The origin story is in the book. What follows it is this: a decade of transactions executed without a safety net, without inherited capital, and without a network handed to me. The law degree was a tool. The MBA sharpened the financial lens. The DBA produced something the market did not have -- an empirically grounded framework for identifying exactly when and how a non-technology firm re-rates in value.
The deals started before the degrees were finished. Each one ran the same diagnostic: what is the recurring revenue position, where is the operational leverage, and what is the gap between current multiple and re-rating threshold? By the fifth transaction, I was running the same mental model on every deal. By the seventh, I had written it down. That became the Salmon Index.
I am not an academic who theorized about deals. I am an operator who built a methodology from inside of them. Every instrument in the SVE Suite exists because I needed it on a live transaction and it did not exist anywhere else. That gap is now a licensed product. The operating experience behind it is available for selective advisory engagements.
I am currently deployed on active transactions. If your situation warrants a conversation, the door is open -- briefly, and selectively.