News
What the sectors we work in are saying.
The private equity trade press and the outlets that cover each sector we operate in, read straight from their own feeds and collected here. Our own writing is the last tab.
What we have written about operating these businesses, rather than about ourselves.
- Private Equity's AI Problem Is Not Adoption. It Is Distribution. Every fund has an AI mandate, and most portfolio companies have a successful pilot to show for it. Very little has changed in how the work gets done. The gap is not adoption. It is distribution.
- The technology value creation levers that pay back first Most plans list a dozen things technology could do. A handful of them pay for the rest, and they can usually start in the first month.
- Green until it is red: how to spot a failing programme early Programmes rarely fail suddenly. They are reported suddenly. Five signals tell you a status is out of date before the steering pack does.
- What technology due diligence does not tell you Technology due diligence answers what you are buying. The first year is decided by who operates it on Monday, what was deferred, and how hard the TSA exit is.
- Four questions before you approve an AI project Most AI proposals in a portfolio company fail on the same four points, and every one of them can be checked in a meeting before any money moves.
- The systems bill nobody put in the roll-up model A roll-up model assumes the back office consolidates. What usually happens is that every site keeps its own systems, and the bill arrives at exit.
Where to start
A two week technology health check. One document. No obligation.
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Technology health check
2 weeks
What it turns up
- Licences paid for and not used
- Firewall rules nobody has reviewed since install
- Administrator accounts with no owner
- Reports built on a source that stopped updating
- An integration failing quietly, nobody alerted
What it reads live
- Licences, systems and what they cost waiting
- Network, remote access and segmentation waiting
- Cloud tenant, identity and admin rights waiting
- Core systems and how they connect waiting
- Reporting, data quality and access waiting
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