The leadership gap that kills value creation plans
The deal closes. The value creation plan calls for 40% revenue growth over a three-year hold. The existing VP of Sales is a founder loyalist who has never built a repeatable sales process. The board knows a permanent CRO hire will take six months to recruit and another six to ramp. That is a year of the hold period burned before the growth thesis even gets tested.
Interim and fractional GTM leadership exists to close that gap — placing experienced CROs, CMOs, and CSOs into PE portfolio companies within weeks, not months. The right interim leader builds the commercial infrastructure, hires the permanent team, and hands off a functioning revenue engine. The wrong one keeps the seat warm and bills by the month.
We publish independent research to help PE operating partners and portfolio company boards navigate this growing but uneven market. Our analysis is based entirely on publicly available evidence: provider websites, published placement models, engagement structures, case studies, testimonials, and pricing disclosures.
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Interim & Fractional GTM Leadership for PE: 2026 Guide — A category overview covering what to look for in a provider, a capability matrix across 10 firms, and detailed provider notes with harvey ball ratings.
Provider Comparisons — Head-to-head analyses of specific providers, with scoring matrices, deal fit guides, and real-world scenario recommendations.
Why this exists
PE firms have learned the hard way that the gap between closing a deal and installing competent commercial leadership is where value creation plans go to die. The interim and fractional GTM leadership market has responded with increasingly specialized providers — but the quality variance is enormous. Some place genuine operators who build. Others place consultants who advise. We are here to help you tell the difference.