I'm Victor Ricondo, founder of Revelation Business Solutions & Consulting.
Long before entering the merchant services industry, I was a United States Marine, a private investigator, a husband, a father, and a business owner. I've experienced the rewards of building a successful company from the ground up — and the adversity of losing what I built and having to start over.
Those experiences shaped who I am, and they're a big part of why Revelation exists: to help business owners understand their payment processing costs, identify unnecessary expenses, and choose solutions that fit the way they actually operate.
San Antonio Roots and the Marine Corps
I was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, where I learned the importance of faith, family, hard work, discipline, and service.
I served in the United States Marine Corps as a Military Police Officer. The Corps reinforced principles that have stayed with me ever since: leadership, accountability, perseverance, integrity, and Semper Fidelis — Always Faithful.
But some of my greatest lessons came after I took off the uniform.
From Marine to Private Investigator
After the Marine Corps, my path led me into private investigations, where I worked for roughly 10 years.
Investigative work taught me to listen carefully, ask the right questions, examine the facts, identify inconsistencies, solve problems, and notice details others overlook. I didn't realize it at the time, but those skills would become invaluable in business.
Eventually, though, I wanted to build something of my own.
Building a Business, One Vehicle at a Time
I started Faith Power Washing while still working as a private investigator. For nearly three years I lived two professional lives: investigator by day, washing vehicles at night.
There was nothing glamorous about it. I took the jobs I could get, earned referrals, built relationships, reinvested, and kept going. After about three years of working both, the business had grown enough for me to leave investigations and become a full-time entrepreneur.
What began with washing vehicles grew into Faith Power Washing and later M6:33 Facility Services, Inc. — a company that reached approximately $1.6 million in annual sales.
I learned business from the ground up, not from a textbook: making sales calls, hiring and managing employees, meeting payroll, buying equipment and vehicles, and working directly with customers, vendors, and contractors. I've dealt with insurance, contracts, cash flow, taxes, overhead, slow months, expansion, and the weight of knowing that employees and their families depended, in part, on my decisions.
I know what it's like when business is booming. And I know what it's like when everything changes.
When Life Changed
In 2017, I went through a life-changing legal matter that was eventually dismissed. Even so, the impact on my life, family, finances, and business was significant. After years of building my company, I lost the business and much of what I had worked for.
Suddenly I wasn't thinking about expansion. I was thinking about survival, and about how to provide for my family.
It was one of the most difficult chapters of my life. But I made a decision: that chapter would not determine how my story ended.
Starting Over
I was willing to take whatever honest work I could find to provide for my family and start rebuilding. That included returning to something I already knew — private investigations.
I had been away from the industry for about 15 years, and a lot had changed. Technology, procedures, the industry itself. So I had to change too. I learned the new procedures, adapted to the technology, and went back to work.
That experience reinforced something the Marine Corps taught me years earlier:
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.
Those words aren't a slogan to me. I've had to live them.
Entering Merchant Services and Payment Processing
My rebuilding journey led me into the merchant services and payment processing industry in 2020. I approached it the way I've approached everything else: learn the business, work hard, ask questions, build relationships, take care of the customer.
As I gained experience, the investigator in me started noticing things. Many business owners didn't really understand what they were paying. Statements were confusing. Fees weren't clearly explained. Owners were sold technology and pricing structures that didn't fit their operation.
That bothered me — because I had spent years sitting on their side of the table. I knew what every unnecessary expense meant to a business owner, and I knew there had to be a better approach.
Why Revelation Business Solutions & Consulting Exists
My mission is simple: reveal the truth.
The private investigator in me never fully disappeared. Today, instead of investigating a case, I sit down with business owners to review their payment processing statements, uncover what may be costing them more than necessary, and help them find clearer, better-fitting solutions.
Family Is Why Business Matters
I'm also a husband and a father of three. My family has walked beside me through success, adversity, loss, rebuilding, and victory.
They've taught me an important lesson: behind almost every small business is a family — and behind that business are employees with families of their own. That's why relationships matter to me.
Be the Victor, Not the Victim
Life doesn't always go according to plan. Neither does business. We don't always control what happens to us, but we are responsible for what we do next.
My father taught me: "No one can stop you from being the best you but you."
The Marine Corps taught me Semper Fi — Always Faithful. My faith taught me who I ultimately answer to. My family taught me why I keep going. Private investigations taught me to search for the truth. Business taught me to find solutions. Adversity taught me how to rebuild.
And Revelation gives me the chance to put all of it together to help other business owners.
Success isn't simply about what you build. It's about the people you help along the way.
Victor Ricondo
Founder, Revelation Business Solutions & Consulting
Semper Fi.
