The Operating System
MakersOS: the operating system for value creation.
One operating system, 25 delivery instruments: a 100-day install, a 12–24-month value program. How a company is made worth more, on an honest clock. Not a methodology slide; Cristian has run it inside the world’s top private-equity firms, the same logic every time.
Built for capital markets: private equity, hedge funds, asset managers, servicers, fund administrators, wealth managers and family offices.
The mechanism, end to end
The instruments compute in your browser; nothing is transmitted unless you press send. An installed Room is a file you own: your record, your property, portable the day you leave. For regulated institutions, the Sovereign Install runs entirely on your infrastructure or on Luxembourg soil, with no foreign cloud in the path and an evidence trail your supervisor can read. Sovereignty is not a setting here; it is the architecture.
One kernel, four verbs. Nothing asked twice.
The same fourteen dimensions and the same published arithmetic run through every stage. What changes is the verb — and where your data lives. Free tools store on your device, never with us; the paid instruments live on your record, synced only through the operator’s judgment.
Fourteen questions, sixty seconds, free. Your answers become your baseline.
Never asks again: every lever starts where your answers left it, each tagged yours. Price a decision before making it.
Ten business days with management: the fourteen per seat, plus the three maturity scans — digital & data, culture, cyber, thirty-six anchored questions — returning the Confidence-to-Invest index. Every ASSUMPTION becomes a measurement.
Your private instrument: the staircase, the value tree, the program — every answer priced, synced only through the operator, re-issued each quarter. Numbers age and expire; predictions are registered before outcomes.
asks → moves → measures → commits · one kernel · formulas public at the model · nothing asked twice, nothing stored without consent, sealed end to end, certified at every release
Install. Run. Upgrade. Extend.
The products, in one line
The Diagnostic — measure, free, sixty seconds. The Simulator — move the levers, free. The Pre-Deal Read — ten business days, fixed fee, for deal teams; returns the Confidence-to-Invest index (digital 60 · culture 30 · cyber 10). Install — your private room and the Read on your real workflows, credited at mandate. Run · Upgrade · Extend — the program, the quarterly re-score, the platform.
Before the clock starts, the showroom: Measure in the free Diagnostic, Move the levers in the free Simulator, the same kernel, played on a typical company. Install is where the product begins: your private room, your declared numbers, the Read on your real workflows, an operator. Run is Engine 1 optimising the present; Upgrade is Engine 2 building the future, re-scored each quarter; Extend scales it to the next unit and the portfolio.
One kernel, three readouts
One formula. Three questions put to it.
Everything on this site computes from one kernel, published in full, fed by fourteen dimensions across three models. The tools are not three methods. They are three questions put to the same arithmetic.
Static, by design.
Fourteen declared scores, evaluated once. The kernel returns your readiness, your tier, your multiple, and the capital Luxembourg law already offers you. It measures; it does not speculate. Free, sixty seconds. Run it →
Forward, by design.
The same kernel, re-evaluated at scores you choose. Move a lever and every consequence recomputes together: multiple, margin, lawful capture, filing calendar. Each gain names the play that earns it, and each play names the instrument that executes it. Marked SIMULATION, never a headline. Move the levers →
Committed, by design.
The paid read: your plays sequenced on the five gates, priced on your own numbers, the target signed as a 12–24-month program. Any company, any sector: the Readiness Audit → Technology companies entering Luxembourg add the grants machine: the Value Map →
Same formula, same anchors, same caps in all three; only the question changes. That is what makes them one operating system rather than three tools.
The stakes
“Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.”
Reid Hoffman · co-founder, LinkedIn
Digitally native companies, big tech and start-ups are re-pricing every industry, whatever it makes. The threat is not their size, it is their speed.
Unlike the dinosaurs, a company can choose to transform. But transformation is not tools bolted onto the old model. It is re-architecting the nature of the business, so it creates value the old one never could.
Why now
What you rent is worth less. What you own is worth more.
Two things changed at once, and they push the same way. AI has made time and headcount cheap, so anything sold by the hour is being repriced down. And Europe now pays a premium for technology you own and run where a regulator can see it. Standing still is the expensive choice.
Selling by the hour is a losing trade.
AI now does work that used to take a team, so buyers are paying for outcomes, not seats or hours. If your company sells capacity, that is the thing losing its price.
Owning it, and hosting it here, is worth more.
After the last few years, Europe treats digital sovereignty as policy, not preference. The demand, and the money, are moving to companies that own their technology, run it inside the union, and can prove it. That is a re-rating, and it is happening now.
Sources: Gartner, worldwide sovereign cloud infrastructure forecast, February 2026, and Gartner on enterprise software pricing to 2030. Forrester, European tech spend, 2026. Third-party forecasts, cited as published, not as a promise about your company.
The idea
Two engines. One system.
A business has to transform twice to survive: keep today’s engine running while you build tomorrow’s. MakersOS designs and runs both, with the same lens on each.
Doing digital is not being digital. Enablement bolts on tools and calls it done. MakersOS moves the business, operating and technology models together, which is the only thing that changes what a company is worth.
Run the present.
Cut the cost to produce and the cost to serve. Today’s profit, kept on its own books.
Build the future.
Verticalise, productise, own the IP, make revenue recurring. Tomorrow’s value, as a standalone asset.
The value it creates
What the two engines produce.
Figures from mandates Cristian led as an operator inside PE-owned and listed companies. Makers of New installs that method as a firm; your outcome depends on where you start, and we measure the start before we quote the outcome.
The state · Value Operating System Readiness
Start with WHY. Never WHAT.
Your Value Operating System Readiness is the one place a company’s condition is written down. Every instrument reads from it rather than asking again. Five dimensions under WHY, four under HOW, five under WHAT, each scored one to five against a frontier company.
- Segments and ICP
- Value proposition and pricing power
- Revenue model and recurring share
- Unit economics
- Customer experience and retention
- Capability and organisation
- Delivery efficiency and cost to serve
- Sourcing and capacity
- Governance and cadence
- Product and intellectual property
- Data velocity
- Architecture and scalability
- AI leverage and automation
- Security and resilience
The ordering rule is enforced in the arithmetic. The operating score is capped one point above the business score, and the technology score one point above the operating score. A company cannot buy its way to a high technology score while its business model is broken.
Fourteen questions. Your index, the plays that move it, and the capital that funds them.
The diagnostic is the free read. The Value Architecture Audit is the paid one: four to six weeks inside gate one, on your real numbers, and the workbook is yours whether or not we continue.
The architecture
Six layers. One loop.
An operating system that runs after we leave. Each layer does one job, and the last one feeds the first.
Capital is none of the six. It is the fuel the six burn. Sixteen Luxembourg and EU instruments are screened separately, with their own readiness score, and loans, guarantees and tax credits are shown beside the grants, never added to them.
The instruments
Twenty-five delivery instruments. Sixteen for capital.
Not slides. Each one carries a trigger, a named owner, a euro hypothesis and the evidence that proves it moved, or it is content and it is deleted. They sit on the five gates, and the client keeps every one they touch.
Sixteen more screen the Luxembourg and EU capital that funds it. The full set, and which ones your company triggers, is the audit.
The belief
People do business with people. Everything else only opens the door.
We build with AI, but the judgment and the relationships stay human.
Designed and led by Cristian Paun, 22 years inside the deal at EFG Eurobank, AB InBev, CVC, JDE, Blackstone, DuPont and Hg Capital & Montagu. More about the operator →
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