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As a Service
Turn technical reality into investment clarity
How We Work
We replace ad-hoc technical judgement with a continuous, embedded capability giving you clarity and support across the portfolio, making senior technical judgement a permanent part of your investment process.
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Investor-Grade Insights
Actionable, decision-ready analysis that translates technical reality into clear risk, value, and intervention priorities investors can actually use.
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Cross-Portfolio Support
We retain context across investments, surfacing patterns, recurring risks, and hidden value so decisions improve portfolio-wide, not in isolation.
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Flexible Engagements
From fast, focused deep dives to embedded mentoring or fractional CTO support, our engagements are tailored to risk, urgency and portfolio needs.
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Expert Resource Only
Access to a team of seasoned CTOs, Cloud Leads, AI architects, and technical advisors with decades of experience.
Why choose us…
At Druid, we believe most funds still rely on instinct, ad-hoc judgement, or informal reviews to understand technical risk and performance
Decisions are made without technical visibility - Growth, burn, and risk are often assessed financially, with limited insight into the systems actually driving outcomes.
Scrutiny is reactive - Technical assessment is usually triggered by problems, creating uneven visibility and leaving value and risk hidden across the rest of the portfolio.
Ad-hoc expertise doesn’t scale - A trusted CTO contact or one-off review can’t provide continuity, context, or cross-portfolio learning.
Traditional consulting is overkill - Deep, enterprise-style diligence is too slow and too expensive to justify at Series B and earlier, leaving a critical gap.
Where Druid Fits in Your Investment Cycle…
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We provide technical diligence that validates whether the technology can realistically support the growth story before risk is priced into the deal.
Validate technical assumptions behind revenue and scale models
Expose hidden cost, delivery, and execution risks
Separate vision from buildable reality
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We deliver value creation and technical strategy that translates technical reality into a practical roadmap for execution, burn control, and scalable growth.
Identify constraints on growth, delivery, and burn
Prioritise interventions that move commercial outcomes
Align product, platform, and operating strategy
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We run portfolio triage and turnaround to determine whether technology is driving underperformance and define targeted, fixable intervention paths.
Distinguish technical drag from commercial underperformance
Uncover cost, complexity, and delivery bottlenecks
Define targeted, fixable intervention paths
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We provide continuous cross-portfolio support, embedding senior technical judgement across investments to surface risk, patterns, and opportunity earlier.
Surface risks and patterns early across investments
Retain context between decisions and deeper engagements
Improve consistency and speed of technical decision-making
Flexible Pricing
Every fund, portfolio, and situation is different. For our assessment engagements, we don’t sell fixed packages or pre-defined scopes.
Each assessment is shaped around engagement duration, complexity, risk, and the decisions you need to make.
For ongoing partnerships we also offer an Unlimited consultation based model, at a fixed price, with no additional, hourly rate. This allows us to feel truly embedded in your workflow without you having to decide when and if a problem is ‘big enough’ to make our involvement worth it.
These are also bespoke arrangements depending on your usual investment size and cadence, but below are some indicative pricing examples.
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