Private Equity
Technology is rarely the thesis, and often the surprise.
Technology arrives with the acquisition and is understood in fragments. NarrowGateX is the Technology Advisory practice that establishes what is true, and keeps it true through the hold.
Where it earns its place
The same estate, four different questions.
- After the close
Several acquisitions in, and nobody can say what the combined environment costs.
The Baseline reads what came with the deal, contract by contract and invoice by invoice, while there is time to act on it. - Through the hold
Spend climbs, with no clean breakdown by vendor, service or entity.
The record is kept current, so a board question is answered from evidence rather than reconstructed before the meeting. - Before the exit
Diligence tests whether the technology story holds.
Organized contracts, visible spend and a vendor list somebody owns make that answer faster to give and harder to argue with. - Across a platform
Each company runs on its own vendors, contracts and standards.
The method is the same in each of them, so a record built in one company means what a record built in another does.
Sample data
One operating record
- Invoices
- Contracts
- Assets
- Locations
- Providers
- Services
224 of 240Expected services recorded
Opportunities identified
What a Baseline establishes
What you have, what it costs, and what the evidence cannot yet show.
- Spend, by entity and by vendor.What each location, vendor and service costs, with the commercial facts attached to the line rather than a spreadsheet.
- Contracts, and the windows that decide things.Terms, dates and notice periods, so a renewal is a decision the operating team makes rather than an event it absorbs.
- Where two providers do one job.Overlap named, with the consolidations and renegotiations worth testing put in order.
- The gaps, marked as gaps.A missing agreement is recorded as missing. Nothing is filled in to make the picture look complete.
What we hold to
A variance is not money in the model.
A figure in an operating plan has to survive whoever will challenge it.
Nothing is sized before it is read.
Where the evidence supports an opportunity, the record says what it rests on and what would have to be true to realize it.A position is tested against the estate first.
Outside evidence is used where it holds up, and named where it is used.A person answers for the recommendation.
Your Technology Advisor recommends and the people who live with the result decide. The AI workers read; they do not decide.
Bring the portfolio situation as it is.
One conversation is enough to scope what a Baseline would need to establish. Bring the documents you already have. No commitment required.