A private New Orleans table for operators buying real businesses and the capital that quietly backs them. A curated monthly dinner. A weekly War Room in the first 90 days after your deal closes with Josh, his COO, and his CFO in the room with you. The conversation you cannot have with your normal circle, and the operating help nobody else in your inbox is offering.
You are staring at a CIM at 11pm wondering which numbers are real. You are trying to figure out if the seller's SDE is honest, if the working capital peg is fair, if the lender you have will actually close, if you are about to overpay by 30 percent because nobody in your circle has ever bought anything this size.
Or the deal already closed and now you have a payroll to run, a seller who half-checked-out the day you signed, employees testing you, books that need a real cleanup, and a phone that never rings with the right person on the other end.
Every mastermind, cohort, and searcher group is built to help you get to the deal. Almost nothing helps you after it closes. And the capital that would actually back an operator like you is sitting in a completely different room, being pitched at by strangers with a deck.
The Cap Table exists because that room should not exist in two halves.
Most rooms give you one side. Only operators, or only investors, or only "networkers." The Cap Table puts the two sides of a real acquisition at the same table, on purpose.
You run something, or you are actively buying something. You want the higher-level conversation you cannot have with your normal circle.
You have capital and you want to see real, local, operator-led deals long before they hit a listing site, a broker's blast, or a pitch night.
Nothing here is an offer of securities, a fund, an allocation, deal flow, or a promise of returns, funding, or capital access. Members talk. What they do outside the room is their own.
Most programs help you get a deal. The Cap Table helps you after it closes. Weekly operating calls for your first 90 days after close. Josh, his COO, and his CFO in the room with you, working the real problems as they hit.
This alone is worth more than the membership.
Cash, payroll, banking, insurance, key employees. The stuff that breaks first, before anything else can even matter.
Books cleaned up, a real P&L in front of you, vendors renegotiated, seller transition managed instead of hoped for.
Operating rhythm, weekly numbers you actually trust, hiring decisions, the first hard people call handled with people who have made it.
Actively evaluating a deal? Your War Room seat activates the week you close. Already closed within the last 90 days? It activates now. Capital-side members sit in on War Room recaps to see how an operator actually runs the first 90.
A small, curated table in New Orleans. Private room. High-end. No stage, no speaker, no name tags. Operators, capital, and the deal people who make acquisitions actually happen, all pulled up to the same table.
This is where a member hears about a deal before it lists. Where an operator meets the capital that would actually back them. Where a capital-side member watches live acquisitions get discussed in real numbers instead of a deck. It is the acquisition-level conversation you cannot have with your current friend group. We built this because we wanted it too.
Every dinner includes one Deal Hot Seat. One member brings a live deal to the table, walks the room through the numbers and the story, and takes real questions from operators and capital-side members. The room pressure-tests it, pokes the add-backs, argues the risk, and flags what still needs to be proven. Capital-side members who like what they hear can say so directly, and take the conversation further after dinner on their own terms. No pitch deck theater, no forced matchmaking, no promise anyone writes a check.
You leave dinner with a list of names, a couple of deals in your head, one deal fully stress-tested, and a group thread that keeps moving all month.
Everything you would otherwise hire, hunt down, or fly across the country for. Priced honestly against what the outside world charges for anything close.
Comparables are outside-world reference points for adjacent services and rooms, not a promise of outcomes.
You do not check out here. You apply. If it is a fit, you receive a private invite and a payment link.
A seat at one monthly dinner. Operators, capital, and deal people at one table.
First class of members. Founding rate held for as long as your membership stays active.
Full membership after the founding class closes.
Nothing moves until you are in, vetted, and the room is a fit for you. No public checkout, no auto-charge, no "cancel anytime" fine print. Approved members receive a private payment link after review. If we are not right for you, we say so, and refund the dinner if you already paid one. That is the entire risk.
M&A operator based in New Orleans. Runs a portfolio of auto-service and real-estate businesses through JW Global Enterprises. Actively buying, actively operating, actively closing. Josh, his COO, and his CFO are the three chairs on every 90-Day War Room call. This is the room he wanted, so he built it.
Yes. The Cap Table was built precisely because the two sides almost never sit at the same table. You come for live operator-led deals in real numbers, without a stage or a pitch. What you do with any of it is your own decision. Nothing here is an offer, allocation, deal flow, or promised return.
Perfect timing. You get the room now, and your War Room seat activates the week your deal closes. Members under LOI use the room to pressure-test the deal in front of them before they sign.
The War Room is built around the first 90 days after close. Members past that window live in the monthly dinner, the private group, and the Bench. The front door to the next deal, the capital behind it, and the operators who can run it.
No. The Cap Table is a private membership community. Nothing here is an offer of securities, a fund, an allocation, deal flow, or any promise of returns, funding, or capital access. Members talk. What they do outside the room is their own.
Fit for the room. Do you take deals seriously? Will you add to a conversation everyone else at the table paid to be in? That is the bar. Operators and capital are held to the same bar.
New Orleans. Monthly dinners in a private room. Weekly War Room calls run remote. Retreat is once a year, members only.
Once a year, with approval. You vouch, we vet.
Fill out the short application below. Tell us what you run or fund, and where you are on the acquisition path. That is the entire application. If it is a fit, we are in touch.
Founding class by invitation. Applications reviewed one at a time. Tell us who you are and where you are on the acquisition path. If it is a fit, you will hear from us directly.
We review each one personally. If it is a fit, you will hear from us directly about the next dinner or a Founding seat.