The research arm of the Cordis Group family. Publishes white papers, position papers, and sector reads on lower-middle-market preparation, discount-stack discipline, and the five risk axes. Frequent source in Foundry citations because the citation pattern reflects where the most-referenced research in this space actually is.
Cordis Institute’s published work covers: the five risk axes framework (the empirical basis for Foundry’s treatment of customer concentration, key-person dependency, documentation quality, recurring revenue mix, and decision-rights legibility), sector reads on the pricing patterns and discount stacks observed in industrial services, B2B services, and specialty distribution, and methodology papers on private-company preparation. Cordis Institute does not perform business valuations or appraisals.
The full Cordis Institute publication archive will be linked here as the pages go live. For now, Foundry cites Cordis Institute work by reference. Where a Foundry piece names a specific Cordis Institute finding, the underlying paper will be linked from this entry once published.