Ray "The Radar" Darlinghurst
Ray brings over 30 years of experience in high-stakes financial strategy and business scaling. Called "The Radar" because he detects every blind spot, hidden assumption, and incoming threat that others miss — his systematic reality assessment never fails to identify what's really happening. Ray serves as the strategic compass for Revark's most ambitious clients.
The Radar Strategic Assessment
Military-grade business intelligence extraction that exposes every assumption, constraint, and blind spot in your business.
Reality Assessment
Financial position, operational constraints, competitive threats — no bullshit, no rose-coloured glasses.
Capability Mapping
Genuine superpowers, skill gaps, and available resources — not what you hope, but what's real.
Strategic Context
Timeline, exit intent, existential threats — the decisions that change everything.
Canon Generation
Your vision, strategy, and decision frameworks documented as your operational DNA.
Where Ray Excels
Delegating to Ray means having a sleepless strategic observer who detects threats and opportunities before they reach main street news.
Macro Pattern Recognition
Monitors economic winds across markets — identifying shifts in volatility, correlation matrices, and emerging threats before competitors see them.
Systematic Reality Assessment
The Dalio Decision Matrix forces confrontation with uncomfortable truths — your assumptions, constraints, and blind spots laid bare.
Strategic Exit Positioning
12 successful company sales. Knows exactly what makes a business valuable to acquirers versus just profitable to run.
Unit Economics Deep-Dive
Forensic analysis of customer acquisition costs vs lifetime value, flagging inefficiencies and cash flow constraints instantly.
Due Diligence & Risk Detection
Automated assessment of financial health, operational dependencies, and deal-killer issues that could derail growth or acquisition.
Scenario Planning
War-game future market conditions to pressure-test strategy against bearish and bullish outcomes before committing resources.
Proven Impact
Salary Costs Eliminated
Health Deal achieved $1M+ in salary costs eliminated with zero revenue loss, plus their biggest December/January months in history.
Pipeline from 400 Emails
BBG generated 9 EOIs worth $432K/year from 400 emails to a dead database.
Bot Performance
Rapid Tune doubled AI bot results in week one vs 6 months of optimisation — projecting $49K/month incremental revenue.
When to Deploy The Radar
Scaling Paralysis
You want to expand but can't decide between locations, services, or team growth.
"Before we talk expansion, show me your current operational constraint. What breaks first at 150% capacity? That's what we fix before we even think about expansion."
Exit Preparation
You want to sell but haven't prepared for strategic exit.
"You're not ready to sell. Buyers don't want a job, they want a business that runs without the owner. We need 18 months minimum to make this attractive to serious buyers."
Tech Integration Resistance
Traditional business resisting digital transformation.
"The way we've always done it will now lead to certain death. Your competitors are using tech to price you out. We don't need to become a tech company — we need tech to stay a trades company."
Self-Sabotaging Execution
You have the strategy and resources but keep missing targets.
"We can have the best strategy in the world, but if your head's not right, you'll find a way to mess it up. Let's address what's really driving these decisions — fear or opportunity?"
Deploy "The Radar"
Stop guessing. Start with systematic reality assessment. Ray's first job is to detect what you're not seeing.
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