VDC Management · AI Operating System

Business.

The structure, the strategy, and the operating businesses underneath VDC Management. The agent reads this before answering anything about what VDC does, owns, runs, or is building toward.

The shape

VDC Management is a 50/50 partnership between Bill VanDyke and Peter Clegg, sitting across nine LLCs that hold the actual operating businesses.

VDC Management itself is not a legal entity. Bill described it directly as "phantom" — a working name for a personal partnership agreement between the two owners. The substance of the business sits in the nine LLCs underneath: those are the legal containers that hold the operating companies, the assets, and the contractual relationships.

Two of the nine LLCs are confirmed by name: A New Life Wellness Retreat, LLC and Summer Projects. The remaining seven are not yet documented in this file.


The strategy

Bill and Peter are running an acquisition-and-modernization thesis. They are not building businesses from scratch. They are buying small operating companies with the right shape and layering technology, AI, and operational discipline on top to compound the value over time.

Peter described the criteria directly:

Businesses that, you know, they've been in business for eight, ten years. They got a solid track record. They got an owner that wants to retire, a staff in place, but they're not updated with the technology. We would look at it more to purchase the business and then layer on the technology on top of it. Peter, Builder Immersion Session

The four criteria that define an acquisition target for VDC:

A New Life Wellness Retreat is the first acquisition that puts the thesis to a real test. Summer Projects is an existing operating business in the portfolio. The seven unnamed LLCs hold the rest of the portfolio in various stages.


The operating businesses

A New Life Wellness Retreat, LLC
9-bed BHRF · Phoenix, Arizona · residential program

A New Life Wellness Retreat is a 9-bed Behavioral Health Residential Facility (BHRF) operating in Phoenix, Arizona. It is the active operating business at the center of the portfolio.

Service. Residential behavioral health care for adults. Clinical authority of record sits with a Lead Behavioral Health Professional (LPC). Day-to-day care is delivered by Behavioral Health Technicians supervised by the Lead BHP. Nursing, therapy, and dietary services are provided by 1099 contractors.

Payer mix. AHCCCS (Arizona's Medicaid program) is the primary payer for residential behavioral health services, alongside private insurance and self-pay. Billing complexity is meaningful and varies by payer.

Regulatory frame. Arizona BHRF licensing is required to operate. AHCCCS enrollment is required to bill Medicaid for covered services. HIPAA applies to all protected health information and any tooling that touches it; a Business Associate Agreement is required with any vendor whose software touches patient data.

Operating model. Bill and Peter are the owners. The day-to-day operating team (Executive Director, Administrator of Operations, Operations Lead) works under a single Management Agreement with the partnership. Clinical professionals (Lead BHP, backup BHP, Nurse, Dietitian) are 1099 contractors. Direct-care staff (BHTs) are employed and supervised through the operating team. People details live in people.html.

Summer Projects
rock delivery · Utah

Summer Projects is a rock-delivery business operating in Utah. An established operating business in the portfolio with a smaller team and lower regulatory complexity than A New Life.

Service. Rock delivery to residential and commercial customers. Pricing varies by delivery address; Utah sales tax application changes by location, requiring an address-specific tax calculation at the point of quoting.

Seven additional LLCs
undisclosed in this file

Seven of the nine LLCs in the portfolio have not yet been documented here. They appear in conversation under the VDC Management umbrella. Confirmation of names, business activities, and lifecycle stage is an open verification item. The agent should ask Bill or Peter rather than assume.


What this means for any agent representing VDC's businesses

  1. Each operating business in the portfolio lives in its own market. Behavioral health residential care and rock delivery share owners, not customers. Never blur them in any agent output. A correct answer for one is usually the wrong answer for the other.
  2. HIPAA is real for A New Life. Any output that touches a resident, applicant, referrer, payer, or clinical record at A New Life carries HIPAA implications. Default to caution. When in doubt, route to Bill or Peter directly rather than draft something that could leak protected information.
  3. Arizona BHRF and AHCCCS rules are not negotiable. They are not advisory tone or business judgment; they are licensing and reimbursement floors. The agent never invents a clinical, licensing, or billing position. Defer to the operating team or to qualified counsel.
  4. The acquisition thesis is the strategic frame for everything. Decisions made about either business are also decisions about whether the thesis works. When the agent sees Bill or Peter reasoning about A New Life, it is also watching them reason about whether the broader pattern compounds. Treat it accordingly.
  5. The portfolio shape is intentional. Nine LLCs is not accidental complexity. Each holds a piece of the portfolio for legal, tax, or operational reasons. The agent does not propose consolidation, restructuring, or simplification of the LLC structure.

Verification placeholders

Items to confirm or correct directly with Bill or Peter as the engagement progresses.

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