Expert thinking on productivity, intangible asset valuation, growth strategy, and building more valuable businesses.
Your business is worth a multiple of its normalised earnings, and a buyer sets that multiple on assets your balance sheet never shows. Here is how the number is built, and how to move it before you sell.
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A step-by-step guide to importing a CSV general ledger into Opagio from any accounting system: exporting your figures, the guided wizard that maps your columns as you go, how validation and reconciliation work, where the data lands, and how to re-upload when your numbers change.
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A step-by-step technical guide to connecting your Xero organisation to Opagio: the OAuth authorisation flow, exactly which read-only scopes are requested, what data syncs and how far back, where it lands in the platform, and how to re-sync, audit, or disconnect.
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A complete guide to Opagio pricing: the free tools that need no sign-up, the Founder and Pre-Seed startup rates, company plans from £499/month, and the investor tiers for funds — plus a straightforward way to choose the plan that fits where you are.
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Traditional intangible asset valuation means a one-off advisory engagement: a specialist firm, a fixed scope, a report at the end. Opagio takes a different route — a structured, repeatable platform. Here is how the two compare on cost, speed, consistency, and auditability.
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How founders, PE partners, and advisors benchmark their intangible asset value against sector peers — intangible share of enterprise value, driver-by-driver composition, and method inputs like royalty and discount rates, all measured against the right comparison set rather than a single headline average — starting from the Opagio Value Drivers Register.
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How finance teams, accountants, and their auditors use Opagio Intangibles to turn intangible asset valuations into structured IAS 38 documentation — recognition screening against the standard's criteria, method-graded valuations with stored assumptions, and a dated audit trail that survives year-end scrutiny.
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At Capital.com, half the organisation was technology and the operational team was small. That operating model isn't fintech-specific — it's the template for any business where work can be turned into code. What it actually requires is a full redesign, not a workforce cut.
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A step-by-step guide to the Cost approach to intangible asset valuation — the method used to value assembled workforce, internally developed software, and proprietary databases. Learn the difference between replacement and reproduction cost, the role of obsolescence and developer's profit, and how the Asset Valuator module in Opagio Intangibles runs a defensible Cost valuation.
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A practical guide to what the Asset Valuator in Opagio Intangibles produces — a Report Studio PDF report for boards and data rooms, a scenario comparison CSV for the people checking the figures, and what neither one is.
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The standard AI business case treats deployment as a headcount substitution. It misses that AI is a capital formation event. Six intangible assets move in a single project. Measuring by cost savings captures one. The other five decide whether the investment compounds.
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A practical guide to populating the Opagio Intangible Asset Valuator with real financial data — the Xero connection, CSV uploads from any other system, the chart-of-accounts mapping layer, and how the same source feeds every valuation method.
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