Value Creation Tracking

The VCP exists to be executed.
We track whether it is.

Basis provides structured VCP execution tracking across every portfolio company throughout the hold period — monitoring progress against each lever, flagging delays and deviations, and ensuring the plan that justified the entry price is actively being executed.

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What this service tracks

Revenue growth vs. VCP targets per company

EBITDA improvement and margin trajectory

Bolt-on M&A pipeline and completion milestones

Operational efficiency initiative progress

Management KPI alignment and delivery

Strategic initiative status and milestone tracking

Working capital improvement programs

VCP deviation flags and escalation recommendations

Primary value creation levers tracked per portfolio company

Monthly

VCP progress cycle — updated before each management review

100-day

Baseline set within the first hundred days of each investment

Exit-linked

VCP tracking aligned to exit readiness scoring throughout the hold

Value creation levers

Tracked across every dimension that moves the multiple.

Private equity returns are built on a small number of well-executed value creation levers. We track all of them — across every company in the portfolio, every cycle.

Revenue Growth

Revenue vs. VCP targets, growth rate trajectory, customer acquisition performance, and new market penetration progress.

Revenue vs. plan and prior year

Customer count and revenue per customer

New product and market revenue

EBITDA Improvement

Margin trajectory, cost structure improvement, gross margin expansion, and EBITDA bridge tracking against the original VCP model.

EBITDA vs. budget and VCP target

Gross margin trend per period

EBITDA bridge vs. plan assumptions

Bolt-on M&A

Pipeline tracking, LOI and completion milestone monitoring, integration progress, and synergy realization against the acquisition thesis.

Pipeline status and deal progress

Integration milestone tracking

Synergy realization vs. original model

Operational Efficiency

Cost reduction program delivery, overhead rationalization, process improvement initiatives, and working capital optimization progress.

Initiative status and savings delivered

Working capital days improvement

Headcount and overhead vs. plan

Management Delivery

Management KPI performance against agreed targets, MIP alignment, key hire progress, and team depth assessment ahead of exit.

KPI delivery per management objective

MIP milestone and vesting tracking

Key hire and team-build progress

Multiple Expansion Positioning

Market positioning improvement, comparable company universe tracking, revenue quality enhancement, and buyer narrative development.

Comparable multiple movement

Revenue quality and recurring proportion

Buyer narrative and differentiation flags

Why structured VCP tracking matters

Value creation plans are well-written at entry.
Execution accountability is the part that breaks.

01 — The reporting gap

Management reports on what has happened, not what was planned

Most management teams report operational performance — revenue, EBITDA, headcount — not delivery against the value creation plan assumptions agreed at entry. The VCP is the investor's document. Unless it is actively tracked, execution accountability defaults to no one.

02 — The milestone drift problem

Timelines slip without a structured accountability layer

A bolt-on that was planned for year two is now tracking for year three. The new product launch that was meant to contribute revenue by quarter four is delayed to the following year. These slippages accumulate without a structured tracking layer — and by the time the exit window opens, the MOIC multiple built into the original model is already compromised.

03 — The exit surprise

Buyers identify VCP gaps faster than sellers acknowledge them

A buyer's due diligence team will benchmark your portfolio company's EBITDA improvement trajectory against the original investment case. If cost reduction programmes, market entry timelines, or management teams have diverged from plan — these become diligence findings. The fund that has tracked them throughout the hold period has an explanation ready.

04 — The carry concentration risk

Funds concentrate value creation risk in a small number of companies

In a ten-company portfolio, two or three investments drive the majority of fund-level returns. Underperformance against the thesis that justified entry valuations directly affects carry and fund-level MOIC. VCP execution tracking in the top positions is a financial discipline.

"A value creation plan requires active tracking to function as intended. Without it, execution accountability defaults to whoever raises the question at the next board meeting."

What we track

Full VCP execution coverage across every portfolio company.

Every lever, every milestone, every cycle — monitored against the assumptions that were built into the original investment case.

Revenue vs. VCP target per period

EBITDA vs. budget and entry model

Gross margin expansion progress

Bolt-on pipeline and completion status

Integration and synergy tracking

Cost reduction programme delivery

Working capital improvement

Management KPI delivery per objective

MIP milestone and vesting status

Key hire and team-build progress

Strategic initiative milestone tracking

Multiple expansion positioning signals

How we start

We establish the VCP baseline within the first hundred days.

We map the value creation plan assumptions.

From the original IC paper, investment memo, and management presentation — we extract the specific targets, milestones, and timelines that the entry valuation was built on.

We build the tracking framework per company.

A structured monitoring framework specific to each portfolio company — covering the levers that drive value in that business, at the milestones that matter for the hold period.

We deliver the first VCP progress view.

Actual performance vs. VCP assumptions across every tracked lever — with variance commentary, milestone status, and flags where execution has diverged from plan.

We maintain the tracking throughout the hold period.

Monthly updates, aligned to your reporting calendar. The tracking evolves as the company progresses — with exit readiness scoring introduced as the hold period matures.

Linked to exit readiness

VCP tracking is designed to feed directly into exit readiness scoring. The levers that are behind plan are the same gaps a buyer will find in diligence. The earlier we identify them, the more time your management team has to close them before the sale process begins.

Works from existing materials

We build the tracking framework from IC papers, board packs, management accounts, and KPI reports that already exist. We do not ask for new data infrastructure before we start.

New investments and existing positions

We can establish the monitoring baseline within the first hundred days of a new investment — or map VCP tracking onto existing positions where the hold period is already underway. Both approaches produce useful output from the first cycle.

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