Exit Readiness
We help portfolio companies prepare for a successful exit by optimizing IT systems, documenting key assets, and mitigating risks—boosting buyer confidence, streamlining diligence, and enhancing valuation.
Value Drivers
Buyer Confidence
Well-documented, secure, and scalable IT systems instill buyer trust and accelerate deal velocity.
Risk Mitigation
Proactively address gaps and red flags to minimize surprises during diligence.
Strategic Vision
Demonstrate how IT supports business growth and is ready for buyer integration or scale.
Valuation Support
A mature IT environment reduces perceived risk, supports integration planning, and contributes to stronger valuation outcomes.
Key Areas of Focus
- Align IT story with buyer growth strategy and future-state use cases.
- Tailor documentation for standalone, platform, or bolt-on exit scenarios.
- Clearly show how IT enables business priorities, innovation, and growth.
- Highlight strategic initiatives powered by technology (e.g., automation, customer platforms, analytics).
- Frame pending investments as future growth enablers.
- Present a clear view of IT leadership, structure, and resource allocation.
- Document key third-party vendor relationships and roles.
- Benchmark IT spend to validate efficiency and preempt buyer scrutiny on cost.
- Provide a clear map of business-critical applications and their supported processes.
- Demonstrate application stability, scalability, and business fit.
- Proactively identify any legacy risks or transition dependencies and outline mitigation plans.
- Showcase infrastructure scalability, security, and cloud maturity.
- Document architecture components clearly to accelerate buyer understanding.
- Flag known limitations with mitigation strategies to reduce buyer.
- Present clear policies, practices, governance, and tooling.
- Demonstrate compliance and recent audit results.
- Highlight the strength, scalability, and differentiation of custom-built software.
- Confirm code quality, documentation status, and development best practices.
- Proactively confirm IP ownership and licensing compliance.
- Outline readiness for integration across buyer scenarios.
- Package IT materials to streamline buyer diligence.
ValueBridge
Our Exit Readiness assessments package the IT narrative, mitigate risks, and position the company for a smoother diligence process and stronger valuation—providing buyer confidence.
ValueBridge
Our Exit Readiness assessments package the IT narrative, mitigate risks, and position the company for a smoother diligence process and stronger valuation—providing buyer confidence
“Performance Improvement Partners consistently provides us with IT experts and practitioners who contribute to our team in meaningful ways. Management and consultants listen to our needs, identify the root cause of challenges, and deliver practical solutions that have a significant impact on the business.”
“Since 2003, PIP has provided us with sophisticated solutions that support the unique technology needs of our Private Equity Firm. At the same time, they make the complex simple – particularly for our portfolio companies — breaking implementation down into manageable parts. PIP is our go-to technology partner thanks to their ability to listen, understand, and consistently create solutions that act in the best interest of both our firm and our portfolio companies.”
“My 10 years of partnership with Performance Improvement Partners has led to significant value creation across our portfolio. Their approach is both sophisticated and pragmatic, resulting in over a dozen successful enterprise system implementations. Our portfolio companies have nothing but good things to say about PIP, which we too have witnessed in their strong operational and technical expertise.”
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