Morning light across a quiet American main street with local shops.

Built by operators, for owners.

We started Kolt Holdings because thousands of good businesses are for sale as their owners retire, and most buyers bring money but little else. We bring decades of running businesses, and the work.

Why we started Kolt.

We have built and run companies together for more than a decade: tax-credit advisory firms, AI voice and language companies, a trucking operation, a tree farm, a landscape materials yard. Today we run Group Advisors, which serves employers with benefits, payroll and compliance programs on software we built ourselves. That work puts us in front of business owners every day.

We kept meeting owners with strong businesses and no time to modernize them: no clear numbers, no marketing, processes that live in one person’s head. The businesses were good. They were not yet built to lead.

So we set out to buy a few of them, anywhere in the USA, and do the work ourselves: research first, then the Blueprint, then better operations, marketing and connections. Kolt Holdings is that plan.

A field team loading equipment into a service van in the morning.

What we have built together.

Companies Jason and Matt have started, bought or run together, oldest first. Several are still running today.

  1. 2013

    MusicalStar

    International artist booking and live events, working with the KonLive label and partners in Asia.

  2. 2019

    Green Road Ventures

    Landscape materials in Orlando, Florida: sold dirt, bought mulch.

  3. 2019

    Lightstream Farms

    Software for a tree farm in Orlando, Florida.

  4. 2019

    Truck Force Authority

    A trucking company in Costa Rica serving Walmart.

  5. 2020

    COVIDSchedule

    AI appointment booking, reminders and contactless check-in for COVID-19 testing sites.

  6. 2020

    NeoGen.AI

    Conversational AI and virtual agents, built in Orlando, Florida, connected to the systems businesses already run.

  7. 2020

    ClearERC

    Helped US businesses prepare and substantiate Employee Retention Credit claims, with CPAs and tax attorneys, from Winter Park, Florida.

  8. 2021

    ProSoftIP

    Speech and language AI as hosted services other companies build into their own products.

  9. 2022

    Voicio

    AI voice agents and a virtual receptionist for small businesses, with live takeover by the owner.

  10. 2022

    ERC Repair

    Review of existing Employee Retention Credit claims: eligibility, calculations and evidence.

  11. 2023

    SureAdvisors

    Tax credits and savings for businesses, with guidance tailored to each operation.

  12. 2025

    Group Advisors

    Benefits, payroll, compliance and preventive healthcare programs for employers, on software we built ourselves.

Five rules we work by.

  • Research before money

    We learn the market, the business and the competition before we make an offer. Opinions come after facts.

  • The team is the business

    Customers stay because of the people who serve them. We invest in those people first.

  • Fix the system, not the person

    When something goes wrong, we look at the process and the tools before we look for blame.

  • Measure what matters

    Every business gets a short set of numbers that everyone can see and understand.

  • Say it plainly

    To owners, staff and investors alike: what we know, what we do not, and what we will do next.

More than capital.

  • We have run businesses for decades

    Phone systems, call centres, AI companies, trucking, tax advisory. We know what a Monday morning looks like in a small business, because we have had thousands of them.

  • We research whole markets, not a few listings

    AI systems we run ourselves read every public business listing in a market and run the same 39 public-record screening checks on each one, so we find the right fit faster and see the market an owner is selling into.

  • We bring the tools and the customers

    Automation, integration, websites and local SEO, built and operated by us. And an employer network that is a ready audience for the services our businesses sell.

The founders.

  • Jason Birkett, co-founder of Kolt Holdings.

    Jason Birkett

    Co-founder (CEO)

    Jason has run businesses for more than twenty years. He co-founded an AT&T wireless franchise in 2002 and grew it past $24 million in revenue, built a marketing company that produced over $25 million a year, and has spent the last decade building companies with Matt: tax-credit advisory firms, AI voice companies, a trucking operation serving Walmart. Today he is CEO of Group Advisors, which serves employers with benefits, payroll and compliance programs. At Kolt he leads acquisitions, seller relationships and investor relations. He is the person an owner talks to first.

    Full career: Jason Birkett
    • 1997 to 2002: University of Central Florida.
    • 2002: co-founded an AT&T wireless franchise and grew it to more than $24 million in gross revenue, running sales, staffing, accounting and operations.
    • 2005 to 2009: co-founded and ran Global Concepts, a marketing company whose systems produced more than $25 million in annual sales for large clients.
    • 2009: co-founded Phonegreetings.com and Social Expression in Orlando, Florida.
    • 2013 onward: built companies with Matt (see the list below), including MusicalStar, NeoGen.AI, ProSoftIP and Voicio.
    • 2019: ran Truck Force Authority, a trucking company in Costa Rica serving Walmart.
    • 2020 to 2023: co-founded ClearERC, ERC Repair and SureAdvisors: tax credits and claim review for US businesses.
    • 2025: CEO of Group Advisors, serving employers across the United States.
    Jason on LinkedIn
  • Matt Riddell, co-founder of Kolt Holdings.

    Matt Riddell

    Co-founder (CTO)

    Matt has written software since he was six and sold it since he was eleven. He founded VentureVoIP in New Zealand in 2004, spoke at open-source telephony conferences across the United States for a decade, and has built phone systems, a custom audio chip and the AI systems Kolt runs today. At Kolt he leads research, technology and operations for every business we buy.

    Full career: Matt Riddell
    • Age 6: first programs. Age 11: first paying software, a mortgage amortization platform, run from school with a pager.
    • 2002: SineApps and SureCall in Dunedin, New Zealand: custom software and hardware, and a call centre.
    • 2004: founded VentureVoIP. New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark attended the 2007 launch.
    • 2005: co-founded GEDAM Europe in Torino, Italy: telecommunications and security platforms for large companies.
    • 2005 to 2016: spoke at AstriCon in Madrid, Denver, Atlanta, Las Vegas and Glendale on open-source telephony.
    • 2014: Create Offshore Company, Panama. 2018: bought into Murphy’s, a bar and restaurant in Panama City.
    • Music, audio processing and a custom audio chip, a long-running interest in what a signal can become.
    • 2025: spoke at the University of Panama on the fundamentals of artificial intelligence.
    Matt on LinkedIn

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