe & The Juice and Selina, we speak your language and know these things come down, ultimately, to two things:

1. Can it be built fast, to brand standard, and within a cost parameter?

2. Will it make money?

Our agility allows us to visit a site, handle coordination with 3rd party inspectors (if necessary), provide nearly immediate reporting, assist with landlord work letters, and a strong “gut check” to give you and your team confidence before you buy a space or sign a lease.

There’s a line around the corner at your first (and only) location, you’re putting out as much product as possible, and you know the demand is there for two or even more locations, but how could you consider focusing on starting a whole new project when you have to keep up with your loyal base’s demands?

Enter: Meerkat. By analyzing what makes your first location a wild success, we can assemble a team of designers, contractors, and consultants that also “get it”, and can carry out your vision exactly as you intend.

By providing you with as much or as little reporting as you want and need, you’re still in loop, but not in the weeds, freeing you up to keep growing your brand, managing your teams, and seeing those customer’s smiles.

If you are a larger project management company, either US-based or international, and you have clients requesting you take on a smaller project that’s below your company minimum, or a project you don’t have personnel hired for that is moving quickly, Meerkat is your solution.

We are nimble and able to act as subcontracted representative on your behalf to ensure things get done right, so you look good to your client without a visible bump in the road.

Q1: 20 projects on the docket, 5 happy project managers, no one at their limit; all systems “go”!

Q2: 20 projects grew to 30 (retail team said the terms were too good to pass up!), 5 stressed out project managers (the board doesn’t like intra-year personnel increases), the team is overextended; a solution is needed, and fast.

Our unique experience of leading bootstrapped teams in majorly successful NSO (new store opening) roll outs poises us to be the perfect overflow valve for your team.

By contracting Meerkat, you save on hiring full time resources (that you may not need next year), you save time on uphill corporate battles to justify hires (who has time for that?) and you save your team through alleviating project overload stresses (happy people stick around).

Win, win, win.

Give us your brand templates for budget and schedule tracking, let us know the go-to consultants and suppliers, and we’ll give you the keys to your new locations when we’re done.