FRAMEWORKS
The instruments behind every engagement.
Eight frameworks answer four questions. Each one translates technology into the language the fund underwrites: CapEx, EBITDA, and the exit multiple.
Portfolio
Built once at the fund, inherited by every portco.
Diagnose & Operate
PRISM reads the asset. CLEAR runs it across the hold.
AI Economics
Three questions about the same AI budget, asked in order.
AI Governance
The program that closes the distance to the target architecture.
Diagnose & Operate
PRISM reads the asset. CLEAR runs it across the hold.
PRISM™ — Technology Due Diligence Framework
v1.2Five dimensions scored 0–100. Every finding priced as CapEx requirement, EBITDA drag, or exit multiple implication. A financial instrument, not a checklist.
CLEAR™ — Hold Period Operating Framework
v2.0Five phases ending at exit, matching fund economics. PRISM™ diagnoses the asset; CLEAR™ operates it.
AI Economics
Three questions about the same AI budget, asked in order.
AI Value Creation Framework
v1.1Turning AI from a cost and distraction into a measurable margin driver. Use case prioritization, governance, and a board-ready AI narrative: all tied to EBITDA, not pilots.
AI Cost Optimization Framework
v1.2A six-layer model of AI spend (API, infrastructure, tooling, people, waste, risk) that uses governance as the detection layer. Three of the six layers carry 55 percent of spend and are the least visible; working all six recovers 20 to 34 percent of AI spend in the first year.
AI Value Attribution Framework
v1.0A five-level measurement hierarchy (Cost, Adoption, Productivity, Business Outcomes, Enterprise Value) for verifying what AI investment produced. Most companies can evidence the first two levels and report as though they had evidenced the last two.
AI Governance
The program that closes the distance to the target architecture.
AI Governance Program
v1.1The engagement that runs between the diagnostic and the target architecture: five phases that take a portfolio company from unlisted AI systems to a board-ready, regulator-ready governance posture.
Enterprise AI Control Plane
v1.3A unified governance architecture (5 pillars × 4 lifecycle stages = 20 control domains) that treats AI systems as enterprise operational infrastructure requiring identity, access, observability, and resilience controls.
Portfolio
Built once at the fund, inherited by every portco.
AI Operating System
v0.9One GP-level engagement that every current and future portfolio company inherits. Governance, readiness, and a repeatable deployment playbook: portfolio AI as operating capacity, not per-portco pilots.