The Firm
The Founders
Six partners. One firm. Every engagement.
Most consulting firms send associates. Brass & Bench sends the people whose names are on the door — every time, every engagement, on your floor. That is the entire model. It is why the engagement costs what it costs. It is also why you only need one.
Why six.
Mid-market manufacturing is a problem with six dimensions. Operations. Industrial engineering. Manufacturing setup. International and government contracting. Insurance and risk. Strategic and financial architecture.
No single consultant covers all six. Most firms cover one or two and hire associates for the rest. Brass & Bench is the team that covers all six at the partner level — at the same time, in the same room, on the same floor.
When the six of us walk into your facility, you are not getting "a consulting firm." You are getting four decades of running ammunition manufacturers, two decades of industrial engineering, fifteen years of international and government contracts, fifteen years of insurance audit work, full-scale fabrication and shop floor design experience, and the strategic and software-building muscle that ties it all together.
That is what changes in two weeks. That is what no other firm can match.
The team
Mike Fox
Business Development & Operations
Forty-plus years of building manufacturing businesses from concept to production line.
Lorrie Lynn
Operations, Manufacturing & International Contracts
Fifteen years in international and government contracts. Director of Operations & Manufacturing for a U.S. ammunition manufacturer scaled to acquisition-ready.
Jason Santiago
Executive Strategy, AI Architecture & Custom Software
The partner who turns five sets of findings into one strategic plan — and ships the code that runs it.
Ben Kurtz
Industrial Engineering
Twenty-plus years of teaching machines and people how to work better together.
Pam Kurtz
Insurance Audit & Risk Coverage
Fifteen-plus years in insurance, plus the operational discipline of running the administrative backbone of a working business.
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Talon Fox
Fabrication & Manufacturing Setup
Full-scale fabrication and manufacturing setup from dirt to first lot.
What you get when the six of us walk in.
You get the team that has run the kind of company you are running. You get operators, not analysts. You get a fourteen-day engagement that produces a bound implementation plan, a working set of custom software tools, and a path to throughput, margin, compliance posture, and enterprise value you can measure on the next quarterly report.
You do not get a deck. You do not get a junior associate on the second visit. You do not get a "best practices" document recycled from another client.
You get the six of us. Once. For two weeks. With everything we know.