Expert thinking on productivity, intangible asset valuation, growth strategy, and building more valuable businesses.
A practical guide to the reports the Opagio Intangible Asset Valuator produces — Excel workbooks for valuers, branded PDF reports for boards and data rooms, methodology audit trails, and the single source of truth that survives diligence.
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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 — Xero and QuickBooks connections, CSV uploads from any system, the chart-of-accounts mapping layer, and how the same source feeds every valuation method.
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A step-by-step guide to the Multi-Period Excess Earnings Method (MPEEM) — the income approach used to value customer relationships, order backlog, and other primary income-producing intangibles. Learn the theory, the inputs, the contributory asset charges, and how the Asset Valuator module in Opagio Intangibles runs a defensible MPEEM valuation.
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Twenty-five years building heavily automated fintech businesses taught me things about the AI transformation conversation that aren't being said. Automation isn't a zero-sum trade. Regulated domains automate faster than unregulated ones. And the intangible portfolio decides whether it compounds.
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Brand value in renewables sits across utility-scale developer reputation, residential DTC trust and ESG-fund signalling. A practitioner guide to where brand carries enterprise value in clean energy businesses and how to size it.
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Cleantech patent valuation is method-sensitive. RFR for licensable IP, MPEEM for embedded technology, With-and-Without for retention-sensitive relationships. A practitioner guide across solar, wind, storage and hydrogen with UK / US / EU jurisdictional notes.
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Clean energy project finance treats the panels, turbines and grid connections as the value story. The intangibles — PPAs, REC contracts, grid rights, patented technology, brand — frequently carry more enterprise value than the hardware. A practitioner guide for PE/infrastructure investors and CFOs.
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Solar project finance has always been a tangible-asset story. The 2025-2026 shift is the explicit inclusion of intangibles — PPAs, grid rights, brand, patented technology — in DSCR analysis and lender-of-record security structures. A practitioner view.
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UK IP-backed lending pilots from major clearing banks now explicitly accept cleantech IP as collateral. A practitioner guide to what founders need to bring — patent register, fair-value evidence, structural framework — to move debt sizing on their own terms.
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Solar technology IP is no longer a niche of crystalline silicon patents. The value wedge in 2026 sits across perovskite tandems, BIPV glazing, agrivoltaics, smart-tracker control, and storage integration. A practitioner view of where IP carries value and how to size it.
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A solar startup is not valued on hardware. It is valued on the Opagio 12 lens — patents and IP, technology, customer relationships, brand, data, regulatory licences and the rest. A founder guide to where solar startup value really sits.
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