ERI™ is the Score layer of GGI's operational diligence system — the operating-layer equivalent of a QoE that tracks continuously across the ownership lifecycle, not assembled at exit.
Quality of Earnings brought discipline to the financial layer of transaction environments. ERI™ does the same for the operating layer beneath — the governance, workforce, entity, and tax posture that QoE does not reach. The difference is not just scope. It is timing.
ERI™ tracks operational defensibility across core governance domains — producing a composite score that reflects not just what appears to be true, but what can actually be proven under institutional scrutiny. Each domain produces both a raw score and a confidence-adjusted score; the gap between them is the signal.
Structural integrity of the workforce layer — classification accuracy, payroll continuity, and HR systems coherence across operating jurisdictions.
Legal entity architecture aligned with operational reality. Tax posture and jurisdictional exposure documented and reconciled.
Contractor and vendor ecosystem governance. Labor and employment compliance posture. Operational continuity and policy infrastructure defensibility.
Every domain produces a raw score and a confidence-adjusted score. The gap between them reflects how well-documented the operational reality actually is — versus what appears to be true. That gap is itself a diligence signal.
The distinction between a company that controls the diligence conversation and one that reacts to it is almost always timing. The operational fragmentation doesn't change. The economic consequence does.
Gaps discovered during diligence. Buyers define the exposure. Sellers bear the burden of proof. Timeline slips. Leverage shifts to the other side of the table.
Operational posture scored and documented across the ownership lifecycle. No reconstruction under pressure. No discovery at close. The record exists before anyone asks for it.
A current ERI™ score means diligence begins with documented operational defensibility. The company controls the narrative, the timeline, and the terms.
ERI™ scores surface operational fragmentation across your portfolio continuously — so deteriorating companies are flagged before they become diligence problems, not after. One composite number per portfolio company, updated continuously.
Every finance and operations leader has a version of the same story: external scrutiny arrives and weeks get spent reconstructing documentation that should have been continuous. ERI™ eliminates that moment.
Portfolio companies with a current ERI™ score arrive at diligence with documented operational defensibility already structured. That changes the diligence conversation, the underwriting conversation, and the valuation conversation.
Underwriting ecosystems already price the downstream consequences of documentation asymmetry. ERI™ surfaces and scores that gap upstream — before it arrives as a reconstruction under transaction pressure.
ERI™ briefings are available under NDA for qualifying PE and VC firms. The conversation takes 30 minutes. The visibility it creates lasts the ownership lifecycle.
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