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Data Room Addendum · July 2026
Confidential — Supplement to Investment Memorandum

Client Concentration Update — H1 2026 Actuals

This addendum updates the Client Concentration analysis in the Investment Memorandum (CY2025 and TTM May '25–Apr '26 bases) with first-half 2026 operating actuals. The de-concentration the Memorandum identifies as a post-close objective is already underway in the current-year book.

25.7%
Blue Acorn share of H1 2026 revenue1 — vs. 39% CY2025 and 34.6% TTM per the Memorandum
▼ 8.9 pts vs. TTM basis
−41%
Decline in Blue Acorn monthly contract revenue, Jan → May 2026 ($255.0K → $149.7K)
Organic run-off, zero logo loss
46
Active billing clients in H1 2026, including 41 distinct permanent-placement clients
Perm book: no client > 9.5%
Tier Distribution

Concentration by revenue tier — Memorandum basis vs. H1 2026 actuals

Same tier framework as the Memorandum's Client Concentration section. Top-of-book concentration has fallen materially while the mid-tier (clients #2–10) has strengthened.

TierCY2025
(Memorandum)
TTM May '25–Apr '26
(Memorandum)
H1 2026
Actuals1
Shift vs. TTM
Top 1 (Blue Acorn)39.0%34.6%25.7%−8.9 pts
Top 3 (+ UMG / Magnit, May Mobility)47.5%38.1%−9.4 pts
Top 553.0%48.6%−4.4 pts
Top 1064.6%64.6%0.0 pts
Top 2076.7%82.5%3

Flat Top-10 share alongside a falling Top-1 share indicates revenue migrating from the anchor account into the #2–10 mid-tier (Torc Robotics: 6 placements; Baseten and May Mobility: 4 each in H1) — the distribution profile the Memorandum's post-close BD thesis targets.

Anchor Account Trajectory

Blue Acorn monthly contract revenue and share of contract book

The Memorandum notes Blue Acorn's share grew 33% → 39% from 2024 to 2025 and identifies continued expansion as the residual risk. The 2026 actuals show the opposite dynamic: a steady, orderly decline in monthly billing driven by engagement completions — with the relationship fully intact, primary-supplier status unchanged, and no logo loss. Critically, monthly gross margin on the account improved from 19.7% (Dec) to 26.3% (May) as the thinnest-margin engagements rolled off — declining volume at an improving rate is the signature of natural project run-off, not client-side rate pressure or a wind-down.

Blue Acorn contract revenue ($K / month) Share of total contract book (%)
$300K$200K$100K$0 243.9255.0218.4 208.3172.0149.7 69%66%64% 58%57%53% Dec '25Jan '26Feb '26 Mar '26Apr '26May '26 June 2026 invoicing in progress; total contract book tracking ~$300–325K for the month (management estimate). ²
Revenue Bridge

The top line has fully absorbed the Blue Acorn decline

De-concentration has not come at the cost of scale. On an annualized run-rate basis, the permanent placement engine (+$1.68M vs. CY2025) has replaced the entire Blue Acorn contract decline (−$1.31M), holding total revenue flat-to-up against the CY2025 base.5

$10M$5M$0 $9.88M −$1.31M +$1.68M −$0.05M −$0.24M $9.96M CY2025 revenue(Memorandum) Blue Acorncontract run-off Permanentplacement growth Other contractclients Other /rounding H1 2026annualized

Perm fees are running at ~$5.92M annualized vs. $4.24M in CY2025 (+40%), spread across 41 clients at 100% gross margin — a higher-quality revenue dollar than the contract billing it replaces. On Blue Acorn's May exit run-rate (~$1.80M annualized) rather than the six-month average, the replacement dynamic is even more pronounced.

What Is Driving It

De-concentration mechanics

  • Perm engine scaling around the anchor. $2.96M of permanent placement fees booked Jan–Jun across 41 clients — 68 deals with no single perm client above 9.5% of the perm book (May Mobility $281.5K, Torc Robotics $275.8K, Baseten $234.0K).
  • Orderly contract run-off, not churn. Blue Acorn monthly billing declined six consecutive months as engagements completed; the relationship remains primary-supplier under the evergreen MSA, and no logo has been lost.
  • New AI-vertical anchors compounding. Torc Robotics expanded to 6 placements in H1; Baseten, May Mobility, Agtonomy, Applied Intuition, and Black Forest Labs all generated 3+ placements or $110K+ in fees.
Gross Profit Lens

Economic exposure below the revenue line

9.4%

Blue Acorn share of H1 2026 gross profit — $329.6K of $3.49M (contract GP of $297.6K at a 23.9% blended margin, plus $32.0K of permanent placement fees).4

Presented as a gross-profit composition measure, consistent with the Memorandum's convention that permanent placement fees carry no direct cost of sale. This is complementary to — not a restatement of — the Memorandum's account-level EBITDA contribution analysis (~$824K at a 21.7% margin, FY2025), which nets servicing cost and overhead. Both views support the same conclusion: the account earns its footprint, and the book's downside exposure to it is substantially smaller than the headline revenue percentage implies.

1 H1 2026 basis: permanent placement deals booked January–June 2026 ($2,958,268 across 68 deals) plus contract staffing revenue December 2025–May 2026 ($2,023,466), per internal deals ledger; total $4,981,734. Contract data reflects invoiced months available at preparation date.

2 June 2026 contract invoicing was in progress at preparation date; figure is a management estimate for the total contract book (all clients) and is not reflected in the analysis above. Subject to reconciliation in QoE.

3 Top-20 share is not comparable to the TTM basis on this row: the shorter 6–7 month measurement window mechanically compresses the long tail of transactional perm clients relative to a 12-month view. Top-1 through Top-10 tiers are directly comparable.

4 Total H1 gross profit of $3,494,596 comprises permanent placement fees of $2,958,268 (GP = fee revenue) and contract staffing gross profit of $536,328 (bill rate less contractor labour cost).

5 Bridge methodology: permanent placement annualized as H1 booked fees × 2 ($5.92M); Blue Acorn and other contract lines annualized on the Dec '25–May '26 monthly average × 12. CY2025 component baselines per the Memorandum (~$3.8M Blue Acorn, ~$4.24M perm fees, ~$5.4M total contract); "Other / rounding" reconciles component splits to the $9.88M reported CY2025 total. Run-rate figures are illustrative, not a forecast.

Prepared by Adapt Talent management, July 2026. Unaudited; all figures subject to Quality of Earnings verification. Confidential — prepared in connection with Project Frontier.