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
This glossary defines the terms CCA uses in plain language.
Short, canonical definitions of the technology and private-equity terms CCA works in. Each one answers the question a buyer, GP, or portco executive would ask, then points to the framework and engagement behind it.
AI Governance
The controls and accountability that let a company use AI safely and defensibly. In a PE-backed company, it also gives a buyer's diligence team a record of what AI runs and who approved it.
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, giving the company senior judgment without a full-time hire.
Sell-Side Technology Diligence
A technology assessment run before going to market, so the findings a buyer would raise are known and addressed before the process starts.
Technical Debt (in a PE Context)
Technical debt measured as a financial figure: the capital to fix it, the cost to EBITDA, and the limit it places on the exit multiple.
Technology Due Diligence
The pre-close assessment of a target's software, architecture, team, and data, with the findings priced into the deal before it closes.