Partnership FAQs

Companies without an established client base or a track record in their market are not a fit for this group. The same is true of owners looking purely for the highest number with no interest in what happens to their team afterward, because the model depends on crews and client relationships staying intact through the transition. Hearing early that there is no fit is more useful than a long conversation that goes nowhere.

Confidentiality is foundational to this process, and every conversation stays within the business development team. Nothing reaches employees, clients, or anyone else in the group without your agreement. Owners often have these conversations a year or more before they are ready to act, and it stays between us for as long as that takes.

Company names consolidate into Exscape Group’s branch structure. The group operates through geographic branches across the Cleveland and Columbus markets, and a company that joins becomes part of the branch serving its market rather than continuing as a separate brand. The history stays on the record and the reputation carries into the group, but the name above the door changes.

Crews stay with the properties and clients they already serve. The group’s growth has come with more training, more equipment, and more advancement for people who previously had nowhere further to go inside a single company. Hiring, payroll, and HR move to the group, which takes that work off the owner’s desk without changing who shows up on site.

Owners decide how involved they remain, and both answers are real options. Several owners who joined this group came in as operating leaders and continue to lead the work in their markets. Others use a partnership as a path toward stepping back on a timeline they set.

Partnership structures are flexible, including equity rollover for owners who want to keep a stake in what the group becomes. A full exit and a partial transition are both available. Which one makes sense usually depends on where the owner is in their own timeline rather than on a fixed formula.

Exscape Group is owner-operator led and backed by BHMS Investments, which invested in the combination of Exscape Designs and Green Impressions in May 2025. Bill Dysert, who founded Exscape Designs, leads the group as Chief Executive Officer, and several owners from companies that have joined serve as operating leaders. Decisions are made by people who have run landscape companies themselves.

Reaching out directly is the whole first step, and nothing needs preparing beforehand. The first conversation covers what the business does, what the market looks like, and what you want out of the next few years. Nothing is committed and nothing leaves the business development team.