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June 12, 2026·Investors·5 min read

Open source dependency risk in B2B SaaS diligence.

License risk is the smallest of three. License drift, maintainer collapse, and supply-chain compromise are the underwriting questions that matter on a twenty-five-year hold. The Cobalt Glacier dependency workstream and remediation pattern.

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June 1, 2026·Investors·5 min read

The three SaaS quality-of-earnings adjustments standard QoE misses.

Engineering investment, deferred revenue mechanics, and CAC economics are the three QoE adjustments most often missed in lower-middle-market B2B SaaS — and the three that most change the steady-state earnings number a long-hold buyer will own.

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May 24, 2026·Investors·6 min read

Proprietary data is the only real AI moat in vertical B2B SaaS.

Model access is not a moat. Cobalt Glacier builds AI features on the data behind them — workflow-generated, non-obvious schema, closed feedback loop — not the model in front of them.

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May 22, 2026·Investors·6 min read

Gross margin floors in AI-native B2B SaaS: how we underwrite the cost stack.

Cobalt Glacier's 70% steady-state gross margin floor for AI-native brands, the three axes that determine where the floor sits, and the patterns that disqualify a brand idea regardless of topline growth.

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May 19, 2026·Investors·5 min read

Customer concentration is the most underpriced risk in lower-middle-market SaaS.

How Cobalt Glacier underwrites customer concentration on three axes — revenue share, contractual entrenchment, and narrative dependence — and the diligence workstream we actually run.

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May 13, 2026·Investors·6 min read

Free cash flow conversion is the underwriting bar in B2B SaaS.

Why we underwrite every Cobalt Glacier brand to a steady-state seventy-five percent free cash flow conversion ratio, the four reconciling items we focus on, and what disqualifies a brand idea from our process.

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May 9, 2026·Investors·6 min read

How we underwrite a new brand for a 25-year hold.

Three filters every brand idea has to clear before we greenlight it, what changes when the hold period is twenty-five years, and why the discipline is in the ideas we walk away from.

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