Post-acquisition, days 1 to 100
Unify fragmented, bolted-on platforms into one governed product pipeline.
Under pressure a portfolio company cuts the least defended work first. Research, accessibility, design-system maintenance. Each cut is rational alone, and together they produce an asset technical due diligence marks down in the quarter nobody budgeted for it.
Five figures, each with its source and its grade. Two are secondary and say so, because a sponsor will check one of them and the weakest citation is the one they check.
| Private Equity Value Creation | Turn an AI layer nobody can prove into a certificate and a margin figure, before the next transaction prices it. |
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Sequenced against the hold period rather than sold as one engagement. For 2010 to 2022 deals, leverage and multiple expansion made up fifty-nine per cent of realised returns. Entry multiples are high now and holds run near seven years, so infrastructure work that used to fall outside the value-creation window falls inside it.
Unify fragmented, bolted-on platforms into one governed product pipeline.
AI readiness built on CRISP-DM, governed automation, adoption measured. Margin expands through lower support cost and higher net revenue retention.
Deal flow through technical due-diligence and talent partners, delivered with named specialists already worked with.
Remove the product and experience signals before technical due diligence begins. Founder-led to institutional-grade.
Govern is the step an agency skips, and it is what makes the infrastructure last.
Find the operational, product and governance risks that will constrain value creation.
Work inside the portfolio company rather than handing recommendations over from outside.
Build the product infrastructure, the operating rhythms and the adoption mechanisms.
Make the change survive the next acquisition and the next round of pressure-driven cuts.
Sixty days each, and each one ends. Durations, fees and deliverables live on the programmes themselves.
Turn an AI layer nobody can prove into a certificate and a margin figure, before the next transaction prices it.
View detailThe person who scopes an engagement is the person who delivers it. No bench and no junior handoff.
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Read case studyEvery figure on this page is sourced and graded in the whitepaper, including the two that are only secondary.
