A technology function for private equity portfolio companies — built, proven, and handed over.

Seven fixed-scope offerings, each with a clock and something that exists at the end.

Assess & Plan
Understand before spending
Build Foundations
The layer everything else sits on
Automate & Operate
Turn the foundation into P&L impact
Lead
Judgement between engagements

The problem

Mid-market portfolio companies carry real technology dependencies and no credible technology leadership. Between $10M and $100M of revenue the symptoms are consistent enough to be boring.

The alternatives are all the wrong shape. Big consultancies are too expensive and too slow. Staffing firms send hands without judgement. A full-time CTO is premature for most sub-$50M assets.

  • 01The CFO is the reporting layer, and the board pack lands three weeks late
  • 02Roll-ups consolidating acquired entities by hand, every quarter, forever
  • 03Finance headcount growing in a straight line with revenue
  • 04An AI strategy that exists for LP meetings but not on the P&L
  • 05Deal theses that assume technology outcomes nobody has costed or sequenced

The offerings

You don't have to start at the top — but the ones below only work if the ones above them are true

Assess & PlanPre-deal

Technology Due Diligence

Architecture, scalability, technical debt, team, spend, and what the first hundred days would cost.

2–3 weeksEngagement length
Assess & PlanPost-close

Technology Diagnostic

What the technology function costs, what it's worth, and a hundred-day plan with sequencing.

3 weeksEngagement length
Build FoundationsFoundation

Data Platform Sprint

Source systems ingested, warehouse provisioned, dbt models, semantic layer, board KPI pack — handed over to the portco's team.

6 weeks, after a pre-flightEngagement length
Automate & OperateFinance

Finance Autopilot

Month-end close, consolidation across entities, AP, AR, board pack assembly, variance analysis.

Per use case, or ongoingEngagement length
Automate & OperateOperations

AI Factory

The same engine pointed at operations, service and procurement — plus a governance framework that survives diligence.

OngoingEngagement length
Automate & OperateRevenue

GTM Engineering

Buying-signal detection, enrichment, ICP scoring, automated research and outbound, CRM hygiene.

Build, then ongoingEngagement length
LeadBetween engagements

Fractional CTO

Board and IC reporting, roadmap and architecture ownership, hiring and building the team that eventually replaces us, vendor and spend discipline.

1–2 days a weekEngagement length
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Prices, scope boundaries and what we need from you

How we work

Five commitments

01 / Commercials
Fixed scope, fixed clock

Everything has a number and a date. Change requests get their own number and their own date. This is the anti-“it depends” firm.

02 / Deliverable
Something exists at the end

Every engagement lands in production or lands a costed plan. Nothing we sell is PDF-shaped.

03 / Team
Senior only

A small senior team. No juniors learning the business on your portfolio company.

04 / Portfolio
It compounds

One MSA, one standard, drawdown per company. The ingest patterns, the dbt skeleton, the KPI pack and the governance framework all travel. The second engagement costs less than the first.

05 / Exit
We hand over and leave

The portco's team owns what we build. We are not an agency on a retainer, and a successful engagement ends.

When not to hire us

We would rather lose the work than take the wrong engagement

  • Under ~$10M revenueThe overhead of a firm like ours outweighs what we can move.
  • You need hands, not judgementA staffing firm is cheaper and better at it.
  • The answer is a hireSometimes the right move is a permanent CTO, and we will say so.
  • GTM, but ICP is unresolvedThis is an expensive way to find that out.
  • No asset is readyWe will tell you which one is the right first engagement, including when the honest answer is none of them.

Where we are

We are early, and we would rather say so than have you work it out.

The first two engagements are offered at a third off standard pricing. That is design-partner pricing: we are buying reference cases, and we would rather buy them with cash than with corners. The scope, the clock and the seniority are the same as they will be at full price.

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