For PE Firms & Deal Teams
Technical value creation for PE firms, from diligence to exit.
One partner that reads the technology before you buy, builds it across the hold, and prepares it for sale. Operating-partner-level leadership with a delivery team that executes, accountable to EBITDA at every stage.
- Reads the technology before you buy
- Builds it across the hold
- Prepares it for sale
- 4
- Lifecycle stages covered
- 10+
- M&As facilitated
- 48h
- Onboarding to start
- 1
- Accountable partner
More pressure to create value, less room to get it wrong.
Read it. Build it. Prepare it for sale. One partner.
Challenges facing PE firms
Every pressure buyout firms face today points at execution.
Higher rates ended the multiple-expansion game, so returns now have to be operated into the business: industry research attributes roughly 54% of value creation to revenue growth (Gain.pro), and EBITDA growth carries the return Bain frames as the new requirement.
Pressure to create value
The thesis now depends on operating improvement that has to be built and measured, not financed.
Increased competition
With more capital chasing similar assets, the firms that execute value creation faster and more reliably win on returns.
Operational complexity
Buyout firms need both a fast technical read on targets and reliable execution after close, usually with a thin internal operating team and many companies to cover.
Technology and AI uncertainty
Technology and the revenue engine are the hardest parts of an asset to judge, and the AI opportunity is real but easy to get wrong. Most plans stall before production.
Sourcing the answer across many vendors (an advisor for the read, an agency for one lever, a contractor for another) is slow, inconsistent, and leaves no one accountable for the outcome.
Where DevriX supports the investment lifecycle
One partner, across every stage.
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01 · Diligence
Due Diligence
A fast, investment-committee-ready read before you commit.
A fast, investment-committee-ready read on a target's technology, data, security, and digital growth case, before you commit. Scored findings and named upside, delivered by the same team that can execute after close.
Output: Technology due diligence
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02 · First 100 Days
First 100 Days
Reporting stood up, systems stabilized, wins shipped.
Board-ready reporting stood up quickly, the systems that need integration stabilized, and the fastest revenue and efficiency wins shipped from week one, with onboarding in 48 hours.
Output: First 100 days
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03 · Hold Period
Hold Period
The plan run as a cadence, every lever tied to EBITDA.
The technical value creation plan run as an operating cadence across revenue, data, web, and AI, with every lever tied to EBITDA and reported to the board, quarter after quarter.
Output: Value creation through the hold
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04 · Exit Readiness
Exit Readiness
A buyer's view, before the process opens.
A buyer perspective on what diligence will find, the issues remediated before the process opens, and a growth story made verifiable, so the company goes to market with no discounts waiting in diligence.
Output: Exit readiness
How we help PE firms create value
The capabilities behind the lifecycle.
Capabilities run as one plan across the hold, not sourced piecemeal.
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Capability 01
Technology assessments
A grounded read on architecture, scalability, security, and technical debt, at deal pace or across the hold, that names cost and risk before they surface.
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Capability 02
Revenue operations
A revenue engine rebuilt for predictable pipeline, clean attribution, and forecasting the board can stand behind.
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Capability 03
Data and reporting
A single source of truth and board-ready reporting maintained as a cadence, so every decision rests on numbers that can be trusted.
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Capability 04
AI initiatives
The highest-value workflows automated and shipped to production safely, with a human approval step on anything irreversible, for measurable margin and efficiency.
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Capability 05
Portfolio-wide programs
A standardized assessment, a consistent playbook, and one reporting format deployed across the portfolio, with preferred pricing.
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Capability 06
Fractional operating partner
Senior technical operating leadership plus the embedded delivery team that executes the agenda. The differentiator: an operating partner with a delivery arm.
Already working with a big firm or SI?
Independent support, on terms that reduce risk.
Many targets and portfolio companies are already mid-transformation, sometimes with a consultancy or systems integrator engaged. DevriX can add value without disruption.
Supplement
Support the existing team and take the execution workstream that needs more capacity, so the program keeps moving.
Rescue
Give an independent read on a stalled or over-budget initiative, stabilize delivery, and get it back on track, on a fixed scope.
Replace
Only where leadership is already considering a change, and always via a low-risk, fixed-scope assessment, never a rip-and-replace.
The frame is collaborative and risk-focused, not a pitch to tear out what works.
Trusted by teams at
- Escape Hunt
- SwimSwam
- Brainjolt
- TechSmith
- American Restoration
- TrekTravel
- Angel Reyes
Why PE firms choose DevriX
Leadership and execution from one partner.
The fractional technical operating partner model
Most fractional operating partners are one person who can advise but not build. DevriX provides senior technical operating leadership plus the team that executes it, so the agenda and the delivery come from one accountable partner.
Strategy and execution together
Advisors recommend and leave. Single-function vendors build one slice. DevriX sets the technical agenda and builds it across the whole hold.
Embedded delivery capability
Senior people do the work, with no leverage pyramid where partners sell and junior staff deliver. The person who scopes the work delivers it.
An external benchmark in-house teams lack
Working across many companies, DevriX brings cross-company pattern recognition and benchmarks on what good looks like, which an internal team seeing only its own data cannot build.
Long-term partnership
DevriX pioneered the embedded operating-unit retainer model in our space in 2015. A standing team that stays for years. That continuity maps onto the hold and gives a thin internal operating team the institutional memory it cannot build alone.
Proof points
A verifiable track record.
Diligence, hold-period, and exit evidence in one place.
- Retainer model pioneered
- 2015
- M&As facilitated
- 10+
- Monthly pageviews engineered
- ~1B
- Clutch, top-rated B2B
- 4.8★
- 15y
- Embedded operating model
- 92%
- Recurring revenue
- 5–10y
- Avg. client tenure
- 400+
- Advisory engagements
Escape Hunt
Delivery partner whose work led the same group to bring DevriX in for Boom Battle Bar, with a working site for every location.
SwimSwam
10+ years leading the path for the number one swimming media in the US through a series of engineering products and scalability innovations.
Brainjolt
Managing product, data, and engineering over the course of 8 years, through nearly a 10X growth stage in the first several years.
TechSmith
8 years of platform unification, synergy consolidation, and modernization of multiple solutions onto a proprietary FOSS multilingual build.
American Restoration
Bringing 25 brands under one multisite, so each post-acquisition integration is streamlined and each new brand has a scalable technical foundation for hitting revenue targets.
TrekTravel
+25% YoY online bookings after a new Express Checkout flow, which drove 15% of that growth.
Angel Reyes
182% YoY increase in website-driven signed cases after a platform rebuild with 100% uptime during migration.
Recurring revenue, monthly pageviews, and M&A counts are company-reported and not externally audited. Delivery examples are single-company delivery work, not PE engagements.
Get started
One technical partner across the deal lifecycle.
Start a conversation about how DevriX supports your deal team, from a fast technical read on a target, through execution across the hold, to exit readiness. Or begin with a fixed-scope Digital Value Creation Assessment on a single company.