Operating partner
Partner, BluHatCo
15+ years running cleaning, facilities and catering businesses across Ireland. Has hired the crews, held the contracts, and lost the ones nobody saw coming.
Commercial partner for Ireland's contract-services operators
Win more work. Keep more of it. Lose less to the competition.
BluHatCo helps Ireland's contract-services operators win more, keep more, and lose less — by pairing real operational credibility with the commercial systems they've never had time to build.
- 15+ yrs
- Running cleaning, facilities & catering operations
- 15+ yrs
- Building B2B sales enablement & coaching programmes
- Ireland
- Focused on SME contract-services operators
About BluHatCo
The commercial partner these owners didn't know they could hire.
Most small and mid-sized contract-services companies — cleaning, catering, facilities, security, grounds — compete on two things: relationships and price. Not because their owners want to, but because no one has ever built them a proper sales process, an account management system, or a tender framework they can trust.
BluHatCo is two partners with the exact combination that gap requires. One has spent fifteen years running operational contract-services businesses — cleaning, facilities, catering — and knows how the work actually gets delivered on Monday morning. The other has spent fifteen years building the sales enablement systems, training, and coaching programmes that make B2B teams perform.
We're not consultants dropping a deck and walking away. We build the commercial foundation with you, then hand you something you can run.
Commercial partner
Partner, BluHatCo
15+ years building sales enablement systems, training programmes and coaching frameworks for B2B teams. Focused on making non-sellers effective without turning them into salespeople.
What we build
The BluHat Method.
Two tracks. One engagement. Everything a contract-services operator needs to win more, keep more, and lose less.
Track 01 · Led by Brian
BluHat Method (Ops)
15+ years running bid processes, proposals, tenders and client management.
Track 02 · Led by Colm
BluHat Method (Sales)
15+ years building B2B sales enablement, training and coaching systems.
Every question in the Growth Calculator maps to one of the two BluHat Methods — your results show exactly where to start.
Try the Growth CalculatorWhy BluHatCo
Most SME contract-services firms have never had a commercial function. We build one.
How most operators sell today
Bids written from scratch, on gut feel, the night before deadline.
Retention lives in the owner's head; you find out about churn at re-tender.
New work depends on word-of-mouth and the owner's calendar.
Ops managers thrown into selling with no coaching or framework.
How BluHatCo changes it
A repeatable tender library and qualify-in / qualify-out scoring before you commit resource.
Named account owners, quarterly reviews, and early warning signals on every contract.
A lightweight CRM, a real pipeline, and a forecast that survives the owner being on site.
Practical sales coaching from operators who have sat on both sides of the table.
Book a conversation
Tell us where your commercial engine is leaking.
A 30-minute call, no deck, no pitch. If we can help, we'll tell you what a first engagement looks like. If we can't, we'll point you at someone who can.
Based in
Ireland — working with operators nationally