The Hidden Tax of Vendor Lock-In

How to measure what you’re actually paying for staying — and how to stop paying more By Steele Consulting Every CFO at a growing company has had this exact meeting. It’s annual renewal season for a core vendor — a CRM, an ERP, a data platform, a payment processor. The...

How to Prepare Your Tech Stack for an Exit

How to Prepare Your Tech Stack for an Exit The 24-month playbook that keeps your valuation intact when the buyer’s advisor arrives By Steele Consulting Most founders start thinking about tech preparation for their exit about four months too late. The reason is...

The Founder’s Tech Bottleneck

The Founder’s Tech Bottleneck When every technical decision runs through you — and how to get out from under it By Steele Consulting You’ve become the person every technical decision runs through. That wasn’t the plan. In the early days it was simple — you were the...

Acquiring a Company?

The 5 software questions you need answered first By Steele Consulting Most acquisitions that fail don’t fail on the math. They fail on integration. And the single most common integration failure — the one that has quietly cratered more rollups and strategic...