Senior Technology Partner for Software Companies, PE Firms, and Portfolio Leadership
Software companies are moving fast on AI, modernization, and platform rebuilds. PE firms and operating partners need a senior technology presence they can deploy across the deal lifecycle, before close, during the first 100 days, through the hold period, and ahead of exit.
Productized, time-boxed, senior-led. Capacity limited by design.
Four engagements. Productized, time-boxed, senior-led.
Each engagement can be deployed individually or sequenced across the hold period as a portfolio-wide pattern. See how PE firms deploy Sharp Logica.
Pre-Deal
Before close, the priority is understanding technical risk, validating product and AI claims, and identifying issues that may affect valuation, integration, or the first 100 days.
How to read this map
Click a lifecycle stage, service, or outcome to see how the engagement fits. The sequence shows how Sharp Logica can support technical decisions before close, after close, during scaling, and ahead of exit.
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Investor Technical Due Diligence supports investment decisions, IC memos, SPA flags, and the first 100-day plan.
Architecture Audit and Architecture Rescue Sprint establish the technical baseline and address urgent delivery friction.
CTO Advisory and targeted rescue work help the company stabilize, scale, and improve execution discipline.
Exit readiness work reduces technical surprises and prepares the platform story for buyer scrutiny.
Engagements can be deployed individually or combined into a broader operating pattern across the portfolio company lifecycle.
Architecture Audit
Production-readiness assessment for software platforms and AI features.
For PE operating partners running post-close baseline assessments, and for software companies and SaaS operators with platforms or AI in or near production.
- •Architecture fitness, cost exposure, and platform scalability
- •AI features in production - failure handling, observability, rollback
- •Board-ready report and 30/60/90-day action plan
10 working days - $15,000 flat
Architecture Rescue Sprint
Hands-on architectural intervention for systems that are slow, fragile, or stuck.
For portfolio companies and software teams where delivery friction is blocking the value-creation plan.
- •Root cause diagnosis across architecture, process, and operations
- •Stabilization roadmap and architectural baseline
- •Leadership debrief in business language
4-8 weeks - $25,000-$50,000
Investor Technical Due Diligence
Independent senior technical assessment for investment decisions.
For PE and VC deal teams. Pre-close, post-close baseline, or pre-exit readiness.
- •Architecture fitness, engineering health, and AI claim verification
- •Technical debt scope and key-person risk
- •IC memo, SPA flags, and 100-day plan
2-3 weeks - $18,000-$25,000 - rush available
CTO Advisory Retainer
Ongoing senior technology leadership on a fractional basis.
For founders without a CTO, portfolio companies between CTOs, and PE firms placing a portfolio-CTO-in-residence.
- •Architecture, AI strategy, hiring, and vendor decisions
- •Board and investor communication
- •Portfolio-CTO-in-residence model available
Three-month minimum - from $8,000/month
How We Work
No over-engineering
Recommendations are sized for the organization that exists, not the one in a deck. Over-engineering shows up later as cost, complexity, and the meetings nobody wants to be in.
Business outcomes, not technology fashion
Every technology recommendation has to map to a business metric: scalability, cost trajectory, integration risk, time to value. If it cannot survive a board meeting, it does not get made.
Operator, not theorist
Engagements are led by senior architects who have run enterprise software at scale. The judgment behind every recommendation comes from running production systems, not from running consulting engagements.
Every engagement begins with a 30-minute Triage Call.
No preparation required. By the end of the call, you will have a clear read on which engagement, if any, fits the situation, two or three specific risks or opportunities identified directly from the description provided on the call, and a written follow-up summarizing what was discussed and recommended.
If there is no fit, you will hear that directly and immediately. Sharp Logica does not pursue engagements where the value is not obvious to both sides.
Schedule a Triage CallThe Triage Call can be conducted with the operating partner directly, with the portfolio company leadership team, or with both. Operating partners can also request a portfolio-level conversation to map where Sharp Logica engagements would be most useful across the portfolio.
Let's talk about what you're building
Whether you're evaluating an investment, leading a portfolio company through a technical inflection point, or shipping AI features that need to survive production - let's start with a conversation.
Or reach us at: info@sharplogica.com