Crescent Capital Advisors· Technology

The instruments behind every engagement.

Not checklists - financial instruments. Each framework translates technology into the language the fund underwrites: CapEx, EBITDA, and the exit multiple.

AI Governance Program

v1.1

The engagement that runs between the diagnostic and the target architecture: five phases that take a portfolio company from unlisted AI systems to a board-ready, regulator-ready governance posture.

AI GovernanceCISOPE Value Creation

AI Operating System

v0.9

One GP-level engagement that every current and future portfolio company inherits. Governance, readiness, and a repeatable deployment playbook: portfolio AI as operating capacity, not per-portco pilots.

AIGP-LevelPE Value CreationPortfolio Operations

AI Value Creation Framework

v1.0

Turning AI from a cost and distraction into a measurable margin driver. Use case prioritization, governance, and a board-ready AI narrative: all tied to EBITDA, not pilots.

AIPE Value CreationEBITDA

CLEAR™ — Hold Period Operating Framework

v2.0

Five phases ending at exit, matching fund economics. PRISM™ diagnoses the asset; CLEAR™ operates it.

Hold PeriodPE Value CreationOperating Framework

Enterprise AI Control Plane

v1.3

A unified governance architecture (5 pillars × 4 lifecycle stages = 20 control domains) that treats AI systems as enterprise operational infrastructure requiring identity, access, observability, and resilience controls.

AI GovernanceCISOPE Value Creation

PRISM™ — Technology Due Diligence Framework

v1.2

Five dimensions scored 0–100. Every finding priced as CapEx requirement, EBITDA drag, or exit multiple implication. A financial instrument, not a checklist.

Due DiligencePE Value Creation