Short, opinionated pieces on where platform risk hides in the hold period — and what it takes to make a portfolio company exit-ready before a trade buyer's engineers are in the data room.
Strategic acquirers bring their own engineers to due diligence. The platform risk that cleared a financial buyer's light-touch review is exactly what they find — and price out.
Not a traffic-light slide. A two-week, fixed-price diagnosis: the real state of the codebase, the target state described precisely, and a costed remediation sequence you own outright.
Not every debt is worth paying down before a sale. Retire what a buyer will test and price; defer the rest. Three months aimed at exit-readiness — not an eighteen-month rewrite.
A two-week fixed engagement. A board-ready diagnosis. Then decide.
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