MEASURE THEREVENUE MACHINEACROSS THEHOLD.
QNT/L gives private equity firms an independent, evidence-backed view of revenue architecture before acquisition, through ownership, and ahead of exit. Surface commercial risk before you buy. Identify structural constraints while you hold. Document what changed before the next buyer prices it. Management describes the machine. QNT/L measures the architecture.
EVERY DEAL PRICESA MACHINE NO STANDARD INSTRUMENT HAS RATED.
The market gets a TAM study. The financials get a quality of earnings. Management gets referenced. The revenue machine that has to produce the returns changes hands sight unseen.
The pattern that follows is documented across the B2B economy. The plan slips. The CRO is replaced. The search takes two quarters. The new operator inherits the same architecture, and a year of the hold is gone. The system that caused the miss is never examined. It is re-staffed.
A quality of earnings tells you the revenue is real. It does not tell you the machine can repeat it. QNT/L rates the machine.
FOUR LAYERS.ONE INSTRUMENT.
The methodology, the evidence pipeline, and the corpus are constant. The only variable is where in the hold period the instrument enters.
REVENUE ARCHITECTURE DILIGENCE
Will the architecture carry the revenue case being underwritten?
Delivered inside the deal window in committee-grade form: five dimension scores, a composite, the constraining dimension, and the evidence behind every claim. It reads like a rating action, not a consultant's deck.
100-DAY REVENUE ARCHITECTURE
The flaw is documented. Fix it while the mandate is fresh.
Remediation begins with the diligence findings in hand. No discovery phase. No relearning the business on your invoice. The first board meeting sees the plan; the second sees movement.
PORTFOLIO ARCHITECTURE REVIEW
Which company needs operating attention this quarter?
The full portfolio, rated on one table: composite, grade, constraining dimension, ranked exposure. The reading takes a partner meeting. The argument it settles usually takes a year.
CONTINUOUS PORTFOLIO INTELLIGENCE
What changed since last quarter, and what does it mean for exit?
Standing coverage. Ratings refresh, deltas surface, and leadership churn or pipeline drift shows up as movement on an instrument rather than a surprise in a board pack.
BUILT TO SURVIVEAN INVESTMENTCOMMITTEE.
An advisor's opinion is worth what the advisor is worth. An instrument is worth what it can withstand.
Every observation carries a verbatim source quote. Every claim is classified by its epistemic status: observed data, composite synthesis, vendor claim, interpretation, or projection. The methodology is versioned; when it changes, prior ratings are archived, not overwritten. An observation without a source cannot be written.
This is the same methodology that rates public software companies in the open, on the record, at the Index. Ratings and advisory are governed separately: a rating can never be purchased, improved, or suppressed by commercial relationship. That independence is what makes the instrument citable in a committee memo.
READ THE FULL METHODOLOGY →THIS IS WHATA CLAIMLOOKS LIKE HERE.
Most advisors ask you to take their judgment on faith. QNT/L would rather show you one unit of it.
Below is a single observation from the public rating of Datadog: quoted verbatim from an SEC filing, sourced, classified, weighted, and traced to its consequence. There are 237 of these behind that one rating, drawn from 14 independent source domains. Every rating in the Index is built the same way. Every one of them is public.
Provenance is enforced at the schema level: an observation without a source cannot be written. Audit the work before the first call.
INSPECT THE FULL DATADOG RATING →THE ARCHITECTURETELLS THE TRUTHEVENTUALLY.
You can hear it at exit, or you can hear it now. The difference is measured in hold years. One conversation starts the engagement. Conflicts are checked before anything else.