AI Execution Gap
The distance between recognizing that AI value comes from the organization and redesigning the organization to capture it: the gap where most AI programs stall.
Glossary
The terms behind the work in plain language.
Short, canonical definitions of the technology and private-equity terms CCA works in - each one answering the question a buyer, GP, or portco executive would actually ask, then pointing to the framework and engagement behind it.
AI Governance
The controls and accountability that let a company use AI safely and defensibly. In PE, it protects enterprise value.
AI Value-Creation Plan
A portfolio company's roadmap for turning AI into measurable EBITDA and multiple impact during the hold period.
Fractional CTO
A senior technology executive who leads a portfolio company's engineering and strategy part-time: judgment without a full-time hire.
Sell-Side Technology Diligence
A technology assessment run before going to market, so the tech story supports the valuation instead of eroding it mid-process.
Technical Debt (in a PE Context)
A financial figure, not an engineering complaint: the capital to fix it, the drag on EBITDA, the ceiling on the multiple.
Technology Due Diligence
The pre-close assessment of a target's software, architecture, team, and data: priced into the deal, not filed after it.