Practical thinking on value creation, EBITDA optimization, and operating strategy for middle market portfolio companies.
Building an in-house analytics stack takes longer than it looks, and off-the-shelf tools rarely fit a middle market portfolio company. Here's a clearer way to make the call.
Hiring a full-time data team is slow and expensive, and a mis-hire costs even more. Here's how operating partners deploy data and AI talent in days instead of months.
Manual diligence burns weeks and still misses risk hiding in the 80% of the data room nobody had time to read. Here's how AI changes what's possible before signing.
Most portfolio companies track the wrong metrics — or track the right ones too slowly. By the time monthly reports land, the window to act has already closed. Here are the five KPIs that drive real operating decisions.
Every PE firm has a 100-day plan. Most of them are dead by day 45 — not because the strategy was wrong, but because there was no infrastructure to execute it. Here's what good looks like.
Most EBITDA leaks are subtle. They're a hundred small inefficiencies compounding quietly — vendor contract drift, manual reporting overhead, pricing inconsistency. Here's how to find them before exit.