An operating partner inherits an engineering organization the day the deal closes, usually without a clean read on who leads it, whether that person can […]
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CTO as a Service for Portfolio Companies
An operating partner inheriting a software business without a credible technology leader has a specific, dated problem. The forecast assumes a product roadmap ships on […]
How to Hire a Fractional CTO for a Portfolio Company Without Buying the Wrong Thing
An operating partner rarely opens a fractional CTO search because the portfolio company asked for one. It starts with a forecast that keeps slipping, a […]
Fractional CTO for Private Equity
An operating partner does not lose sleep over an org chart gap. The problem is more specific: a portfolio company is missing plan on a […]
A Fractional CTO for a Portfolio Company
When a deal closes with an untested technology function, the operating partner inherits a problem the CFO feels first: forecasts built on numbers no one […]
Technical Debt Assessment for Private Equity
A technical debt assessment for private equity is not a code review. It is a valuation input. When an operating partner or a portfolio company […]
A Tech Stack Assessment for Acquisition That Produces a Decision, Not a Report
You have signed the LOI, or you are close to it. The model assumes the target’s software scales with the growth plan, that engineering cost […]
How to Choose a Tech Due Diligence Provider for a Portfolio Company (and Judge the Work)
An operating partner staring at a confirmatory diligence window rarely has a technology problem. They have a decision problem. The deal team already believes the […]
How to Judge an FP&A Dashboard Consultant for a Private Equity Portfolio Company
Six weeks after close, a CFO opens the first board deck and cannot reconcile the revenue figure in the FP&A dashboard against the QoE model […]