Insights
The infrastructure behind the valuation.
Long before a buyer, lender, or board asks a question, the answer is already being set — in how the reporting is built, how the forecast holds up, and how well the technology spend can be explained.
These are working notes on that infrastructure: what diligence tests, where founder-led companies quietly leak margin, and how to make the numbers defensible before someone else does.
If your monthly close isn’t real, neither is your forecast
The forecast, the hiring plan, and the second location all sit on the monthly close. Here is what makes a close real, the three tests a buyer’s accountant runs to find out, and why good companies fail them.