What PE Buyers Actually Look For in Your Technology Team
The scorecard PE buyers use to assess technology teams in due diligence — from key person risk to engineering culture and technical debt.
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Expert thinking on productivity, intangible asset valuation, growth strategy, and building more valuable businesses.
From SNA 2008 to SNA 2025: Why National Statistics Still Undercount the Assets That Drive Modern Economies
The 2025 revision to the System of National Accounts represents genuine progress in measuring intangible assets. But the gap between what national statistics capture and what actually drives productivity in advanced economies remains wide. Here is what SNA 2025 fixes, what it does not, and why the remaining gaps matter for policy.
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How the Intangible Asset Valuator Works: A Complete Walkthrough
A step-by-step guide to the Opagio Intangible Asset Valuator — covering 64 asset types, the five IFRS 3 asset classes, and 7 valuation methods. Learn how to identify, assess, and value the intangible assets that drive your company's worth.
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Building AI-Ready Engineering Teams: What 15 Years of Hiring 250 Engineers Taught Me
A competency framework for building AI-ready engineering teams, drawn from 15 years scaling from 12 to 250 engineers at IG Group.
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Productivity Growth Analysis: How Historic Data Reveals Your Growth Trajectory
Before you can grow faster, you need to understand the anatomy of your existing growth. Opagio Intangibles uses your historic financial data to decompose productivity into its component drivers — revealing where value is being created and where investment is being wasted.
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AI Intangible Assets in Professional Services: Why the Big Four's Biggest Asset Is Now Invisible
How AI is transforming the Big Four's most valuable — and invisible — intangible assets, from proprietary models to training data and organizational capital.
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What VCs Get Wrong About Portfolio Valuation
Most fund managers evaluate companies using metrics that capture less than half the picture. Here's the intangible asset blind spot and how to fix it.
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The Brand as Bankable Asset: Intangible Collateral Structures for Consumer Brands and FMCG
Consumer brands are among the most economically powerful intangible assets in existence — generating pricing power, customer loyalty, and distribution leverage over decades. Yet brand equity remains structurally underexploited as loan collateral. The structures to change this are established. The opportunity for PE-backed consumer businesses is substantial.
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AI Intangible Assets in Financial Services: From Trading Floors to AI Agents
I spent 30 years in structured finance, working across derivatives trading, cross-border M&A, and asset-backed securities. I watched trading floors evolve from human traders to algorithms to AI agents. Each transition created new intangible assets and new valuation challenges. Here is how financial services is building and valuing AI intangible assets.
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AI and PropTech: Why the Commercial Property Sector Is About to Have an Intangible Asset Reckoning
The commercial property sector has invested over £15 billion in PropTech in the past five years. Yet most property valuations fail to capture the intangible assets these technologies create. This is about to change — and it will radically reshape how commercial property is valued and traded.
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The Intangible Blind Spot in Private Equity: Why Unmeasured Assets Are Your Biggest Risk — and Opportunity
Private equity firms pride themselves on rigorous due diligence and data-driven value creation. Yet most PE investment processes are structurally blind to the intangible assets that account for the majority of portfolio company value. This gap creates both hidden risks and untapped opportunities.
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From Bricks to Bytes: What 30 Years in Commercial Property Taught Me About Valuing What You Can't See
I spent thirty years valuing commercial property — tangible buildings with concrete returns and comparable sales. Then I moved into intangible asset valuation. At first, the transition seemed impossible. Then I realised: the skills transfer perfectly. Here is what property valuation teaches about valuing what you cannot see.
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