Launching soon Not Wall Street. Main Street.

They kept
the best deals
locked up.
We're opening
the door.

Our goal: make ownership accessible beyond the wealthy. For decades, buying profitable private companies was reserved for private equity and the top 1%. BCI takes a different approach: we buy proven businesses from retiring owners, strengthen them, and sell them to the employees who run them. The process is transparent from day one.

No gatekeepers

“Ownership for the people who built it.”

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WHAT BCI DOES

What BCI buysEstablished local businesses

Who fromOwners ready to retire

What BCI doesKeeps them local and builds them up

Where it leadsEmployees on a path to ownership

Local

Established local businesses, bought from owners who are ready to retire

Built up

BCI strengthens each business so it stays strong for the crew and the town

Employees

The people who built it get a real path to owning it

Independent

Never public. Ownership stays local and jobs stay local

Against the institution

The boardroom wasn't built for work boots. We're bringing them in anyway.

For a generation, the playbook was fixed: a retiring owner sells, a fund or a chain buys, the sign changes, the jobs thin out, and the profit leaves town. The people who actually built the business get a farewell cake.

BCI runs the opposite play. Employees at the ownership table — not just on the schedule. And the business ends up with the crew inside the building, not the highest bidder outside it.

Against the institution — for the institution of Main Street

Four ideas behind the look

Cutting-edge on the surface. Old values underneath.

Four ideas shape how this page looks — and how BCI thinks. Two are visual motifs: the chain link, for transparency and open documentation, and circuit line-work, for data-driven decisions. Two are the real model: employee ownership, and a philosophy that walks away from a broken system toward a better one.

MOTIF / 01

Open by design

The chain-link motif stands for transparency: documentation out in the open, financial information documented and verifiable, and nothing important hidden behind a curtain. If it's part of the deal, it should be on the record.

MOTIF / 02

Real businesses, not hype

The circuit motif stands for data-driven decisions: BCI looks at verified earnings and real customers first. No deal survives on a good story alone.

THE MODEL / 03

Employee owned

Our employees own the means of their production. Their measurement of production is the business itself — “the company” is the employees, and the path leads to employees owning the business through an ESOP.

THE MODEL / 04

Philosophically driven

“To exit” means to leave — in this case, to leave a broken economic system by joining a superior one. In that spirit, BCI builds ownership for the people who build the company, not only its owners.

How it works

How a BCI deal works — in three steps.

Private equity has operated behind closed doors for a long time. BCI does it differently, and in full view. BCI buys real, operating businesses — high-profit, risk-managed companies with proven earnings, not a vague fund or a speculative asset. BCI never goes public. Here is how it works:

STEP 01

We find established local businesses

BCI looks for profitable, established local businesses whose owners are ready to retire and want to see the company stay local.

STEP 02

We buy proven companies — and strengthen them

BCI studies the market, verifies the business — earnings, customer base — and buys only businesses with real earnings. We then operate and improve each one, while a nonprofit education arm prepares employees for ownership.

Disciplined buying. Hands-on operations. Employee preparation.

STEP 03

Employees buy in.

Employees get a path to owning the business through an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan), so the people who built it end up owning it.

The business stays with the crew inside the building

Who this is for

People who work hard to build local businesses — and want those businesses to stay local, with the crew who runs them getting a real path to owning them. BCI was designed for them.

Who we are

An employee-ownership-focused acquirer. We buy businesses to preserve them and transition them to their teams — not to close them, consolidate them, or sell them to the highest bidder.

What makes it different

The business goes to the employees, not to a chain or a larger fund. Ownership stays local and jobs stay local.

Real businesses. Established cash flow.

Not startups. Not speculation. BCI targets high-profit, risk-managed businesses with a trading history, loyal customers, and real momentum — and owners whose only real problem is succession. Examples:

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Auto & repair shops

Loyal local customer bases, recurring demand, and owners who are often the only succession problem.

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Home services

HVAC, plumbing, and contracting crews with steady booked work and a name the town trusts.

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Food & specialty retail

Bakeries, markets, and niche stores with margins a chain can't replicate and regulars it can't buy.

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Light manufacturing

Independent shops making real things for regional customers — steady contracts, skilled crews, real equipment.

About the company

About BCI

BCI exists to give ownership to the people who build a company, not only to its owners. We acquire and grow high-profit, risk-managed businesses so that their employees become shareholders in the companies they help build.

We believe that when employees own a part of what they help create, America moves forward, united by shared purpose and shared ownership.

Built by the crew.
Owned by the crew.

Sold to the crew — not the chain

That's the whole point: ownership doesn't leave town. It stays with the people who built the business.

Meet the owners

The people behind BCI

Three principals. Control stays with them by design — independent, founder-led, and accountable directly to employees, so no outsider can steer a BCI company away from its mission.

Casey Adams

Founder

Casey is a decorated U.S. Army veteran and entrepreneur who ran TechMC and founded The Kansas City Drone Company. He has spent 15+ years turning complex technology into tools that work, from leading drone programs to building Ukraine's strategy for decentralized drone manufacturing. At BCI, he's focused on finding good businesses, running them well, and giving the people who do the work a real stake in what they build.

Joe Allen IV

Co-Founder

Joe leads marketing and outreach for BCI. He believes employee ownership is the key to bringing America back together, and he's focused on making sure the people who do the work have a real path to owning it.

Samuel Milner

Co-Founder

Samuel is a co-founder of BCI, based in Kansas, and he leads its use of AI, putting smart tools to work across the company, from finding deals to running the shops we buy. He's focused on building BCI the right way, so the people who build a company get a real path to owning it.

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