For Private Equity Operating Partners

Cloud & AI Solutions for the full lifecycle of a PE portfolio

From pre-acquisition diligence to exit readiness. Engineering depth at SMB scale and SMB speed.

5 days
Pre-acquisition AWS diligence on any target
4-8 wks
Kickoff to production
$25:$1
Enterprise value created per dollar of AWS cost saved
3-5 yrs
The PE lifecycle we're built to support
The EBITDA Case

Cloud and AI are EBITDA levers. Most portfolios aren't pulling them.

Compounding effect

$1 saved → ~$25 enterprise value at exit

Every dollar of AWS cost saved compounds into roughly $25 of enterprise value at exit. Every percentage point of AI-driven margin improvement moves the valuation. Every diligence finding cleaned up before exit removes a buyer's discount.

The math is well understood. Execution is the problem. Enterprise AWS partners show up for the largest portfolio companies. For the $20M to $200M ARR companies that make up most portfolios, the value creation thesis dies on the slide because no partner will engage at their scale.

That's where Cloudtech operates.
The PE Lifecycle

From diligence to exit,
the cloud work that compounds value

01
Pre-acquisition diligence

A five-day AWS diligence on any target. Architecture, security, cost, technical debt, AI-readiness.

Output: a memo your deal team can attach to the IC deck.

02
Post-acquisition integration

IT consolidation, legacy migration to AWS, security baseline alignment in the first 90 days. MAP-funded migrations when eligible.

Fixed-price scopes throughout.

03
Hold-period value creation

Three to five years between acquisition and exit are where EBITDA gets made. Cost optimization (20–30% typical), AI enablement, data modernization, managed services.

Engaging at the scale each portfolio company needs.

04
Exit readiness

A pre-diligence cleanup six to twelve months before exit. Well-Architected benchmarking, technical debt removal, security hardening.

The runbook buyers' diligence teams will ask for.

Across the Portfolio

One view across the AWS spend in every portfolio company

Operating partners typically see twelve AWS bills, twelve security postures, twelve architecture decisions — with no way to standardize. Cloudtech sets up portfolio-level visibility so you don't have to.

Multi-account governance

Standardized AWS Control Tower across portfolio companies. One pane of glass for the operating partner; full autonomy for each company.

Portfolio cost intelligence

Consolidated cost reporting and FinOps reviews. Identify which companies are over-provisioned and where the cost-takeout opportunities concentrate.

Cross-portfolio security baseline

Common security baseline with continuous monitoring. Reduces audit findings, lowers cyber-insurance premiums, removes diligence objections before they're raised.

AI Value Creation

AI moves portfolio EBITDA. we deploy it where it actually does.

Most portfolios have done the easy AI experiments with copilots, marketing copy, summarization. The next layer is AI that takes real action: sales agents, support resolution, document processing at scale. This is the work that shows up in EBITDA.

Built on Amazon Bedrock and our ElevenLabs partnership.

Customer-facing AI

Voice and chat agents that scale sales and support without scaling headcount.

Operational AI

Document processing, financial automation, back-office agents.

Embedded AI

AI features inside portfolio company products, where the AI itself is part of the value thesis.

Diligence & Audits

The audits PE firms actually need.

01
5 days
Pre-acquisition AWS diligence

Architecture, security, cost, scalability, AI-readiness on a target company. Memo for the deal team.

02
Well-Architected
Hold period security and cost assessment

Well-Architected benchmark of an existing portfolio company. Scorecard the operating partner reads in ten minutes; fix list the CTO executes.

03
4–8 weeks
Exit readiness preparation

Pre-diligence cleanup six to twelve months before exit. Architecture docs, cost optimization, security hardening. Four to eight weeks.

How We Engage

Three engagement models, tuned for portfolio dynamics.

Most common
Single portfolio company

One company, one scope, fixed price. Most common starting point.

Portfolio wide assessment

Three to five companies in parallel. Memo for the operating partner, individual memos for each CTO.

Embedded retainer

Coordinated engineering across multiple portfolio companies. One contract, shared learning, single point of contact.

Proven in Production

PE portfolio engagements,
coming soon

Cloudtech is building a dedicated PE practice. In the meantime, explore our work in Healthcare and Hospitality, same SMB-focused model, same fixed-price delivery.

For Private Equity Operating Partners

Let's talk about the portfolio.

A 30-minute conversation with Cloudtech's founder. We'll walk through how we'd engage with your portfolio, what the audits look like in practice, and whether we're the right partner.