For PE Firms & Portfolio CompaniesYour portco passed diligence.
The people risk wasn’t in scope.
Financial diligence can confirm what a company earned. It may not show whether the people, knowledge, and workflows behind those results will survive a change in ownership. GrowFast helps expose that risk before it disrupts the value-creation plan or returns at exit.
See where value may be exposed before and after close.
GrowFast examines the business from the seller, buyer, and owner perspectives. For PE firms, the priority is understanding whether performance can continue through ownership and leadership change.
Explore the process. Select any stage to see what it means.
Examines the available evidence through the VGS evidence review lens and identifies where attention is needed.
Examines the available evidence through the Day Two evidence review lens and identifies where attention is needed.
Examines the available evidence through the Continuity review lens and identifies where attention is needed.
Examines the available evidence through the Day Two evidence review lens and identifies where attention is needed.
Investment committee and buyer concerns
What Could Break This Deal?
Buyer confidence erodes when important value depends on a few people, undocumented decisions, or operating practices that are difficult to verify. GrowFast helps surface those concerns early enough to address them.
The goal is practical: identify what could reduce buyer confidence while there is still time to strengthen the business and the transaction story.
Hidden operating dependence can weaken the investment thesis.
When value depends on a few people or undocumented ways of working, the risk can surface during transition, slow the value-creation plan, and return at exit. GrowFast makes those dependencies easier to see, evaluate, and address.
Pre-close blind spots
- Key-person dependency hidden in a small operator bench
- Undocumented workflows behind reported performance
- AI-enabled steps that cannot be clearly handed off
Post-close pressure
- Execution drift after leadership change
- Customer friction during transition
- Synergy plans slowed by operating ambiguity
Exit drag
- Value thesis harder to defend
- LP reporting gets softer around execution stability
- Future buyers inherit the same unanswered questions
PE firms need more than historical performance.
Sponsors do not just inherit results. They inherit the conditions required to reproduce those results after leadership change, operating change, and eventually another sale process.
Enterprise Value Transferability
Enterprise Value Transferability is the question underneath the PE problem: can the performance of this company survive transition, or is too much of the value still trapped inside a few people, undocumented decisions, or fragile workflows?
VGS™
VGS is the pre-close lens. It helps a PE team understand whether the value can actually transfer before ownership changes, so invisible people risk can be identified earlier and discussed in a more structured way.
Day Two™
Day Two is the post-close lens. It helps measure whether the value holds after change, when management transitions, new reporting expectations, integration pressure, and execution demands start testing the business in real time.
How the framework helps
Together, the framework gives PE firms a clearer way to evaluate transferability before close, stabilize execution after close, and defend value more confidently at exit.