MPX Group  ·  Nashville, Tennessee

Operator-led help for companies in difficult moments.

MPX Group steps into businesses that are under pressure, underperforming, under-managed, newly acquired, distressed, or simply too complex for the current team to fix alone.

We work for owners, investors, receivers, trustees, attorneys, lenders, and private equity groups that need someone they can trust inside the company.

We work with leadership. We protect your data.

Bring the Situation

The Application Layer

Whoever builds your AI layer decides what the model sees of your business.

MPX works with leadership to put AI to work inside your operations while your data stays yours. The layer that connects your business to the model is built with you and owned by you. That layer has a name: the application layer. It decides what a frontier model sees, what gets cached where, and whether your operating edge leaks into a system you don't control.

Not a software vendor. Not an IT integrator. Not a reseller of someone else's model.

An operator who runs his own companies on these systems first: a design firm, a construction business, real estate entities. What we bring you is already working somewhere we own.

Who owns the data?

Not who stores it. Who owns it, and what are they allowed to do with it?

Where is it cached?

And for how long, and who can read it.

Are the prompts secure?

Your questions describe your business as precisely as your data does.

Can this vendor enter my business?

If they can see enough to serve you, what stops them from competing?

Ask these of anyone selling you AI, us included. Adapted from Alex Karp (CNBC, July 2026). Our answers go in writing before any system we build touches your data.

Read Brief No. 03: The Layer Between Your Business and the AI →

When to Call MPX

Call when a company needs operating leadership and the facts are unclear.

MPX exists for difficult moments. If one of these describes your situation, that is the call to make.

  • A receiver has been appointed and the business still has to run.
  • A trustee or attorney needs someone to preserve value, understand operations, and report clearly.
  • A private equity group has acquired a company and discovered the operating reality is different than the deal file.
  • A lender or investor needs eyes and hands inside the business.
  • An owner is exhausted, stuck, or surrounded by people who cannot tell the truth.
  • A company is losing money, missing deadlines, bleeding cash, confusing its customers, or depending on one or two people who have all the knowledge in their heads.

MPX exists for those moments.

What We Do

Five ways we engage.

01

Stabilize

We get inside the business, identify the urgent risks, and create enough order for decisions to be made. Cash. People. Customers. Vendors. Contracts. Legal exposure. Reporting. Operations. Accountability. The first job is to stop guessing.

02

Operate

We serve as interim CEO, COO, operating partner, special situations executive, or trusted operating advisor. We do not just make recommendations from the outside. We work with the team, inspect the work, sit in the meetings, read the reports, talk to customers, deal with vendors, and help run the company.

03

Rebuild

Once the business is stable, we rebuild the operating system. New leadership, better reporting, financial cleanup, software implementation, SOPs, project controls, sales process, cost controls, dashboards, accountability rhythms, and AI-enabled workflows. The goal is a company that can be understood, managed, and improved.

04

Recruit and Replace

Sometimes the answer is not another report. Sometimes the answer is better people. MPX helps identify who can stay, who needs help, who is in the wrong seat, and which roles need to be filled. We help find the operators, managers, bookkeepers, controllers, project leaders, and technical people who can actually do the work.

05

Report Clearly

Receivers, trustees, attorneys, investors, lenders, and boards need clear information. We turn messy operations into plain-English reporting: what is happening, what matters, what is at risk, what has changed, and what decision needs to be made next. No fog. No theater. No consultant-speak.

AI-Forward, Operator First

The tool follows the problem.

AI does not replace operating judgment. It gives a good operator more leverage. MPX is on the frontier of that change — not as a vendor, not as a consultant, but as an operator who builds working systems and measures what changes. Month-end close from 20 days to one. Invoice processing from two weeks to ten minutes.

See how AI works inside operations →

Why MPX

Built for people who need someone they can trust inside the business.

Not a slide deck. Not a software vendor. Not a theorist. An operator.

Someone who knows how to walk into a difficult company, figure out what is real, protect value, build a plan, and move.

Mike Pietrzak, founder of MPX Group

Led by Mike Pietrzak

An operator, not a consultant.

Mike Pietrzak has spent more than 25 years building, buying, operating, turning around, and exiting companies. His experience spans construction, infrastructure, telecom, real estate, architecture, hospitality, and service businesses.

He has operated companies through growth, distress, sale processes, acquisitions, integrations, financial cleanup, leadership changes, and operational rebuilds.

He is also actively building and operating companies today. That matters. MPX is not built around theory. It is built around current operating reality.

Founder, MPX Group
Nashville, Tennessee
Columbia University

Operator Briefs

Notes from the seat.

Brief No. 01

How to Run a Business in the AI Era

The middle layer is done. What an AI-native company looks like, and the five rules that turn tasks into compounding practices.

May 2026 9 min read
Brief No. 02

How Your Business Runs in Software 3.0

The vocabulary every owner is going to be hearing for the next year: context window, vibe coding, agentic engineering, spec. Defined for operators, with the framework to get a year ahead.

May 2026 13 min read
Brief No. 03

The Layer Between Your Business and the AI

Two problems with every AI rollout: value nobody can prove and data nobody can trace. Both have the same fix. The application layer, explained, plus the four questions to ask anyone selling you AI.

July 2026 5 min read

Contact

Bring the Difficult Situation

If you are responsible for a business that needs to be stabilized, understood, operated, rebuilt, or prepared for transition, MPX can help.

Bring the messy facts. We will help you find the path through.

Email mike@mpxgroup.net mike@mpxgroup.net