Vedion is a structured diagnostic of the organizational conditions that determine whether a portfolio company can execute its value creation plan at the assumed pace.
Portco
Northstar Industrial Co.
Mid-hold · Quarter 6 of 20
D01
38
D02
24
D03
52
D04
31
D05
44
Top finding
DRIVER 0211 of 15 top value creation plan outcomes have diffuse or misaligned ownership. CEO is de facto owner of 7 outcomes outside her accountable scope.
The problem
67%
of initiative failures trace to controllable execution, not the market.
53%
of failures are poor implementation — the strategy was fine, the execution engine wasn't.
35%
of failures stem from misalignment and weak buy-in inside the portco.
0
instruments in the standard PE toolkit designed to catch this before it surfaces.
Source: Simon-Kucher 2025
The framework
Execution drag is not random. It is produced by five structural conditions, upstream of every lagging indicator the sponsor sees. Vedion measures all five.
Documented decision rights and real decision rights diverge within 12 months of close. Decisions queue at the CEO. The right answer takes weeks because the right person doesn't know it's theirs.
Primary metric
Decision latency
Diagnosis window
2 weeks
Recovery horizon
30–90 days
Read across portcos
What you receive
Every Vedion audit scores a portfolio company across the five structural drivers, surfaces where execution is breaking down, and ends in a prioritized action plan both the sponsor and the CEO can act on.
A complete read of the portfolio company, scored across the five structural drivers, so you can see exactly where execution holds and where it slips.
EXCERPT · DRIVER 02
“11 of 15 top value creation plan outcomes have diffuse ownership. Estimated annual exposure: $4.2M EBITDA-relevant. Recovery priority: 1 of 4.”
Where the company is drifting from what its plan assumes, and the structural risks worth acting on first, separated from the noise.
A prioritized, sequenced set of moves, each one owned, that the sponsor and the CEO can act on without a translation layer.
Coming soon: portfolio-level benchmarking — compare each company against its peers and against industry baselines.
How it works
Your team completes a short structured assessment — about four minutes each. No interviews, no town halls, no disruption to the organization.
A clear view of where execution risk concentrates — scored across the five structural drivers, company-wide and by functions.
The diagnosis and the prioritized actions that follow from it — every read reviewed by an expert before it reaches you.
When to run it
Alongside commercial and financial diligence. Price organizational risk into the deal — or out of it.
Establish the structural baseline before the value creation plan locks in.
When the plan is on track but the sponsor wants to know what's underneath the numbers.
Surface what a buyer's diligence team will find. Address it on the sponsor's timeline, not the buyer's.
Before the diagnostic
The Execution Value Leakage Calculator turns a few portco inputs into a directional estimate of annual value lost to execution friction. It uses the same operating drivers Vedion diagnoses.
Sample output
Directional. Built on $150M revenue, 18% EBITDA, 600 FTE inputs.
Buyer questions
Most Operating Partners ask some version of these six questions in the first call. Short answers below. Longer answers in the conversation.
Start with one portco
About two weeks from onboarding. One portco. A scored diagnostic, a clear risk map, and a prioritized action plan.