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Essays from our work building deal infrastructure for advisory firms: why internal tools fail, what confidentiality actually requires, and how to decide what deserves to be built at all.

4 August 2026

6 min read

Why internal deal tools fail in the year after handover

Most tools built for advisory firms do not fail at launch. They fail quietly over the following year, and the causes are predictable. What to watch for, and how to commission software that survives.

4 August 2026

6 min read

What running inside your own Microsoft tenant actually means

Every vendor says your data is secure. The more useful question is structural: where does the data sit, and who is technically able to read it? A plain explanation of tenants, and the questions to ask any provider.

4 August 2026

7 min read

Build, buy or leave alone: a decision framework for a ten-person firm

Bespoke software is the right answer less often than a consultancy would like you to believe. A framework for deciding, workflow by workflow, whether to build, buy or change nothing at all.

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Why internal deal tools fail in the year after handover

What running inside your own Microsoft tenant actually means

Build, buy or leave alone: a decision framework for a ten-person firm

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