Operating Platform · Acquisition Vehicle · Connecticut

An operating platform for liquor-retail consolidation.

Jai Sai Baba integrates services into independent liquor stores, improves their operations and economics, and then partners with or acquires the assets it has already made more valuable — a disciplined, operator-led roll-up.

Hartford UConn New Haven · Yale Bridgeport Greenwich CT NUCLEUS
01 / THESIS

Operations are the edge.

The US independent liquor-store market — roughly $80.8 billion across ~34,000 mostly owner-operated stores — is large, cash-generative, and almost entirely un-consolidated. It is precisely the kind of fragmented, under-digitized sector where operational improvement, not financial engineering, drives returns.

Jai Sai Baba is built on that distinction. We enter as an operating partner — integrating delivery, data, licensing, and merchandising — and improve the asset's economics before any ownership conversation. We then partner with, or acquire, the improved business, frequently together with its underlying real estate, and standardize it within the platform.

The result is a repeatable value-creation process: enter at an operator's discount, exit at an institutional multiple.

47%
Operational improvement now accounts for roughly 47% of private-equity value creation — up from about 18% in the 1980s, while pure financial engineering has fallen from over half to about a quarter. Our model is engineered around that shift.
02 / PROCESS

A disciplined sequence.

PHASE 01

Integrate

Delivery, loyalty, data, and modern POS deployed at no equity cost — measurable revenue within weeks.

PHASE 02

Diagnose

Live operations expose the value gaps: margin leakage, dead inventory, unused licenses, mispriced occupancy.

PHASE 03

Optimize

Existing streams grown, new streams added, cost base tightened — quantified EBITDA/SDE improvement.

PHASE 04

Anchor

Partnership or acquisition at a value anchored to demonstrated improvement, often with the real estate.

03 / PLATFORM

The integrated service platform.

01

Delivery & Demand

DoorDash, Instacart, Uber Eats, Gopuff and an owned storefront channel.

Revenue · Live
02

Data & Loyalty

Basket analytics, SMS loyalty, and assortment intelligence.

Retention
03

Licensing & Compliance

Lottery, tobacco, tastings, growlers, extended hours.

Margin
04

Merchandising

Planograms, premium SKUs, private label, exclusive pours.

Gross margin
05

Real Estate

Acquisition of the underlying property where it serves the partner.

Asset layer
06

Brand & Experience — IP

An IP-protected experiential identity and a repeatable playbook.

IP · Portfolio
04 / MARKET

The opportunity in figures.

$80.8B
US beer, wine & liquor store market, 2026
IBISWorld
~34,000
US stores — highly fragmented
First Research / D&B
47%
PE value creation from operations
BCG / industry
2.9–3.7×
SDE multiple range we arbitrage
Peak Business Valuation
05 / COUNTERPARTIES

Aligned with both sides.

Owners & Operators

The engagement begins with value delivered, not capital demanded.
ENTRYA no-equity service integration that grows monthly revenue.
SCALENetwork buying power, shared data, and marketing.
OPTIONALITYRemain independent on the platform, partner, or sell.
EXITA well-priced exit on a demonstrably stronger business.

Capital Partners

For bankers, family offices, PE and VC — an operator-led platform.
ENTRYAcquisition below intrinsic value, created pre-close.
ASSETSOperating cash flow plus underlying real estate.
MOATIP-protected brand and a documented, repeatable playbook.
RECORDA third-party-appraisable portfolio of stabilized assets.
06 / FIRST ASSET

Proof of model.

Live · Founding Client

Granfield Liquor

granfieldliquor.com
LocationBridgeport, CT
DeliveryDoorDash · Square
Permits4 held
RoleTemplate asset

Granfield Liquor is the platform's founding client and proof of model: a licensed, permitted, cash-generative Bridgeport store operating under the Jai Sai Baba ecosystem. Delivery rails are live; lottery, tobacco, and resale permits are in place; and a favorable lease underpins healthy operating margin.

It establishes the standard each subsequent acquisition is underwritten against — integrate, optimize, anchor — and demonstrates the platform's economics in a live operating environment before capital is deployed at scale.

Referenced as a use case; Granfield Liquor operates as a DBA within the ecosystem.

07 / GOVERNANCE & IP

Defensibility by design.

The Mark

Trademark-protected name, logo, and trade dress across the experiential system.

The Playbook

A documented integrate–optimize–anchor method — the engine of repeatable value.

Structure

Holding-company, per-asset operating entities, and a real-estate layer — built for governance and financing.

The Portfolio

Each stabilized asset is both operating cash flow and a third-party-appraisable record.

08 / GEOGRAPHY

Beginning at the nucleus.

Connecticut — concentrated capital and talent.

We launch from a uniquely dense state: the Greenwich hedge-fund corridor, a deep bench of Fairfield County wealth managers, and a cluster of leading universities — an ideal base from which to consolidate the Northeast corridor outward.

A first ring of assets near the nucleus; then measured, underwritten expansion.

  • GreenwichHedge-fund capital
  • Fairfield CountyWealth managers
  • Yale UniversityNew Haven
  • UConnStorrs / statewide
  • University of New HavenWest Haven
  • Sacred Heart UniversityFairfield
  • University of BridgeportBridgeport
  • Southern Connecticut StateNew Haven
  • University of HartfordHartford

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