Physical AI
Sensors, actuators, perception hardware, robotic end effectors.
Section 01 · Thesis
Why Discrete Component Manufacturing
The next decade of industrial growth runs through hardware. Physical AI requires sensors, actuators, and precision drivetrains. Autonomous transportation requires harnesses, thermal systems, and electromechanical assemblies. Human augmentation requires miniaturized motors, gears, and enclosures. Aerospace requires precision-machined structures, propulsion components, and flight-qualified assemblies. None of it scales without the discrete component suppliers who already know how to make these parts at quality and at volume.
The American discrete component manufacturing base is established, profitable, and largely owned by founders ready to take their legacy to the next level of performance. Nodrys acquires these businesses, preserves what works, and positions their existing capabilities to serve the supply chains that will define the next decade.
Autonomous Transportation
Powertrains, harnesses, thermal management, electromechanical systems.
Human Augmentation
Precision motors, micro gears, lightweight enclosures, biomechanical components.
Aerospace
Propulsion components, avionics assemblies, structural and thermal hardware for reusable launch and commercial space.
Section 02 · Acquisition Criteria
What We Buy
Specific. Pre qualified. Ready to close.
- Annual Revenue
- $2M to $10M (sweet spot $4M to $8M)
- SDE
- $1M to $2M
- Asking Price
- $1.5M to $6.5M
- Customer Concentration
- Low: no single customer dominates revenue
- Recurring Revenue
- High: repeat customers and standing orders
- Geography
- Anywhere in the United States
Capabilities Sought
Primary
- Electromechanical assembly: motor and actuator sub assemblies, sensor integration, PCB assembly.
- Precision gears, reducers, drivetrain components: planetary gear sets, harmonic drive components, encoder assemblies.
Secondary
- Plastic injection molding and composites: thermoforming, extrusion, medical grade silicone and rubber molding.
- Precision CNC machining and metal fabrication: turning, milling, grinding, EDM, sheet metal forming.
- Thermal management components: cold plates, heat sinks, custom enclosures.
- Wire harness and cable assembly: EMI shielded, high speed data, mil spec connectors.
Does Your Deal Fit?
Section 03 · Approach
A Senior Operator, Not a Financial Buyer
Most acquirers of small manufacturing businesses are financial buyers running a playbook borrowed from someone else. Nodrys is the opposite. The first acquisition will be operated by the buyer as owner operator-president, applying twenty plus years of P&L leadership at Nordson, Oshkosh, and Illinois Tool Works to a business that has the potential to do more than its current owners ever asked of it.
Our approach is to diagnose within the first hundred days, accelerate through customer segmentation and operational discipline, and scale by repositioning the existing manufacturing capability into Manufacturing 4.0 and adjacent high growth supply chains. The current customer base is preserved as the stable foundation. Growth is built on top of it.
We do not flip businesses. We do not load them with debt. We do not replace the team that built the business. Nodrys is structured as a multi acquisition holding platform to expand capabilities of the platform
We measure time in customers retained and employees grown.
Section 04 · The Playbook
A Proven Methodology
What Nodrys brings to a discrete component manufacturer is not theory. It is a value creation methodology refined across two decades of operating leadership at industrial companies such as Nordson, Oshkosh, and Illinois Tool Works, with results like doubling EBITDA in two years and reversing a declining business into double digit organic revenue growth. The same playbook. Different products. Same results.
01
Diagnose
First 100 days. Map the customer base, the team, the operating system. Find the levers.
02
Segment
80/20 customer focus. Top accounts get the most attention. The rest get standardized.
03
Optimize
Pricing discipline, overhead restructure, on time delivery. Economics improve before growth begins.
04
Scale
New segmentation, innovation pipeline, salesforce realignment. Growth on top of optimized economics.
05
Compound
Each subsequent acquisition extends the platform and applies the playbook to a new business.
Who Runs the Playbook
Jesus Crespo
Founder · Nodrys
Senior B2B industrial executive based in Milton, Georgia. Twenty-plus years of P&L leadership across global manufacturing operations. Trilingual operator (English, Spanish, Portuguese). BS in Chemical Engineering, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela. Builds structured value-creation plans within 100 days: and delivers measurable results in 12 to 24 months.
Section 05 · Process
From First Call to Closed Deal
30 minutes
Intro Call
No commitment. Mutual NDA available.
1 to 2 weeks
Early Diligence
We do the work. You keep running the business.
5 to 10 business days
Letter of Intent
Issued from a qualifying CIM.
4 to 8 weeks
Confirmatory Diligence and Financing
SBA 7(a), equity, seller note.
60 to 90 days from LOI
Close and Transition
Seller stays involved through agreed consulting period.
Section 06 · For Brokers and Advisors
How We Work With Intermediaries
Pre Qualified Buyer
SBA pre qualification in progress with identified lender relationships. M&A counsel and CPA pre selected and ready for diligence.
Fast and Clean
NDAs and LOIs prepared to sign within 5 to 10 business days of receiving a qualifying CIM. 60 to 90 day close from LOI.
SBA and Cash
Primary financing SBA 7(a) targeting 80 percent of purchase price. 10 percent equity injection from personal liquid capital. Seller financing expected.
Send a Teaser
prospects@nodrys.com · +1 (847) 834 0669
Section 07 · Submit a Deal
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