Senior IT oversight for PE houses and their portcos
Senior IT oversight for PE houses and their portcos.
IT costs, suppliers, risk and direction managed above the existing MSP or internal IT function. Three tiers. Designed for PE houses, post-acquisition and carve-out CFOs and buy-and-build platforms.
Sound familiar?
Most PE-backed businesses hit the same four issues across their portfolio.
You inherited eight different IT setups.
Each portco has its own MSP, its own licences, its own contracts. Nobody is rationalising it. Costs are creeping. Suppliers are not being challenged. Day one of the next acquisition adds a ninth.
Nobody senior is watching IT.
Internal teams are stretched. The MSP reports to nobody at board level. Decisions are being made operationally without commercial oversight. By the time you look, you have committed to a contract that does not fit the hold period.
IT leadership per portco does not stack up.
A full-time IT Director costs £80,000 to £120,000 per year. Multiply that across the portfolio and the numbers do not work. Most portcos go without, technical debt builds, and the investment value drops.
Exit is closer than the IT story.
When the buyer's tech DD lands, you need evidence that IT was being overseen, not just run. Configuration, licensing, contracts, risk. If nobody senior has been watching, findings emerge during diligence. The price drops or the deal slips.
Three tiers. One service line.
TechSteady sits above the existing MSP or internal IT function.
Strategic oversight, supplier management, cost control, board reporting.
Tier 1
IT Management
Ongoing IT oversight for portcos. Supplier management, cost control, contract review, licence optimisation, security baseline and structured monthly reporting. For portcos that need IT kept on track without a full-time hire.
Tier 2
IT Direction
Everything in Tier 1 plus strategic IT leadership. Technology roadmap, board-level reporting, risk management, project governance and alignment with the investment thesis. For portcos that need senior oversight, not just management.
Tier 3
IT Build-Out
Post-acquisition or carve-out IT transformation. Infrastructure consolidation, platform migration, security remediation, supplier rationalisation and IT operating model design. Scoped and governed as defined projects with clear outcomes and exit criteria.
What TechSteady does not do
TechSteady is a governance and management layer. Not a replacement for IT operations.
- No break-fix helpdesk.
- No end-user support.
- No hardware procurement.
- No incident response.
The MSP or internal IT team continues to deliver those functions. TechSteady ensures they are being delivered properly, are priced fairly, and are heading where the portco needs to go.
Who this is for
PE houses that need consistent IT oversight across a portfolio of portcos.
Post-acquisition or carve-out CFOs who need IT managed without a full-time hire.
Portco boards whose MSP or internal IT function is not reporting at board level.
Buy-and-build platforms standardising IT across multiple acquisitions.