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What a Pre-Exit Technology Audit Tells a Deal Partner Before the Sell-Side Clock Starts
If you are eighteen months from a planned exit on a portfolio company, the technology story you tell a buyer is already being written, whether you…
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The Pre-Exit Value Creation Sprint That Moves the Multiple
Twelve to eighteen months before a planned exit is when most sponsors discover that the value creation story they want to tell a buyer is not…
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AI Search Visibility for PE-Backed Operating Partners: The Five Prompts That Matter
Buyers are researching you in ChatGPT and Gemini before they contact you. Here’s how PE operating partners make shortlists in AI search, where you’re losing visibility,…
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Open Source Software Composition Due Diligence Is a Line Item in Your Value Creation Plan
If you are in confirmatory diligence on a software or software-enabled target and the seller’s tech deck says nothing about the third-party code inside the product,…
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Fractional CMO vs an embedded team for a portfolio company: what you are buying
Fractional CMO vs an Embedded Team for a Portfolio Company: What You Are Actually Buying Verdict: A fractional CMO gives you 8 hours a week of…
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Technology Due Diligence Firms for Private Equity: What a Partner Gets for $15K in Five Days
A deal partner at a $500M mid-market PE firm spent three weeks on reference calls for a SaaS acquisition, heard five versions of “scalable architecture,” signed…
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Transaction Advisory Technology in Private Equity Comes Down to Four Decisions a Deal Partner Owns
You are three weeks from an LOI on a founder-led software business, and the technology section of your advisory scope reads like a compliance checklist. Cloud…
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AI Ops Hive: An Agentic Operating System for Mid-Market and PE
What an agentic operating system answers inside a mid-market or PE-backed company today: margin leaks, delivery risk, diligence questions and vendor exposure, read from the systems…
