Solutions — Private equity
Your portfolio companies get the software they need —
in days, at a fraction of SI cost.
Portfolio companies need digital systems on value-creation timelines — not IT timelines. Consulting firms take 12–24 months and charge accordingly. AI coding tools require engineers the portfolio doesn't have. The factory delivers production software in under a week, governed from intent to code.
The problem
The value-creation plan has a timeline. IT does not.
Most PE firms acquire companies with a 3–5 year horizon and a value-creation plan that depends on digital modernization — better reporting, streamlined operations, faster workflows. The business case is clear. The execution is where it stalls.
Consulting firms are too slow and too expensive. AI coding tools require in-house engineers to direct and validate the work. Internal IT, if it exists at the portfolio company, is already overloaded with keeping the existing systems running.
The result: the workflow modernization sits in planning for 18 months and never reaches a board update. The digital operations initiative becomes a line item that carries forward every quarter.
SI firms
12–24 month delivery cycles. Cost scales with headcount. The translation gap between what was asked and what ships is not a defect — it is the model.
AI coding tools
Accelerate individual developers. Still require engineers to direct the work, validate correctness, and govern requirements. Outcome risk stays with the portfolio company.
Internal IT
Competing priorities mean the high-value initiative waits. The backlog is real and does not shrink when a new priority is added to the top.
Low-code platforms
Platform lock-in raises the cost of every future change. Complexity ceilings rule them out for production enterprise systems. Governance is an afterthought.
How it works
From operating partner intent to live application — in a week.
The factory begins with a structured intent capture: a senior stakeholder — the operating partner, the portfolio CEO, or a business-unit lead — describes the workflow outcome in plain terms. No technical specification required, no engineering team to brief.
From that session, the factory produces a versioned intent document, a machine-verified spec, the application, and a complete validation report — in days. Every requirement traceable from first statement to shipped code.
Intent capture
A structured session with the business stakeholder. Requirements captured in plain language, edge cases surfaced early, acceptance criteria agreed. No engineers required on your side.
Spec and architecture
The factory produces a machine-verified spec. Architecture decisions anchored to named requirements. What will be built — and why — is explicit before a line of code is written.
Autonomous build
The factory constructs the application end-to-end. Standard-stack, clean, documented. Your IT team can read it, operate it, and extend it without proprietary tooling.
Continuous validation
Every requirement generates an acceptance test. Tests run in isolation. A requirement cannot advance to delivery without a passing test — there is no override.
Governed delivery
Handover includes the application, the full audit trail — intent document, spec, validation report, architecture decision log — and clean git history. Board-ready.
Post-delivery
You own everything. No platform fee, no lock-in, no dependency on us to keep it running. If requirements change, a new engagement takes days — not a 12-month change order.
What gets built
Representative engagements.
These are application archetypes typical of PE portfolio work — anonymized, but honest. Each describes a real category of problem the factory is built to handle.
The factory does not produce marketing sites, experimental tools, or speculative features. It produces governed, production-grade applications from defined business requirements.
Portfolio reporting application
Standardized data ingestion from 10–30 portfolio companies in inconsistent formats, consolidated into board-ready output. Replaces the quarterly spreadsheet scramble.
Operational workflow system
A specific high-friction process — procurement approvals, exception routing, status tracking — rebuilt as a governed, auditable application. Often the first engagement; almost always the one that generates the second.
Supplier or partner onboarding portal
Structured intake, document verification, approval workflow, status dashboard. Replaces email threads and scattered spreadsheets for portfolio companies entering regulated supply chains.
Legacy system modernization
A specific workflow migrated from a legacy application or spreadsheet to a clean, documented, standard-stack system your team can operate without us.
What the factory guarantees
Outcomes you can put in a board update.
Delivery in days, not quarters
Enterprise-grade applications in under a week. Value-creation plans have hard timelines; the factory is built around them.
The intent guarantee
Every requirement is traced and validated. If a delivered feature fails its acceptance criteria after handover, we fix it at no additional cost. This is structural — not a SLA.
You own everything
All code, documentation, and IP belongs to the portfolio company. No platform dependency, no ongoing licensing, no lock-in. The asset is on the balance sheet.
No engineering headcount required
The factory delivers the application. Your portfolio companies describe the outcome; we produce it. You do not need to hire, manage, or retain a build team.
Audit trail included
Every requirement traceable from first statement to shipped code. The validation report is part of the handover package — available to your diligence team, board, or LP.
SI cost, not SI timeline
The factory operates at a fraction of what a consulting firm would charge for the same scope — and delivers in weeks rather than the 12–24 months a typical SI engagement runs.
The intent guarantee
"How do we know the software will be right?"
This is the right question. Every PE firm that has been through a failed software engagement asks it first. The answer is not "trust us" — it is a structural property of the factory.
Every requirement agreed at intent capture generates an acceptance test. That test is derived from the intent — not written by the team that built the application. A requirement cannot reach delivery without a passing test. There is no override.
At handover, the validation report maps every requirement to its test and its result. Your operating partner, board, or diligence team can verify that what was agreed was delivered — line by line. Not our word. The trace.
If a delivered feature fails its acceptance criteria after handover, we remediate at no additional cost. This is not a service-level agreement. It is a structural guarantee built into how the factory closes.
Private equity
Name a portfolio company with a workflow that has been stuck.
A factory briefing is 45 minutes. You describe a specific requirement from a real portfolio company; we walk through how the factory runs on it — timeline, scope, and whether we are the right fit.