Carbacio Group is built around the two of us — by design, not by stage of growth. We don't fly in junior consultants. The partner you meet on the discovery call is the partner on the engagement, every week, for the entire engagement.
Client-facing partner. Automotive retail operator from the sales floor to the executive suite. Inside the store, alongside your team, until the changes stick.
Nick spent years operating at the highest levels of automotive retail — from the sales floor to the general manager seat to the executive suite of multi-store groups. He has seen, firsthand, how good dealerships lose money they don't know they're losing.
Max Q Automotive was built on a straightforward premise: most of the profit a dealer needs already exists in their store. It's being obscured by loose process, misaligned management, and expense structures that never got properly examined.
Nick works personally with every client. Not as a remote advisor — but inside the store, alongside your team, until the changes stick.
Across variable, fixed, and finance.
Specialized in store turnarounds and sustained performance improvement.
Not slide decks. Not remote advisory. Inside the building, on the floor.
No junior consultants flown in for the readout. The partner you meet is the partner running the work.
Operations partner. Financial modeling, scorecards, technical infrastructure, AI-era visibility, the BridgePoint Growth delivery relationship.
The numbers and the technical layer. If a Carbacio Group engagement requires a financial model rebuilt, a scorecard designed, a what-if calculator built, a website rebuilt for AI-era discoverability, a domain portfolio audited, or a monitoring infrastructure stood up — that's Jeff's work. He runs BridgePoint Growth, Carbacio Group's technical-infrastructure sister company, which handles the technical-delivery portion of Carbacio Group engagements.
The financial diagnostic. The capacity, pricing, and headcount what-if modeling. The scorecard build. The technical and AI-search audit when in scope. The deliverable documentation. The handover playbook. Anything in the engagement that has to ship in software, not slideware.
Most consulting firms split their partners by industry — restaurants partner, healthcare partner, manufacturing partner. Carbacio Group splits by discipline. Nick on people and operations; Jeff on numbers and technical execution. The two skill stacks are stronger together than either is alone, and on every engagement the client gets both.
Every Carbacio Group engagement is co-led. Nick takes the relationship and operating seat; Jeff takes the technical and financial seat. We're both on every call that matters, and you'll never be handed off to a junior.
Discovery, executive interviews, the operating walk, the talent search, the hard conversation. The work that requires presence in the room.
Financial modeling, scorecard build, technical and AI-search audit, infrastructure work, deliverable documentation. The work that has to ship as software, not slides.
Carbacio Group sits at the top. Max Q and BridgePoint are the starter brands the partners built first — they proved the operating model and they still serve their categories, now under the Carbacio Group umbrella.
The horizontal consulting firm. Wyoming LLC. Owned 50/50 by Nick Carbacio and Jeff Hatfield. The entity that contracts every client engagement described on this site. Carbacio Group is the firm the two starter brands grew into — a single roof for horizontal consulting across the verticals the partners serve.
Built first, around the operating reps Nick brings to the automotive dealer category. Max Q proved the model on the dealer side — high-credibility operational diagnostics, scorecards, dealer-specific KPIs, and a door dealer principals actually walked through. It still operates with its own brand identity and its own site, now sitting under Carbacio Group.
Built first, around the technical-infrastructure work Jeff was already delivering — multi-property portfolios, site rebuilds, schema deployment, monitoring. Its earliest client relationships — including the twelve-property service portfolio in our case study — predate Carbacio Group. Today, BridgePoint Growth operates as a sister company under the Carbacio Group umbrella, delivering the technical-infrastructure work for Carbacio Group engagements. All engagements bill through Carbacio Group.
Each starter brand kept the door its category recognizes — dealer principals still find Max Q, infrastructure-only clients still find BridgePoint. Carbacio Group sits above them as the firm that contracts horizontal consulting engagements across every vertical the partners serve. Three brands, two partners, one operating standard.
If your question isn't here, it'll be on the discovery call.
30-minute discovery call. You'll be on the line with both of us. We'll know inside that call whether the fit is right — and we'll tell you either way.